{{Short description|American abstract painter}} {{Infobox artist | name = Deborah Remington | image = Photo of Deborah Remington.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Deborah Remington | birth_date = June 25, 1930 | birth_place = Haddonfield, New Jersey, U.S. | death_date = April 21, 2010 (age 79) | death_place = Moorestown, New Jersey, U.S. | known_for = Abstract painting | training = Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, San Francisco Art Institute, | movement = Abstract Hard-edge painting | website = {{URL|https://deborahremington.com/}} }} thumb|"Haddonfield," 1965
'''Deborah Remington''' (June 25, 1930 – April 21, 2010) was an American abstract painter. Her most notable work is characterized as Hard-edge painting abstraction.
She became a part of the San Francisco Bay Area's Beat scene in the 1950s.<ref name="deborahremington.com">{{Cite web |title=About the Artist – DEBORAH REMINGTON |url=https://deborahremington.com/home/about-the-artist/ |access-date=2024-01-31 |language=en}}</ref> In 1965, she moved to New York where her style solidified and her career grew substantially.<ref name="deborahremington.com"/> A twenty-year retrospective of her work was exhibited at the Newport Harbor Art Museum in California, in 1983.<ref>{{cite web|title=Deborah Remington Bio|url=http://www.deborahremington.com/about-the-artist.html|publisher=Deborah Remington Charitable Trust for the Visual Arts|accessdate=March 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917031104/http://www.deborahremington.com/about-the-artist.html|archive-date=September 17, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Her work was a part of more than thirty solo exhibition and hundreds of group exhibitions including three Whitney Museum of American Art annuals.<ref name="DavidRichard"/> She was the descendant of artist Frederic Remington.<ref name="Obituary">{{cite news|last=Smith|first=Roberta|title= Deborah Remington, Abstract Artist, Dies at 79 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/obituaries/18remington.html|work=The New York Times|date=May 18, 2010|accessdate=March 9, 2014}}</ref>
==Biography== Remington was born in 1930 and grew up in Haddonfield, New Jersey. She was the daughter of the late Malcolm VanDyke and Hazel (née Stewart) Remington.<ref>{{cite web|title=Notes for Deborah W. Remington|url=http://www.pennock.ws/surnames/nti/nti158544.html|publisher=The Pennocks of Primitive Hall|accessdate=March 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623191334/http://www.pennock.ws/surnames/nti/nti158544.html|archive-date=June 23, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> With an early inclination towards art, she enrolled in classes at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art as a teenager. In 1955, she received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute where members of the faculty included Clyfford Still, David Park, Hassel Smith, and Jack Spicer, among others.<ref>Asthoff, Jens. "Deborah Remington: Kimmerich." ''Artforum International'', vol. 54, no. 10, Summer 2016, p. 410+. ''Gale In Context: Biography''.</ref>
By the time she graduated from the institute, she had become affiliated with the Bay Area's Beat scene.<ref name="deborahremington.com"/> In 1954, she was one of six painters and poets, and the only woman, who founded the legendary 6 Gallery in San Francisco.<ref name="Obituary"/>
After graduation, Remington spent two years traveling and living in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India. While in Japan she studied classical and contemporary calligraphy and earned money by teaching English and tutoring actors. This led to some work acting in B movies, including the film "Nightmare's Bad Dream".<ref>{{Cite book|title=Deborah Remington|last=Ashton|first=Dore|publisher=Newport Harbor Art Museum|year=1983|location=Newport Beach, California|type=Exhibition catalog}}</ref>
Returning to the United States, she took up painting more seriously. She began to exhibit her work at the Dilexi Gallery in San Francisco and had solo shows in 1962, 1963, and 1965. In 1965, Remington moved to New York City. She had her first solo exhibition in NYC in 1966 at the Bykert Gallery at 15 W. 57th Street in Manhattan. She had four solo shows there between 1967 and 1974.<ref name="DavidRichard">"[http://www.davidrichardgallery.com/Deborah-Remington-Info.cfm?ArtistsID=752 Deborah Remington]". David Richard Gallery. Retrieved August 28, 2016.</ref><ref name="Obituary"/>
