The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-12-27
REMINGTON DIES
FROM OPERATION
Famous Artist, Writer and
Sculptor Was a Victim
Of Appendicitis.
PORTRAYED WESTERN LIFE
IT WAS As PAINTER OF HORSES
THAT MOST PEOPLE KNEW
H,M-HE HAD INTERNATIONAL.
ART REPUTATION.

HiM-HE HAD INTERNATioNA.
ART REPUTATION.
Ridgefield. Conn, Dec. 27.-Fred-
eric Remington. the artist, died at his
country home here yesterday. He had
been i'll since Thursday night. when
he was seized with pains which led
to an operation for appendicitis Fri
day morning. Mrs Remington was
with him when he died. They had
no children.
In his earlier years as an illustra-
tor and painter Frederic Remington
used to say that when he died he
wanted some one to carve on his
tombstone, 'He knew the horse"
Probably he long ago formed other
views as to a suitable synopsis of his
career, yet it is as a painter of horses
that most people knew and first
thought OF him. He first fixed his
personality on the public mind by his
representation of horses, which even
gave rise to considerable contrO-
versy as to whether he used a camera
or whether on the other hand he
painted horses in impossible postures.
It remained for an improved camera
to demonstrate that Remington had
seen correctly and accurately.
Full knowledge of Horse.
One admirer wrote of him:
He knows horse from the prick
of his ears to the frogs of his feet"
Another wrote:
He knows every hair on a pony
and you need only to put Remington,
the writer, and Remington. the artist.
together to make the greatest pony
that ever galloped up and down the
pages of a. book with a cowboy on his
back"
Remington was known as an illus
traitor. writer, a painter and sculp-
tor. He had been a clerk. cowboy.
and football player. He was hard
worker. good player and devoted to
the open air. His industry kept him
painting for long hours and his hung
er for the open took him often, regu-
larly and long to the saddle.
1t was his own open-air life before
he took up art that gave the bent to
his whole artistic career. He had
fought the Indians on the plains and
when he turned to art he first drew
and afterward painted the Indians and
the horses and the cowboys and the
soldiers that he had learned to know.
Made Paintings in Europe.
When he went to Europe later he
painted there army officers and sold
iers. In his younger days he used to
hope for war where he could go as
an art correspondent, and the very
latest things that he has exhibited in
this city have been Indians and SOL
diers on horseback.
Mr.. Remingtons father was a
newspaper man and political factor
whose editorials had a rank of their
own among county newspapers. His
home was at Canton, St. Lawrence
county and there his son was born
October 4, 1861.
Remington once told a story of him.
self that will bear retelling. One Of
his cowboy acQuaintances in the West
was known as "Hollering Smith" be-
cause Of his favorite method of enjoy
ing himself. Remington made num-
Der of studies of him. both in repose
and at his favorite pursuit. and on
returning to New York one time he
used these in series of illustrations
of a magazine article. The next time
he went West and got to Smith s
neighborhood Smith came over to see
him on the day of his arrival and.
hauling from his pocket a page torn
from a magazine with one of Reming-
tons studies of him as the central
figure of group in a state of erup-
ton. inquired:
Say. is that me-"
well, yes, it's fairly close por-
trait of you," said Remington.
That's what the boys at the ranch
said" Smith came back. Il look like
that when l holler. do -"
Il think you do"
"HolIored His Last Holier."
WELL" said Smith. tucking the
page away in his pocket, ''if that's the
state of the case, then all I've got to
say is that 'Hollerin' Smith has hol-
Tered his last holler that he'll ever
holler. Hereafter when I celebrate
I'll blow tin horn. you bet. l don't
consider that no man has right to
look like that-not around among
white folk at least"
Besides PONY Tracks" Mr.. Reming-
ton wrote Crooked Trails" Frontier
Sketches and a novel. John Ermine
of the Yellowstone"
He also turned himself to sculpture
some years ago. In this. as in his il
Illustrations and paintings and writ
ings. giving himself to the expression
of action. Two of his sculptures. THE
Broncho Buster" exhibited here and
attracting attention in 1895, and 'The
Wounded Bunkie." Mr. Remington
was an associate member of the Nat
ional Academy of Design.
The body of Remington was taken
to Canton, n. Y, today and the fun
eral services will be held in the Uni
versa'ist church at Canton Tuesday
afternoon. Mr.. Remington Is suryiy.