The First Shot
Date: ca. 1888
Medium: oil on academy board, b/w
Catalogue Number: 00323
Credit Line: Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York
Dimensions: 15 x 16-1/4" (38.10 x 41.28 cm)
Illustration: Century Magazine (June 1888), p. 208, wood engraving.
Inscription: lc: Remington; stamped on reverse: Art Department/the Century Co./Union Square/New York City
Illustration Inscription: lc: Remington; lr: J.F.Jungling
Provenance: (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, New York); Robert F. Rockwell, Jr., 1961; The Rockwell Foundation, Corning, New York, 1979; present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken.
Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 30,
1974.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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McCracken, Harold. The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial
History of the West. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.,
Inc., 1966.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Frederic Remington: A Biography.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frederic Remington: An Exhibition
Honoring Harold McCracken. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center,
1974.
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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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Jackson, Marta, ed. The Illustrations of Frederic Remington: With a Commentary by Owen Wister. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1970.
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Kennedy Galleries Inc. "Painters of the Old West." The Kennedy
Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 4 (October 1960).
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Roosevelt, Theodore. Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail. New
York: The Century Co., 1888.
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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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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.
