Remington Catalogue
A Mexican Vaquero
Alternate Title: Spanish Vaquero; The Vaquero
Date: 1890
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 01165
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, George F. Harding Collection
Dimensions: 33 5/16 x 23 3/8″ (81.2 x 58.5 cm)
Illustration: Harper’s Monthly (July 1891), p. 209, wood engraving.
Inscription: lr: Copyright 1890-/By/–FREDERIC REMINGTON–
Illustration Inscription: ll: F French Sc; lr: Copyright, 1890,/by –FREDERIC REMINGTON.
Provenance: (Macbeth Gallery, New York, New York); (Ehrich Galleries, New York,
New York, purchased November 3, 1917, source: Archives of Am Art microfilm,
rolls NMc 80 and 81, frame 237); [?]; Mrs. Genevieve Garvan Brady (Mrs.
William J. Babington Macaulay); (American Art Association,
Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, 1937); [?]; George F.
Harding Museum, Chicago, Illinois; present owner
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Exhibitions
Harding Foundation, Medieval and Renaissance Armor and Weapons, Remington
Paintings, Bronzes and Drawings. Mt. Vernon, Illinois: Mitchell Museum,
December 5, 1981 – January 31, 1982.
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Frederic Remington’s Southwest. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum,
January 4 – March 15, 1992; traveling exhibit: Memphis, Omaha.
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Frederic Remington’s Southwest. Memphis, Tennessee: Memphis Brooks Museum
of Art, April 19 – June 21, 1992; traveling exhibit: Phoenix, Omaha.
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Frederic Remington’s Southwest. Omaha, Nebraska: Joslyn Art Museum,
July 11 – September 6, 1992; traveling exhibit: Phoenix, Memphis.
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Remington’s West. Corning, New York: The Rockwell Museum,
September 6 – November 4, 1984.
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Bibliographies
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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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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Duty, Michael. Remington’s West. Corning, New York: The
Rockwell Museum, 1984.
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Mitchell Museum. Harding Foundation, Medieval
and Renaissance Armor and Weapons, Remington Paintings, Bronzes
and Drawings. Mt. Vernon: Mitchell Museum, 1981.
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Ballinger, James, K. Frederic Remington’s Southwest. Phoenix,
Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, 1992.
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McGlauflin, Alice Coe, ed. American Art Annual. Vol. 34. Washington,
D.C.: The American Federation of Arts, 1939.
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American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc. Antique
Furniture, Tapestries, Rugs, Other Art Property: Collection of
Mrs. Genevieve Garvan Brady (Mrs. William J. Babington Macaulay).
Long Island, New York sale (May 10-15, 1937).
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Barter, Judith A. Window on the West : Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier 1890-1940, Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2003
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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.