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{{Short description|American painter and sculptor (1861–1909)}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name          = Frederic Remington
| image         = Frederic Remington.jpg
| caption       =
| birth_name    = Frederic Sackrider Remington
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1861|10|4}}
| birth_place   = [[Canton (village), New York|Canton, New York]], U.S.
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|1909|12|26|1861|10|4}}
| death_place   = [[Ridgefield, Connecticut]], U.S.
| movement      = [[Illustration]], [[Impressionism]], [[Nocturne (painting)|Nocturne]], and [[Tonalism]]
| spouse        = Eva Caten (1884–1909)
| relatives     = [[Eliphalet Remington]] (cousin)
| awards        = 1891: Elected Associate of the [[National Academy of Design]] (ANA)
| patrons       = [[Theodore Roosevelt]], [[Elizabeth Custer]], ''[[Harper's Weekly]]'', ''[[Harper's Monthly]]'', ''[[Century Magazine]]'', ''[[Scribner's]]'', ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'', ''[[Collier's]]'', and many others
| field         = Painting ([[watercolor]] and oil), sculpture, drawing ([[pen and ink]], [[ink wash]]), [[mixed media]], journalist and writer
| training      = [[Yale University]], [[New Haven, Connecticut]], one drawing class, 1878;<br />[[Art Students League of New York|Art Students League]], New York, 1886
| works         =''[[The Bronco Buster]]''
}}
'''Frederic Sackrider Remington''' (October 4, 1861&nbsp;– December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in the genre of [[Western American Art]]. His works are known for depicting the [[Western United States]] in the last quarter of the 19th century and featuring such images as [[cowboy]]s, [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]], and the [[US Cavalry]].<ref name="Mantle Fielding's">{{cite book|editor-last=Opitz|editor-first=Glenn B.|title=Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers|year=1987|publisher=Apollo Book|location=Poughkeepsie, NY|isbn=0-938290-04-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/mantlefieldingsd0000fiel/page/766/mode/2up 766]|url=https://archive.org/details/mantlefieldingsd0000fiel/page/766/mode/2up}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Remington was born in [[Canton (village), New York|Canton, New York]], in 1861 to Seth Pierrepont Remington (1830–1880)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://northcountry.bobsterner.com/Seth%20Remington.htm |title=Seth Pierre Remington and Clara Bascomb Sackrider: old newspaper clippings |publisher=Northcountry.bobsterner.com |date=February 2, 1962 |access-date=June 15, 2012 |archive-date=July 25, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725022215/http://northcountry.bobsterner.com/Seth%20Remington.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> and Clarissa (Clara) Bascom Sackrider (1836–1912).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10126-21576510/robert-sacrider-in-1850-united-states-federal-census|title=Choose your plan for accessing billions of records on MyHeritage|website=myheritage.com|access-date=May 1, 2018|archive-date=October 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024223409/https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10126-21576510/robert-sacrider-in-1850-united-states-federal-census|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1870usfedcen&h=32350674&ti=5561&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t16037880_p335289379_kpidz0q3d335289379z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid&ssrc=pt_t16037880_p335289379_kpidz0q3d335289379z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid&backlabel=ReturnRecord | title=Join Ancestry® }}</ref>

His maternal family owned hardware stores and emigrated from [[Alsace-Lorraine]] in the early 18th century.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, ''Frederic Remington: A Biography'', Doubleday & Co., Garden City NY, {{ISBN|0-385-14738-4}}, pp. 7–8.</ref> His maternal family, of [[French Basque Country|French Basque]] ancestry, came to America in the early 1600s and founded [[Windsor, Connecticut]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://windsorhistoricalsociety.org/founders-of-windsor-trades-professions/|title=The Founders of Windsor: Their Trades or Professions|first=Michelle|last=Tom|date=July 3, 2017|access-date=May 31, 2020|archive-date=October 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024223409/https://windsorhistoricalsociety.org/founders-of-windsor-trades-professions/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Thomas_Bascom_(3)|title=Person:Thomas Bascom (3) – Genealogy|website=www.werelate.org|access-date=June 2, 2020|archive-date=October 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024223413/https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Thomas_Bascom_(3)|url-status=live}}</ref> Remington's father was a [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] army colonel in the [[American Civil War]], whose family had arrived in America from England in 1637. He was a newspaper editor and postmaster, and the staunchly [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] family was active in local politics. The Remingtons were horsemen. One of Remington's great-grandfathers, Samuel Bascom, was a saddle maker by trade. Remington's ancestors also fought in the [[French and Indian War]], the [[American Revolution]], and the [[War of 1812]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/jstor-25590534|title=Frederic Remington|date=January 1, 1910|publisher=American Art News|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

Remington was a cousin of [[Eliphalet Remington]], founder of the [[Remington Arms Company]], which is considered America's oldest gunmaker.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Conners |first=Bill |title=Remington, gun maker in Illion, on route to bankruptcy again, reportedly may be sold |url=https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/sports/recreational/2020/07/02/remington-arms-bankruptcy-trouble-again/3283231001/ |access-date=2024-08-03 |website=Poughkeepsie Journal |language=en-US |archive-date=August 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240803234008/https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/sports/recreational/2020/07/02/remington-arms-bankruptcy-trouble-again/3283231001/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He was also related to three famous [[mountain men]]: [[Jedediah Smith]], Jonathan T. Warner, and Robert "Doc" Newell.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}} Through the Warner side of his family, Remington was related to [[George Washington]], the first [[President of the United States|U.S. president]].{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}

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.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 11.</ref> 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.
[[File:Outing (1885) (14579831590).jpg|thumb|Remington in the football uniform of the day, including a canvas jacket and flannel trousers]]

The family moved to [[Ogdensburg, New York]] when Remington was eleven and he attended Vermont Episcopal Institute, a church-run military school, where his father hoped discipline would rein in his son's lack of focus and perhaps lead to a military career. Remington took his first drawing lessons at the Institute. He then transferred to another military school where his classmates found the young Remington to be a pleasant fellow, a bit careless and lazy, good-humored, and generous of spirit but definitely not soldier material.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 19.</ref> He enjoyed making caricatures and silhouettes of his classmates. At 17, he wrote to his uncle{{clarify|date=March 2021|reason=Which uncle? More than one are important in this article.}} of his modest ambitions, "I never intend to do any great amount of labor. I have but one short life and do not aspire to wealth or fame in a degree which could only be obtained by an extraordinary effort on my part."<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 21.</ref> He imagined a career for himself as a journalist, with art as a sideline.

