Frederic Remington
Frederic Remington (1861 - 1909), was an American painter,
illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of
the American West.
He was born in Canton, New York to Seth Pierrepont Remington and
Clarissa Bascom Sackrider. One of his great grandfathers, Samuel
Bascom, was a saddle maker by trade. Frederic Remington was related
by family bloodlines to Indian portrait artist George Catlin and
cowboy sculptor Earl W. Bascom. He spent a childhood hunting and
riding, but began to make drawings and sketches of imaginative
figures. The family later moved to Ogdensburg, New York.
He attended the art school at Yale University, finding that
football and boxing were more interesting than art, and then
returned home when his father died to assume some clerical work in
Albany, New York. He soon made his first excursion west and became
a businessman in Kansas City. He married Eva Caten in 1884 and
studied at the Art Students League of New York. He soon began to
submit illustrations, sketches, and other works for publication
with the western theme. Much of his early work appeared in
Collier's and Harper's.
Although he is world-famous for his many depictions of life in the
American West, Remington only visited the region briefly several
months at a time. He was in time to capture images of the western
United States before the area was considered closed by virtue of
the subduing of the wilder elements and the inroads of civilization
that ended the frontier lifestyle.
In 1898 Remington was a war correspondent and illustrator for the
Spanish-American War, sent to provide illustrations for William
Randolph Hearst. Although he soon became bored with his task, he
was present to witness the assault on San Juan Hill by American
forces, including those led by Theodore Roosevelt.
Frederic Remington died after an emergency appendectomy led to
peritonitis. His extreme obesity may have led to his abdominal
problems.
In 1991 the PBS series American Masters filmed a documentary of
Remington's life called Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other
Days.
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