Monday 8 December 2014

Frederic Remington - part 5

1890 The Author Drawing a Sketch

Frederic Sackrider Remington (1861 – 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialised in depictions of the Old American West featuring depictions of Cowboys, American Indians and the U.S. Cavalry.

For more biographical notes see part 1. For earlier works see parts 1 - 4 also.



This is part 5 of a 7-part post on the works of Frederic Remington:



1899-1903 The Mule Pack 
oil on canvas ( en grisaille ) 68.6 x 101.9 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

1899c Belle McKeever and Lt. Edgar Wheelock 
oil on canvas 58.4 x 45.7 cm  
Private Collection

1900 9th U.S. Infantry Entering Peking, August 15, 1900 
oil on canvas ( en grisaille ) 68.9 x 102.2 cm 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1900 "The Right of the Road" - A Hazardous Encounter on a Mountain Trail 
( detail ) 
oil on canvas ( en grisaille ) 
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

1900 I Will Tell the White Man 
oil on canvas ( en grisaille ) 68.9 x 102.2 cm 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1900 Rushing Red Lodges Passed through the Line 
oil on canvas ( en grisaille ) 69.9 x 101.6 cm 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1900 The Fire-Eater Slung His Victim Across His Pony 
oil on canvas ( en grisaille ) 109.2 x 69.4 cm 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1900 The Frozen Sheepherder ( also known as The Last Watch ) 
oil on canvas 68.6 x 101.6 cm 
Private Collection

1900 The Interpreter Waved at the Youth 
oil on canvas en grisaille 68.9 x 102.2 cm 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1900 The Norther 
bronze 58.4 x 50.8 cm 
Gilcrease Institute, Tulsa, Oklahoma

1900 The Signal ( also known as If Skulls Could Speak ) 
oil on canvas 101.6 x 68.6 cm 
Private Collection

1900 The Wolves Sniffed Along on the Trail, but Came No Nearer 
oil on board 68.6 x 101.6 cm 
Private Collection

1900-04 Days on the Range ( "Hands Up!" ) 
oil on canvas ( en grisaille ) 68.6 x 101.6 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

1900-10 The Herd Boy 
oil on canvas 68.9 x 114.9 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

1900c Ceremony of the Fastest Horse 
oil on canvas ( en grisaille ) 101.9 x 69.2 cm 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1900c Charge of the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill

1900c Fire-Eater Raised His Arms 
oil on canvas ( en grisaille ) 69.2 x 102.6 cm 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1900c Head of a Man 
graphite 17.7 x 10.5 cm 
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

1900c Nothing But Cheerful Looks Followed the Bat 
oil on canvas ( en grisaille ) 68 x 102.2 cm 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1900c Pretty Mother of the Night - White Otter is no Longer a Boy 
oil on canvas 68.6 x 101.6 cm 
Private Collection

1901 Arizona Cowboy 
lithograph

1901 Breed 
pastel on paperboard 101.6 x 76.2 cm 
Private Collection

1901 How the Worm Turned 
oil on canvas ( en grisaille ) 
Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York

1901 Infantry Soldier 
pencil and pastel on paper 73.7 x 40.3 cm 
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

1901 It was to be a Lasso Duel to the Death 
pen and ink on paper ( en grisaille ) 27 x 102.2 cm 
Private Collection

1901 The Cheyenne
 bronze 59.7 cm high 
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

1901, cast by 1907 The Cheyenne 
bronze 51.4 x 63.5 x 20.3 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


1901 The Old Stage-Coach of the Plains 
102.2 x 69.2 cm 
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

1901c A Post Office in the "Cow Country" 
oil on canvas ( en grisaille ) 
Buffalo Bill Centre of the West, Cody, Wyoming

1901c The Defeat of "Crazy Horse" by Colonel Miles, Januarry 1877 
oil on canvas ( en grisaille ) 68.6 x 101.6 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

1902 A Reconnaissance 
oil on canvas 69.2 x 101.9 cm 
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

1902, cast before 1939 Coming Through the Rye 
bronze 69.2 x 76.2 x 66.7 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1902, cast before 1939 Coming Through the Rye 
bronze 69.2 x 76.2 x 66.7 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


1902 Lane through the Buffalo Herd 
oil on canvas ( en grisaille )

1902 The Cowboy 
oil on canvas 102.2 x 68.9 cm 
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

1902-05 Friends or Foes? ( The Scout ) 
oil on canvas 68.6 x 101.6 cm 
The Clark Institute of Art, Williamstown, MA

1902-06 The Emigrants 
oil on canvas 115.3 x 77.2 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

1903 A New Year on the Cimarron 
oil on canvas 69.2 x 102.2 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

1903 Change of Ownership ( The Stampede: Horse Thieves ) 
oil on canvas 102.2 x 70.2 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

1903 Fight for the Waterhole 
oil on canvas 69.2 x 101.9 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

1903 His First Lesson 
oil on canvas 69.2 x 101.6 cm 
Amon carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

1903 The Last Lull in the Fight ( also known as The Last Stand ) 
oil on canvas 76.2 x 152.4 cm 
Private Collection

1903 The Parley 
oil on canvas 129.9 x 76.5 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

1903, cast by March 1907 The Mountain Man 
bronze 70.5 x 30.5 x 25.4 cm 
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

1903, cast by March 1907 The Mountain Man 
bronze 70.5 x 30.5 x 25.4 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1903c The Parley 
oil on canvas 68.5 x 102 cm 
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain

1904 Pony Tracks in the Buffalo Trails 
oil on canvas 76.5 x 129.9 cm 
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

1904 The Apaches! 
oil on canvas 63.5 x 76.2 cm 
Private Collection

1904 The End of the Day

1904, cast before 1938 The Sergeant 
bronze 26.4 x 13.3 x 10.2 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1904c A Cold Morning on the Range 
oil on canvas 68.9 x 101.9 cm 
American Museum of Western Art, Denver, CO

1904c A Manchurian Bandit 
oil on canvas 76.2 x 51.4 cm 
Private Collection


1904c Apache Fire Signal 
oil on canvas 102 x 68.5 cm 
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

1905 A Halt in the Wilderness ( also known as Halt of a Cavalry Patrol to Warm ) 
oil on canvas 68.6 x 101.6 cm 
Private Collection

1905 Coming to the Call 
oil on canvas 69.2 x 102.2 cm 
Private Collection

1905 Evening on a Canadian Lake 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1905 Radisson and Groseilliers 
oil on canvas 43.2 x 75.6 cm 
Buffalo Bill Centre of the West, Cody, Wyoming

1905 The Smoke Signal 
oil on canvas 30.5 x 48.25 cm 
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

1905, cast 1907 The Old Dragoons of 1850 
bronze 68.3 x 119.4 x 43.2 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1905, revised 1908, this cast before 1939 The Rattlesnake 
bronze 58.7 x 45.1 x 36.8 cm 
Amon carte Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

1905, revised 1908, this cast before 1939 The Rattlesnake 
bronze 58.7 x 45.1 x 36.8 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1905-06 Ridden Down 
oil on canvas 
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

1905-06 The Belated Traveller 
oil on board 50.8 x 66.7 cm 
Private Collection

1905-08c Attack on the Supply Wagons 
oil on canvas 76.2 x 115.6 cm 
Private Collection

1905c A Map in the Sand 
oil on canvas 
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

1 comment:

  1. Wow, what an amazing artist. I have a couple of his bronzes. I find the works relation to the Indians especially moving. A sad time in their history, but so wonderful that Remmington was there to record it all.

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