American painter, sculptor, and writer, born in Canton,
New York, and educated at the Art Students League, New York City. Remington
is famous for the lively scenes, in paint and in bronze, of the Old
West that form the subject matter of most of his works. In the Spanish-American
War he served as a war correspondent and artist. Among his paintings,
admired for their forthright and unsentimental naturalism, are The Outlier
(1909, Brooklyn Museum, New York City) and Cavalry Charge on the Southern
Plains (1907, Metropolitan Museum, New York City). In 1895 Remington
began to make clay models of his rugged subjects, which were subsequently
cast in bronze. His first, Bronco Buster (1895, one casting in New York
Historical Society, New York City) displays the vigor and sense of movement
of his paintings. His subsequent bronzes, such as Comin' Through the
Rye (1902, Metropolitan Museum), in which four cowhands on horseback
charge at the observer in glee, are daring for their technical skill
in suspending large figures on slim supports—in this case on the hooves
of the horses. Among the books he wrote and illustrated are Pony Tracks
(1895), Crooked Trails (1898), and The Way of an Indian (1906).
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