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  Frederic Remington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 - December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, and sculptor who specialized in depictions of the American West.
Frederic Remington was related by blood to Indian portrait artist George Catlin and cowboy sculptor Earl W. Bascom.
In 1898 Remington was a war correspendent and illustrator for the Spanish-American War, sent to provide illustrations for William Randolph Hearst.
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 Remington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remington, Virginia is a town located in Fauquier County, Virginia, USA.
Frederic Remington (4 October 1861–26 December 1909) was an American painter and sculptor who specialized in depictions of the American West.
Remington Steele was an American television detective series first broadcast on the NBC network from 1982 to 1987.
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 Frederic Remington
Remington's gift was a huge one, a boyish one, a strongly journalistic and illustrative one, coupled easily with his secondary gift for words.
Frederic Remington: Masterpieces from the Amon Carter Museum, by Rick Stewart.
Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, by Peter H. Hassrick.
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 Scribbles - December 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In college Remington was for a while on the historic varsity football team of 1879 and was also a heavyweight boxer, he did great at both sports.
Remington’s precise, direct works depict the harsh and wide open sceneries of the frontier in an almost romanticized manner.
Remington’s realistic painting leaves the viewer wondering what the cowboys are thinking as they riders seem tired and lonely and the fence seems endless.
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 Frederic Remington
Remington was born in Canton in northern New York on October 4, 1861.
Remington's achievement was to fuse observation and imagination so seamlessly that his contemporaries assumed he had actually witnessed what he portrayed.
Remington had been exhibiting in major art shows since 1888, and was seeking recognition as not just an illustrator, but an artist in the recognized sense of the term.
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 Frederic Remington - MSN Encarta
Frederic Remington (1861-1909), American painter, sculptor, and writer, born in Canton, New York, and educated at the Art Students League, New York City.
Remington is famous for the lively scenes, in paint and in bronze, of the Old West that form the subject matter of most of his works.
In 1895 Remington began to make clay models of his rugged subjects, which were subsequently cast in bronze.
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Remington knew that there was a growing national awareness of the West as a uniquely American region and of the mounted horseman as its symbol.
Remington’s later style involved an increasing looseness in his brushwork; painted in short, occasionally broad strokes, one senses the dash and flair that Remington was able to transmit a story, elevating it to the status of art.
Frederic Sackrider Remington was born on October 4, 1861 in Canton, New York and brought up in that small town in northern New York, the son of a local newspaper publisher.
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 Points West Article - Exhibition Details Search for Frederic Remington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Frederic Remington (1861-1909) is widely regarded as one of America's greatest Western artists.
To acknowledge Remington's importance, the Buffalo Bill Historical Center began, in 1984, to compile a catalogue raisonné of his finished oil paintings, watercolors and drawings.
After a decade of research, the Historical Center is publishing Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonné of paintings, watercolors and drawings, composed of two volumes and a PC-compatible CD-ROM, which illustrates the full body of Remington's flatwork as well as associated sketches, photographs and artifacts.
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 ArtNotes: Frederic Sackrider Remington
Born at Canton, New York, Frederic Remington became the foremost turn-of -the-century illustrator, painter, and sculptor of western action-packed subjects with cowboys, Indians, horses, soldiers, and other frontier characters.
Remington was the son of the local newspaper publisher, and in 1878 entered the Yale School of Fine Arts for one year, excelling at football and art.
Because Remington is so associated with the American West, it may be surprising that he spent time with Augustus Saint-Gaudens and others in the artist colony in Cornish, New Hampshire.
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 Biography - Frederic Sackrider Remington - Part II
Remington's widow, Eva, authorized the foundry to continue casting Remington's bronzes, still using the same molds, until her death in 1918.
In accordance with Eva Remington's will, the molds were destroyed by the foundry shortly after her death.
Remington was one of the highest paid illustrators of his day.
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 Frederic Remington, (1861-1909) - Lawrence J. Cantor and Company
Frederic Sackrider Remington was a very significant artist, skilled as a writer and lauded as an illustrator, painter and sculptor.
Remington sold the ranch in 1884, and established a studio in Kansas City, Missouri.
Remington died in Ridgefield, Connecticut in 1909 after a sudden attack of appendicitis, leaving a legacy of more than 2,750 paintings and drawings and 25 sculptures from which multiple casts were made.
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 No. 590: Frederic Remington
Remington was 15 when Custer lay hold on the American imagination with his fiasco.
Remington reflected all the racism and imperialism that was America in 1900.
Remington's blind side let him show us a West that was good and true, when the real West was morally flawed.
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 Buffalo Bill Historical Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The art of Frederic Remington defined the American West during his lifetime and played a major role in creating the popular image of the West that persists today.
Frederic Remington was 48 years old when he died December 26, 1909 from complications following an appendectomy.
During his short life, Remington produced more than 3,000 drawings and paintings, 22 bronze sculptures - cast in editions, two novels - one of which was adapted to the stage - and over 100 magazine articles and stories.
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 Biography - Frederic Sackrider Remington - Part I
Frederic Sackrider Remington was born in Canton, NY, October 1861, the son of a newspaper owner who established the successful St. Lawrence Plaindealer in 1856.
Remington lost his father, left school, failed at several clerical jobs, and fell in love with a young woman named Eva Caten.
Remington's one monumental bronze, The Cowboy, was unveiled in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, June 20, 1908.
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 American Masters . Frederic Remington | PBS
More than anything, in fact, it was Remington’s connection with the eastern fantasy of the West, and not a true knowledge of its history and people, that his admirers responded to.
