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The Art of Frederic Remington OPTIC

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Cowboy, 1908, in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Frederic Remington 1861-1909

b. From New York*Related to Remington Arms Company founder-Americas Oldest Gunmaker

Why is he famous?

• Fredrick Remington is the foremost illustrator, painter, sculptor of the American West

• He also is hired by W Randolph Hearst to “furnish pictures” to start the Spanish American war in 1898

• People still like his work!

Early Career

In 1886, Remington was sent to Arizona by Harper's Weekly on a commission as an artist-correspondent to cover the government's war against Geronimo. …..Never caught up with him

Commissioned by Teddy Roosevelt to illustrate one of TR’s books “Ranch life and the Hunting Trail” in 1888

Early Art and Years

Father dies, takes his wife and inheritance and buys a farm in Kansas

Sells some sketches to Harper’s Weekly

Mid Career

• Worked For Harper’s Magazine under a “gentlemen’s agreement”

Is hired by WR Hearst to go to Cuba to illustrate the Spanish American war

Charge of the Rough Riders

Later Career

Experiments with ColorDoes series of Nocturnes (Painting at night)

Coming to Call 1905

Evening on a Canadian Lake 1905

The old Stage coach of the Plains1901

Indian Scout in the moonlight 1902

The Last Stand

The Blanket Signal

Hunter’s Supper 1909

A Dash for the Timber.

Radisson and Groseilliers (1905)

A breed

Arresting the deserter

The Advance