Remington attended the art school at [[Yale University]] and studied under [[John Henry Niemeyer]].<ref name="Mantle Fielding's" /> Remington was the only male student in his first year. He found that football and boxing were more interesting than the formal art training, particularly drawing from casts and still life objects. He preferred action drawing and his first published illustration was a cartoon of a "bandaged football player" for the student newspaper, ''Yale Courant''.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 25.</ref> Though he was not a star player, his participation on the strong Yale football team was a great source of pride for Remington and his family. He left Yale in 1879 to tend to his ailing father, who had [[tuberculosis]]. His father died a year later, at 50, receiving respectful recognition from the citizens of Ogdensburg. Remington's Uncle Mart{{clarify|date=March 2021|reason=We need a real name here; this is an encyclopedia article not a family letter.}} secured a good-paying clerical job for his nephew in [[Albany, New York]], and Remington would return home on weekends to see his girlfriend Eva Caten. After the rejection of his engagement proposal to Eva by her father, Remington became a reporter for his uncle's newspaper and went on to other short-lived jobs.

==Career==
[[File:Frederic Remington - Arizona cow-boy.jpg|thumb|''Arizona cow-boy'', a 1901 [[lithograph]] by Remington]]
Living off his inheritance and modest work income, Remington refused to go back to art school and instead spent time camping and enjoying himself. At 19, he made his first trip west, going to [[Montana]],<ref name=remington>{{cite web |title=Frederic Remington |publisher=Buffalo Bill Historical Center |url=http://www.bbhc.org/explore/western-art/research/frederic-remington/ |access-date=July 25, 2011 |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927135218/http://www.bbhc.org/explore/western-art/research/frederic-remington/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> at first to buy a cattle operation and then a mining interest, but realized that he did not have sufficient capital for either. In the American West of 1881, he saw the vast prairies, the quickly shrinking [[American bison|bison]] herds, the still unfenced cattle, and the last major confrontations of US Cavalry and Native American tribes, scenes he had imagined since his childhood. He also hunted [[grizzly bear]]s with Montague Stevens in [[New Mexico]] in 1895.<ref>"Frederic Remington", ''[[Harper's Weekly]]'', July 1895, p. 240.</ref> Though the trip was undertaken as a lark, it gave Remington a more authentic view of the West than some of the later artists and writers who followed in his footsteps, such as [[N. C. Wyeth]] and [[Zane Grey]], who arrived twenty-five years later when much of the mythic West had already slipped into history. From that first trip, ''[[Harper's Weekly]]'' printed Remington's first published commercial effort, a re-drawing of a quick sketch on wrapping paper that he had mailed back east.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 36.</ref> In 1883, Remington went to rural Kansas,<ref>{{cite web |title=Remington High School in Whitewater, KS, claims it was named after Frederic Remington who bought a sheep farm in Peabody, Kansas |website=Remington.KS.SchoolWebpages.com |url=http://remington.ks.schoolwebpages.com/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=705 |access-date=June 15, 2012 |archive-date=March 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308212324/http://remington.ks.schoolwebpages.com/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=705 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Remington Art Museum cites '1883, March: (Remington) Buys sheep ranch near Peabody, Kansas' |website=FredericRemington.org |url=http://www.fredericremington.org/page.php?p=1&s=1 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081011085330/http://www.fredericremington.org/page.php?p=1&s=1 |archive-date=October 11, 2008}}</ref> south of the city of [[Peabody, Kansas|Peabody]] near the tiny community of [[Plum Grove, Kansas|Plum Grove]],<ref>The land that Remington owned was closer to what is today the city of Whitewater, which did not exist in 1883 when Remington moved to Kansas.</ref> to try his hand at the booming sheep ranching and wool trade, as one of the "holiday stockmen", rich young easterners out to make a quick killing as ranch owners. He invested his entire inheritance but found ranching to be a rough, boring, isolated occupation which deprived him of the finer things he was used to from East Coast life, and the real ranchers thought of him as lazy.  In 1884, he sold his land.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 43.</ref>

Remington continued sketching, but his results were still cartoonish and amateur. Less than a year after selling his ranch, he went home. After acquiring more capital from his mother, he returned to Kansas City to start a hardware business, but due to an alleged swindle, it failed, and he reinvested his remaining money as a [[Partnership#Silent partners|silent]], half-owner of a saloon. He went home to marry Eva Caten in 1884.  (He had previously asked her father for her hand, but had been turned down—her father was a widower at the time and felt he needed Eva, but after he had remarried, was more amenable.)<ref name="fredericremington.org">{{cite web | url=https://fredericremington.org/eva-caten-remington-education-center.php | title=Eva Caten Remington Education Center | access-date=July 24, 2024 | archive-date=July 24, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724004145/https://fredericremington.org/eva-caten-remington-education-center.php | url-status=live }}</ref>  The young couple returned to Kansas City immediately. Eva was unhappy with his saloon life and was unimpressed by the sketches of saloon inhabitants that Remington regularly showed her. When his real occupation became known, she left him and returned to Ogdensburg.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 54.</ref> With his wife gone and with business doing badly, Remington started to sketch and paint in earnest, and bartered his sketches for essentials.

He soon had enough success selling his paintings to locals to see art as a real profession. Remington returned home again, his inheritance gone but his faith in his new career secured, reunited with his wife, and moved to [[Brooklyn]]. He began studies at the [[Art Students League of New York]] and significantly bolstered his fresh though still rough technique. His timing was excellent, as newspaper interest in the dying West was escalating. He submitted illustrations, sketches, and other works for publication with Western themes to ''[[Collier's]]'' and ''Harper's Weekly'', as his recent Western experiences (highly exaggerated) and his hearty, breezy "cowboy" demeanor gained him credibility with the eastern publishers looking for authenticity.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 61.</ref> His first full-page cover under his own name appeared in ''Harper's Weekly'' on January 9, 1886, when he was twenty-five. With financial backing from his Uncle Bill,{{clarify|date=March 2021|reason=We need a real name here; this is an encyclopedia article not a family letter.}} Remington was able to pursue his art career and support his wife.

