Frederic Remington was born in Canton, New York. 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. Due to his father's death, he could not afford to return to school,
He constantly traveled west and not only portrayed the West in his art but lived the life as well. Remington became a skilled cowboy, he prospected gold in the Apache country of the Arizona territory, and he operated a ranch in Kansas in addition to working in the local saloon. Remington is praised as the most important painter documenting life in the vanishing West.
In a career that spanned less than twenty-five years, Remington produced more than 3,000 drawings and paintings, about 25 bronze sculptures, a novel, a Broadway play, and over one hundred articles and stories. The "Marlboro Man" in the well-known cigarette ad was one of Remington's illustrations. His legacy is more about a portrayal of the heroic figures who settled the West and their life-and-death struggles, rather than so much about what he experienced personally on his journeys. He gave Americans stories about what they wanted to see in themselves - independence, bravery and optimism. He inspired a love of the West and is reputed to be America's most popular nineteenth century artist. Frederic Remington passed away in 1909 at the age of forty-eight
Member: Associate member of the National Academy of Design, 1891; National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Exhibited: National Academy of Design, 1887-99; Boston Art Club, 1890, 1891, 1909; Paris Exposition, 1889 (medal); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts annuals, 1892-93, 1906-10; Corcoran Gallery annuals, 1907-08; Art Institute of Chicago.
Works Held: Amon Carter Museum (major collection); Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York (major collection); National Museum American Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Gilcrease Institute; Ogdensburg Public Library. New York Public Library; Shelburne (Vermont) Museum.
