"Frederic Remington Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 – December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the American Old West, specifically concentrating on scenes from the last quarter of the 19th century in the Western United States and featuring images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U.S. Cavalry, among other figures from Western culture. 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"
"Frederic Remington House The Frederic Remington House is a historic house at 36 Oak Knoll Road in Ridgefield, Connecticut. A National Historic Landmark, it was the home of the painter and sculptor Frederic Remington (1861-1909) in the last few months of his life. Remington and his wife designed the two-story gambrel-roofed, fieldstone-and-shingle house. He produced some of his finest work in the house including the sculpture ""The Stampede"" and the painting ""The Love Call"". The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965. Frederic Remington (1861-1909) lived for many years in New Rochelle, New York, working as an illustrator,"
"an emphatic statement that he was done with illustration forever. He wrote, ""there is nothing left but my landscape studies"". Near the end of his life, he moved to Ridgefield, Connecticut. In his final two years, under the influence of The Ten, he was veering more heavily to Impressionism, and he regretted that he was studio bound (by virtue of his declining health) and could not follow his peers who painted ""plein air"". Frederic Remington died after an emergency appendectomy led to peritonitis on December 26, 1909. His extreme obesity (weight nearly 300 pounds) had complicated the anesthesia and the"
"the property includes a cluster of outbuildings, which were also designed and built by the Remingtons. They include a cow barn, chicken coop, and shed, as well as a caretaker's cottage and a carriage house that has been adapted for residential use. Frederic Remington House The Frederic Remington House is a historic house at 36 Oak Knoll Road in Ridgefield, Connecticut. A National Historic Landmark, it was the home of the painter and sculptor Frederic Remington (1861-1909) in the last few months of his life. Remington and his wife designed the two-story gambrel-roofed, fieldstone-and-shingle house. He produced some of his"
"the Timber"" (1889; see gallery below) -- a work that established Remington as a serious painter when it was exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1889. 2) Frederic Remington, ""The Broncho Buster"" (1895) -- Remington's first attempt to model in bronze and the work that started him on a long secondary career as a sculptor. 3) Frederic Remington, ""The Fall of the Cowboy"" (1895) -- an evocation of the fading of the mythic cowboy of legend, anticipating Owen Wister's celebrated novel, ""The Virginian"" (1902). 4) Charles M. Russell, ""Medicine Man"" (1908) -- a detailed portrait of a Blackfeet"
"sculptor, and writer. He produced iconic works of American art, particularly noted for their themes of the American West. His corpus of work includes more than 2,700 artworks, many of which were published in magazines and newspapers, and 142 books, including eight he wrote. In early 1909 he and his wife Missy purchased of land in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and oversaw the construction of a home and studio. During the construction, Remington continued to work, creating a number of significant works. Although he had major plans for life in Ridgefield, he died of acute appendicitis a few months after the house"
"Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (; ; July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669) was a Dutch draughtsman, painter and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history. Unlike most Dutch masters of the 17th century, depict a wide range of style and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and mythological themes as well as animal studies. His contributions to art came in a period of great"
"These holdings include drawings, illustrated letters, prints, oil paintings, sculptures, and watercolors produced by Remington and Russell during their lifetimes. More than sixty of the works by Remington and more than 250 of the works by Russell were purchased by the museum’s namesake, Amon G. Carter, Sr., over a twenty-year span beginning in 1935. Additions to Amon Carter’s original holdings by museum curators have resulted in a collection that contains multiple examples of Remington's and Russell's best work at every stage of their respective careers. Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell were America's best known and most influential western illustrators."
"surgery, and chronic appendicitis was cited in the post-mortem examination as an underlying factor in his death. The Frederic Remington House was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965. He was the great-uncle of the artist Deborah Remington. In 2009, the United States Congress enacted legislation renaming the historic Post Office in Ogdensburg, New York the Frederic Remington Post Office Building. 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"
"crockery and the flax spinning wheels. These demonstrated his keen observational skills. Howard Helmick Howard Helmick (1845 in Zanesville – 28 April 1907 in Washington, D.C.) was an American painter, etcher, designer and illustrator, who was well known for his oil on canvas paintings. He specialized in figure painting and engravings. He was best known for his Irish genre studies, and paintings of Irish households. Helmick was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1840. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Peter Rothermel. He then moved to Paris in 1854 and trained alongside Henry Bacon at the"
"Deborah Remington Deborah Remington (June 25, 1930 – April 21, 2010) was an American abstract painter. Her most notable work is characterized as Hard-edge painting abstraction. She became a part of the San Francisco Bay Area's Beat scene in the 1950s. In 1965, she moved to New York where her style solidified and her career grew substantially. A twenty-year retrospective of her work was exhibited at the Newport Harbor Art Museum in California, in 1983. Her work was a part of more than thirty solo exhibition and hundreds of group exhibitions including three Whitney Museum of American Art annuals. She"
