Figure of the Night
Alternate Title: The Sentinel
Date: 1908
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02855
Credit Line: Courtesy Sid Richardson Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Dimensions: 30 1/8 x 21 1/8" (76.2 x 53.6 cm)
Inscription: lc: copyright 1908 by Frederic Remington--; lr: Frederic Remington-/1908-
Provenance: Estate of artist; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, no. C-3780); Mrs. Waldorf Astor, New York; [?]; (John Douthitt, New York, New York); (Newhouse Galleries, New York, New York); present owner
Exhibitions
A Special Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Frederic Remington and
Portraits by A. de Ferraris of Vienna. Chicago, Illinois: Reinhardt's
Annex Gallery, February 10-22, 1908.
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Remington and Russell. Corpus Christi, Texas: Art Museum of South Texas,
October 11 - December 3, 1974.
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Sid W. Richardson Collection of Remington and Russell. Fort Worth,
Texas: Amon Carter Museum, January 23 - April 8, 1964.
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Inaugural Exhibition. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: National Cowboy Hall of
Fame and Western Heritage Center, June - September 1965.
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Dedication of LBJ Library. Austin, Texas: University of Texas,
April - May 1971.
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Austin, Texas: Sid Richardson Hall, University of Texas, May - June 1971.
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Remington and Russell. Tyler, Texas: Tyler Museum of Art,
October 16 - December 26, 1972.
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College Station, Texas: J. Earl Rudder Conference Center, Texas A & M
University, January - July 1974.
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London, England: American Embassy, Office of The Honorable Anne Armstrong,
American Ambassador, July 1976 - July 1977.
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Sid W. Richardson Collection of Western Art. Fort Worth, Texas: Gallery 1,
Amon Carter Museum, January 18 - April 23, 1978.
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Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, June - August 1978.
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The Sid W. Richardson Collection of Western Art. Amarillo,
Texas: Amarillo Art Center, January - March 1979.
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Selections from The Sid W. Richardson Collection of Western Art
Exhibition. Wichita Falls, Texas: Wichita Falls Museum and Art
Center, November 14 - December 16, 1979.
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The Wild West: Painting and Sculpture by Frederic Remington & Charles M.
Russell. New Orleans, Louisiana: New Orleans Museum of Art,
November 18, 1979 - February 3, 1980.
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Western Art from The Sid Richardson Collection. Abilene, Texas: Abilene
Fine Arts Museum, March - May 1980.
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Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, May 1980 - April 1981.
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Frederic Remington: 'The Soldier Artist.' West Point, New York: U.S.
Military Academy, May 19 - June 6, 1979.
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Bibliographies
Kuenning, Howard F., Peter Mirakian, Jr., Roger A. Rains, Michael
W. Taylor, eds. Frederic Remington: 'The Soldier Artist.' West
Point, New York: U.S. Military Academy, 1979.
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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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Dippie, Brian W. Remington and Russell. Austin, Texas:
University of Texas Press, 1982.
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Art Museum of South Texas. Remington and Russell. Corpus
Christi, Texas: Art Museum of South Texas, 1974.
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Reinhardt's Annex Gallery. A Special Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Frederic Remington and Portraits by A. de Ferraris of Vienna. Chicago, Illinois: Reinhardt's Annex Gallery, 1908.
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Remington diary, 1908. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1903-1909. No. FRAM 1918.266.
Frederic Remington Art Museum archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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The Art Institute of Chicago. Catalogue of the
Twenty-Second Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by
American Artists, October 19 to November 28, 1909. Chicago,
Illinois: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1909.
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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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Tatum, Stephen. In the Remington Moment. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
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Dippie, Brian W. Remington & Russell. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
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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.