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Frederic Remington
1861–1909
Best known for vivid scenes of the American West, this artist turned cowboys, cavalrymen, and frontier life into some of the most recognizable images of the era. He also wrote stories and essays that carried the same restless energy as his paintings and sculpture.
5 Audiobooks
The Way of an Indian
by Frederic Remington
Pony Tracks
by Frederic Remington
Crooked Trails
by Frederic Remington
Drawings
by Frederic Remington
John Ermine of the Yellowstone
by Frederic Remington
About the author
Born in Canton, New York, in 1861, Frederic Remington became an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer whose work helped define popular ideas of the late nineteenth-century West. He studied briefly at Yale and later trained in New York, but much of his subject matter came from travels in the western United States, where he observed soldiers, ranchers, and Native peoples firsthand.
Remington first gained wide attention as an illustrator for major magazines, creating dramatic, fast-moving scenes filled with riders, dust, and danger. Over time he expanded into painting and then sculpture, producing works such as The Broncho Buster and many images of cowboys, the U.S. Cavalry, and life on the frontier that became central to Western American art.
Although his work is celebrated for its energy and storytelling, it also reflects the attitudes and myths of its time, which shaped how the West was imagined by a national audience. He died in 1909 at age forty-eight, but his paintings, bronzes, and writings remain widely known and collected.