Frederick Remington

Frederick Remington was an American artist. He was an illustrator, a painter, a sculptor, and a writer. Frederick Remington made pictures and sculptures of horses, Native Americans, and cowboys and his art tells the stories of the people who lived in the wide open spaces and frontier towns of the West.

Frederic Remington was born in 1861 in Canton, New York, the son of a Republican newspaper publisher named Seth Pierre who was a Colonel in the cavalry and a Civil War commander. His mother was named Clara Sackrider. From his father, he inherited an interest in the cavalry and the military. In his youth, Remington enjoyed hunting and was also an avid horseman. Remington attended the Highland Military Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts through his high school years. Afterwards, he was educated at the Yale College School of Art.

                         
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Frederick Remington was one of the greatest painters, sculptors, and illustrators of his time. He illustrated scenes of war during the Spanish-American War. During the Spanish-American War, Remington worked for the New York Journal under William Randolph Hearst as a war correspondent. Frederick Remington died on December 26, 1909 at his studio and home in New Rochelle, New York.

The Life and Work of Frederick Remington – Ernestine Giesecke – Heinemann Library, Chicago, Illinois