Several of his relatives were also artists, including Indian portrait artist [[George Catlin]],<ref name="medicinemangallery.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.medicinemangallery.com/bio/remington.lasso |title=Frederic Remington Biography |publisher=MedicineManGallery.com |access-date=June 15, 2012 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030703/http://www.medicinemangallery.com/bio/remington.lasso |url-status=dead }}</ref> cowboy sculptor [[Earl W. Bascom]],<ref name="medicinemangallery.com" /> and (also on the Bascom side) [[Frank Tenney Johnson]], the "father of western moonlight painting".{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}

[[File:RemingtonDismounted.jpg|thumb|''Dismounted: The Fourth Troopers Moving the Led Horses'', an 1890 oil on canvas portrait by Remington now housed in the [[Clark Art Institute]] in [[Williamstown, Massachusetts]]]]
In 1886, Remington was sent to Arizona by ''[[Harper's Weekly]]'' on a commission as an artist-correspondent to cover the government's war against [[Geronimo]]. Although he never caught up with Geronimo, Remington did acquire many authentic artifacts to be used later as props, and made many photos and sketches valuable for later paintings. He also made notes on the true colors of the West, such as "shadows of horses should be a cool carmine & Blue", to supplement the black-and-white photos. Ironically, art critics later criticized his palette as "primitive and unnatural" even though it was based on actual observation.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 74.</ref>

After returning East, Remington was sent by ''Harper's Weekly'' to cover the [[1886 Charleston earthquake]]. To expand his commission work, he also began doing drawings for ''[[Outing (magazine)|Outing]]'' magazine. His first year as a commercial artist had been successful, earning Remington $1,200, almost triple that of a typical teacher.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 81.</ref> He had found his life's work and bragged to a friend, "That's a pretty good break for an ex cow-puncher to come to New York with $30 and catch on it 'art'."<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, ''Remington: The Complete Prints'', Crown Publishers, New York, 1990, p. 13, {{ISBN|0-517-57451-9}}</ref>

For commercial reproduction in black-and-white, he produced ink and [[wash (visual arts)|wash]] drawings. As he added watercolor, he began to sell his work in art exhibitions. His works were selling well but garnered no prizes, as the competition was strong and masters like [[Winslow Homer]] and [[Eastman Johnson]] were considered his superiors. A trip to Canada in 1887 produced illustrations of the [[Blackfoot]], the [[Crow Nation]], and the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police|Canadian Mounties]], which were eagerly enjoyed by the reading public.[[File:Shotgun hospitality.jpg|thumb|''Shotgun Hospitality'', 1908, oil on canvas, [[Hood Museum of Art]], Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire]]

Later that year, Remington received a commission to do eighty-three illustrations for a book by [[Theodore Roosevelt]], ''Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail'' to be serialized in ''[[The Century Magazine]]'' before publication.<ref name="Peggy 1990, p. 15">Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1990, p. 15.</ref> The 29-year-old Roosevelt had a similar Western adventure to Remington, losing money 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.
[[File:Frederic Remington - The Blanket Signal - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|upright|''The Blanket Signal'', 1894/1898]]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".<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 96.</ref> 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 Train Crossing the Sierras'' (1888), and to show action from all points of view.<ref name="Peggy 1990, p. 15" /> His status as the new trendsetter in Western art was solidified in 1889 when he won a second-class medal at the Paris Exposition. He had been selected by the American committee to represent American painting, over [[Albert Bierstadt]] whose majestic, large-scale landscapes peopled with tiny figures of pioneers and Indians were by then considered passé.[[File:Frederic Remington - Aiding a Comrade - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''Aiding a Comrade'', 1890|left]]Around this time, Remington made a gentleman's agreement with ''Harper's Weekly'', giving the magazine an informal first option on his output but maintaining Remington's independence to sell elsewhere if desired. As a bonus, the magazine launched a massive promotional campaign for Remington, stating that "He draws what he knows, and he knows what he draws." Though laced with blatant puffery (common for the time) claiming that Remington was a bona fide cowboy and Indian scout, the effect of the campaign was to raise Remington to the equal of the era's top illustrators, [[Howard Pyle]] and [[Charles Dana Gibson]].<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, pp. 133–134.</ref>

His first one-man show, in 1890, presented twenty-one paintings at the American Art Galleries and was very well received. With success all but assured, Remington became established in society. His personality, his "pseudo-cowboy" speaking manner, and his "Wild West" reputation were strong social attractions. His biography falsely promoted some of the myths he encouraged about his Western experiences.<ref name="Peggy 1990, p. 32">Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1990, p. 32.</ref>

Remington's regular attendance at celebrity banquets and stag dinners, however, though helpful to his career, fostered prodigious eating and drinking which caused his girth to expand alarmingly. Obesity became a constant problem for him from then on. Among his urban friends and fellow artists, he was "a man among men, a deuce of a good fellow" but notable because he (facetiously) "never drew but two women in his life, and they were failures" (this estimation failed to account for his female Native American subjects).<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1990, p. 30.</ref>
[[File:Remingtonhome.JPG|thumb|left|upright|Remington estate 'Endion' in [[New Rochelle, New York]]. The Gothic-revival cottage was designed by [[Alexander Jackson Davis|Alexander J. Davis]].]]

In 1890, Remington and his wife moved to [[New Rochelle, New York]], to have both more living space and extensive studio facilities, and also with the hope of gaining more exercise. The community was close to New York City affording easy access to the publishing houses and galleries necessary for the artist, and also rural enough to provide him with the space he needed for horseback riding, and other physical activities that relieved the long hours of concentration required by his work. Moreover, an artists' colony had developed in the town, so that the Remingtons counted among their neighbors writers, actors, and artists such as Francis Wilson, [[Julian Hawthorne]], [[Edward Kemble]], and [[Augustus Thomas]].[[File:Frederic Remington - Change of Ownership (The Stampede; Horse Thieves) - Google Art Project.jpg|thumbnail|Frederic Sackrider Remington, ''The Stampede; Horse Thieves,'' 1909. [[Museum of Fine Arts, Houston]]]]

The Remingtons' substantial Gothic revival house was situated at 301 Webster Avenue, on a prestigious promontory known as [[Winyah Park|Lathers Hill]]. A sweeping lawn rolled south toward [[Long Island Sound]], providing views on three sides of the beautiful [[Westchester County]] countryside. Remington called it ''Endion'', an Ojibwa word meaning "the place where I live".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/7aa/7aa796.htm |title=Frederic Remington: Treasures from the Frederic Remington Art Museum |publisher=Tfaoi.com |date=September 4, 2007 |access-date=June 15, 2012 |archive-date=September 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912190348/http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/7aa/7aa796.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> In the early years, no real studio existed at Endion and Remington did most of his work in a large attic under the home's front [[gable]] where he stored materials collected on his many western excursions. Later he used his library on the main floor, a larger, more comfortable room that soon took on the cluttered appearance of an atelier. However, neither situation was completely satisfactory: the space was limited, the light was less than adequate, and the surroundings were generally uninspiring. In the spring of 1896 Remington retained the New Rochelle architect O. William Degen to plan a studio addition to the house. An article in the ''New Rochelle Pioneer'' of April 26 touted the "fine architectural design" of the studio. Remington himself wrote to his friend the novelist Owen Wister:<ref>Undated letter written in June or July 1896, in the ''"Owen Wister Papers"'', Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.</ref>

