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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

St. Louis, 1892

New York, American Art Galleries, 1893

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.

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

Publication History

New York Times (January 9, 1893)

New York Daily Tribune (January 14, 1893), p. 7, col. 5.

New York Sun (January 14, 1893), p. 2, col. 7.

New York Times (January 14, 1893), p. 8, col. 4

Frederic Remington, “The Advance Guard, or The Military Sacrifice,” Harper’s Weekly (September 16, 1893), p. 886, ill., pp. 888-889.

Remington, 1895, ill. p. 55

Earle 1924, p. 265

Downey, 1941, ill. opp. p. 234 as The Ambush

Frederic Remington, Pony. Tracks (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961), ill.

Harold McCracken, The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial History of the West, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1966), no. 212.

Peggy and Harold Samuels, ed. The Collected Writings of Frederic Remington (Doubleday, 1979), p. 110, ill.

Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report, 1982-83 (Chicago, 1983), fig. 20, p. 26, ill.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Record of Sharing with Chicago’s Masterpiece (Chicago, 1983), p. 8, ill.

Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1988), p. 97, ill.

Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1987-88 (Chicago, 1988), fig. 18, p. 39, ill.

Allen P. and Marilyn D. Splete, Frederic Remington, Selected Letters (New York: Abbeville Press, 1988), pp. 119, 121.

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), p. 369, no. 1207.

Judith A. Barter, Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier 1890-1940 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), chap. 3, fig. 2, p. 82, 168.

Ownership History

Frederic Remington, 1890; E.H. Wales, 1893. George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, by 1982; given to the Art Institute, 1982.