Frederic Remington

Frederic Remington
Born	Frederic Sackrider Remington (1861-10-04)October 4, 1861 Canton, New York
Died	December 26, 1909(1909-12-26) (aged 48) Ridgefield, Connecticut
Nationality	American
Education	Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, one drawing class, 1878; Art Students League, New York, 1886
Known for	Painting (watercolor and oil), sculpture, drawing (pen and ink, ink wash), and mixed media
Notable work	Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Sid Richardson Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Metropolitan Museum, New York City; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York; National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and others
Movement	Illustration, Impressionism, Nocturne, and Tonalism
Spouse(s)	Eva Caten (1884–1909)
Awards	1891: Elected Associate of the National Academy of Design (ANA)
Patron(s)	Theodore Roosevelt, Elizabeth Custer, Harper's Weekly, Harper's Monthly, Century Magazine, Scribner's, Cosmopolitan, Collier's, and many others

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 born in Canton, New York in 1861 to Seth Pierrepont Remington (1830–1880) and Clarissa "Clara" Bascom Sackrider (1836-1912). His paternal family owned hardware stores and emigrated from Alsace-Lorraine in the early 18th century. His maternal family of the Bascom line was of French Basque ancestry, coming to America in the early 1600s and founding Windsor, Connecticut. Remington's father was a colonel in the Civil War whose family arrived in America from England in 1637. He was a newspaper editor and postmaster, and the family was active in local politics and staunchly Republican. One of Remington's great grandfathers, Samuel Bascom, was a saddle maker by trade, and the Remingtons were fine horsemen. Frederic Remington was related by family bloodlines to Indian portrait artist George Catlin and cowboy sculptor Earl W. Bascom.

Frederic Remington was also a cousin to Eliphalet Remington, founder of the Remington Arms Company which is considered to be America's oldest gunmaker. He was related, as well, to three famous mountain men—Jedediah S. Smith, Jonathan T. Warner and Robert "Doc" Newell. On the Warner side of his family, Frederic Remington was related to General George Washington, America's first president.

Colonel Remington was away at war during most of the first four years of his son's life. After the war, he moved his family to Bloomington, Illinois for a brief time and was appointed editor of the Bloomington Republican, but the family returned to Canton in 1867. Remington was the only child of the marriage, and received constant attention and approval. He was an active child, large and strong for his age, who loved to hunt, swim, ride, and go camping. He was a poor student, though, particularly in math, which did not bode well for his father's ambitions for his son to attend West Point. He began to make drawings and sketches of soldiers and cowboys at an early age.

...
Wikipedia