<blockquote>Have concluded to build a butler's pantry and a studio (Czar size) on my house—we will be torn [up] for a month and then will ask you to come over—throw your eye on the march of improvement and say this is a great thing for American art. The fireplace is going to be like this.—Old Norman house—Big—big.</blockquote>

== Later career ==
[[File:Frederic Remington - The Lookout - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|upright|left|''The Lookout'', 1887]]

=== Further travels ===
Remington's fame made him a favorite of the Western Army officers fighting the last Native American battles. He was invited out West to make their portraits in the field and to gain them national publicity through Remington's articles and illustrations for ''Harper's Weekly'', particularly General [[Nelson Miles]], an Indian fighter who aspired to the presidency of the United States.<ref name="Peggy 1990, p. 32" /> In turn, Remington got exclusive access to the soldiers and their stories and boosted his reputation with the reading public as "The Soldier Artist". One of his 1889 paintings, ''A Dash for the Timber'', depicts eight cavalrymen shooting at [[Apaches]] in the rear as they attempt to outrun the Indians. Another painting that year, ''Cavalry in an Arizona Sand-Storm'', depicts cavalrymen in a [[Dust storm|sandstorm]]. Remington wrote that the "heat was awful and the dust rose in clouds. Men get sulky and go into a comatose state – the fine alkali dust penetrates everything but the canteens."<ref name=acarter>Exhibit at the [[Amon Carter Museum]] in [[Fort Worth, Texas]]</ref>
[[File:Remington Fighting over a stolen herd.jpg|thumb|''Fighting over a stolen herd'', from his article "Cracker Cowboys of Florida", 1895]]

Remington arrived on the scene just after the 1890 [[Wounded Knee Massacre|massacre at Wounded Knee]] on the [[Pine Ridge Indian Reservation]] in [[South Dakota]], in which 150 [[Sioux Indians|Sioux]], mostly women and children, were killed. He reported the event as "The Sioux Outbreak in South Dakota", having hailed the Army's "heroic" actions toward the Indians.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 141.</ref> Some of the Miles paintings are [[monochromatic]] and have an almost "you-are-there" photographic quality, heightening the realism, as in ''The Parley'' (1898).<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1990, p. 42.</ref>

Remington's ''Self-Portrait on a Horse'' (1890) shows the artist as he had wished, not a stout Easterner weighing heavily on a horse, but a tough, lean cowboy heading for adventure with his trusty steed. It was the image his publishers worked hard to maintain as well. Historian [[David McCullough]] described Remington of that period as "a man of phenomenal appetite for good food and drink" and "a huge specimen of humanity", weighing perhaps {{convert|250|lb|kg}} for his {{height|ft=5|in=9|out=cm}} frame.<ref>McCullough, 1992, pp. 74-75.</ref>

[[File:Frederic Remington - The Mier Expedition- The Drawing of the Black Bean - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''The Mier Expedition – The Drawing of the Black Bean'', 1896, [[Museum of Fine Arts, Houston]]]]
In ''His Last Stand'' (1890), a cornered bear in the middle of a prairie is brought down by dogs and riflemen, which may have been a symbolized treatment of the dying Indians he had witnessed. Remington's attitude toward Native Americans was typical for the time. He thought them unfathomable, fearless, superstitious, ignorant and pitiless, and generally portrayed them as such.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}} White men under attack were brave and noble.

Through the 1890s, Remington took frequent trips around the US, Mexico, and abroad to gather ideas for articles and illustrations, but his military and cowboy subjects always sold the best, even as the Old West was playing out. In 1892, he painted ''A Cavalryman's Breakfast on the Plains''. In 1895 Remington headed south and his illustrations and article on the "[[Florida cracker]]s" (cowboys) were published by Harper's magazine.<ref>{{cite web|title=Florida Cracker: Definition & History |url=https://study.com/academy/lesson/florida-cracker-definition-history.html |access-date=22 May 2020}}</ref> Gradually, he transitioned from the premiere chronicler-artist of the Old West to its most important historian-artist. He formed an effective partnership with [[Owen Wister]], who became the leading writer of Western stories at the time. Having more confidence of his craft, Remington wrote, "My drawing is done entirely from memory. I never use a camera now. The interesting never occurs in nature as a whole, but in pieces. It's more what I leave out than what I add."<ref name="Peggy 1990, p. 32" /> Remington's focus continued on outdoor action and he rarely depicted scenes in gambling and dance halls typically seen in Western movies. He avoided frontier women as well. His painting ''A Misdeal'' (1897) is a rare instance of indoor cowboy violence.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1990, p. 37.</ref>[[File:Frederic Remington - A New Year on the Cimarron - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''A New Year on the Cimarron'', 1903, [[Museum of Fine Arts, Houston]] |left]]Remington had developed a sculptor's 360-degree sense of vision but until a chance remark by playwright Augustus Thomas in 1895, Remington had not yet conceived of himself as a sculptor and thought of it as a separate art for which he had no training or aptitude.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 221.</ref> With help from friend and sculptor [[Frederick Ruckstull]], Remington constructed his first armature and clay model, a "[[broncho buster]]" on a horse that was [[rear (horse)|rearing]] on its hind legs—technically a very challenging subject.  After several months, the novice sculptor overcame the difficulties and had a plaster cast made, then bronze copies, which were sold at Tiffany's.  Remington was ecstatic about his new line of work, and though critical response was mixed, some labelling it negatively as "illustrated sculpture", it was a successful first effort earning him $6,000 over three years.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 229.</ref>

During that busy year, Remington became further immersed in military matters, inventing a new type of ammunition carrier; but his patented invention was not accepted for use by the War Department.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 230.</ref> His favorite subject for magazine illustration was now military scenes, though he admitted, "Cowboys are cash with me".<ref name="Peggy 1990, p. 33">Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1990, p. 33.</ref> Sensing the political mood of that time, he was looking forward to a military conflict which would provide the opportunity to be a heroic war correspondent, giving him both new subject matter and the excitement of battle.  He was growing bored with routine illustration, and he wrote to [[Howard Pyle]], the dean of American illustrators, that he had "done nothing but potboil of late".<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 233.</ref> (Earlier, he and Pyle, in a gesture of mutual respect, had exchanged paintings: Pyle's painting of a dead pirate for Remington's of a rough and ready cowpuncher). He was still working very hard and spending seven days a week in his studio.<ref name="Peggy 1990, p. 33" />

