“The Stampede” is an artwork by Frederic Remington dated to 1908, executed using oil on canvas. Its dimensions are 27 x 40 inches, and it adopts the genre painting style with an impressionist influence. The artwork is part of the collection at the Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The artwork depicts a dramatic and intense moment of a stampede, with a lone cowboy battling the chaos on horseback. The horse and rider are portrayed in the midst of a dynamic and potentially perilous situation, signaling a narrative of the Wild West. The painting’s composition emphasizes movement and urgency, capturing the raw energy and danger inherent to a stampede. The heavy and expressive brushstrokes, characteristic of the Impressionist movement, inject a sense of immediacy and atmosphere into the scene. Remington’s use of color and light conveys the time of day and the dust-filled air, contributing to the overall sense of motion and tumult within the artwork.
