Frederic Remington
Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4th 1861 - December 26th 1909) was a painter, draftsman and American sculptor specialized in the description of the American west.
Biography
Born with Canton, in the State of New York, it passed its childhood to drive out and assemble the horses while starting to carry out some sketches and drawings. Its family then moved with Ogdensburg.It followed courses of art to the Université of Yale, finding football and boxing more interesting than Article With died of his/her father, it is turned over at his place and was made employee with Albany.
It quickly makes its first voyage in the west and becomes business men with Kansas City. In 1884, he Marie with Eva Caten and studies with the Art Students League of New York. Quickly, it makes publish its illustrations and its drawings in publications such as the Collier' S Weekly and Harper' S Magazine . Whereas it became universally celebrates for its descriptions of the life in the American west, Remington visited the area only briefly, a few months only each time. But it was there at the good moment, crunching images of the life of the pioneers before Far West is not emphasized and that this way of life did not disappear.
In 1890, Remington leaves for New Rochelle in order to have more place. At the end of its life, it settled with Ridgefield in the Connecticut.
In 1898, Remington was correspondent war and illustrator during the war Spanish-American for William Randolph Hearst. Even if it very quickly were bored with this task, it were present to attend the battle of San Juan Hill with the attack of the American forces taken along by Theodore Roosevelt.
Frederic Remington is deceased after a Appendicectomie urgently which generated a Péritonite. Its extreme obesity is one of the possible causes of this problem.
Fiction
Frederic Remington is the central figure of volume 40 of the adventures of Lucky Luke, the painter in whom the cowboy who draws more quickly than his shade must ensure the protection of the artist.| Random links: | Hollywood (Florida) | Saint-Arnoult-of-wood | Aubert Vanderlinden | Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing | Thomas Frandsen | Prairie_de_fontaine,_le_Wisconsin |