What an Unbranded Cow Has Cost
Date: 1895
Medium: oil on canvas laid down on wood frame
Catalogue Number: 02008
Credit Line: Yale University Art Gallery
Dimensions: 28 1/16 x 35 1/8" (71.3 x 89.2 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (September 1895), p. 609, 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, purchased at 1895 AAG); [?]; E. & A. Milch; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, no. 3747); [returned to Milch]; [?]; Thomas M. Evans, B.A. 1931; present owner
Exhibitions
Masterpieces of American Art from New England College and
University Collections. Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College
Museum of Art, September 9 - November 13, 1983.
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The Wild West: Painting and Sculpture by Frederic Remington & Charles M.
Russell. New Orleans, Louisiana: New Orleans Museum of Art,
November 18, 1979 - February 3, 1980.
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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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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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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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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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Williams College Museum of Art. Masterpieces of American Art
from New England and University Collections. Williamstown,
Massachusetts: Williams College Museum of Art, 1983.
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Yale University Art Gallery. A Checklist of American Paintings
at Yale University. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery,
1982.
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Wister, Owen to Remington, August 25 [1895]. Frederic Remington
Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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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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Nemerov, Alexander. Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century
America. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995.
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Ward, Don. Cowboys and Cattle Country. New York: American
Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1961.
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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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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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Cooper, Helen A. and Jules D. Prown. "American Paintings and
Sculpture at Yale." The Magazine Antiques, vol. 117, (1980), p.
1278-1295.
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Hassrick, Peter H. Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art. Washington: Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 2000
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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.
