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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
Radisson and Groseilliers (1905)
A breed
Arresting the deserter
The Advance