At the same time, newspaper and magazine interest in the dying West was escalating, and Remington began to submit illustrations and sketches to such places as Collier’s and Harper’s Weekly. He soon had enough success selling his paintings to locals to see art as a real profession.
He also began studies at the Art Students League of New York, which strengthened his rough technique. There, Remington started to sketch and paint in earnest and bartered his sketches for essentials. By September 1885, they were living in Brooklyn, New York.įrederic Remington Harper’s Weekly Cover, April 1889 The couple then settled back in Kansas City, but not for long. In October 1884, he returned briefly to the east, where he married Eva Caten in Gloversville, New York. By the following year, he had sold the operation and moved to Kansas City, where he first invested in a hardware store and then in a saloon. However, after investing his entire inheritance, he soon found he didn’t like the trade, finding it rough, boring, and isolated. Remington then bought a sheep ranch in Peabody, Kansas, in 1883, trying his hand at being a stockman in the booming sheep ranching and wool trade. Harper’s Weekly published Remington’s first commercial effort in February 1882. However, while he was there for two months, he was able to see the vast prairies, quickly shrinking buffalo herds, Native Americans, and other scenes he had imagined since his childhood, giving him an authentic view of the Old West. Wanting to buy a cattle or mining operation in Montana, he quickly figured out he didn’t have enough money for either. Living off his inheritance, Remington took his first trip west at the age of 19. Afterward, he became a reporter for his uncle’s newspaper and had several other short-lived jobs. After his father died, Frederic went to work at a clerical job in Albany, New York. In 1879, he left Yale to tend to his ailing father, who had tuberculosis.
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At that time, he also found football and boxing very interesting, though, once again, his skills were lacking in the sports arena but, he quickly developed a taste for action illustrations. He then attended the art school at Yale University and was the only male in his freshman year. Not interested in a life of labor, Frederic saw himself as a journalist, with art as a sideline. Instead, his classmates described him as a pleasant fellow, good-humored, and generous of spirit, a bit lazy, and not soldier material. He was soon transferred to another military school, but, yet again, he didn’t focus on his father’s wishes. Remington took his first drawing lessons at the Institute. When Frederic was 11 years old, the family moved again to Ogdensburg, New York, where he attended the Vermont Episcopal Institute, a church-run military school, where his father hoped discipline would focus the child on a military career. Unfortunately, he was not a good student, and when indoors, he preferred drawing and sketching to homework. As a young boy, Frederic enjoyed the outdoors, spending much of his time hunting, swimming, riding horses, and camping. However, just a few years later, in 1867, the family returned to Canton, New York. Afterward, when he returned, the family moved to Bloomington, Illinois, where his father worked as the editor for the Bloomington Republican. His father, Seth, was a colonel in the Civil War, worked as a newspaper editor and postmaster and was active in local politics.įor the first four years of Frederic’s life, his father was away at war. Cavalry.įrederic was born in Canton, New York, on October 4, 1861, the only child of Seth Pierre Remington and Clara Bascomb Sackrider. Frederic Sackrider Remington was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West. He specifically concentrated on the last quarter of the 19th century with images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U.S.
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