Remington was the only male in the first year. Remington attended the art school at Yale University, studying under John Henry Niemeyer. On the Warner side of his family, Frederic Remington was related to General George Washington, America's first president. He was related, as well, to three famous mountain men - Jedediah S. Bascom.įrederic Remington was also a cousin to Eliphalet Remington, founder of the Remington Arms Company which is considered to be America's oldest gunmaker. Frederic Remington was related by family bloodlines to Indian portrait artist George Catlin and cowboy sculptor Earl W. One of Remington’s great grandfathers, Samuel Bascom, was a saddle maker by trade, and the Remingtons were fine horsemen. He was a newspaper editor and postmaster, and the family was active in local politics and staunchly Republican. Remington’s father was a colonel in the Civil War whose family arrived in the United States from England in 1637. Remington was born in Canton, New York in 1861 to Seth Pierre Remington (1830–1880) and Clara Bascomb Sackrider, whose paternal family owned hardware stores and emigrated from Alsace-Lorraine in the early 18th century. Over all measures approximately 27 inches high by 18 inches wide by 11 1/2 inches deep. T he Mountain Man is a 27" high beautiful bronze statue by Remington with solid marble looking base. This statue is reproduced in solid bronze, cast in a brown patina and then hand-rubbed to bring out the incredible detail and highlights. Cast with the "Lost Wax Casting" process. The base was cast separately from the horse and rider, and the two units are pinned together through the left hind and right fore hooves. Cast by Roman Bronze Works in the lost-wax technique, the earliest of The Mountain Man statuettes are sharply delineated with a rich variety of textures, particularly evident in the fringed buckskin garment, the animal's hairy hide, and the rocklike base. Man and horse work together to make the trip down a treacherously rocky decline: The horse has been given full rein to choose its pace and path the rider leans sharply back and balances himself by holding on to the tail strap with his right hand. The sculptor chose a dramatic episode in the daily life of a trapper, his and his mount's descent on an almost vertical slope. Remington described “The Mountain Man” as one of the "old Iroquois trappers who followed the Fur Companies in the Rocky Mountains in the 1830's & 40's," probably referring to French Canadian trappers. 140-41, another example illustrated.The Mountain Man (1903). Dippie, The Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection, Ogdensburg, New York, 2001, pp. Gerald Peters Gallery, Remington: The Years of Critical Acclaim, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1998, pp. Greenbaum, Icons of the West: Frederic Remington's Sculpture, Ogdensburg, New York, 1996, pp. Ballinger, Frederic Remington, New York, 1989, p. Hassrick, Frederic Remington: The Masterworks, New York, 1988, pp. 52, 78-79, 106, another example illustrated. Shapiro, Cast and Recast: The Sculpture of Frederic Remington, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1981, pp. 51-2, another example illustrated.ĭenver Art Museum, Frederic Remington: The Late Years, exhibition catalogue, Denver, Colorado, 1981, p. Norton Art Gallery, Frederic Remington (1861-1909): Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1979, p. Wear, The 2nd Bronze World of Frederic Remington-, Upper Montclair, New Jersey, 1976, pp. Richardson Foundation Collections, New York, 1973, pp. Hassrick, Frederic Remington: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture in the Amon Carter Museum and the Sid W. The Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1967, n.p., no. Mcracken, Frederic Remington: A Pictorial History of the West, Garden City, New York, 1966, p. Gardner, American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitain Museum of Art, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1965, pp. McCracken, Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West, New York, 1947, n.p., pl. Isaacson, Frederic Remington: A Painter of American Life, Brooklyn, New York, 1943, n.p., another example illustrated.
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