Remington Catalogue
Benighted--and a Dry Camp
Alternate Title: Benighted for a Dry Camp; The Dry Camp
Date: 1907
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02809
Credit Line: Courtesy Sid Richardson Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Dimensions: 27 3/8 x 40" (69.5 x 101.6 cm)
Illustration: Collier's Weekly (March 4, 1911), p. 12, color halftone.
Inscription: ll: --Frederic Remington./1907
Illustration Inscription: ll: --Frederic Remington; lr: [copyright logo]
Provenance: The artist; (W. S. Thurber, Chicago, Illinois, 1909); Chester A. Congdon, 1912; Robert Congdon (son), Duluth, Minnesota; (Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, New York, sold in 1981 as {Stuck for a Dry Camp}); (Newhouse Galleries, New York, New York); present owner
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Exhibitions
Paintings by Frederic Remington. New York, New York: M. Knoedler & Co.,
December 2-14, 1907.
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A Special Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Frederic Remington and
Portraits by A. de Ferraris of Vienna. Chicago, Illinois: Reinhardt's
Annex Gallery, February 10-22, 1908.
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Exhibition and Sale of Paintings and Drawings by Frederick
[sic] Remington}. Boston, Massachusetts: Galleries of Doll & Richards,
January 8-20, 1909.
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Bibliographies
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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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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Doll & Richards Gallery. Exhibition of Paintings By Frederic Remington.
Boston: Doll & Richards Gallery, 1909.
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Remington, Frederic. Frederic Remington's Paintings. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1912, portfolio in manila envelope containing: Bringing Home the New Cook; The Quarrel; Benighted for a Dry Camp; In From the Night Herd.
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Reinhardt's Annex Gallery. A Special Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Frederic Remington and Portraits by A. de Ferraris of Vienna. Chicago, Illinois: Reinhardt's Annex Gallery, 1908.
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M. Knoedler & Co. Paintings by Frederic Remington on Exhibition at
the Galleries of M. Knoedler & Co., 355 Fifth Ave., Corner 34th Street,
New York. December 2nd until the 14th inclusive 1907. New York: M.
Knoedler & Co., 1907.
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Remington diary, 1907. 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. Remington's Four Best Paintings. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1912, portfolio with envelope containing: Bringing Home the New Cook; The Quarrel; Benighted for a Dry Camp; In from the Night Herd.
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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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Hale, Philip L. "Art." The Boston Herald, January 9, 1909, vol.
125, p. 6, col. 7.
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Dippie, Brian W. Remington & Russell. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
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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.