Remington was further irritated by the lack of his acceptance to regular membership by the Academy, likely because of his image as a popular, cocky, and ostentatious artist.<ref name="Peggy 1990, p. 33" /> Remington kept up his contact with celebrities and politicos, and continued to woo [[Theodore Roosevelt]], now the New York City Police Commissioner, by sending him complimentary editions of new works. Despite Roosevelt's great admiration for Remington, he never purchased a Remington painting or drawing.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 235.</ref>

[[File:The Broncho Buster MET DP361132.jpg|thumb|upright|left|''[[The Broncho Buster]]'', 1895, bronze, limited edition]]
[[File:Frederic Remington, Off the Range (Coming Through the Rye), model 1902, cast 1903, NGA 166488.jpg|thumb|''Off the Range (Coming Through the Rye)'', model 1902, cast 1903, [[National Gallery of Art]]]]

===Cuba ===
Remington's association with Roosevelt paid off, however, when the artist was hired as a war correspondent and illustrator for [[William Randolph Hearst]]'s ''[[New York Journal-American|New York Journal]]'' in January 1897.  Remington was sent down to Cuba in company with celebrity journalist [[Richard Harding Davis]], another friend and supporter of Roosevelt.  Cuba's apparent peacefulness left them nothing to report on. That led to this famous but probably apocryphal exchange of telegrams between Remington and Hearst:

:<cite>"Everything is quiet. There is no trouble. There will be no war. I wish to return."</cite>

:<cite>"Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war."</cite><ref>McCullough, 1992, p. 80.</ref>

Remington did return to New Rochelle while Davis remained until February, when he booked return passage on the [[P&O (company)|P&O steamer ''Olivette'']]. Aboard the ship, he met Clemencia Arango, who said her brother was a colonel in the insurgence, that she had been deported for her revolutionary activities, and that she had been stripsearched by the Spanish officials before boarding.  Shocked by her story, Davis dispatched this news from Tampa to Hearst on the 10th. The front page of the ''Journal'' for the 12th was dominated by Remington's sensationalist illustration, run across five columns of newsprint, of Arango stripped naked on the ship's deck, in public, surrounded by three male Spanish officials.  Hearst deemed it the "Olivette Incident". The issue sold a record number of copies, almost a million, partly on the strength of Remington's image of a naked humiliated female resistance fighter.<ref name="McCullough, 1992, p. 81">McCullough, 1992, p. 81.</ref>  The next day Arango called Remington's version largely a fabrication, saying that only a single female police matron had inspected her, and in a private setting.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2537439/clemencia-arango-1897/ |access-date=1 October 2020 |publisher=Pittsburgh Daily Post (via newspapers.com) |date=14 February 1897 |title=Clemencia arango 1897 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Daily Post |page=1 |archive-date=March 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326031437/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2537439/clemencia-arango-1897/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Spaniards search women 1898.jpg|thumb|''Spaniards Search Women on American Steamers'', 1897]]

Two days later, on the 15th, the [[USS Maine (1889)|USS ''Maine'']] exploded.  As the [[Spanish–American War]] took shape into April, the artist returned to Cuba to see military action for the first time. It was the "most wrenching, disillusioning experience of Remington's life."<ref name="McCullough, 1992, p. 81"/> As he witnessed the [[Battle of San Juan Hill|assault on San Juan Hill]] by American forces, including those led by Roosevelt, his heroic conception of war was shattered by the actual horror of jungle fighting and the deprivations he faced in camp. His reports and illustrations upon his return focused not on heroic generals but also on the troops, as in his ''Scream of the Shrapnel'' (1899), which depicts a deadly ambush on American troops by an unseen enemy.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1990, p. 52.</ref>

When the Rough Riders returned to the US, they presented their courageous leader Roosevelt with Remington's bronze statuette, ''[[The Bronco Buster]]'', which the artist proclaimed, "the greatest compliment I ever had.... After this everything will be mere fuss." Roosevelt responded, "There could have been no more appropriate gift from such a regiment."<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 288.</ref>

=== After 1900 ===
In 1898, he achieved the public honor of having two paintings used for reproduction on US Postal stamps.<ref name="Peggy 1990, p. 33" />  In 1900, Remington purchased an island on the U.S. side of the St. Lawrence River that he called Ingleneuk, which he used as a summer residence.<ref name="Remington's Fortress of Rest">{{cite web | url=https://sidrichardsonmuseum.org/remingtons-fortress-of-rest/ | title=Remington's Fortress of Rest | date=June 10, 2019 | access-date=July 24, 2024 | archive-date=July 24, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724002234/https://sidrichardsonmuseum.org/remingtons-fortress-of-rest/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://fredericremington.org/a-chronology-p3.php | title=A Chronology }}</ref>

:“It is given to few men to live Crusoe-like on an island all their own; but Remington besides possessing his own island has augmented the boon with a substantial cottage, studio and outbuildings and lives part from the herding crowd like a feudal lord of old. You cannot possibly disturb him at his work; you could not even located this ‘Ingleneuk’ unless piloted to it. There are only five acres of it, but it is an impregnable stronghold and is, as the artist himself describes it, ‘the finest place on earth…’ Here Remington works all summer… I asked him for a photograph of the house at ‘Ingleneuk.’ ‘Bless your soul,’ he replied, ‘it couldn’t be photographed at any angle; it is solidly screen from view on all sides by the densest growth of trees along the St. Lawrence.’” (reporter Perriton Maxwell in the October 1907 issue of ''Pearson’s Magazine''<ref name="Remington's Fortress of Rest"/>)

