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Remington was born in Canton, New York in 1861. The mother's family came from Alsace-Lorraine in the Franco-German border and belonging to a series of hardware stores. His father's family had reached America from England in 1637, his father and himself served as a colonel in the Civil War, and worked as editor and postmaster.

Remington, however, was not the best student as a child. He loved outdoor sports such as hunting, horseback riding and camping, but his math was too poor to attend West Point, a disappointment to his father. However, Remington was 11 years old when the family moved to Ogdensburg, New York, Vermont and attended Remington Episcopal Institute, a church-run military school. He took his first drawing classes there before transferring to another military school where he developed ambition of becoming a journalist, make art for pleasure. He finished his studies at art school at Yale, the only man in the class first year.

Even if the college, Remington found himself drawn more to football and boxing still lifes and training Art. His first published illustrations appeared in the student newspaper, Yale Courant and depicts a football player bandaged. In 1879, Remington has ceased studying to care for his ailing father, who died a year later. It was then several years in which he burned through his inheritance in adventures Youth West. At age nineteen, Remington went to Montana to consider buying a cattle ranch, or mining interests. He does but he has neither the chance to see prairie, the bison and the battles between the U.S. Cavalry and Native Americans. Harper's Weekly gave him his first commercial publication, printing of a sketch that he submitted.

Remington changed Kansas where he bought a ranch and worked as a farmer "holiday" before discovering that work was hard, cowboy and dull. After failed to build a hardware store, he returned home, married Eva Caten, and opened a salon in Kansas City where he also outlined the regulars. The business was poor, his wife, and eventually returned to Brooklyn Remington. Together with his wife, he studied at the Art Students League of New York, based on its experience to provide images of the West in Collier's Weekly and Harper. On January 9, 1886, Mr. Harper gave him his first cover, and later this year sent him to Arizona as an artist-correspondent reporting on the war against Geronimo. The publication then sent him to cover the earthquake in South Carolina. It was his first year as a commercial artist and had won $ 1,200, a good sum for the time.

Remington began to add his watercolor sketches and selling his work at art exhibitions. His return to painting in oils War Party Blackfoot was exhibited at the National Academy of Design and won a medal at the Paris Exposition. In 1887, Theodore Roosevelt asked him to produce 83 illustrations for the book "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail" and three years later, his first one-man show at the American Art Galleries was a great success. Officers of the Army of the West invited to paint their portraits on the ground, which he did with a photographic quality.

Remington spent much of the 1890s, Traveling around the United States and Mexico, but today his fame made him a frequent visitor to the banquets and dinners deer, and obesity becomes a problem. In 1898, he illustrated scenes from the Spanish-American War to the New York Journal of creating Scream of the Shrapnel, which focused on the troops, rather than the generals.

In 1908, with the financial crisis weakened sales of art and his fashion images, he moved to Ridgefield, Connecticut, and works created that showed the influence of Impressionism. It died following an emergency appendectomy December 26, 1909, leaving behind a collection of images in a natural environment that has become part of the way which the West has been recalled.

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