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A Reconnaissance in the Moonlight

Alternate Title: A Reconnaissance

Date: 1902

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: 02692

Credit Line: Private Collection

Dimensions: 27 1/4 x 40 1/8" (69.1 x 101.7 cm)

Illustration: Collier's Weekly (April 8, 1905), p. 18-19, halftone.

Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/1902/copyright 1903 [by Frederic Remington]

Illustration Inscription: lr: --Frederic Remington./1902/copyright 1903 by Frederic Remington


Provenance: The artist; Collier; (David B. Findlay Galleries, New York, New York, 1952); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1952; (Christie's, New York, New York, 1999); Private Collection, Wyoming; present owner

Exhibitions

Remington and Russell exhibition. College Station, Texas: Memorial Student Center, Texas A & M University, November 12 - December 10, 1962.
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Remington and Russell. Corpus Christi, Texas: Art Museum of South Texas, September 5 - October 2, 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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Remington and Russell exhibition. Staunton, Virginia: Mary Baldwin College, 1964.
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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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Art of the Old West. Mobile, Alabama: Mobile Art Gallery, March 16 - April 7, 1974; travelling exhibit: Birmingham.
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Art of the Old West. Birmingham, Alabama: Birmingham Museum of Art, April 21 - June 2, 1974; traveling exhibit: Mobile.
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Remington and Russell. Corpus Christi, Texas: Art Museum of South Texas, October 11 - December 3, 1974.
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Western Heritage Art Fair. Littleton, Colorado: July 14 - 16, 1978.
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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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The Popular West: American Illustrators, 1900-1940. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, April 1 - May 30, 1982.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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The Passing of the Great West. Coral Gables, Florida: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, October 2 - November 9, 1975.
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Catalogue of the Collier Collection: An Important Collection of Original Drawings and Paintings by Distinguished American Painters and Illustrators; Works Especially Executed for and Exclusively Reproduced in Collier's Weekly. New York, New York: American Art Galleries, American Art Association, November 4-11, 1905.
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Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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Bibliographies

McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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. 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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Art Museum of South Texas. Remington and Russell. Corpus Christi, Texas: Art Museum of South Texas, 1974.
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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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Lowe Art Museum. The Passing of the Great West. Miami, Florida: University of Miami, 1975.
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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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Worcester Art Museum. West Comes East: Frontier Painting and Sculpture from the Amon Carter Museum. Worcester, Massachusetts: Worcester Art Museum, 1979.
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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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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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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1898-1902. No. FRAM 71.840. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Collier Catalogue of prints, some called "artist's proofs," of varying sizes in b/w or color on pebbled art paper or board of Remington paintings illustrated in Collier's Weekly - see Collier print file for listing and individual painting record for print info.
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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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Gerald Peters Gallery. Remington the Years of Critical Acclaim. Singapore: Asiaprint Ltd. 1998
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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.