He left Yale in 1879 to tend to his ailing father who had tuberculosis. Though he was not a star player, his participation on the strong Yale football team was a great source of pride for Remington and his family. He preferred action drawing and his first published illustration was a cartoon of a "bandaged football player" for the student newspaper Yale Courant. He found that football and boxing were more interesting than the formal art training, particularly drawing from casts and still life objects. Remington was the only male in the first year. Remington attended the art school at Yale University, studying under John Henry Niemeyer. He imagined a career for himself as a journalist, with art as a sideline. I have but one short life and do not aspire to wealth or fame in a degree which could only be obtained by an extraordinary effort on my part". At sixteen, he wrote to his uncle of his modest ambitions, "I never intend to do any great amount of labor. He enjoyed making caricatures and silhouettes of his classmates. He then transferred to another military school where his classmates found the young Remington to be a pleasant fellow, a bit careless and lazy, good-humored, and generous of spirit, but definitely not soldier material. Remington took his first drawing lessons at the Institute. The family moved to Ogdensburg, New York when Remington was eleven and he attended Vermont Episcopal Institute, a church-run military school, where his father hoped discipline would rein in his son's lack of focus, and perhaps lead to a military career. He began to make drawings and sketches of soldiers and cowboys at an early age. He was a poor student, though, particularly in math, which did not bode well for his father's ambitions for his son to attend West Point. He was an active child, large and strong for his age, who loved to hunt, swim, ride, and go camping. Remington was the only child of the marriage, and received constant attention and approval. After the war, he moved his family to Bloomington, Illinois for a brief time and was appointed editor of the Bloomington Republican, but the family returned to Canton in 1867.
On the Warner side of his family, Frederic Remington was related to General George Washington, America's first president.Ĭolonel Remington was away at war during most of the first four years of his son's life. He was related, as well, to three famous mountain men-Jedediah S. Bascom.įrederic Remington was also a cousin to Eliphalet Remington, founder of the Remington Arms Company which is considered to be America's oldest gunmaker. Frederic Remington was related by family bloodlines to Indian portrait artist George Catlin and cowboy sculptor Earl W. One of Remington's great grandfathers, Samuel Bascom, was a saddle maker by trade, and the Remingtons were fine horsemen. He was a newspaper editor and postmaster, and the family was active in local politics and staunchly Republican. Remington's father was a colonel in the Civil War whose family arrived in America from England in 1637. His maternal family of the Bascom line was of French Basque ancestry, coming to America in the early 1600s and founding Windsor, Connecticut.
His paternal family owned hardware stores and emigrated from Alsace-Lorraine in the early 18th century. Remington was born in Canton, New York in 1861 to Seth Pierrepont Remington (1830–1880) and Clarissa "Clara" Bascom Sackrider (1836-1912). įrederic Sackrider Remington (Octo– December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th-century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U. Scouts Patrolling the Big Timber of the North Canadian Oklahomaįine Art Prints | Greeting Cards | iPhone Cases | Tote Bags | Clothing | Lifestyle | Beach. Indian Fire God (The Going of the Medicine-Horse)Ĭhange of Ownership (The Stampede Horse Thieves)
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