In 1983 Remington had a twenty-year retrospective exhibition that opened at the Newport Harbor Museum in California.<ref name="Art Forum">{{cite web |last1=Hudson |first1=Suzanne |title=Suzanne Hudson on the art of Deborah Remington |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/202101/suzanne-hudson-on-the-art-of-deborah-remington-84666 |website=Art Forum |date=January 2021 |access-date=29 April 2023}}</ref> This exhibition later traveled to the Oakland Museum.<ref name="DavidRichard"/> In 1984 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.<ref>"[https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/08/nyregion/guggenheim-foundation-awards-fellowships-to-283.html Guggenheim Foundation Award Fellowships to 283]". ''New York Times''. April 8, 1984. Retrieved August 28, 2016.</ref><ref name="Guggenheim Memorial">{{cite web |title=Deborah Remington |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/deborah-remington/ |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... |access-date=29 April 2023}}</ref>
She was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1999,<ref>"[http://www.nationalacademy.org/academy/national-academicians/?na=R National Academicians] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402072524/http://www.nationalacademy.org/academy/national-academicians/?na=R |date=2015-04-02 }}". National Academy of Design. www.nationalacademy.org. Retrieved August 28, 2016.</ref> and in the same year was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.<ref name="DavidRichard"/>
==Death== Remington died April 21, 2010, in Moorestown, New Jersey, of cancer, aged 79.<ref name="Obituary"/> She was interred at Haddonfield Baptist Cemetery in Haddonfield, New Jersey.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Deborah W. Remington Obituary (2010) Courier Post|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/courierpostonline/name/deborah-remington-obituary?pid=142260421|access-date=2021-07-21|website=Legacy.com}}</ref>
==Selected collections== Remington's work has been collected by numerous institutions both in the United States and abroad: the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois;<ref name="The Art Institute of Chicago">{{cite web |title=Deborah Remington |url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/36346/deborah-remington |website=The Art Institute of Chicago |access-date=29 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref> the Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand;<ref name="Auckland Art Gallery">{{cite web |title=Deborah Remington |url=https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artist/885 |website=Auckland Art Gallery |access-date=29 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref> the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Paris; the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, California; the Smithsonian American Art Museum (formerly National Museum of American Art), Washington, D.C.;<ref name="Smithsonian American Art Museum">{{cite web |title=Deborah Remington |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/deborah-remington-4001 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=29 April 2023}}</ref> The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.<ref name="Newport Harbor Art Museum">{{cite book|last1=Remington|first1=Deborah|title=Deborah Remington: A 20-year survey|date=1984|publisher=Newport Harbor Art Museum|location=Newport, CA|page=55}}</ref><ref name="Whitney Museum of American Art">{{cite web |title=Deborah Remington |url=https://whitney.org/artists/1086 |website=Whitney Museum of American Art |access-date=29 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
==Awards and recognition== In 1999, Remington was elected to the National Academy of Design and received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant that same year. She was awarded a National Endowment Fellowship from 1979 to 1980. From 1973 to 1981, Remington was a Tamarind Fellow Artist-in-Residence.<ref name="Newport Harbor Art Museum"/>
==Legacy== In 2016 her work was included in the exhibition ''Women of Abstract Expressionism'' organized by the Denver Art Museum.<ref name="Marter">{{cite book |last1=Marter |first1=Joan M. |title=Women of abstract expressionism |date=2016 |publisher=Denver Art Museum Yale University Press |location=Denver New Haven |isbn=9780300208429 |page=193}}</ref> In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition ''Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970'' at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.<ref name="Whitechapel Gallery">{{cite web |title=Action, Gesture, Paint |url=https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/action-gesture-paint-women-and-global-abstraction-1940-70/ |website=Whitechapel Gallery |access-date=28 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/deborah-remington-62003/ Art in America review] *[https://rehistoricizing.org/deborah-remington/ Deborah Remington] on Rehistoricizing The Time Around Abstract Expressionism *[https://www.parraschheijnen.com/deborah-remington Parrasch Heijnen Gallery Deborah Remington: A Life In Drawing Exhibition] *[https://www.partsandlaborbeacon.com/semo-and-remington Parts & Labor Beacon Gallery Davina Semo and Deborah Remington Exhibition]
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