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The Last Cavalier

Date: 1895

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: 02005

Credit Line: Lawrence H. Kyte, Jr.

Dimensions: 23 x 35″ (58.4 x 88.9 cm)

Illustration: Harper’s Monthly (September 1895), p. 605, halftone.

Inscription: ll: –Frederic Remington; stamped beneath signature: Copyright, 1895, By Harper & Brothers.

Illustration Inscription: ll: –Frederic Remington


Provenance: The artist; Owen Wister, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Owen Wister Estate; [?]; E. & A.
Milch, November 1950; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York); Lawrence
H. Kyte, Sr., Cincinnati, Ohio, April 1955; present owner

Exhibitions

Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
January 1 – April 1, 1973.
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How the West Was Won. New York, New York: Wildenstein & Co.,
May 22 – June 22, 1968.
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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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Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Canada: August 27 –
Sepember 11, 1954.
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Portrait of the Old West. New York, New York: M. Knoedler & Co.,
October 20 – 1 November, 1952.
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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: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and
Sculpture
. Williamstown, Massachussetts: Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute, December 2 – 31, 1967; traveling exhibit: Oshkosh,
Minneapolis.
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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

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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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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Persimmon Hill, vol. 10, no. 3 (summer 1980).
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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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Wildenstein & Co. How the West Was Won, Paintings,
Watercolors, and Bronzes by Frederic Remington and Charles M.
Russell
. New York: Wildenstein & Co., 1968.
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M. Knoedler & Co. Portrait of the Old West. New York: M. Knoedler
& Co., 1952.
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Canadian National Exhibition. Toronto, Canada, 1954.
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Wister, Owen to Remington, August 25 [1895]. Frederic Remington
Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Nemerov, Alexander. Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century
America
. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995.
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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected
Letters
. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1988.
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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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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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Denver Art Museum. Western Passages: Shaping the West, American Sculptors of the 19th Century, Denver: Petrie Institute of Western Art, Denver Art Museum, 2010
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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.