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| Frederic Sackrider Remington |
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Buffalo Runners -1905 |
Born in Canton, New York, near the Canadian border, Remington grew up in a near-wilderness region, and became an avid hunter and horseman. His father, a Republican
newspaper publisher and politician, had been an officer in the Civil War, and thereby cast a heroic shadow which Remington strove to match. The boy was no lover of academic studies, and because of modest artistic abilities, after he had struggled through public, private, and military schools, he elected to enter the School of Arts at Yale in 1878,
where he excelled more at sports than in painting, playing football under the captaincy of the famous Walter Camp. The artistic training he received during the two years at Yale helped move him out of the amateur ranks; still, it would be the life he led thereafter that provided Remington his material.
He was primarily an illustrator, working for many magazines such as Harper's Weekly and Outing. In the Spanish-American War he served as a war correspondent and artist.
Artists in America during the 19th century depicted Indians in their paintings, concerned with describing their appearances, customs and ways of life. They also presented the best-known images of Western life. The most important painters of this time, Frederick Remington and
Charles Marion Russell, were technically accurate and also sensational. They represented scenes of cowboys and Indians, gamblers, gunfighters, saloons and all the paraphernalia of the Hollywood Western. During the last
twenty years of his life he executed a powerful series of twenty-four bronzes to great success, which also helped raise Remington to a position of real significance in the history of 19th-century American art. His first, "Bronco Buster" (1895, one casting in New-York Historical Society, New York City) displays the vigor and sense of movement of his
paintings. His subsequent bronzes, such as "Comin' Through the Rye" (1902, Metropolitan Museum), in which four cowhands on horseback charge at the observer in glee, are daring for their technical skill in suspending large figures on slim supports, in this case on the hooves of the horses. Among the books he wrote and illustrated are "Pony Tracks"
(1895), "Crooked Trails" (1898), and "The Way of an Indian" (1906). Remington died suddenly in his studio home in New Rochelle, New York, from the effects of appendicitis. During his life he had produced nearly 3,000
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| On The Southern Plains -1907 |
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| Hussar, Russian Guard Corps |
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| Uhlan -1892 |
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| The Moose Hunt -1890 |
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| $5000 Reward, Dead or Alive! - 1899 |
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