Moonlight Wolf | Frederic Remington | 1909 Peter Birkhäuser rendered with bold

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is a powerful depiction of the psychological toll of war on soldiers

The absence of individuality—everything reduced to blocks

is a stunning depiction of the moment Saul of Tarsus is struck blind by a divine light from heaven

Moonlight Wolf | Frederic Remington | 1909 Peter Birkhäuser rendered with boldAbout the artwork: Moonlight Wolf (1909) by Frederic Remington captures the haunting stillness of the wilderness at night, distilling the artists fascination with both the natural world and the atmosphere of solitude. Painted near the end of Remingtons life, when he had shifted away from action packed cowboy scenes to more impressionistic nocturnes, the work shows a lone wolf emerging from the shadows, bathed in silvery moonlight. The brushwork is