"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"
"in 1923. Since then, the collection has expanded through purchases and donations, and it is now called the Frederic Remington Art Museum. Frederic Remington Art Museum The Frederic Remington Art Museum is an art museum in Ogdensburg, New York that focuses on the work of Frederic Remington. The building currently housing the museum was built in 1810 by David Parish. Although he only lived in the home until 1816, other members of his family occupied it up until the 1860s. After Frederic Remington died in 1909, his wife Eva moved into the house as a guest of Frederic's friend George"
"when ""Collier's"" devoted an entire issue to the artist, showcasing his latest works. It was that same year that the president of the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art) commissioned Remington to create a large sculpture of a cowboy for Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, which was erected in 1908 on a jutting rock along Kelly Drive – a site Remington specifically chose for the piece after having a horseman pose for him in that exact location. Philadelphia's ""Cowboy"" (1908) was Remington's first and only large-scale bronze, and the sculpture is one of the earliest examples of site-specific"
"Frederic Remington Art Museum The Frederic Remington Art Museum is an art museum in Ogdensburg, New York that focuses on the work of Frederic Remington. The building currently housing the museum was built in 1810 by David Parish. Although he only lived in the home until 1816, other members of his family occupied it up until the 1860s. After Frederic Remington died in 1909, his wife Eva moved into the house as a guest of Frederic's friend George Hall in 1915 and lived there with her sister until her death in 1918. Eva Remington's estate became the Remington Art Memorial"
"of the biblical story captured in the painting. Rembrandt painted the picture soon after the death of his beloved wife Saskia, and perhaps its subject is associated with his own feelings. The Hermitage contains other works by Rembrandt such as Flora (1634), Descent of the Cross (1634), The Sacrifice of Isaac (1635), Holy Family with Angels (1645) and The Return of the Prodigal Son (1668-1669). David and Jonathan (Rembrandt) David and Jonathan is a painting by the Dutch painter Rembrandt, made in 1642, now in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Painted on oak, It is"
"on a ranch in North Dakota the previous year but gaining experience which made him an ""expert"" on the West. The assignment gave Remington's career a big boost and forged a lifelong connection with Roosevelt. His full-color oil painting ""Return of the Blackfoot War Party"" was exhibited at the National Academy of Design and the ""New York Herald"" commented that Remington would ""one day be listed among our great American painters"". Though not admired by all critics, Remington's work was deemed ""distinctive"" and ""modern"". By now, he was demonstrating the ability to handle complex compositions with ease, as in ""Mule"
"a photograph as a detached chord with little meaning or context. George Stubbs and Alfred Munnings have both left a vast body of work involving the racehorse. In the 20th century, much of the artwork by John Skeaping involved the racing scene, including life-size bronzes of Hyperion and Brigadier Gerard and watercolours of race course action. Artwork associated with the historic cowboy or Native American tradition of the American west naturally includes many equine subjects. include Frederic Remington and C.M. Russell who are known for their paintings of equine subjects. Remington was one of the first American artists to illustrate"
"Cold Morning on the Range Cold Morning on the Range is an oil-based painting created by American artist Frederic Remington in 1904. The painting depicts a man on the American frontier, riding a large, brown, wild horse. The horse is obviously not trained because it is jumping and generally looking rowdy. In the background are many other men with horses, apparently on a cattle drive. Mountains are also visible in the distance, which perhaps leads the viewer to assume that this is the Goodnight-Loving Trail and the mountains are a string of the famous Sierra Nevada range. Throughout the painting,"
"Denver, Colorado. Remington painted many of his nocturnes in the last years of his life, when he was transitioning from a career as an illustrator to that of a fine artist and had chosen Impressionism as the style in which he worked at the time. One example of his work is ""The Stampede"" (also known as ""The Stampede by Lightning"", 1908). The paintings pictured in the gallery below are in order of date completed, left to right: Other artists who also created nocturne scenes are: Nocturne (painting) Nocturne painting is a term coined by James Abbott McNeill Whistler to describe"
"which had mythical, biblical or historical themes. Drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils have been extensively studied by many artists and scholars through the centuries. His original draughtsmanship has been described as an individualistic art style that was very similar to East Asian old masters, most notably Chinese masters: a ""combination of formal clarity and calligraphic vitality in the movement of pen or brush that is closer to Chinese painting in technique and feeling than to anything in European art before the twentieth century"". Throughout his career Rembrandt took as his primary subjects the themes of portraiture, landscape and narrative"
"wax method, a higher quality process than the earlier sand casting method he had employed. By 1901, ""Collier's"" was buying Remington's illustrations on a steady basis. As his style matured, Remington portrayed his subjects in every light of day. His nocturnal paintings, very popular in his late life, such as ""A Taint on the Wind"" and ""Scare in the Pack Train"", are more impressionistic and loosely painted, and focus on the unseen threat. Remington completed another novel in 1902, ""John Ermine of the Yellowstone"", a modest success but a definite disappointment as it was completely overshadowed by the best seller"
