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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.