Last updated: 8/26/2017
Ogdensburg, New York
Address
303 Washington StreetOgdensburg, NY 13669

Hours

May 16 - October 14
Monday - Saturday
10 AM - 5 PM
Sunday
1 PM - 5 PM
October 15 - May 15
Wednesday - Saturday
11 AM - 5 PM
Sunday
1 PM - 5 PM

Admissions

$9 Adults
$8 Senior citizens, students ages 16 and up
$7 Per person in groups of 15 or more
Free admission for museum members, volunteers,
residents of Ogdensburg, and children age 15 and under

Museum Type(s)

Art

Staff

Shannon Ghize
phone: 315-393-2425
Laura Foster
phone: 315-393-2425
Debra Ormasen
phone: 315-393-2425
Melanie Flack
phone: 315-393-2425
Laura Desmond
phone: 315-393-2425
Mission

The Frederic Remington Art Museum expands and deepens appreciation and understanding of Remington's work by engaging contemporary audiences and keeping his legacy relevant.

History

Through his heroic and realistic portrayals of cowboys, soldiers and Indians, Remington glorified the theme of the West and the American Frontier. Remington provided the American people with depictions of the lives of many interesting characters. His love of the Old West resulted in images that convey the excitement and danger associated with the taming of the frontier. They greatly enhance our study and perceptions of the past.

During the last eight years of his life Remington owned and enjoyed an island in Chippewa Bay on the St. Lawrence River. His very productive life was cut short on December 26, 1909 when he died of complications following an appendectomy. At his behest, he is buried in Canton, NY. His widow, Eva Remington and her sister Emma Caten along with his friends and family, served to found the Remington Art Memorial, opening in 1923, which is now the Frederic Remington Art Museum.

Frederic Remington, born in Canton, NY on October 4, 1861, was the only child of a father who was a journalist and a Civil War hero and a mother who came from a prosperous family. Ogdensburg served as Frederic Remington's boyhood home where the family lived from the time he was eleven. Frederic demonstrated great interest in horses and things military at an early age. At age fourteen, he was sent to the Highland Military Academy in Massachusetts for secondary schooling and it was where he completed some of his first drawings. His formal art training was at Yale and the Art Students League. In 1881, drawn by the excitement and romance of cowboy life, Frederic made his first journey West. The following year, his first drawing depicting the West appeared in Harper's Weekly, beginning his career as an illustrator. He lived only briefly in the West when, in 1883, he purchased a sheep ranch in Peabody, Kansas, with money he inherited from his father's estate. In 1884, he married Eva Caten of Gloversville, NY and returned to New York. Frederic made a total of eighteen trips West, gathering information, making sketches and taking photographs, which he used at his studio in New Rochelle, New York to create his illustrations, paintings and bronzes. During his career, he created over three thousand flat works and twenty-two subjects in bronze.

Educational Programs

Lectures
Exhibits
Docent program
Gallery tours
Art classes and workshops (sculpting, painting and photography)
Distance Learning

Publications

Quarterly Newsletter and Annual Report

Services
Gift Shop
Online Gift Shop
Special Event Rental
Group Tours
ADA
Wheelchair Accessible
Exhibitions
Museum Events
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Museum Trustee Association Spring Forum 2024

April 10 - 14, 2024

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Texas Association of Museums 2024 Lubock Annual Conference

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2024 Colorado-Wyoming ANNUAL MEETING

May 1 - 4, 2024

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West Virginia Association of Museums 2024 Conference

June 6 - 8, 2024

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