Remington Catalogue
Watching the Dust of the Hostiles
Alternate Title: Watching the Dust of the Hostiles from the Bluffs of the Stronghold
Date: 1890
Medium: ink wash on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01138
Credit Line: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming
Dimensions: 20 3/8 x 26 5/8″ (51.8 x 67.6 cm)
Illustration: Harper’s Weekly (January 31, 1891), p. 89, halftone.
Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON.–/from sketch on stroghold/Dec. 27th 1890
Illustration Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON.–/from sketch on stroghold/Dec. 27th 1890
Provenance: The artist; Herbert and Vida Glass, Bullville, New York; Walter Buhl
Ford III, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan; Henry Ford II, Dearborn,
Michigan; present owner by gift
Exhibitions
Sights West: Presenting the Winchester Museum Collection. Cody,
Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, April – October 1976.
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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.
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. Williamstown, Massachussetts: Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute, December 2 – 31, 1967; traveling exhibit: Oshkosh,
Minneapolis.
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Frederic Remington: ‘The Soldier Artist.’ West Point, New York: U.S.
Military Academy, May 19 – June 6, 1979.
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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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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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Kuenning, Howard F., Peter Mirakian, Jr., Roger A. Rains, Michael
W. Taylor, eds. Frederic Remington: ‘The Soldier Artist.’ West
Point, New York: U.S. Military Academy, 1979.
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Remington, Frederic. Pony Tracks. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1895.
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Antiques, vol. 90 (November 1966), p. 629.
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Remington to Frederick B. Schell, April 28, 1891. Denver Public Library,
Denver, Colorado, Western History Department.
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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
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.