About This Artwork

Frederic Remington
American, 1861-1909

A Mexican Vaquero, 1890

Oil on canvas
82.6 x 58.4 cm (32 1/2 x 23 in.)
Signed, lower right: "Copyright 1890 / By/ Frederic Remington"
George F. Harding Collection, 1982.799

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings and Bronzes by Frederic Remington Lent by the George F. Harding Museum, June 21-October 10, 1969.

Mt. Vernon, Ill., Mitchell Museum, Harding Foundation, Medieval and Renaissance Armor and Weapons, Remington Paintings, Bronzes and Drawings, December 5, 1981-January 31, 1982, cat. no. 405.

Art Institute of Chicago, Frederic Remington, September 1-October 11, 1982, no cat. published.

Corning, N.Y., The Rockwell Museum, Remington’s West (September 6-November 4, 1984, Michael Duty, p. 6, ill.

Phoenix Art Museum, Frederic Remington’s Southwest, January 4-March 15, 1992, James K. Ballinger, p. 36, ill.; traveled to Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, April 19-June 12, 1992; Omaha, Neb., Joslyn Art Museum, July 11-September 6, 1992.

Art Institute of Chicago, Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier 1890-1940, June 28-October 13, 2003, fig. 4, p. 84, 169.

Publication History

Theodore Ayrault Dodge, “Some American Riders,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 83 (July 1891), pp. 204-214, ill. p. 209.

Harold McCracken, Frederic Remington, Artists of the Old West, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1947, p. 130.

Harold McCracken, The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial History of the West, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1966), p. 184, no. 261.

Peter H. Hassrick and Melissa J. Webster, Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, Volume I (Buffalo Bill Historical Center / University of Washington Press, 1996), no. 1165.

Ownership History

George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, by 1982; given to the Art Institute, 1982.