The Cowboy
Date: 1902
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02685
Credit Line: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Dimensions: 40 1/4 x 27 1/8" (102.2 x 68.9 cm)
Illustration: Scribner's Magazine (October 1902), p. 409, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington--
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.
Provenance: The artist; John C. Howard, Ogdensburg, New York; Thomas F. Howard, Ogdensburg, New York; (Mannados Book Shop, New York, New York); William J. Healy; (James Graham & Sons, New York, New York); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1950; 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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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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Remington and Russell exhibition. Midland, Texas: Midland Public Library,
April 1 - 30, 1963.
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Governor for a Day Ceremonies. Austin, Texas: State Capitol,
April 19, 1969.
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Washington, D.C.: Office of the President, The White House, May 1964
- January 1969. Indefinite loan.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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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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McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Frederic Remington: A Biography.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
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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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Isaacson, Robert. Frederic Remington: A Painter of American
Life. New York: Robert Isaacson, privately printed, 1943.
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Davidson, Marshall B. Life in America. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1951.
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Manely, Atwood. Frederic Remington in the Land of His Youth. Canton,
New York: 1961.
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Dorra, Henri. The American Muse. New York: Viking Press, 1961.
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Remington, Frederic. Western Types. New York: Charles Scribner
and Sons, January 1937, colored lithograph series.
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Amon Carter Museum. Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas:
Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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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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Spur, (September 1938).
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. The Collected Writings of Frederic
Remington. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
1979.
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Hassrick, Peter H. The Way West. Art of Frontier America. New
York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1977.
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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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Brown, Myra Lockwood and Robert Taft. "Painter of the Rip-Roaring
West." Country Gentleman, (September 1947), p. 16-17, 79-80.
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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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Dary, David. "The Kansas Prankster Who Won Fame in Art." Kansas City Star,
December 6, 1970, Sunday magazine.
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Hassrick, Royal B. Cowboys. London: Octopus Books Limited, 1974.
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"Frederic Remington: His Life and Art." Cobblestone: The History
Magazine for Young People, (November 1982).
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Raboff, Ernest. Art for Children: Frederic Remington. New
York: Gemini-Smith, Inc., 1973.
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Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum. Collecting: A Texas
Phenonmenon. San Antonio, Texas: Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum,
1986.
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Kirchoff/Wohlberg Inc. Coronado: A History of the U.S.
Published by Krichoff/Wohlberg Inc., 1984.
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Roosevelt, Theodore. Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail.
The Century Co., New York, 1888. rpt. ed, Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 1983.
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Remington, Frederic. Pony Tracks. Reprint. American
Legacy Press, 1982.
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Renner, Ginger, and Carolyn Clark. C. M. Russell's West.
Charlottesville, Virginia: Thomasson-Grant, 1987.
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Honig, Don. The Life of the Cowboy. New York: Random House,
Inc., 1970.
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Tinkle, Lon. Texas: A Picture Tour. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1973.
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Kansas History A Journal of the Central Plains, vol. 2, no. 5
(spring 1979).
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The Franklin Mint. "Eternal Art Masterpieces." The Almanac.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Mint, 1980.
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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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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1908-1909. No. FRAM 71.837. Frederic
Remington Art Museum Archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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Remington, Frederic. Western Types. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1902, set of four full-color lithographs, paper
size 16 x 12".
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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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Hassrick, Peter H. Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art. Washington: Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 2000
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The Henry Art Gallery. Myth of the West intro. by Chris Bruce. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. 1990
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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.