In 1900, as an economy move, Harper's dropped Remington as their star artist. To compensate for the loss of work, Remington wrote and illustrated a full-length novel, ''The Way of an Indian'', which was intended for serialization by a Hearst publication but was not published until five years later in ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]''. Remington's protagonist, a Cheyenne named Fire Eater, is a prototype Native American as viewed by Remington and many of his time.<ref>Brian W. Dippie, ''Remington & Russell'', University of Texas, Austin, 1994, {{ISBN|0292715692}}, p. 38.</ref>
[[File:A Taint on the Wind.jpg|thumb|''A Taint on the Wind'', 1906, Oil on canvas, [[Sid Richardson Museum]], Fort Worth, Texas]]
Remington then returned to sculpture and produced his first works produced by the [[lost wax]] method, a higher-quality process than the earlier sand casting method, which he had employed.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 298.</ref> 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'', ''Scare in the Pack Train'' and ''[[Fired On]]'', are more impressionistic and loosely painted and focus on an 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 bestseller ''[[The Virginian (novel)|The Virginian]]'', written by his sometime collaborator Owen Wister, which became a classic Western novel.  A stage play based on ''John Ermine'' failed in 1904. After ''John Ermine'', Remington decided he would soon quit writing and illustrating (he had drawn over 2700 illustrations) to focus on sculpture and painting.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 336.</ref>

In 1903, Remington painted ''His First Lesson'', set on an American-owned ranch in [[Chihuahua (state)|Chihuahua]], Mexico. The hands wear heavy chaps, starched white shirts, and slouch-brimmed hats.<ref name=acarter /> In his paintings, Remington sought to let his audience "take away something to think about – to imagine."<ref name=acarter /> In 1905, Remington had a major publicity coup 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 that Remington had specifically chosen for the piece after he had a horseman pose for him in the 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 art in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bach|first=Penny|title=Public Art in Philadelphia|publisher=Temple University Press|location=Philadelphia, PA|year=1992|isbn=0-87722-822-1|page=212}}</ref>

Remington's ''Explorers'' series, depicting older historical events in Western US history, did not fare well with the public or the critics.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1990, p. 102.</ref> The financial panic of 1907 caused a slow down in his sales and in 1908, fantasy artists, such as [[Maxfield Parrish]], became popular with the public and with commercial sponsors.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1990, p. 112.</ref> Remington tried to sell his home in New Rochelle to get further away from urbanization. One night, he made a bonfire in his yard and burned dozens of his oil paintings that had been used for magazine illustration (worth millions of dollars today) to make an emphatic statement that he was done with illustration forever. He wrote that "there is nothing left but my landscape studies."<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1990, pp. 10, 112.</ref>

Near the end of his life, he moved to [[Ridgefield, Connecticut]]. In his final two years, under the influence of [[Ten American Painters|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".<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1990, p. 122.</ref>

Remington died after an emergency [[appendectomy]] led to [[peritonitis]] on December 26, 1909. His extreme obesity (of nearly 300 lbs = 136,1 kgs) had complicated the anesthesia and the surgery, and chronic [[appendicitis]] was cited in the postmortem examination as an underlying factor in his death.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 439.</ref>

After Remington's death, his wife, Eva, moved to a home in Ogdensburg, NY (her hometown), which was made possible through the generosity of George Hall, an Ogdensburg industrialist, and John Howard, a friend of the Remingtons. Eva lived there with her sister, Emma, from 1915 to her death in 1918. While there, Eva managed Remington's copyrights and production of sculptures.<ref name="fredericremington.org"/>  She also worked to establish a permanent memorial to her husband, which became a reality after her death when the Remington Art Memorial was established in her Ogdensburg home in 1923—today, the Frederic Remington Art Museum.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://fredericremington.org/the-museums-c5.php | title=The Museum | access-date=July 24, 2024 | archive-date=July 24, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724003627/https://fredericremington.org/the-museums-c5.php | url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Frederic Remington House]] was declared a [[National Historic Landmark]] in 1965. He was the great-uncle of the artist [[Deborah Remington]].<ref>[http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/20100428_Deborah_Remington__79__abstract_artist.html] retrieved May 31, 2010 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100501001420/http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/20100428_Deborah_Remington__79__abstract_artist.html|date=May 1, 2010}}</ref> In 2009, the [[United States Congress]] enacted legislation renaming the historic Post Office in [[Ogdensburg, New York]], the [[U.S. Post Office (Ogdensburg, New York)|Frederic Remington Post Office Building]].<ref>[http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h2090enr.txt.pdf H.R.2090 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 431 State Street in Ogdensburg, New York, as the 'Frederic Remington Post Office Building'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101220154219/http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h2090enr.txt.pdf |date=December 20, 2010 }}.</ref>

== Style and influence ==
[[File:Frederic Remington 1940 Issue-10c.jpg|thumb|upright|Remington was honored in the [[Postage stamps and postal history of the United States#Famous Americans Series of 1940|Famous Americans Series]] postal Issues of 1940]]
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 Marion Russell|Charles Russell]] and [[Charles Schreyvogel]] were known during Remington's life as members of the "School of Remington".<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. ix.</ref> 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, portraying men almost exclusively,<ref name="McCullough, 1992, p. 81"/> and the landscape was usually of secondary importance, unlike the members and descendants of the contemporary [[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, also 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.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Neff|first1=Emily Ballew|title=The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890–1950|date=2006|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven|isbn=0-300-11448-6|page=63|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3DNuRni76kC|access-date=November 28, 2016}}</ref> Remington provided the concept of the project, its factual content, and its illustrations and Wister supplied the stories, sometimes altering Remington's ideas.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 220.</ref> (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.)<ref>Howard R. Lamar, ed., ''The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West'', Harper & Row, New York, 1977, p. 268, {{ISBN|978-0-06-015726-5}}</ref>
[[File:The Right of the Road, 1900, by Frederic S. Remington.jpg|thumb|''The Right of the Road'' – A Hazardous Encounter on a Rocky Mountain Trail; 1900; Oil on canvas; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Amon G. Carter Collection; 1961.246]]Remington was one of the first American artists to illustrate the true gait of the horse in motion (along with [[Thomas Eakins]]), as validated by the famous sequential photographs of [[Eadweard Muybridge]].<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 83.</ref> Previously, horses in full gallop were usually depicted with all four legs pointing out, like "hobby horses". The galloping horse became Remington's signature subject, which was copied and interpreted by many Western artists who followed him to adopt the correct anatomical motion. Though criticized by some for his use of photography, Remington often created depictions that slightly exaggerated natural motion to satisfy the eye. He wrote that "the artist must know more than the camera... (the horse must be) incorrectly drawn from the photographic standpoint (to achieve the desired effect)."<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 84.</ref>

