Frederick Remington Great Explorers Painting ID:: 4298 Frederick Remington1.jpg
Great Explorers
Frederick Remington Bringing Home the New Cook Painting ID:: 4300 Frederick Remington3.jpg
Bringing Home the New Cook
Frederick Remington The Outlier Painting ID:: 4301 Frederick Remington4.jpg
The Outlier
Frederick Remington Indian Trapper Painting ID:: 4302 Frederick Remington5.jpg
Indian Trapper
Frederick Remington Old Stage Coach of the Plains Painting ID:: 4304 Frederick Remington6.jpg
Old Stage Coach of the Plains
Frederick Remington If Skulls Could Speak Painting ID:: 4305 Frederick Remington7.jpg
If Skulls Could Speak
Frederick Remington When Heart is Bad Painting ID:: 4306 Frederick Remington8.jpg
When Heart is Bad
Frederick Remington Arizona Cowboy Painting ID:: 4307 Frederick Remington9.jpg
Arizona Cowboy
Frederick Remington Coming and Going of the Pony Express Painting ID:: 4308 Frederick Remington10.jpg
Coming and Going of the Pony Express
Frederick Remington The Fall of the Cowboy Painting ID:: 4310 Frederick Remington11.jpg
The Fall of the Cowboy
Frederick Remington Scout Painting ID:: 4311 Frederick Remington12.jpg
Scout
Frederick Remington Dismounted Painting ID:: 4312 Frederick Remington13.jpg
Dismounted
Frederick Remington The Scout : Friends or Enemies Painting ID:: 4314 Frederick Remington14.jpg
The Scout : Friends or Enemies
Frederick Remington Victory Dance Painting ID:: 4315 Frederick Remington15.jpg
Victory Dance
Frederick Remington Shotgun Hospitality Painting ID:: 4316 Frederick Remington16.jpg
Shotgun Hospitality
Frederick Remington A Cavalryman's Breakfast on the Plains Painting ID:: 4318 Frederick Remington17.jpg
A Cavalryman's Breakfast on the Plains
Frederick Remington His First Lesson Painting ID:: 4319 Frederick Remington18.jpg
His First Lesson
Frederick Remington Apache Painting ID:: 4320 Frederick Remington19.jpg
Apache
Frederick Remington Turn Him Loose, Bill Painting ID:: 4321 Frederick Remington20.jpg
Turn Him Loose, Bill
Frederick Remington The Stampede Painting ID:: 4323 Frederick Remington21.jpg
The Stampede
Frederick Remington The Advance Guard Painting ID:: 4324 Frederick Remington22.jpg
The Advance Guard
Frederick Remington The Emigrants Painting ID:: 4325 Frederick Remington23.jpg
The Emigrants
Frederick Remington The Fall of the Cowboy Painting ID:: 40845 new16/Frederick Remington-966263.jpg
The Fall of the Cowboy mk156
1895
Oil on canvas
63.5x89cm
Frederick Remington Buffalo Bill in the Spotlight Painting ID:: 41505 new16/Frederick Remington-397399.jpg
Buffalo Bill in the Spotlight mk162
1899
Oil on canvas
27x40
Frederick Remington Oil undated Geronimo Fleeing from camp Painting ID:: 45959 new17/Frederick Remington-979323.jpg
Oil undated Geronimo Fleeing from camp mk178
on linen
Frederick Remington What an Unbranded Cow Has Cost Painting ID:: 74060 new24/Frederick Remington-763538.jpg
What an Unbranded Cow Has Cost oil on canvas, by the American artist Frederic Remington. 28 1/16 in. x 35 1/8 in. Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Thomas M. Evans, B.A. 1931. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date 1895(1895)
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1861-1909
Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 - December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U.S. Cavalry.
Remington was the most successful Western illustrator in the ??Golden Age?? of illustration at the end of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th Century, so much so that the other Western artists such as Charles Russell and Charles Schreyvogel were known during Remington??s life as members of the ??School of Remington??. His style was naturalistic, sometimes impressionistic, and usually veered away from the ethnographic realism of earlier Western artists such as George Catlin. His focus was firmly on the people and animals of the West, with landscape usually of secondary importance, unlike the members and descendants of the Hudson River School, such as Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, and Thomas Moran, who glorified the vastness of the West and the dominance of nature over man. He took artistic liberties in his depictions of human action, and for the sake of his readers?? and publishers?? interest. Though always confident in his subject matter, Remington was less sure about his colors, and critics often harped on his palette, but his lack of confidence drove him to experiment and produce a great variety of effects, some very true to nature and some imagined.
His collaboration with Owen Wister on The Evolution of the Cowpuncher, published by Harper??s Monthly in September 1893, was the first statement of the mythical cowboy in American literature, spawning the entire genre of Western fiction, films, and theater that followed. Remington provided the concept of the project, its factual content, and its illustrations and Wister supplied the stories, sometimes altering Remington??s ideas. (Remington??s prototype cowboys were Mexican rancheros but Wister made the American cowboys descendants of Saxons??in truth, they were both partially right, as the first American cowboys were both the ranchers who tended the cattle and horses of the American Revolutionary army on Long Island and the Mexicans who ranched in the Arizona and California territories).