The Fall of the Cow-boy
Alternate Title: The Fall of the Cowboy
Date: 1895
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02004
Credit Line: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Dimensions: 25 x 35 1/8" (63.5 x 89.2 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (September 1895), p. 616, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.
Provenance: The artist; (American Art Galleries, New York, New York, 1895); Judge William K. Townsend, New Haven, Connecticut, 1895: Mrs. Wm. K. Townsend, New Haven, Connecticut, until 1930; George H. Townsend, New Haven, Connecticut, 1930-1952; (Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, New York); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1952; present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. St. Louis, Missouri: Saint Louis
Art Museum, March 11 - May 22, 1988; traveling exhibit: Cody, Houston,
New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill
Historical Center, June 17 - September 5, 1988; traveling exhibit: St.
Louis, Houston, New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine
Arts, October 15, 1988 - January 8, 1989; traveling exhibit: St.
Louis, Cody, New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. New York, New York: The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, February 10 - April 16, 1989; traveling exhibit: St. Louis,
Cody, Houston.
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The Opening of the West. Birmingham, Alabama: Birmingham Museum of Art,
October 27 - December 1, 1963.
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Remington and Russell. Roswell, New Mexico: Roswell Museum and
Art Center, October 26 - November 30, 1963.
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New York World's Fair. New York, New York: Missouri Pavilion
Exhibition, March 12, 1964 - November 10, 1965.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah,
November 1 - 30, 1964; traveling exhibit: Portland, Stanford.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Portland, Oregon: Portland Art Museum,
January 15 - February 15, 1965; traveling exhibit: Salt Lake City, Stanford.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Stanford, California: Stanford Art Gallery
and Museum, March 29 - April 18, 1965; traveling exhibit: Salt Lake
City, Portland.
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Masters of Western Art. San Angelo, Texas: Angelo State University,
June 16 - 29, 1977.
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Between Friends. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The Gilcrease Museum, July 19 -
September 19, 1982.
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The American Cowboy. Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress,
March 26 - October 2, 1983; traveling exhibit: San Antonio, Denver,
Calgary, San Jose.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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Paintings and Drawings by Frederic Remington, A. N. A.. New York,
New York: The American Art Galleries, American Art Association,
November 14-19, 1895.
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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
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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Harper's Weekly, (January 8, 1910).
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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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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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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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American Art Association. Catalogue of a Collection of Original Works
in Black and White, Water-Color and Oil by Frederic Remington, A.
N. A.. New York: American Art Association, 1895.
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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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New York Times, November 21, 1895.
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"Remington's Works Sold." New York Herald, November 20, 1895),
p. 7.
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Earle, Helen L. Biographical Sketches of American Artists.
Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State Library, 1924.
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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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Schomaekers, Gunter. A Pictorial History of the Old West of the
U.S.. Dorheim-Hessen, West Germany: Ahnert-Verlag, 1972.
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Hassrick, Peter. "Frederic Remington at the Amon Carter
Museum." American Art Review, (September/October 1973), p. 41-47.
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Hassrick, Royal B. Cowboys. London: Octopus Books Limited, 1974.
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Burk, Dale. A Brush with the West. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press
Publishing Co., 1980.
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The American West Magazine, vol. 2, no. 1 (winter 1965).
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National Geographic Society. The American Cowboy. Washington,
D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1971.
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Hassrick, Peter H. "Remington and Russell, Delineators of the
American Cowboy." The American West Magazine, vol. 14, no. 6
(November/December 1977).
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LaDow, Beth. "Boom on the Range." Pacific Northwest Magazine, (March/April
1981).
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Cogswell, James A., Jr. "The American 1950s; 'The Figure as
Affecting Presence in Abstract Expressionist Painting.'" New Mexico
Studies in the Fine Arts, vol. 6, (1981).
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Macmillan Children's Books. Macmillan Colour Library - "The
American West." New York: Macmillan Children's Books, 1981.
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"The Chronicle of Arts. Exhibitions and Other topics. A Masterpiece
by Turner and the Necessity for Putting it in Our Museum - One of
Sir Joshua's Classical Attempts - Some New
Drawings by Americans - Mr. Frost, Mr. Remington and Mr. Abbey -
The Hollyer Platinotypes - Gaillard's Engravings." New York Daily
Tribune, November 17, 1895, p. 27.
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The Saint Louis Art Museum in conjunction with the Buffalo Bill
Historical Center. Frederic Remington: The Masterworks.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1988.
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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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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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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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Neff, Emily Ballew Frederic Remington: The Hogg Brothers Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2000
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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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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Thayer Tolles and Thomas Brent Smith ed. The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013
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Baigell, Matthew. The Western Art of Frederic Remington. New
York, New York: Ballantine Books, 1976.
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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.