Remington Schuyler Art

Signed by Artist Cover of Boys' Life magazine, January 1920

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Over My Dead Body. Cover illustration for West magazine, published June 8, 1932 and reprinted in April 1...

Compelling oil painting by Remington Schuyler (American, 1884-1955) titled "The Tracker" which appeared one one of many covers Remington illustrated for, circa 1926. Signed lower right corner. We feel "Frontier Stories" "Western Short Stories" "The West" might be issues this would have appeared in. His mother was Sarah Anna "Hidee" Remington, whose father was a nephew of the artist Frederic Remington. Cupping and craquelure from age to paint surface throughout. Displayed in rustic carved wood frame. Image, 28"H x 24"W. Remington Schuyler was Born in Buffalo, New York and grew up in the Midwest. He studied engineering and art at Washington University in St. Louis and studied in Paris and Rome at the Art Students League in New York and with Howard Pyle. Known for his "pulp illustrations," Remington Schuyler did illustrations for "Boy's Life" and the Boy Scout handbook as part of his thirty-year service as a Boy Scout volunteer. He was a mural painter and editor of "Architectural Record," and he was the artist-in-residence and associate professor of art at Missouri Valley College for six years. Her hometown was Buffalo, to which she returned to be with her family during childbirth. The Schuyler family lived in St Louis, Missouri, at 2820 Locust Street. His father was William Schuyler of Missouri, a public school teacher. Remington was the middle born of their three children, all of whom were sons. On October 12, 1897 his mother died in Buffalo at the age of forty-one after complications from a lost pregnancy. After graduating McKinley High school, where his father was Principal, he studied art at Washington University in St. Louis. He received a scholarship to study at the National Academy in Rome and the Academie Julian in Paris. He also studied at the Art Students League in New York with the influential draftsman, George Bridgman. In 1906 he studied with Howard Pyle in Wilmington Delaware. On January 26, 1907 he married Anna Louise Ponder from Milton, Delaware. They left Wilmington and moved to 143 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY. They had one child, a daughter, who was named Hidee after his mother's nickname. Thanks to his association with Howard Pyle his first published illustration appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post in 1906. He was soon working regularly for The Saturday Evening Post, Pearson's, and Munsey's Magazine. In 1916 they moved to 76 Huguenot Street, New Rochelle, NY, which was a prestigious community with neighbors such as J.C. & F.X. Leyendecker, and Norman Rockwell. New Rochelle had also been the home of his recently deceased namesake, Frederick Remington. On September 12, 1918 he reported for draft registration at the age of 34. His employer was listed as the U.S. Shipping Board of 345 East 33rd Street, Manhattan, NYC, which hired him to design complex color schemes for ships to disorient torpedo attacks. After the Great war he received countless assignments for Boy's Life. He was active in the Boy Scouts for over thirty years and even wrote some of the official rules for earning merit badges. He illustrated many children's adventure books...