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Accession #	55.43
Artist	Frederic Sackrider Remington
Title	The Outlier
Date	1909
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	frame: 51 1/2 x 38 1/2 x 2 in. (130.8 x 97.8 x 5.1 cm) 40 x 27 1/16 in. (101.6 x 68.8 cm)
Signed	Signed lower right "Frederic Remington / 1909"
Credit Line	Bequest of Charlotte R. Stillman
Location	American Identities: Colony to Nation / Inventing American Landscape

Curatorial Remarks: In this nocturnal scene, the Native American appears as something of a lone relic, disconnected from his culture and ambiguously detached from a specific historical moment. Depicted in isolation, the figure simultaneously suggests former glory and inevitable demise, a fate that most European Americans at this time considered to be certain for Native Americans.

Frederic Sackrider Remington painted many versions of the solitary Native American—a motif inspired by the lingering psychological impact of his harrowing experience in wartime Cuba as a war correspondent. However, it is the American Impressionist–inspired style, featuring broken brushwork and lightened palette, that dominates the painting’s narrative content.