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Frederic Remington – Master Painter of the American West
Remington was born in Canton, New York in 1861. The family of his mother emigrated from Alsace-Lorraine in the Franco-German border and belong to a series of DIY stores. The family of his father had reached America from England in 1637, his father and himself served as a colonel in the Civil War, and worked as a newspaper editor and postmaster.
Remington, however, was not the best student as a child. He loved outdoor sports like hunting, riding and camping, but his calculations were too poor to attend West Point, a disappointment to his father. However, when Remington was 11, family moved to Ogdensburg, New York and Vermont attended Remington Episcopal Institute, a church run military school. He took his first course drawing before transferring it to another military school where he developed the ambition to become a journalist, making art for fun. Studied thereafter at the Yale School of Art, the only man in the first year class.
While in college, Remington found himself attracted more to football and boxing still life and formal art training. His first published illustrations appeared in the student newspaper, Yale Current and depicts a football player blindfolded. In 1879, Remington has been out of school to care for her ailing father, who died a year later. There was Then several years in which he burned in his heritage, youth adventures in the West. At age nineteen, Remington traveled Montana to consider the purchase of a farming enterprise, or a mining interest. He did not, but he was still able to see the Prairies bison and fighting between the U.S. Cavalry and American Indians. Harper's Weekly gave it its first commercial publication, printing a drawing he had presented.
Remington went to Kansas where he bought a ranch and worked as a rancher Holiday "Before discovering that the work of cowboy was hard and dull. After failing to build a hardware store, he returned home, married Eva Caten, and opened a saloon in Kansas City where he also outlined the regulars. The company did poorly, his wife left him, and finally Remington returned to Brooklyn. Reunited with his wife, he studied at the Art Students League of New York, based on his experience in staging images of the West of Collier's Weekly and Harper. On January 9, 1886, Harper's gave him his first cover, and later that year sent him to Arizona as an artist-correspondent report on the war against Geronimo. The publication, then sent him to cover the earthquake South Carolina. It was his first year as a commercial artist, and he had won $ 1,200, a good sum for those days.
Remington has begun to include watercolor sketches and sell his work at art exhibitions. Her oil painting back from the war Blackfoot Party has been exposed to the National Academy of Design and won a medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. In 1887, Theodore Roosevelt asked him to produce 83 illustrations for the book "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail" and three years later, his first solo at the Gallery of American Art has been a great success. Western military officers invited to paint their portraits on the ground what he did with a photographic quality.
Remington has spent much of 1890 traveling across the United States and Mexico, but now his fame made him a frequent visitor to the banquets and dinners deer, and obesity is becoming a problem. In 1898, It shows scenes of the Spanish-American War to the New York Journal, the creation of Scream grape, which focused on troops, rather than the generals.
In 1908, with a financial crisis weakened sales of art and fashion images, he moved Ridgefield, Connecticut and created works that showed the influence of Impressionism. He died after an emergency appendectomy December 26, 1909, leaving behind a collection of naturalistic images as part of the way the West has been recalled.
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