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An Indian Trapper

Date: 1889

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: 00981

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

Dimensions: 49 x 34 1/8″ (124.5 x 86.7 cm)

Illustration: Harper’s Monthly (May 1891), p. 855, wood engraving.

Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON–/’89

Illustration Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON–/’89; lr: F.R


Provenance: The artist; Samuel B. Duryea, Brooklyn, New York, 1890; [?];
(David B. Findlay Galleries, New York, New York 1952); Amon G. Carter,
Fort Worth, Texas, 1952; present owner

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Exhibitions

How the West Was Made: Fact and Fiction in the Works of
Remington and Russell
. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
May 14 – August 7, 1994.
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Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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Amerykanski Zachod (American West}, from the
Amon Carter Museum). Poland: Wystawa Zorganizowana Przez Museum,
1974.
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Brooklyn Art Club Annual Exhibition at the Art Association Galleries.
Brooklyn, New York: Brooklyn Art Club, January 27 – February 15, 1890.
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American Paintings. New York, New York: American Art Galleries,
opened April 7, 1890.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Odessa, Texas: Ector County Library,
April 8 – 14, 1962.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Midland, Texas: Midland Public Library,
April 1 – 30, 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. 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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Remington and Russell exhibition. Plainview, Texas: Wayland Baptist College,
April 15 – May 16, 1966.
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Paintings and Drawings by Frederic Remington and C.M. Russell
from the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
. Boise, Idaho: Boise Art Association,
October 1966; traveling exhibit: Billings, Pullman.
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Paintings and Drawings by Frederic Remington and C.M. Russell
from the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
. Billings, Montana: Yellowstone Art Center,
November, 1966; traveling exhibit: Boise, Pullman.
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Paintings and Drawings by Frederic Remington and C. M. Russell
from the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
. Pullman, Washington: Washington State University,
December 1966; traveling exhibit: Boise, Billings.
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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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The Russell Years, 1864-1926. Great Falls, Montana: C.M. Russell Gallery,
May 1 – 28, 1969.
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Remington Exhibition. Williamstown, Massachussetts: Sterling and Francine Clark
Art Institute, January 1 – April 1, 1973.
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The Westward Expansion. San Jose, California: San Jose Museum of Art,
July 25 – August 31, 1975.
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Masters of Western Art. San Angelo, Texas: Angelo State University,
June 16 – 29, 1977.
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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 Mountain Man Exhibition. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical
Center, April 30 – September 30, 1978.
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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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Bibliographies

Remington Art Memorial. A Catalogue of the Frederic Remington Memorial
Collection
. New York: Privately Printed for the Remington
Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York, by the M. Knoedler Galleries, 1954.
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Harper’s Weekly, (January 8, 1910).
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True, the Man’s Magazine, (May 1954).
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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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Garland, Hamlin. The Book of the American Indian. New York: Harper &
Brothers, 1923.
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Persimmon Hill, vol. 10, no. 3 (summer 1980).
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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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Maxwell, Perriton. “Frederic Remington: Most Typical of American
Artists.” Pearson’s Magazine, (October 1907), p. 394-407.
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Earle, Helen L. Biographical Sketches of American Artists.
Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State Library, 1924.
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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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Meyer, Susan E. America’s Great Illustrators. New York:
Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1978.
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Baker, Donna. Artists in Our World, Frederic Remington.
Chicago, Illinois: Children’s Press, 1977.
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“Frederic Remington: His Life and Art.” Cobblestone: The History
Magazine for Young People
, (November 1982).
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Fronval, George. Les Peaux-Rouges. Paris, France: Fernand Nathan
Editeur, 1972.
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Fronval, George. La Veritable Histoire des Indiens
Peaux-Rouges
. Paris, France: Fernand Nathan Editeur, 1973.
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Getlein, Frank. “Images of the Old West Painted While It Was
Still There.” Smithsonian Magazine, vol. 3, no. 2 (May 1972),
p. 36-43.
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“Southwest Scene.” Dallas Morning News, Sunday supplement,
August 12, 1973.
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Pike, Donald G. “Images of an Era: The Mountain Man.” The
American West Magazine
, vol. 12, no. 5 (September 1975).
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Amarillo Sunday News-Globe, August 2, 1982.
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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 to Samuel B. Duryea, February 17, 1890. Private
collection.
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Dodge, Col. Theodore Ayrault. Riders of Many Lands. New York:
Harper & Brothers Publishers, copyright 1893, published 1894.
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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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Remington to Samuel B. Duryea, March 3, 1889. Private collection.
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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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New York Herald, January 28, 1890.
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Amon Carter Museum. Amerykanski Zachod, (American West}). Fort
Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1974.
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Allen, Douglas. “Remington: An American Original.” Step-By-Step
Graphics
, vol. 5, no. 1 (January 1989), p. 118-125.
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Remington to Frank Squires, January 30, 1890. The New-York Historical
Society, New York, New York.
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Brooklyn Art Club. Brooklyn Art Club Annual Exhibition at the
Art Association Galleries, Montague Street. Opening Monday Evening,
January 27 and Continuing Three Weeks
. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Art
Club, 1890.
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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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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.

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