"Turn Him Loose, Bill!"
Alternate Title: Turn Him Loose!"--Breaking a Broncho
Date: ca. 1893
Medium: oil on canvas mounted on masonite
Catalogue Number: 01658
Credit Line: American Museum of Western Art, The Anschutz Collection, Denver, Colorado
Dimensions: 25 x 33" (63.5 x 83.4 cm)
Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON--
Provenance: The artist; (American Art Galleries, New York, New York, January 13, 1893); Joseph Byfield, Chicago, Illinois; Ernest Byfield, Chicago, Illinois; (Newhouse Galleries, New York, New York); Mr. and Mrs. Kay Kimbell, Fort Worth, Texas; Kimbell Art Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas; (Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, New York, October 16, 1974); present owner
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September 8 - September 30, 1976; long-term traveling exhibit 1976
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January 21 - March 6, 1977; long-term traveling exhibit, 1976-1981.
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January 17 - February 28, 1979; long-term traveling exhibit,
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October 21 - January 5, 1981; long-term traveling exhibit
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Stadtmuseum, January 27 - April 26, 1982; long-term traveling exhibit,
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November 15 - December 15, 1982; long-term traveling exhibit,
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Jahrhunderts, January 20 - March 13, 1983; long-term traveling exhibit,
1982 - 1983. Anschutz Collection.
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Crocker Art Gallery, July 18 - September 7, 1987; long-term
traveling exhibit, 1983 - 1989. Anschutz Collection.
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1983 - 1989. Anschutz Collection.
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traveling exhibit, 1983 - 1989. Anschutz Collection.
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Autry Museum of Western Heritage, January 28 - March 26,
1989; long-term traveling exhibit, 1983 - 1989. Anschutz
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exhibit, 1983 - 1989. Anschutz Collection.
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Museum of New Mexico, May 19 - September 16, 1990; long-term
traveling exhibit, 1990-1991. Anschutz Collection.
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Bibliographies
Schriever, George. "Russell Remington." Southwest Art, (May 1977),
p. 40-55.
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American Art Association. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings,
Drawings and Water-Colors by Frederic Remington, A.N.A.. New York:
American Art Association, 1893.
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Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. Important American Western Paintings
and Watercolors: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Kay Kimbell,
Fort Worth, Texas. New York, sale 3678A (October 16, 1974).
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The Anschutz Collection. Painters of the American West: The
Anschutz Collection, Colorado, USA: Mall Galleries, London.
Denver, Colorado: Anschutz Collection, 1983.
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"Mr. Remington's Pictures. Something Less that 100 Works Fetch
Something More than $7,000." New York Sun, January 13,
1893, p. 2, col. 7.
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New York Times, January 14, 1893.
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The Anschutz Collection. Masterpieces of the American West.
Denver, Colorado: The Anschutz Collection, printed by A. B.
Hirschfeld Press, 1983.
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"Remingtons and Bric-A-Brac: Hawashima Textiles and Paintings by
a Japanese." New York Times, January 9, 1893.
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"Frederic Remington's Paintings and Studies," New York Sun,
January 9, 1893, p. 6, col. 5.
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"Selling Remington's Pictures. Lively Bidding at the American
Gallery." New York Daily Tribune, January 14, 1893, p. 7.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1908-1909. No. FRAM 71.837. Frederic
Remington Art Museum Archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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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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Dippie, Brian W. The Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York 2001
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Denver Art Museum. Western Passages: Shaping the West, American Sculptors of the 19th Century, Denver: Petrie Institute of Western Art, Denver Art Museum, 2010
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Hunt, Sarah Anschutz ed. American Museum of Western Art: The Anschutz Collection - Painters and the American West Vol. II. American Museum of Western Art, 2013
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Baigell, Matthew. The Western Art of Frederic Remington. New
York, New York: Ballantine Books, 1976.
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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.