Remington Catalogue
The Unknown Explorers
Date: 1908
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02875
Credit Line: Courtesy Sid Richardson Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Dimensions: 30 x 27 1/4″ (76.2 x 69.2 cm)
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/1908–
Provenance: The artist; Robert Dudley Winthrop, Old Westbury, Long Island,
New York; Beekman Winthrop, Old Westbury, Long Island, New York;
Robert Winthrop, New York, New York; Scott and Fowles, New York,
New York; (Newhouse Galleries, New York, New York); present owner
Exhibitions
Sid W. Richardson Collection of Remington and Russell. Fort Worth,
Texas: Amon Carter Museum, January 23 – April 8, 1964.
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Wichita Falls, Texas: Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, April –
May 1967.
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Dedication of LBJ Library. Austin, Texas: University of Texas,
April – May 1971.
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Austin, Texas: Sid Richardson Hall, University of Texas, May – June 1971.
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Remington and Russell. Tyler, Texas: Tyler Museum of Art,
October 16 – December 26, 1972.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
January 1 – April 1, 1973.
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College Station, Texas: J. Earl Rudder Conference Center, Texas A & M
University, January – July 1974.
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Remington and Russell. Corpus Christi, Texas: Art Museum of South Texas,
October 11 – December 3, 1974.
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Sights West: Presenting the Winchester Museum Collection. Cody,
Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, April – October 1976.
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The West of Frederic Remington in Paintings, Firearms and Sculpture.
San Antonio, Texas: The Witte Memorial Museum, October 1 – November
31, 1977.
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Sid W. Richardson Collection of Western Art. Fort Worth, Texas: Gallery 1,
Amon Carter Museum, January 18 – April 23, 1978.
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The Sid W. Richardson Collection of Western Art. Amarillo,
Texas: Amarillo Art Center, January – March 1979.
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Selections from The Sid W. Richardson Collection of Western Art
Exhibition. Wichita Falls, Texas: Wichita Falls Museum and Art
Center, November 14 – December 16, 1979.
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Fort Worth, Texas: Gallery 9, Amon Carter Museum, July –
September 1980.
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Fort Worth, Texas: Gallery 10, Amon Carter Museum, November 4, 1980
– February 9, 1981.
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How the West Was Won. New York, New York: Wildenstein & Co.,
May 22 – June 22, 1968.
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Exhibition and Sale of Paintings and Drawings by Frederick
[sic] Remington}. Boston, Massachusetts: Galleries of Doll & Richards,
January 8-20, 1909.
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Bibliographies
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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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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Doll & Richards Gallery. Exhibition of Paintings By Frederic Remington.
Boston: Doll & Richards Gallery, 1909.
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Dippie, Brian W. Remington and Russell. Austin, Texas:
University of Texas Press, 1982.
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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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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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Remington 1909 diary. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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Hassrick, Peter. “Remington in the Southwest.” Southwestern Historical
Quarterly, vol. 76, no. 3 (January 1973), p. 297-314.
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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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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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Hale, Philip L. “Art.” The Boston Herald, January 9, 1909, vol.
125, p. 6, col. 7.
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Dippie, Brian W. Remington & Russell. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
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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.