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A Dash for the Timber

Date: 1889

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: 00423

Credit Line: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

Dimensions: 48-1/4 x 84-1/8" (122.6 x 213.7 cm)

Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON--/1889./[FREDERIC] RE[MINGTON]/[18]89


Provenance: The artist; Edmund Cogswheel Converse, New York, New York; Autumnal Festivities Association, St. Louis, Missouri, until 1893; gift to Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1893-1945; (Kende Galleries, New York, New York, May 4, 1945 for $23,000); (David B. Findlay Galleries, New York, New York, 1945); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1945; present owner

Exhibitions

1961-1977: Amon Carter Museum. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum of Art, 1977. Exhibition commemorating the opening of the West Wing.
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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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Inaugural Exhibition. Conway, Arizona: Hendrix College Art Gallery, 1962.
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New York World's Fair. New York, New York: Texas Pavilion, April 22 - July 22, 1964.
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Western art exhibition. Dallas, Texas: Republic National Bank of Dallas, October 6 - 12, 1972.
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Remington Exhibition. Williamstown, Massachussetts: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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Frontier America: The Far West. Boston, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts, January 23 - March 16, 1975.
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West Comes East: Frontier Painting and Sculpture from the Amon Carter Museum. Worcester, Massachusetts: Worcester Art Museum, April 25 - June 24, 1979.
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Between Friends. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The Gilcrease Museum, July 19 - September 19, 1982.
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Art of the Western Frontier. New York, New York: IBM Gallery, March 23 - April 13, 1964.
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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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American Paintings. New York, New York: American Art Galleries, opened April 7, 1890.
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Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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74th Annual Exhibition. New York, New York: National Academy of Design, April 3 - May 13, 1899.
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Texas Centennial Exposition. Dallas, Texas: Museum of Fine Art, June 6 - November 29, 1936.
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Bibliographies

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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Amon Carter Museum. Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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Hassrick, Peter H. Frederic Remington: The Late Years. Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum, 1981.
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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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National Academy of Design, text by John C. Rankin, Fr. National Academy of Design Catalogue of the Eighth Autumn Exhibition. New York: National Academy of Design, 1889.
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Schriever, George. "Russell Remington." Southwest Art, (May 1977), p. 40-55.
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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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American Art Association. American Paintings: Catalogue of Paintings Exhibited by the Following American Artists: J. Wells Champney, A. N. A.; William M. Chase, A. N. A.; Charles Melville Dewey; C. Harry Eaton; F. K. M. Rehn; D. D. Millet, N. A.; Robt. C. Minor, A. N. A.; H. R. Poore, A. N. A.; Frederick [sic] Remington; Carleton Wiggins at the American Art Galleries}. New York: American Art Association, 1890.
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New York Herald, November 16, 1889.
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Longley, Marjorie. America's Taste 1851-1959. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.
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Philadelphia Inquirer, January 4, 1948.
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Publisher's Weekly, (May 17, 1947).
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Brown, Myra Lockwood and Robert Taft. "Painter of the Rip-Roaring West." Country Gentleman, (September 1947), p. 16-17, 79-80.
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Museum of Fine Art, Dallas. Texas Centennial Exposition. Dallas, Texas: Museum of Fine Art, 1936.
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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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Schomaekers, Gunter. A Pictorial History of the Old West of the U.S.. Dorheim-Hessen, West Germany: Ahnert-Verlag, 1972.
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Dippie, Brian. "Remington, Russell and the Western Tradition." Art Today, vol. 1, no. 1 (spring 1986).
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Goetzman, William H. and William N.Goetzman. The West of the Imagination. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1986.
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Ayres, Linda, Jane Myers, Mark Thistlethwaite, and Ron Tyler. American Paintings: Selections from the Amon Carter Museum. Oxmoor House, 1986.
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Prown and Roe. American Painting. Geneva, Switzerland: Editions d'Art Albert Skira, 1969.
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Dary, David. "The Kansas Prankster Who Won Fame in Art." Kansas City Star, December 6, 1970, Sunday magazine.
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Sanders, Leonard. "Amon Carter Museum of Western Art." FACETS, vol. 1, no. 4 (July 1970).
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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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"Frederic Remington: His Life and Art." Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People, (November 1982).
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Hassrick, Peter. "Remington in the Southwest." Southwestern Historical Quarterly, vol. 76, no. 3 (January 1973), p. 297-314.
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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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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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Gerald Peters Gallery in association with Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries. Frederic Remington. Santa Fe, New Mexico: The Peters Corporation, 1991.
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A. W. Elson & Co., Boston, published sepia print of A Dash for the Timber, size 4-1/2 x 8" copyrighted 1898, 8-3/8 x 15-3/8" in 1916, and 13-1/2 x 23-1/2" in 1917.
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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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The Gravure Etching Company, Boston, 1890, reproduced A Dash for the Timber, b/w photoengraving, 15 x 26" as a single print.
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Remington to Samuel B. Duryea, March 3, 1889. Private collection.
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"The American Art Galleries. The Work of Ten American Artists." New York Daily Tribune, April 8, 1890, p. 10, col. 1.
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Kende Galleries. Representative Paintings by Famous XIX Century Artists, Old Masters, American Bronzes, Selected from the Collections of Two Educational Institutions . . . . New York sale (May 4, 1945).
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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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Fairbanks, C. M. "Artist Remington at Home and Afield." Metropolitan Magazine, (July 1896), p. 455-450.
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Amon Carter Museum of Art. 1961-1977. Exhibition catalogue commemorating the opening of the West Wing. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1977.
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Cantwell, Robert. "He Went to See the West Die". Sports Illustrated, vol. 43, no. 6, (August 11, 1975), p. 55-63.
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Erisman, Fred. Frederic Remington. Boise State University Western Writers Series. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, no. 16, 1975, p. 5-43.
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Hassrick, Peter H. "Westering America. The Amon Carter Museum Collection, Fort Worth." The Magazine Antiques, vol. 107 (September 1975), p. 436-446.
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Remington to F. Edwin Elwell, July 16, 1902. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Watson Library, New York, New York.
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Anderson, Nancy K. George de Forest Brush- The Indian Paintings. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 2008
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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.