“Dreamers we are, dreamers we shall always be, and what is folly and vain imaginings to some people is the stuff our daily lives is made of.”
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Mary Hallock Foote’s domestic representations of frontier life presented a more gentle version of the American West than was represented in the art of Frederic Remington. The Orchard Wind Break features an array of lush fruit trees and a graceful woman interacting with a tame fawn. The male view of a wild and more rugged west put forward by Remington, Charles Russell, Henry Farny, and Charles Shreyvogel superceded Foote's quieter imagery and came to dominate the public imagination.
