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Frederic Remington
1861–1909
Best known for bringing the American West to life, this painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer filled his work with motion, drama, and hard frontier detail. His images of cowboys, soldiers, and Native peoples helped shape how generations imagined the closing years of the 19th-century West.
6 Audiobooks
The Way of an Indian
by Frederic Remington
Pony Tracks
by Frederic Remington
Crooked Trails
by Frederic Remington
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Frederic Remington
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, he became one of the most recognizable artists of the American West even though he was raised far from it. He studied at Yale, traveled widely in the western United States, and turned those experiences into illustrations, paintings, sculptures, and stories that reached a huge audience.
His work focused on cowboys, the U.S. Cavalry, and Native Americans, often emphasizing action, landscape, and the sense of a world changing fast. Magazines, museums, and later art historians helped cement his reputation, and works such as his western bronzes and dramatic paintings remain closely tied to the popular image of the frontier.
He died in 1909 at just forty-eight, after complications following an appendectomy. Even so, his output was enormous, and his art still stands as one of the most influential visual records of how Americans pictured the West at the end of the 1800s.