Also, noteworthy was Remington's invention of "cowboy" sculpture. From his inaugural piece, ''[[The Broncho Buster]]'' (1895), he created an art form which is still very popular among collectors of Western art. He has been called the "Father of Cowboy Sculpture".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.westwindweekly.com/news/2015/07/23/first-rodeo-champion-inducted-into-canadas-sports-hall-of-fame/|title=First rodeo champion inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame › Westwind Weekly|access-date=May 17, 2021|archive-date=May 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517054707/http://www.westwindweekly.com/news/2015/07/23/first-rodeo-champion-inducted-into-canadas-sports-hall-of-fame/|url-status=live}}</ref>

An early advocate of the photoengraving process over wood engraving for magazine reproduction of illustrative art, Remington became an accepted expert in reproduction methods, which helped gain him strong working relationships with editors and printers.<ref>Peggy & Harold Samuels, 1982, p. 137</ref> Furthermore, Remington's skill as a businessman was equal to his artistry, unlike many other artists who relied on their spouses or business agents or no one at all to run their financial affairs. He was an effective publicist and promoter of his art. He insisted for his originals to be handled carefully and returned to him in pristine condition (without editor's marks) so that he could sell them. He carefully regulated his output to maximize his income and kept detailed notes about his works and his sales. In 1991, the [[PBS]] series ''[[American Masters]]'' filmed a documentary of Remington's life, ''[[Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days]]'', which was produced and directed by [[Tom Neff]].

Remington was portrayed by [[Nick Chinlund]] in the [[TNT (U.S. TV network)|TNT]] miniseries ''[[Rough Riders (film)|Rough Riders]]'' (1997), which depicts the Spanish–American War and shows Remington's time as a war correspondent and his partnership with [[William Randolph Hearst]] (portrayed by [[George Hamilton (actor)|George Hamilton]]).

== Selected works ==
<gallery mode="packed" heights=" 135px" caption="Selected works">
File:A Dash for the Timber by Frederic Remington.jpg|''A Dash for the Timber'', 1889, depicts [[cowboy]]s in the Southwest shooting at [[Apache]]s in the rear. One of the eight riders is already wounded but remains on his horse.
File:Frederic Remington - The Gendarme - Google Art Project.jpg|''The Gendarme'' (1889)
File:Frederic Remington - The Advance-Guard, or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush) - 1982.802 - Art Institute of Chicago.jpg|''[[The Advance-Guard, or The Military Sacrifice]]'' (1890)
File:Frederic Remington - The Hussar - Google Art Project.jpg|''The Hussar'' (1893)
File:The Hunters' Supper.jpg|''The Hunters' Supper''
File:Frederic Remington - The Herd Boy - Google Art Project.jpg|''The Herd Boy''
File:Remington the outlier.jpg|''The Outlier''
File:Coronado-Remington.jpg|''[[Francisco Vázquez de Coronado|Coronado]] Sets Out to the North''
File:Frederic Remington - The Parley - Google Art Project.jpg|''The Parley''
File:Frederic Remington - Fight for the Waterhole - Google Art Project.jpg|''Fight for the Waterhole''
File:Frederic Remington - Indians Simulating Buffalo - Google Art Project.jpg|''Indians Simulating Buffalo''
File:The Old Stage-Coach of the Plains, 1901, by Frederic S. Remington.jpg|Frederic S. Remington (1861–1909); ''The Old Stage-Coach of the Plains''; 1901; Oil on canvas; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Amon G. Carter Collection; 1961.232]]|''The Old Stage-Coach of the Plains'', 1901
File:Frederic Remington The Scout Friends or Foes.jpg|''The Scout: Friends or Foes?'', 1902–1905, oil on canvas, [[Clark Art Institute|Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute]], Williamstown, Massachusetts
File:His First Leson, 1903, by Frederic S. Remington.jpg|Frederic S. Remington (1861–1909); ''His First Lesson''; 1903; Oil on canvas; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Amon G. Carter Collection; 1961.231]]|''His First Lesson,'' 1903
File:Frederic Remington A Cold Morning on the Range.jpg|''[[Cold Morning on the Range|A Cold Morning on the Range]]'', c. 1904, Oil on canvas, [[American Museum of Western Art]], Denver, Colorado
File:Remington Ridden down 1905-1906.jpg|''Ridden Down'' (1905–1906) depicts an Indian in defeat with his horse exhausted, stoically calling the spirits while awaiting his fate
File:Frederic Remington - Episode of the Buffalo Gun - Google Art Project.jpg|''Episode of the Buffalo Gun ''
File:'Mounted Indian Scout' by Frederic Remington, Cincinnati Art Museum.JPG|''Mounted Indian Scout''
File:Remington - Uhlan.jpg|''Uhlan''
File:Frederic Remington - Scouts Climbing a Mountain - Google Art Project.jpg|''Scouts Climbing a Mountain''
File:'A Map in the Sand' by Frederic Remington, Cincinnati Art Museum.JPG|''A Map in the Sand''
File:Frederic Remington - The Call for Help - Google Art Project.jpg|''The Call for Help''
File:Buffalo Runners-Big Horn Basin.jpg|''Buffalo Runners-Big Horn Basin'', 1909, Oil on canvas, [[Sid Richardson Museum]], Fort Worth, Texas (https://www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512215956/https://sidrichardsonmuseum.org/ |date=May 12, 2021 }})
File:The Love Call.jpg|''The Love Call'', 1909, Oil on canvas, [[Sid Richardson Museum]]
File:The Luckless Hunter.jpg|''The Luckless Hunter'', 1909, Oil on canvas, [[Sid Richardson Museum]]
File:The Sentinel (Remington).jpg|''The Sentinel'', 1889, Oil on canvas, [[Sid Richardson Museum]]
File:Philly Remington 1908.JPG|''Cowboy'', 1908, in [[Fairmount Park]], [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania

</gallery>

=== ''The Song of Hiawatha'' illustrations ===
<gallery class="center" widths="250px" heights="245">
File:5 Гл.6 Обхватил утес руками и забросил прямо в реку.JPG
File:6 Гл.7 Так построил он пирогу над рекою, средь долины.JPG
</gallery>

== Collections ==
American museums with significant collections of his paintings, illustrations, and sculptures include:
* [[Frederic Remington Art Museum]], [[Ogdensburg, New York]];
* [[Amon Carter Museum of American Art]], [[Fort Worth, Texas]]
* [[Sid Richardson Museum]], [[Fort Worth, Texas]]
* [[Buffalo Bill Center of the West]], [[Cody, Wyoming]]
* [[Gilcrease Museum]], [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]]
* [[Metropolitan Museum]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frederic Remington - The Metropolitan Museum of Art |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?q=Frederic+Remington&sortBy=Relevance |access-date=2025-08-18 |website=www.metmuseum.org |language=en}}</ref> New York City
* [[Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)|Museum of Fine Arts]], [[Houston]]
* [[National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum]], [[Oklahoma City]], Oklahoma, and others

