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- "Born in St. Louis in 1884, Remington Schuyler was an artist most famous for his illustrations and portrayals of the American West, including Siouxan peoples and cowhands . . . [He was a] dedicated volunteer to the Boy Scouts. Many of Schuyler's illustrations and writings appeared in the magazine Scouting. Schuyler's work was also featured in the Saturday Evening Post and in several books, including The Wagon Wheel by William Patterson White and Daniel Boone, Wilderness Scout by Stewart Edward White.
Schuyler is most associated with the American West, specifically Rosebud Reservation, and with the New Rochelle Art Association, which included Schuyler and Norman Rockwell as founding members. An accomplished artist, Schuyler studied at the National Academy in Rome on a scholarship, as well as the Art School of Washington University. Schuyler served as Artist-in-Residence at Missouri Valley College at Marshall before his death in 1955.
During his travels to the American West, Schuyler collected items from Plains and Southwest Native Americans, a number of which were donated to the University of Missouri Museum of Anthropology via former faculty member Carl Chapman. Notable among the items in the Schuyler collection is a feather cap from the Brul
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1884 - 1955 (71 years)
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