{"id":27458,"date":"2025-07-25T09:17:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/frederic-remingtons-original-battle-of-washita\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T09:17:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:17:47","slug":"frederic-remingtons-original-battle-of-washita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/frederic-remingtons-original-battle-of-washita\/","title":{"rendered":"Frederic Remington&#8217;s Original &#8220;Battle of Washita&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fGCgLw4VNCk?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Frederic Remington&#8217;s original &#8220;Battle of Washita&#8221; (1888) depicts Custer&#8217;s 7th Cavalry charge on Black Kettle&#8217;s village in 1868. The quintessential artist of the American West, Remington created the work as the basis for an illustration in Eggleston&#8217;s &#8220;The Household History of the United States and Its People.&#8221; The book served as household and textbook reading, cementing the tragic event into American history.<\/p>\n<p>By using a grisaille (grayscale) palette and stepping away from his trademark realism, he casts a nightmarish atmosphere on the historic moment. This original oil work eloquently unites two of the West&#8217;s most enduring figures: Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and celebrated artist Frederic Remington.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us!<br \/>Email: <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><br \/>X: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RIAuction\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/x.com\/RIAuction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frederic Remington&#8217;s original &#8220;Battle of Washita&#8221; (1888) depicts Custer&#8217;s 7th Cavalry charge on Black Kettle&#8217;s village in 1868. The quintessential artist of the American West, Remington created the work as the basis for an illustration in Eggleston&#8217;s &#8220;The Household History of the United States and Its People.&#8221; The book served as household and textbook reading,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/frederic-remingtons-original-battle-of-washita\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frederic Remington&#8217;s Original &#8220;Battle of Washita&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":27459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}