"for more than 300 years. As well, when the portrait of a young man on horseback titled ""The Polish Rider"" was discovered in 1897 it too was attributed to Rembrandt. Acquired by New York City's Frick Collection, ""The Polish Rider"" is one of the Frick Museum's most valued treasures. For years, the painting's subject matter and purpose was questioned by many scholars, led by the renowned expert Julius S. Held in 1944. Starting in 1984, in a movement led by Dr. Josua Bruyn of the Foundation Rembrandt Research Project, some began to believe this great painting may also be that"
"Howard Helmick Howard Helmick (1845 in Zanesville – 28 April 1907 in Washington, D.C.) was an American painter, etcher, designer and illustrator, who was well known for his oil on canvas paintings. He specialized in figure painting and engravings. He was best known for his Irish genre studies, and paintings of Irish households. Helmick was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1840. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Peter Rothermel. He then moved to Paris in 1854 and trained alongside Henry Bacon at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, under the artist Alexandre Cabanel. ""He devoted"
"horse has a white stripe on its face and appears to be full of life and strong. It is obviously a wild horse, trying to break free of captivity, while its rider is trying to calm and eventually tame it. Cold Morning on the Range Cold Morning on the Range is an oil-based painting created by American artist Frederic Remington in 1904. The painting depicts a man on the American frontier, riding a large, brown, wild horse. The horse is obviously not trained because it is jumping and generally looking rowdy. In the background are many other men with horses,"
"National Academy of Design and received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant that same year. She was awarded a National Endowment Fellowship from 1979-1980. In the fall of 1973, Remington was a Tamarind Fellow Artist-in-Residence. Deborah Remington Deborah Remington (June 25, 1930 – April 21, 2010) was an American abstract painter. Her most notable work is characterized as Hard-edge painting abstraction. She became a part of the San Francisco Bay Area's Beat scene in the 1950s. In 1965, she moved to New York where her style solidified and her career grew substantially. A twenty-year retrospective of her work was exhibited at the"
"Ferdinand Bol Ferdinand Bol (24 June 1616 – 24 August 1680) was a Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman. Although his surviving work is rare, it displays Rembrandt's influence; like his master, Bol favored historical subjects, portraits, numerous self-portraits, and single figures in exotic finery. Ferdinand was born in Dordrecht as the son of a surgeon, Balthasar Bol. Ferdinand Bol was first an apprentice of Jacob Cuyp in his hometown and/or of Abraham Bloemaert in Utrecht. After 1630 he studied with Rembrandt, living in his house in Sint Antoniesbreestraat, then a fashionable street and area for painters, jewellers, architects, and many"
"Early Riser"", a stag seen through the morning mists, ""Grayling Fishing"" and ""A Salmon Pool on the Spey"". He also created paintings and charcoal drawings of trees and park-like country. Haden's studies of Rembrandt, besides influencing his original work, led to his important monograph on the Dutch artist's etchings. Haden was the first to catalogue Rembrandt's etchings chronologically and in ""states"". [8] Through books and lectures, and with the aid of an exhibition at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1877, he tried to give a true reflection of Rembrandt's work, excluding from his ""oeuvre"" a large number of plates"
"public collections, in particular Colchester and Ipswich Museums. William R. Symonds William Robert Symonds (1851 – November 7, 1934) was an English painter. He specialised in genre scenes, often sentimental, or involving children and animals. Born in Yoxford, Suffolk, he studied in Antwerp and settled in London in 1881. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1876. His son was the architect and furniture expert Robert Wemyss Symonds. Symonds painted the originals for some famous prints, the most notable being ""Heather"", painted c. 1909. His paintings hang in the Wallace Collection in London and Christchurch Mansion in Suffolk. Twenty-two"
"of Frederic Remington was a drawing inspiration to François as his surviving sketch books attest with pages of animals, in particular horses. Around age eight, the boys exhibited symptoms of malaria. The disease was common in Amsterdam from mosquitoes freely breeding in the canals but the vector relationship was not yet understood. The family doctor recommended that the boys be removed for a few years to recover up into the Alps. The decision to go turned into their permanent departure from their Amsterdam home. During breaks from school over the next years, the family would vacation at various alpine resorts."
"Remington Schuyler Remington Schuyler (1884–1955) was an American painter, illustrator and writer during the early to mid twentieth century. He was born in Buffalo, New York and was named after Frederic Remington, a relative of his mother's and an extremely accomplished artist from the period. After graduating from high school Schuyler went on to study at Washington University. He went on to receive scholarships to the National Academy in Rome and the Académie Julian in Paris after which he spent time studying at the Art Students League in New York with the influential draftsman, George Bridgman. In 1906 Schuyler studied"
"cowboys in action through specific details and realistic depictions. He became known for being one of the earliest fine artists to ""popularize cowboy action scenes"" and Wild West imagery. Hansen regularly painted in watercolor, but later in life he began to use oils and etching in his art. Hansen has been called the ""Frederic Remington of the West Coast,"" but there are differences in their styles. Hansen was a strict Western genre painter. Artist Eugen Neuhaus said of Hansen's artwork: ""His concern was more with photographic records of frontier life than with the beauties of design and color."" By 1908,"
"related to Remington through the Bascom family is Frank Tenney Johnson, the ""father of western moonlight painting."" Frederic Remington was also a cousin to Eliphalet Remington, founder of the Remington Arms Company, which is considered America's oldest gunmaker. He was also related to three famous mountain men—Jedediah Smith, Jonathan T. Warner and Robert ""Doc"" Newell. Through the Warner side of his family, 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"