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Frederic Remington (1861-1909), Mule Train Crossing the Sierras, signed in pencil lower left, photogravure, 1888, 11 x 16 inches. Refer to: Remington:The Complete Prints
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Frederic Remington was born in Canton, New York. Remington was the son of the local newspaper publisher, and in 1878 entered the Yale School of Fine Arts for one year, excelling at football and art. Due to his father's death, he could not afford to return to school,
He constantly traveled west and not only portrayed the West in his art but lived the life as well. Remington became a skilled cowboy, he prospected gold in the Apache country of the Arizona territory, and he operated a ranch in Kansas in addition to working in the local saloon. Remington is praised as the most important painter documenting life in the vanishing West.
In a career that spanned less than twenty-five years, Remington produced more than 3,000 drawings and paintings, about 25 bronze sculptures, a novel, a Broadway play, and over one hundred articles and stories. The "Marlboro Man" in the well-known cigarette ad was one of Remington's illustrations. His legacy is more about a portrayal of the heroic figures who settled the West and their life-and-death struggles, rather than so much about what he experienced personally on his journeys. He gave Americans stories about what they wanted to see in themselves - independence, bravery and optimism. He inspired a love of the West and is reputed to be America's most popular nineteenth century artist. Frederic Remington passed away in 1909 at the age of forty-eight
Member: Associate member of the National Academy of Design, 1891; National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Exhibited: National Academy of Design, 1887-99; Boston Art Club, 1890, 1891, 1909; Paris Exposition, 1889 (medal); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts annuals, 1892-93, 1906-10; Corcoran Gallery annuals, 1907-08; Art Institute of Chicago.
Works Held: Amon Carter Museum (major collection); Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York (major collection); National Museum American Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Gilcrease Institute; Ogdensburg Public Library. New York Public Library; Shelburne (Vermont) Museum.
1. Mule Train Crossing the Sierras: 1888. During the exciting times that followed the discovery of gold near Mono Lake, it frequently became a matter of considerable pecuniary imporance to force a way through the canyon with [a] pack-train early in the spring. - Muir, p. 24 [Amon Carter Museum]
p. 16 Remington was making his mark by depictin horses, so he led with horses and mules as the subjects of Mule Train Crossing the Sierras, the first Muir print. The picture was a pure illustration of Muir's text, not fine art, but the excellence of the rawn figures overcame their passivity and the crowded composition. He begain in 1888 with figures at rest, the same way he concluded in 1909.
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