Fine Western Art Collections
West Lives On Gallery
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Frederic Remington
1861 - 1909 |
Frederic Remington's art so completely
dominated the popular imagination concerning the West in his lifetime
that historians are still coming to grips with its legacy.
Born and raised in Canton, New York, Remington enrolled in the Yale
Art School before traveling West in 1881 to work on a ranch. Two
years later he purchased land in Kansas and attempted life as a sheep
rancher, but eventually was drawn more and more toward a career as an
artist. 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. Moving to New York, he went to work for
Harper and Brothers and became their most popular illustrator in a
very short period of time. He embarked on a regular series of
assignments that took him back to his beloved West, where he sketched
and gathered material that would find its way into his voluminous
writings, illustrations and paintings of life on the frontier.
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. Here he explored
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Untitled Landscape
oil on board
• 12" x 19"
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