Remington Catalogue
The Dead Men
Alternate Title: The Discovery
Date: 1908
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02853
Credit Line: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Dimensions: 27 1/2 x 40 1/2″ (69.8 x 102.9 cm)
Illustration: Collier’s Weekly (September 9, 1911), p. 8, color halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/1908/copyright 1908 by P. F. Collier & Son
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/1908/copyright 1908 by P. F. Collier & Son
Provenance: Estate of the artist; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York); J. B.
Cobbs, Stamford, Connecticut; Son of J. B. Cobbs; (M. Knoedler & Co.,
New York, New York); Albert K. Mitchell; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York,
New York, December 1951, no. A-4785); Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa,
Oklahoma, February 1952; present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington Exhibition. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The Gilcrease
Museum, September 22, 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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McCracken, Harold. The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial
History of the West. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.,
Inc., 1966.
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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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American Scene, vol. 5, no. 4 (1964).
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Remington diary, 1908. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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Remington 1909 diary. 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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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. Eight New Remington Prints. New York:
P. F. Collier & Son, 1909, portfolio: The Warrior’s Last Ride};
With the Eye of the Mind}; Indians Simulating Buffalo}; On the
Southern Plains}; The Sentinel}; Pool in the Desert}; The Snow
Trail}; The Dead Men}.
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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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Dykes, Jeff C. “Frederic Remington–Western Historian.” American
Scene, vol. 4, no. 2 (summer 1961), p. 4-17.
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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 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.