Fredric Remington House in Ridgefield, Connecticut was the home of famed American Western life painter Frederic Remington in the last years of his life. The two-story stone and tile house was designed by Remington himself, where he created what is recognized as some of his best and most mature artwork in this house.

Remington’s dynamic depictions of cowboys, cavalrymen and Indians captured the romance of the late 19th century American West. He was one of the first American artists to accurately illustrate the true gait of a galloping horse, and his ability to convey dynamic movement gave his sketches a particular life.

Before Remington’s time, galloping horses were depicted with all four legs pointing "horse of battle" style. The galloping horse became Remington’s signature style at the same time that new camera technology confirmed the truth of how horses gallop. He wrote, "The artist must know more than the camera… " to convey the true feeling.

Fredric Remington was born in 1862 while his father was fighting in the Civil War and did not see much of him for the first four years of his life. At one point in his adolescence he was sent to a military academy in hopes of giving him a more disciplined character. His fellow cadets liked Remington and the sketches and silhouettes he made of them. But definitely non-military material was the opinion of those around him. His father died when he was eighteen, leaving him an inheritance that allowed him to travel to the West and follow his passions.

At the age of nineteen in 1881 he made his first trip to Montana, where he saw the vast prairies, the Rocky Mountains and was close to the last military confrontations with the Indians that he had imagined since his childhood. In 1883, Remington went to Peabody, Kansas to try to raise sheep. He invested his entire inheritance, but found sheep farming to be a very harsh and isolated life and missed out on many of the refinements of life in the East.

He returned home at age twenty-three to marry Eva Caten in 1884 and they returned to Kansas City to become part owners of a saloon. However, she was unhappy with salon life and his sketches of the clientele, and just when she felt that she had found her true calling as an artist, she left him and returned home.

With his wife dead and the salon business in disrepair, he began drawing and painting for a living and soon made enough money selling paintings to locals to see art as a profession. Remington returned to his home in the East, reunited with his wife, and moved to Brooklyn, where he began his studies at the Art Students League of New York, which had a great impact on the development of art. and illustration style of it.

By this time, Eastern newspapers were showing a strong interest in the West and he sent Western-themed sketches and illustrations to publications such as Collier’s, and his first full-page cover appeared in Harper’s Weekly on January 9, 1886, at the age of twenty-five. . Western images of him initially appeared as illustrations in popular magazines of the day. But as he matured as an artist, Remington turned his attention away from illustration, concentrating more and more on painting and eventually sculpture.

Around 1900 he began a series of what would eventually become more than seventy paintings known as his "nocturnal" which had as its theme the colors of the night illuminated by the light of the fire, the light of the candles and the light of the moon. She was captivated by exploring the technical problems of painting the dark.

He moved to Ridgefield, Connecticut in the last years of his life, where he designed and built the Remington House. He produced some of his best work at Ridgefield, including sculpture. "The stampede" and the painting "the call of love". In the last two years he dabbled in Impressionism. Frederic Remington died at the premature age of forty-eight after an emergency appendectomy on December 26, 1909.

The Remington House is one of the most celebrated historic homes in Ridgefield, Connecticut. In 1965, Ridgefield’s Remington House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a lasting tribute to one of America’s most talented performers of the American West.