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Summer is a great time to explore the art spread across the Ada community – especially for viewers unable to visit art galleries elsewhere in Ohio.
As a weekly series, The Icon features the art located on The Remington Walk on the Ohio Northern University campus. For some viewers, this series is familiar. For others, it may be a first-time experience.
Either way, it’s an opportunity to take a walk and view some art that is uniquely Ada. The Walk is spread through campus and may be viewed by following the ONU walking path, beginning near Affinity Village, west of The Freed Center.
The information about the Remington Walk is provided by ONU.
This week's feature work
Coming through the rye – By Frederick Remington, 1902
This is Remington’s first effort in using more than two horses and was his largest to date. In includes eight pairs of hoofs and only five touch the earth.
Remington’s feelings of joy and sadness in this piece—for neither the cowboy nor the horse would be more than memories of the past—but at this moment they are both captured in play.
His depiction recalls the days when the cowboys came to town Saturday night to frolic as wild harum-scarum devils, shooting up the town while dashing down the street on their ponies at top speed and spurning the ground.
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