Frederic Remington - Menifee County Schools

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Frederic Remington
By:DanielleTerry
Frederic's Childhood
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He was born in Canton, New York in 1861.
He attended the Yale School of Art and the Art
Students League of New York.
Frederic Remington
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He traveled widely
throughout the country
spending most of his
time sketching the
people and places.
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In 1886 he became an
illustrator o Western
themes.
He sold his work to
many if the major
magazines. Ex.
HARPER'S WEEKLY.
Frederic Remington
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Not only was he a
illustrator, he was also a
fine painter.
He captured all the
sweeping vistas, heroic
figures, and moments of
danger and conflict, on
his canvases.
Sculpture
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Frederic turned his
talent into sculpture.
He added more detail,
movement, and energy
they seemed ready to
leap to life.
Spanish Civil war
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Frederic had to pause
his artwork, and go to
cuba as a war
correspondent and
illustrator.
He was deeply
disillusioned by the war.
He didn't find the war
heroic, but appalling.
Frederic Remington
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In 1908 he made his last
trip to the west.
He died in 1908 at the
age of 48.
Frederic Remington
made more than three
thousand drawings and
paintings, twenty-two
bronze sculptures, a
novel, a Broadway play,
and over one hundred
articles and stories.
Some Example's of his artwork are:
A Brush With The Redskins
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Media:
- paint
Coming Through The Rye.
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Media:
- plaster
Hunter's Supper
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Media:
- Hand painted
Cold Morning On The Range
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Media:
- Hand painted on a canvas
Indians
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Media:
-Oil on Canvas
Sources:
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http://www.remington-art.com/remington%20biography.htm
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http://www.google.com/imgres?q=fredrick+remington+indians&hl=en&gbv=2&biw=1118&bih=807&tbm=isch&tbnid
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