Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
Depicted the life of the cowboy
during the 1880's and 1890's better perhaps than any other artist
of his time. He thought of himself as a true citizen of the American
West. A native of Canton, New York, Remington left college at
the age of 19, looking for adventure in the West. Remington operated
his own ranch in Kansas and in 1886 he gave it up as a failure
and came back to the East. The experience served him well in his
later career as an artist. "What success I have had", Remington
once told a newspaper reporter, "has been because I have a horseman's
knowledge of a horse. No one can draw equestrian subjects unless
he is an equestrian himself".
As an artist, Remington first
made a name for himself as an illustrator and painter, and began
sculpting only 14 years before his death in 1909. "I was impelled
to try my hand at sculpture by a mental desire to say something
in the round as well as flat. Sculpture is the most perfect expression
of action. You can say it all in clay." The first Remington in
clay was "Bronco Buster", completed in 1895.
Among his admirers were Theodore
Roosevelt, who once said that "Remington portrayed a most characteristic
and yet vanishing type of American life. The soldier, the cowboy,
the rancher, the Indian, the horses and cattle of the plains will
live in his pictures and bronzes, I verily believe for all time".
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