Remington Catalogue
Signaling the Main Command
Alternate Title: Signalling the Main Command
Date: 1885
Medium: watercolor on paper
Catalogue Number: 00041
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 22 x 32″ (55.9 x 81.3 cm)
Illustration: Harper’s Weekly (July 17, 1886), p. 452, wood engraving.
Inscription: ll: Remington/85
Illustration Inscription: ll: Remington/85
Provenance: Mannados Book Shop, New York, New York; (M. Knoedler & Co., New
York, New York no. WCA-1496, 1955); Mr. and Mrs. James Ryan Williams, Cincinnati,
Ohio; (Christie’s, New York, New York, 2001); present owner
Exhibitions
Hogg Brothers Collection of Works by Frederic Remington. Houston,
Texas; Museum of Fine Arts, April 16-30, 1944.
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Frederic Remington’s Southwest. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum,
January 4 – March 15, 1992; traveling exhibit: Memphis, Omaha.
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Frederic Remington’s Southwest. Memphis, Tennessee: Memphis Brooks Museum
of Art, April 19 – June 21, 1992; traveling exhibit: Phoenix, Omaha.
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Frederic Remington’s Southwest. Omaha, Nebraska: Joslyn Art Museum,
July 11 – September 6, 1992; traveling exhibit: Phoenix, Memphis.
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The Far West: Exhibition of Paintings and Bronzes. New York,
New York: M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., November 15 – December 4,
1954.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture.
Oshkosh: Paine Art Center and Arboretum, August 1 – September 24, 1967;
traveling exhibit: Minneapolis, Williamstown.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture.
Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
October 11 – November 12, 1967; traveling exhibit: Oshkosh, Williamstown.
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Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken.
Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 – September 30,
1974.
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Bibliographies
Remington Art Memorial. A Catalogue of the Frederic Remington Memorial
Collection. New York: Privately Printed for the Remington
Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York, by the M. Knoedler Galleries, 1954.
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Gregg, Richard N. Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of
Painting and Sculpture. Oshkosh, Wisconsin: Paine Art Center
and Arboretum, 1967.
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McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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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Dippie, Brian E. “Frederic Remington’s Wild West.” American
Heritage, vol. 26, no. 3 (April 1975).
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Ballinger, James, K. Frederic Remington’s Southwest. Phoenix,
Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, 1992.
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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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Neff, Emily Ballew Frederic Remington: The Hogg Brothers Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2000
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.