Remington Catalogue
Drum Corps
Alternate Title: Drum Corps, Mexican Army
Date: 1889
Medium: oil on panel
Catalogue Number: 00524
Credit Line: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Dimensions: 18-1/8 x 28-1/8″ (46.0 x 71.4 cm)
Illustration: Harper’s Monthly (November 1889), p. 817, wood engraving.
Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON/CITY of MEXICO.–; reverse in graphite: Burdick/#2
Illustration Inscription: ll: WM. Aikman-SC; lr: Frederic Remington./City of
Mexico.’89
Provenance: The artist; Joel W. Burdick; [?]; private collection, New York,
New York; (Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, February
2, 1950); (Newhouse Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, 1950); Amon
G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1950; present owner
Exhibitions
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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Loan Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Water Colors. Albany, New
York: Albany Historical and Art Society, November 1898.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Odessa, Texas: Ector County Library,
April 8 – 14, 1962.
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Remington and Russell. Roswell, New Mexico: Roswell Museum and
Art Center, October 26 – November 30, 1963.
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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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Fort Worth, Texas: Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Fort Worth Public
Library, 1950.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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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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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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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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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Meyer, Susan E. America’s Great Illustrators. New York:
Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1978.
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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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Albany Historical and Art Society. Loan Exhibition
of Oil Paintings and Water Colors. Albany, New York: Albany Historical
and Art Society, 1898.
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Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. Barbizon and Other XIX Century
Paintings, Genre Works and English Sporting Pictures; Property of
An Eastern Art Museum and Other Owners. New York, sale 1123
(February 2, 1950).
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Remington ledger book of paintings, c. 1887-1892. No. 71.839. Frederic
Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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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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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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Harper. “The Mexican Army.” The Armies of To-Day. New York:
Harper Brothers Publishers, 1893.
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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.