Remington briefly interrupted his work with Western themes in 1898 when he went to Cuba as a war correspondent and illustrator during the Spanish Civil War.
From the "Marlboro Man" in the cigarette advertisements to the epic Westerns of John Ford (whose film SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON was directly inspired by Remington’s work), images we continue to perceive as uniquely American reflect the enduring legacy of Frederic Remington.
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 Frederic Remington: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Frederic Sackrider Remington (October_4, EHandler: no quick summary.
He was in time to capture images of the western United States[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] before the area was considered closed by virtue of the subduing of the wilder elements and the inroads of civilization that ended the frontier lifestyle.
Frederic Remington died after an emergency appendectomy appendicectomy quick summary:
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 Frederic Remington: Illustrator, Sculptor, Painter
Frederic Remington includes twenty-eight works by the artist, including both paintings and sculpture, all drawn from the peerless collection of the Frederic Remington Art Museum in Ogdensburg, New York.
Born in the small town of Canton, in northern New York, Frederic Remington (1861-1909) maintained lifelong ties to the region along the St. Lawrence River.
Although Remington continued to depict western themes through his life, his twentieth-century paintings became more tranquil and atmospheric, ranging from Impressionistic scenes of his native New York State to images of the West that were less concerned with storytelling than his earlier works had been.
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 Frederic Remington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The painter and sculptor Frederic Remington also captured the romance of the West and its image as an alternative to the settled civilization of the East.
Frederic Remington is perhaps best known for his sculptures of cowboys and their horses, but he was also a popular painter of western scenes.
Theodore Roosevelt, who was, like both Wister and Remington, a man born and raised in the East, traveled to the Dakota Badlands in the mid-1880s to help himself recover from the sudden death of his young wife.
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 North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts
Accuracy was very important to Remington, not only in the details of clothing and objects, but also in the humans and animals he painted.
The way Remington has shown the horses with all four hooves off the ground is a view the public might not have been willing to accept earlier, but the photographs of Eadweard Muybridge showing how this actually does occur in galloping horses proved the authenticity of this presentation.
Remington's subjects were definitely American but these were not the common subjects of other American painters of the time.
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 Remington, Frederic - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
REMINGTON, FREDERIC [Remington, Frederic] 1861-1909, American painter, sculptor, illustrator, and writer, b.
Remington was war correspondent for the Hearst papers in the Spanish-American War.
There is a Remington Art Memorial Museum at Ogdenburg, N.Y. Bibliography: See catalog by M. Jackson (1970); A. and M. Splete, ed., Frederic Remington: Selected Letters (1987); biography by P. and H. Samuels (1985); A. Manley and M. Magnum, Frederic Remington and the North Country (1988).
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 Frederic S. Remington Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Few of his contemporaries were equally devoted to capturing that particular historical moment, the three brief decades that saw the taming of the expansive and dangerous western frontier.
Looking back at his career in 1905, Remington wrote: "I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever...and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed.
His evolving clarity of purpose and the naturally vivid subject matter inspired Remington to compulsively record the details, producing thousands of illustrations in the course of his twenty-three year career.
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 Frederic Remington Art Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Frederic demonstrated great interest in horses and military things at an early age, and was sent to the Highland Military Academy in Massachusetts for secondary schooling.
Remington's paintings and sculptures are owned by museums and private collectors throughout the world, with the largest collection located here in Ogdensburg at the Frederic Remington Art Museum.
Remington is credited as being the primary imagemaker of the historic west.
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 Catherine Barnes Historical Autographs > Frederic Remington autograph, letters, documents, manuscripts, signatures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Known for his paintings and sculptures of the frontier West, Frederic Remington, the prolific American artist and illustrator, asks a friend for help in finding a photo.
Remington probably wanted the photograph for his artwork.
The letter is not dated as to year, but it is written on Remington's New Rochelle stationery; he moved to that city in 1890.
www.barnesautographs.com /pages/inventory/remington.htm   (202 words)

  
 Frederic Remington Books of the Old West   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Frederic Remington was one of the greatest artists of the Old West.
Frederic Remington was also one of the most prolific writers and illustrators in the late 1800's before he became so well known as a painter and sculptor.
The list of books that Frederic Remington either wrote, illustrated or that have been written about him is endless, almost mind boggling.
aboutfredericremington.com   (217 words)

  
 Human Events Book Service: The Outlaw by Frederic Remington
Remington was a master at conveying the complexities of motion.
Frederic Remington was born in upper New York State as the Civil War erupted in 1861.
Seth Remington, Frederic’s father, was a highly decorated major in the U.S. Cavalry during the Civil War.
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 UM Missoula Museum of Fine Arts Painting Collection--Remington 58-090   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Frederic Sackrider Remington (1861-1909) was born in Canton, New York in 1861, schooled in Burlington, Vermont, Highland Military Academy, Worcester, Massachusetts and the Yale College School of Art.
Remington studied painting with J. Alden Weir at the Art Students League in l886, and in 1887exhibited his paintings at the American Watercolor Society and the National Academy of Design.
Remington sold a number of works at his one man exhibition at the galleries of the American Art Association in l890 and in l891 was elected to the National Academy of Design.
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 Frederick sackrider Remington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Perhaps the best known of all of the artists of the American West, Frederic Remington was born at Canton, New York, and studied art at Yale University before making his first trip into the West in 1881.
Over the next four years Remington returned often to the West, usually on assignments from various publishers, to document life on the settling frontier.
Remington ultimately became one of the highest paid illustrators of his day.
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