Shotgun Hospitality
Alternate Title: Shot Gun Hospitality
Date: 1908
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02869
Credit Line: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; gift of Judge Horace Russell, Class of 1865
Dimensions: 27 x 40" (68.6 x 101.6 cm)
Illustration: Collier's Weekly (September 17, 1910), p. 12, color halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/1908--
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/1908--
Provenance: The artist; (M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, New York); Judge Horace Russell; present owner
Exhibitions
The American West: l'arte della frontiera americana 1830-1920.
Rome, Italy: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, December 11, 1993 -
February 28, 1994.
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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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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture.
Oshkosh: Paine Art Center and Arboretum, August 1 - September 24, 1967;
traveling exhibit: Minneapolis, Williamstown.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture.
Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
October 11 - November 12, 1967; traveling exhibit: Oshkosh, Williamstown.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and
Sculpture. Williamstown, Massachussetts: Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute, December 2 - 31, 1967; traveling exhibit: Oshkosh,
Minneapolis.
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Paintings by Frederic Remington. New York, New York: M. Knoedler & Co.,
December 1-12, 1908.
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Frederic Remington: The Late Years. Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum,
July 11 - August 30, 1981.
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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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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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Bibliographies
Gregg, Richard N. Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of
Painting and Sculpture. Oshkosh, Wisconsin: Paine Art Center
and Arboretum, 1967.
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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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Hassrick, Peter H. Frederic Remington: The Late Years. Denver, Colorado:
Denver Art Museum, 1981.
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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 1st until 12th inclusive 1908. New York: M.
Knoedler & Co., 1908.
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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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Remington diary, 1908. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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American Art News, vol. 8, (December 5, 1908).
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New York Herald, November 30, 1908.
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"Gallery Notes. Remington Paintings on View--Exhibit at Corcoran
Gallery." New York Times, December 2, 1908, p. 8.
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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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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1903-1909. No. FRAM 1918.266.
Frederic Remington Art Museum archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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"An Artist of the Plains. Frederic Remington's Graphic Pictures at
the Knoedler's Galleries." New York Evening Post, December 3, 1908,
p. 9.
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"American Art. New Paintings by Mr. Remington and Mr. Dewey."
New York Daily Tribune, December 6, 1908, part 2, p. 2.
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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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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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Macadam, Barbara J. "American Paintings in the Hood Museum of
Art, Dartmouth College." The Magazine Antiques, vol. 128 (November
1985), p. 1020-1027.
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Pirani, Federica and Maria Elisa Tittoni. The American West:
l'arte della frontiera americana 1830-1920. Rome: Palazzo delle
Esposizioni; Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1993.
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Dippie, Brian W. The Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York 2001
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Gerald Peters Gallery. Remington the Years of Critical Acclaim. Singapore: Asiaprint Ltd. 1998
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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.
