Frederic Remington

Frederick Remington (1861-1909)

Frederic Sackrider Remington ( October 4 , 1861 - December 26 , 1909) is an American painter , draftsman and sculptor who specializes in the description of the American West ( American Landscape ) and links to the modernist current of American realism.

Born in Canton , New York, he spent his childhood hunting and riding horses while starting to make sketches and drawings. His family then moved to Ogdensburg .

He attended art classes at Yale University , finding football and boxing more interesting than art. When his father died, he returned home and became an office worker in Albany .

He quickly made his first trip west and became a businessman in Kansas City . In 1884 he married Eva Caten and studied at the Art Students League in New York . In the process, he publishes his illustrations and drawings in publications such as Collier's Weekly and Harper's Magazine.

While he became world famous for his descriptions of life in the American West, Remington visited the region only briefly, only a few months each time. But he was there at the right time, crunching images of pioneer life before the Wild West was highlighted and that kind of life was gone.

In 1890 , Remington left for New Rochelle to have more space. At the end of his life he moved to Ridgefield in Connecticut .

In 1898 , Remington was a war correspondent and illustrator during the 1898 Spanish-American War for William Randolph Hearst . Although he was soon bored with this task, he was present to witness the battle of San Juan Hill with the assault of American forces led by Theodore Roosevelt .

Frederic Remington died after an emergency appendectomy that caused peritonitis. His extreme obesity is one of the possible causes of this problem.

He traveled in the Russian Empire in 1892 to admire the bronze Lanceray, which he had discovered works exhibited in Philadelphia in 1876 , and will be inspired by his series Bronco Buster (tamer broncho) .

His work on the American West has influenced film photography Heroic Charge of John Ford .

Frederic Remington is the central figure in Volume 40 of the adventures of Lucky Luke , The Painter in which the cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow must ensure the protection of the artist. In this album, we also know Frederic Remington's terrible mania for burning paintings that he no longer liked.