Comments on: Deborah Remington R.I.P.

By: Lee Ann Brown

Lee Ann Brown — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:45:16 +0000

I remember that day at the Project! now I know more of the full story!

By: Mary Nowak

Mary Nowak — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:10:29 +0000

Years ago, for one summer I worked with Deborah as her studio assistant. She regularly took assistants on, and I remember her saying that she was going to work me to get the most out of me. She could be quite the task master and I worked 40 hour weeks that summer, helping her complete three paintings. She could be quiet demanding, but also giving. I worked for credit that summer, but developed a friendship with her that lasted many years. She was very energetic and could be quite funny. There was a lithograph in her bathroom that had her at the center of a table in a coffee shop. She is depicted sitting next to Lawrence Alloway and John Perreault with both of them laughing. Very in character. She was also friends with both. She was friends with a great many artists and critics. The idea of her being the great, great grandniece of Fredrick Remington came from her. I am still not sure if she was his great grandniece, or great, great grandnice. She did lie about her age.

I was working with her when she was first diagnosed with cancer. She researched the information that was available at the time as throughly as anyone could, and decided upon her own treatment. For a time it worked, she was free from the cancer for many years afterward.

I also remember when she was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts and the Gugenheim grants. They in part helped her buy the house and land in West Chester, PA. She chose that area because it was close to her family members. I remember her mentioning her brother and nieces. I could understand why she wanted to get out to the country during the summer in New York. I loft sat for her one year during the summer and her loft was on West Broadway in SoHo near Canal Street. It was mighty noisey at night during the summer, particularly around the 4th of July. We kept in touch over the years, but I regret not having kept closer in touch.

By: Lawrence Pierce

Lawrence Pierce — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:36:20 +0000

I met Deborah through my son-in-law, Craig Remington. Craig, CEO of Remington & Vernic, an
engineering firm in Haddonfield. He and Deborah were 2nd or 3rd cousins. I got to be friends with her over a period of about 7 years. We had a close relationship and emailed each other a couple of times a week. She would visit Craig 2 or 3 times a year and we would see her in New York. She battled cancer most of the time I knew her winning some and finally losing. I love her paintings, especially the later things. She painted in her loft apartment and her farm in PA. She could be very difficult which I rather enjoyed but did put a lot of people off. After her death my wife and I were given the chore of going through all of her papers and personal things. I think I ended up knowing her better than most people. I miss her very much and know her art will grow in stature as time passes. I found her to be a fascinating woman and will always follow the path of her art.

By: Jay Leaning

Jay Leaning — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:16:08 +0000

Deborah would have been pleased with your article and I am sure she had fun with you during her appearance.
She told me she was a (3rd) cousin to Frederic Remington, tiring of explaining it, she let people make up their own minds and said once someone introduced her as F.R.’s grand daughter….
“(rolls her eyes) ha!”

By: Anne Remington

Anne Remington — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:42:25 +0000

I’m sorry to read of her passing. We emailed back and forth for awhile. Since I don’t have much family, it was nice to meet someone online and a fellow artist at that. I found her to be wonderfully warm and open. I worried that others would steal her images on her website but I guess that didn’t happen. Sorry I didn’t keep in touch better.
We’re both related to Frederic Remington but as third or fourth cousins probably. In my case, my gr. gr grandfather was his father’s first cousin. I believe her relation was similar. She was happy to have any relation as I am.

By: Margaret Mathews-Berenson

Margaret Mathews-Berenson — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:49:55 +0000

Hoping to reach Warren Weyburn through this blog in order to invite him to a memorial celebration for Deborah Remington in New York this fall. Kindly call or email: 212-535-7050 or mmbart@earthlink.net.

By: Margaret Mathews-Berenson

Margaret Mathews-Berenson — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:48:03 +0000

Hoping to reach Kevin Killian with this message. Would like to know how to contact you in order to invite you to a memorial celebration in New York this fall for Deborah Remington. Please call or email: 212-535-7050 or mmbart@earthlink.net.

By: Laura Foster

Laura Foster — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:24:56 +0000

I’m sorry I didn’t know about her until I saw the New York Times obit. I wonder what the source is of the NYT statement that she was Frederic Remington’s grandniece. Remington (1861-1909) had no siblings, or children.

Laura Foster
fredericremington.org

By: warren reyburn

warren reyburn — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:02:52 +0000

I studied with Deborah for five years each summer when she would come back to West Chester, Pa. She was quite the task master, but brillant and pushed my work to new limits. I was lucky to happen upon her and even luckier that she accepted me as a student. We worked every weekend during her summer stay until she went back to New York, I had the privilage of also seeing her “works in progress”…was sadden to read the obit in the NYT’s and again realized how much I owed to her.
Warren Reyburn

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 20 May 2010 23:24:04 +0000

I saw that notice as well and smiled when it came out that she had been lying about her age – something that’s far too common among a certain generation. A whole chapter of SF’s art history died with her. Thanks for the more personal obit on her and her importance.