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- See the following web site for an interesting overview of FSRs life: http://www.nga.gov/feature/remington/remington02.shtm
"Remington is credited as being the primary imagemaker of the historic West. His bronzes are a landmark in the history of bronze casting in both form and subject matter . . .
"Frederic Remington was born in Canton, NY, in 1861. His father was a Civil War hero and his mother came from a prosperous family. Frederic demonstrated great interest in horses and military things at an early age, and was sent to the Highland Military Academy in Massachusetts for secondary schooling. Developing an insatiable appetite for art, Remington received his first formal art training at Yale and the Art Students League, but left college before graduating to pursue the adventure and excitement of the western frontier. He gathered information, made sketches, and took photographs which he later used at his home in New Rochelle, NY, to create his paintings and bronzes. He died in 1909 of complications following an appendectomy, and is buried in Canton, NY."
(source: http://www.1000islands.com/ogdensburg/remington/fredrem.htm)
"Remington made his name as an illustrator, mostly of western and military subjects, for most of the widely circulated magazines of the late 1880s and 1890s. Among the magazines he illustrated were Harper
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1861 - 1909 (48 years)
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