=== In the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) ===
* ''Bronco Buster'' (1895) – Bronze Figurine
* ''The Sergeant'' (1904) – Bronze Bust
* ''Navajo Shepherd and Goats'' – Paper Engraving/Illustration
* ''The Mountain Man'' (1903) – Bronze/Marble Figurine
* ''Rattle Snake (surmoulage)'' – Bronze/Marble Figurine

== Legacy ==
* [[Frederic Remington Art Museum]] in Ogdensburg, New York
* [[Frederic Remington High School]] in Brainerd, Kansas
* [[Frederic Remington House]] in Ridgefield, Connecticut, a National Historic Landmark
* [[Frederic Remington Post Office Building]] in Ogdensburg, New York
* Liberty Ship named Frederic Remington and used in World War II<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usmm.org/libertyships.html|title=Liberty Ships built by the United States Maritime Commission in World War II|website=usmm.org|access-date=February 13, 2017|archive-date=May 9, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509091805/http://www.usmm.org/libertyships.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[New Rochelle Walk of Fame]], inductee
* [[Texas Trail of Fame]], inductee
* [[Stockmen's Memorial]], 1980<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.smflibrary.ca/r.html|title=Stockmen's Memorial Foundation Library and Archives – Subject Headings – R|access-date=June 7, 2020|archive-date=June 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607061749/http://www.smflibrary.ca/r.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[R. W. Norton Art Gallery]], [[Shreveport, Louisiana]], museum has paintings and sculptures by Remington
* [[Remington Arts Festival]], [[Canton, New York]], held the first weekend in October
* [[Society of Illustrators]] Hall of Fame, inductee 1978<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.societyillustrators.org/programs/hall-fame|title=Hall of fame &#124; Society of Illustrators|website=www.societyillustrators.org|access-date=May 7, 2020|archive-date=April 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200416102025/https://www.societyillustrators.org/programs/hall-fame|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Hall of Great Westerners]] of the [[National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum]] inductee 1978<ref>{{cite web |title=Hall of Great Westerners |url=https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/hall-of-great-westerners/ |website=National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum |access-date=November 22, 2019 |archive-date=April 19, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419213638/https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/hall-of-great-westerners/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Mentioned in poem "Legacy of a Rodeo Man" composed and performed by cowboy poet [[Baxter Black]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYKak0W_dOU | title=Baxter Black: Legacy of a Rodeo man - YouTube | website=[[YouTube]] | date=May 2015 | access-date=March 25, 2022 | archive-date=March 25, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325055253/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYKak0W_dOU&gl=US&hl=en | url-status=live }}</ref>
* Mentioned in the lyrics of "The Last Cowboy Song" by [[The Highwaymen (country supergroup)|The Highwaymen]]. 'Remington showed us how he looked on canvas, and Louis L'Amour has told us his tale'

== See also ==
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* ''[[Cold Morning on the Range]]'', a Remington painting
* ''[[Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days]]'', 1991 ''[[American Masters]]'' documentary
* [[Earl W. Bascom]], cowboy sculptor and cousin to Remington
* [[J. K. Ralston]], western artist
* [[Charles M. Russell]], western artist

== References ==
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== Sources ==
* Allen, Douglas, ''Frederic Remington and the Spanish–American War'', New York : Crown, 1971.
* Buscombe, Edward. "Painting the Legend: Frederic Remington and the Western." ''Cinema Journal'' (1984) 23#4: 12–27.
* Dippie, Brian W. ''Remington & Russell'', University of Texas, Austin, 1994, {{ISBN|0-292-71569-2}}.
* Dippie, Brian W. ''The Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection'', Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, NY, 2001, {{ISBN|0-8109-6711-1}}.
* Greenbaum, Michael D. ''Icons of the West:  Frederic Remington's Sculpture'', Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, NY, 1996, {{ISBN|0-9651050-0-8}}.
* Logan, Linda. "The geographical imagination of Frederic Remington: the invention of the cowboy West." ''Journal of Historical Geography'' 18.1 (1992): 75–90.
* [[David McCullough|McCullough, David]]. ''[[Brave Companions: Portraits in History]]'', Chapter 5, "Remington", New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992, {{ISBN|0-671-79276-8}}.
* Samuels, Peggy & Harold. ''Frederic Remington: A Biography'', Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1982, {{ISBN|0-385-14738-4}}.
* Vorpahl, Ben Merchant. ''Frederic Remington and the West: With the Eye of the Mind'' (U  of Texas Press, 2014).
* Vorpahl, Ben Merchant, ed. ''My dear Wister: The Frederic Remington–Owen Wister Letters'' (Palo Alto, Calif.: American West, 1972).
* White, G. Edward. ''The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience: The West of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister'' (U of Texas Press, 2012).

==External links==
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* [https://www.cartermuseum.org/artists/frederic-remington Frederic Remington] at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art
* [http://www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org/ Sid Richardson Museum]; includes [https://www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org/gallery.php/art/remington biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205002527/https://www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org/gallery.php/art/remington |date=December 5, 2019 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121015044222/http://collections.umfa.utah.edu/index.php/Detail/Entity/Show/entity_id/106 Works from the Permanent Collection of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts]
* [http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm Frederic Remington The Online Art Museum] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107184916/http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm |date=November 7, 2012 }}
* [http://www.fredericremington.org/ Frederic Remington Art Museum] in [[Ogdensburg, New York]]
* [http://www.frederic-remington.org/ frederic-remington.org], 108 works by Frederic Remington
* [https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/frederic-remington-about-frederic-remington/688/ PBS on Remington]
* {{Gutenberg author |id=2565| name=Frederic Remington}}
* {{FadedPage|id=Remington, Frederic|name=Frederic Remington|author=yes}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Frederic Sackrider Remington}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060529034124/http://www.nga.gov/feature/remington/index.htm National Gallery web feature on the artist highlighting nocturnal paintings in the exhibition Frederic Remington: The Color of Night]
* [http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=397 Remington Gallery at Museum Syndicate] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022122623/http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=397 |date=October 22, 2012 }}
* {{Find a Grave|grid=863|name=Frederic Remington}}
* [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/field/subjec/searchterm/Remington,%20Frederic,%201861-1909%20--%20Exhibitions/mode/exact Frederic Remington exhibition catalogs]
* [https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/frederic-remington Frederic Remington] 2017 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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