Remington Schuyler was born 1884 in Buffalo, New York. His father was William Schuyler of Missouri, a public school teacher. His mother came from Buffalo and was related to the artist Frederick Remington. She died in 1891 after giving birth to her third child. Remington was the middle born of three sons. The family home was 2820 Locust Street, St Louis, MO.
After graduating the McKinley High school, where his father was the 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.
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 1907 he married Emma Louise Schuyler and they moved to 143 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY.
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, Howard Chandler Christy, 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 37. His employer was listed as the U.S. Shipping Board of 345 East 33rd Street, NYC.
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 and was an expert on the history of Native American Indians.
During the 1920s he sold interior story illustrations to Life, St, Nicholas, and The Century magazines. He also painted many cover illustrations for pulp magazines, such as Short Stories, The Frontier, and West.
Although most pulp artists yearned to work their way up to the slicks, Remington Schuyler was among the few slick magazine artists of the roaring twenties who later found work with pulp magazines out of resourcefulness during the Great Depression. He sold freelance pulp covers to Wild West Weekly, Battle Stories, and Short Stories.
By 1930 he had divorced and moved to 80 Wright Street in Westport, Connecticut, which he bought for $8,000. In 1932 he married his second wife, Marjorie Schuyler.
As with Delos Palmer, he also found work in the 1930s as a muralist for the WPA artist's program in Connecticut.
In 1948 he moved to Marshall Missouri and taught art classes at Missouri Valley College for six years.
Remington Schuyler died in Missouri at age 71 on October 18, 1955.
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