"What success I have had," Remington once told a newspaper repoerter, "has been because I have a horseman's knowledge of a horse. 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 first Remington in clay was "Bronco Buster", completed in 1885.

Among his admirers was Theodore Roosevelt, who once said that "Remington portrayed a most characteristic and yet vanishing type of American life. 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."

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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. He worked with his wife, Laura, and together they created many great works of art, including "End of the Trail". Fraser died in 1963 and is regarded as America's foremost Western sculptor.

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CHARLES MARION RUSSELL was born on March 19, 1864 in Oakhill, Missouri, and died in 1926 in Great Falls, Montana. He was a self-taught artist, drawing inspiration from his life experience as a cowboy. He specialized in western style: cowboys, Indians, buffalo, bears, cougars, and his favorite...horses.

The viewer of Russell's bronzes shares in his feelings of delight and despair, his moments of high excitement and those of quiet humor. The sculptor was blessed with an ability to see those critical details that give his works excitement of life. Some of his bronzes are more impressionistic than others. By 1914 he had established himself as a success, as a sculptor and a painter.

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CARL KAUBA was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1865 and died in 1922. Although he signed "Carl", Kauba's birth certificate officially identifies him as "Karl", son of an Austrian shoemaker.

He never visited America himself but was inspired by the romantic stories written by a German, Carl May, and many photographs and illustrations which he had seen. He was also inspired by a complete Western saddle and some Indian artifacts sent to him as gifts by an American friend.

In contrast to most artists, Kauba's success as a businessman was equal to his artistic achievements. He worked in a studio in his home and personally directed the casting of his clay models in local foundries.

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CHARLES HUMPHRIES (or Humphriss) (1867-1934) was born in England and later settled in New York. He became a member of the National Association of Sculptors and won the recognition of his peers. He also exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts and at the Panama-Pacific Exposition where he won several awards. He saw the Indian as a man of peace, not as a warrior. Although the theme of his work was influeced by the western way of life, he lived and exhibited his works in the East.

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CYRUS EDWIN DALLIN (1861-1944) was born in Utah. Dallin was a student of Truman Bartlett in Boston, Massachusetts and Chapu and Dampt in Paris. His first clay models as a boy were of animals roaming the Utah wilderness. He exhibited in the U.S. and France, winning many gold medals at the expositions.

Strictly speaking, his sculpture modeled the plight of the American Indian, but in doing so drew attention to the close relationship of the native American to animals, both wild and domestic.

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PIERRE JULES MENE was born in Paris in 1810 and died there in 1871. Mene was the most successful and prolific animalier of his day. He was born into an apparently prosperous artisan family. His father was a skilled metal turner and was able to teach his son the basics of working a metal foundry and the principles of sculpture. He interpreted his own sketches into bronze casts and rapidly established a reputation for himself.

Mene won four medals at the Salon and at major exhibitions, receiving the Cross of the Legion d'Honneur in 1861. He was influenced by the French painter Carle Vennet and the English painter landseer. His bronzes inherited much of the warm, friendly style of romanticism but he soon developed his own style of naturalism. He became the most important and influential animalier of his time.

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JULES MOIGNIEZ (1835-1894) was of French nationality. From 1859 to 1892 he displayed 30 animal groups in the Salon, where he made his debut. Most of his sculptures were of game birds and hunting dogs.

Moigniez committed suicide after a long illness. After his death Moigniez's bronzes were cast by A. George. Most of them appeared at the 1862 Exposition in London, where the artist won a medal.

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ANTON LOUIS BARYE (1796-1875) was born in Paris on September 24, 1796, the son of a goldsmith. He worked as an apprentice to a metal engraver until he was drafted into the military in 1812. Following the war he studied with the Classical sculptor Bosio. From 1818 to 1823 he attended L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, winning a second prize in 1819.

In 1932 he established his own studio. In 1848 he became director of a plaster casting establishment in Louvre and in 1854 he was master of zoological drawing in the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, where one of his pupils was Rodin.

Barye was the classic case of the artist's struggle for recognition. His talent was too advanced to be appreciated by most until the late 1830s. He was the greatest animal sculptor of all time and is the father of the Animalier School.

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AUGUSTE RODIN was born in 1840 and died in 1917. In his time he was considered the greatest sculptor since Michaelangelo. His style was both classic and romantic. Rodin followed nature closely and prested it exactly as he saw it. It was he who led the way in modern sculpture.

He never was awarded any national honors, which was probably due to the fact that he lived during the years that his country was at war with Germany.

In 1967, during the 50th anniversary of Rodin's death, he was finally awarded the public tribute to Preiss.

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LOUIS JUSTIN ICART was born September 12, 1888 in France. His second wife, Fanny, as well as the city of Paris, which was the uncontested international center of beauty and art, were his inspiration for much of his work. During his forty-year artistic career Icart delighted lovers of Art Deco, a fashion directed almost exclusively towards women, on both sides of the Atlantic. Art Deco was a period of perfection of workmanship and this factor in Icart's work related him to the period.

Today his witty, joyful, and often poignant images of women of France have found a new generation of admirers.

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DEMETRE H. CHIPARUS was born in Romania and then traveled to Paris before World War I to become more involved with his artwork. He exhibited at the Salon in 1914. He produced most of his renowned works between 1914 and 1933. His later works in the 1920s were influenced by his interest in Egypt, after the excavation of the Pharoah Tutankhamen's tomb.

Some of his most exciting works are dancers taken from the Russian Ballet, French theatre, and early motion pictures.

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PIERRE LEFAGUAYS was a prolific and versatile avant-garde French sculptor whose works greatly influenced the styles of the 1920s and early 1930s. His many male figures were super-powerful (a blend of primitive and futuristic man) and often brutal to the extreme. Yet his dancing girls are delicate creatures with lovely, sensitive faces (in bronze and tinted ivory) equal to those of the better known specialists - Chiparus, Preiss and Lorenzl. Add to these a host of exciting child, biblical and sporting subjects.

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JUAN CLARA was born in Olot, Spain, in 1875. He exhibited at the Paris Salons, where he won an honorable mention in 1923. He also exhibited at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.

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ETIENNE MAURICE FALCONET was born in paris on December 1, 1716 and died January 24, 1791. In 1757 Falconet was appointed director of sculpture at the Seures Porcelain Manufacture. He produced approximately 30 major sculptures, but many were lost due to revolutionary vandalism.

Many of his pieces were continuously reproduced in every medium, often even adapted to clocks and furniture. In 1766 Catherine the Great called him to St. Petersburg for his last and greatest commission. He was considered France's most versatile representative of the 18th century.

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AUGUSTE MOREAU (1831-1917) The third son of sculptor and painter Jean Baptiste Moreau, Auguste initiated himself to sculpture along with his older brother Mathurin. In 1861, he made his debut at the Salon, where he would exhibit regularly until 1913. His subjects were primarily genre scenes, pastorals, and allegories; his style was realistic and graceful, revealing his relation to the other members of the Moreau dynasty. The similitude of names sometimes provokes confusion in the attribution of certain works signed without first initials.

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