Frederic Remington

Frederic Remington became the foremost visual storyteller of the American West through his work as an illustrator, painter, and sculptor, drawing on firsthand travels in the frontier to depict cowboys, US Cavalry troops, Native Americans, and rugged Western landscapes.

His dynamic images for Harper’s Weekly, The Century, Outing, and Collier’s—along with major projects like illustrating Theodore Roosevelt’s Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail—helped fix the “Old West” in the American imagination.

Remington moved from black-and-white magazine work into full-color oils and then into sculpture, creating iconic bronzes such as The Broncho Buster and the large public work The Cowboy in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park.