Before I even start on this guy, I just want to say one thing. What's with all the fucking cowboys?
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Anyway, Frederic Remington was born in 1861 in Canton, New York to a military father who fought in the Civil War, and that's where Remington got his obsession with cavalry and military operations. He did go to art school but slacked off a lot. He got his first publication in a magazine mainly due to his uncle, and overall disliked commercialized art since publishers sacrificed art and truth to action and sensationalism. And he wanted to draw more cowboys. He proposed to the same girl three time over several years, and she finally accepted on the third try, which just goes to show that persistence works eventually. In 1897 he went on scene to illustrate moments of the Spanish-American war. The war made him unhappy, so he started making bronze horses. He died in 1909 in his studio from appendicitis.
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