Birth Year : 1861
Death Year : 1909
Country : US
Frederic Remington was born in Canton, New York. The son of a newspaper
editor, Remington decided early in life that he wished to be an artist
and attended both the Yale Art School and the Art Students League of New
York before going West. There he became a scout, a cowboy and a rancher.
But, as he proved later, his greatest wish, like George Catlin's a half-century
earlier, was to record the lives of Indians and frontiersmen honestly and
without either sentimentality or savagery. When he returned east after
a failure of his sheep ranch, he traveled to Germany, Russia, and North
Africa, and then became an artist and correspondent in Cuba during the
Spanish-American War. His adventures over, he settled in New Rochelle,
New York, to take up his career as writer and artist. Shortly before his
death from acute appendicitis, he moved to Ridgefield, Connecticut. Remington
not only wrote books on frontier life, but also illustrated them, sculpted,
and painted. His extremely realistic, very detailed, and action packed
works were extremely popular at the turn of the century. They leave a picture
of the Indian as a lonely, almost completely subdued, outcast, and are
an effective reminder of a picturesque, although sometimes painful, period
in American history.
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