Lieutenant S. C. Robertson, Chief of the Crow Scouts
Date: 1890
Medium: watercolor, opaque white and graphite on paper
Catalogue Number: 01129
Credit Line: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Dimensions: 18 x 13" (45.7 x 33.0 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (December 27, 1890), p. 1004, halftone.
Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON./'90
Illustration Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON./'90
Provenance: Joseph E. McCarrell, San Francisco, California; (Argonaut Bookshop, San Francisco, California, 1950); Harry B. Smith, San Francisco, California, 1950-1955; (John Howell-Books, San Francisco, California, 1955); (Nancy Taylor, dealer, Fort Worth, Texas, 1955); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1955; present owner
Exhibitions
How the West Was Made: Fact and Fiction in the Works of
Remington and Russell. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
May 14 - August 7, 1994.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Longview, Texas: Longview Museum &
Arts Center, September 11 - October 10, 1976.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Plainview, Texas: Wayland Baptist College,
April 15 - May 16, 1966.
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Masters of Western Art. San Angelo, Texas: Angelo State University,
June 16 - 29, 1977.
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New Mexico Arts & Crafts Fair. Albuquerque, New Mexico: June 24 -
26, 1978.
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The Military in West Texas: The Indian Wars. Midland, Texas: Museum of
the Southwest, September 21, 1978 - June 1, 1979.
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Between Friends. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The Gilcrease Museum, July 19 -
September 19, 1982.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Card, Helen L. "Frederic Remington, 1861-1909: Artist Historian of the Old West." Scrapbooks of Remington illustrations, compiled c. 1944. Vol. 1-5. The Metropolitan Musem of Art, New York, New York.
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Hassrick, Peter. Frederic Remington: Painting, Drawings and
Sculpture in the Amon Carter and Sid W. Richardson Foundation Collections.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1973.
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Hassrick, Peter. Frederic Remington. An essay and catalogue to
accompany a retrospective exhibition of the work of Frederic
Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1973.
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Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Catalogue of the Collection
1972. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art,
1973.
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Philip Morris. Remington. London: Leo Burnett Limited, 1981.
European film.
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Meyer, Susan E. America's Great Illustrators. New York:
Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1978.
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Baker, Donna. Artists in Our World, Frederic Remington.
Chicago, Illinois: Children's Press, 1977.
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Finch, Christopher. American Watercolors. New York:
Abbeville Press, Inc., 1986.
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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected
Letters. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1988.
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National Museum of American Art. Inventory of American
Paintings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. On-line
computer database in progress; BBHC copy for Remington's paintings
dates October 10, 1984.
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Remington to Frederick B. Schell, April 28, 1891. Denver Public Library,
Denver, Colorado, Western History Department.
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The information presented here is based on the Catalogue Raisonné edited by Peter Hassrick in 2016 and was accurate to the best of our knowledge at that time.
