COWPUNCHER'S LULLABY POSTCARD

$1.50 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

This painting is one of more than 70 nocturnes that Frederic Remington, celebrated artist of the American West, painted that evoke the twilight of the American frontier. The cowboy here appears as a melancholy figure, singing a lonely lullaby to his horse and the herd of cattle in the background. Remington, who traveled west often but worked out of his New York studio, gave a mythic quality to romanticized images of frontier life.Esta es una de las más de 70 pinturas nocturnas de Frederic Remington, un…