Remington operated his own ranch in Kansas and in 1886 he gave it up as a failure and came back to the East. The experience served him well in his later career as an artist. No one can draw equestrian subjects unless he is an equestrian himself. As an artist, Remington first made a name for himself as an illustrator and painter, and began sculpting only 14 years before his death in 1909. I was impelled to try my hand at sculpture by a mental desire to say something in the round as well as in flat.
Sculpture is the most perfect expression of action.
You can say it all in clay. The soldier, the cowboy, the rancher, the Indian, the horses and cattle of the plains will live in his pictures and bronzes, I verily believe for all time. James Earl Fraser was born in Winona Minnesota in 1876. In 1880 James and his family moved to the Dakota Territory where he began his love for the west. At age 22, Fraser went to Paris to study under master sculptors.