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Famous for his iconic sculptures depicting the American West, artist Frederic Remington was born on this day in 1861.Remington had a privileged upbringing, attending prep school and Yale University, where he studied art and distinguished himself in football.… In 1885 he … married, and, after settling in New York, began submitting illustrations to Harper's, Outing, and other popular magazines. By 1890 he had achieved fame not only as an illustrator and painter but also as a writer of western stories.
Remington frequently traveled west for his publishers and was sent to cover the Spanish-American War of 1898 as a correspondent and artist. Enormously prolific, during the last twenty years of his life he produced more than twenty-seven hundred paintings and twenty-four editions of bronze sculpture.
This painting by Remington, and more than sixty others celebrating the American West, are currently on view at the the Akron Art Museum in Ohio, as part of our traveling exhibition Lure of the West: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Source: National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM) (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, 1996).
Pictured: Frederic Remington, 1861–1909, Fired On, 1907, oil, 27 1/8 x 40 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans.
Famous for his iconic sculptures depicting the American West, artist Frederic Remington was born on this day in 1861.Remington had a privileged upbringing, attending prep school and Yale University, where he studied art and distinguished himself in football.… In 1885 he … married, and, after settling in New York, began submitting illustrations to Harper's, Outing, and other popular magazines. By 1890 he had achieved fame not only as an illustrator and painter but also as a writer of western stories.