The Buffalo Signal
Alternate Title: If Skulls Could Speak; The Signal
Date: 1900
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02514
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 40 x 27" (101.60 x 68.58)
Illustration: Remington, Frederic. Done in the Open, 1902, frontispiece, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/1900/Copyrighted 1901 by Frederic Remington
Illustration Inscription: Unsigned
Provenance: Private Collection, Bronxville, New York; (Hammer Galleries, New York, New York); Phillip Hoover, Massilon, Ohio; (Kennedy Galleries inc., New York, New York); Britt Brown, Wichita, Kansas, 1982; (Wunderlich & Co., New York, New York); (Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, Illinois); (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico); Anne Bernadette Windfohr, Fort Worth, Texas; (Christie's, New York, New York, 2007); present owner
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Frederic Remington. Chicago, Illinois: Mongerson-Wunderlich, in association
with Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 21 - July 31, 1991;
traveling exhibit: Santa Fe.
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The West Explored: The Gerald Peters Collection of Western American Art.
Los Angeles, California: Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum,
November 22, 1988 - January 22, 1989; traveling exhibit: Youngstown, Denver,
Indianapolis, Roanoke.
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Frederic Remington. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Gerald Peters Gallery, in
association with Mongerson-Wunderlich, Chicago, Illinois, May 3 -
June 11, 1991; traveling exhibit: Chicago.
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Paintings Pastels and Drawings by Frederic Remington. New York,
New York: Clausen's Gallery, December 9-30, 1901.
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How the West Was Won. New York, New York: Wildenstein & Co.,
May 22 - June 22, 1968.
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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: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken.
Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 30,
1974.
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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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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frederic Remington: An Exhibition
Honoring Harold McCracken. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center,
1974.
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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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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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Kennedy Galleries Inc. "American West." The Kennedy Quarterly,
vol. 15, no. 3 (June 1977).
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New York Times, July 9, 1933.
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Clausen's Gallery. Paintings Pastels and Drawings by
Frederic Remington. New York: Clausen's Gallery, 1901.
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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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Gerald Peters Gallery in association with Mongerson-Wunderlich
Galleries. Frederic Remington. Santa Fe, New Mexico: The Peters
Corporation, 1991.
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The Peters Corporation. The West Explored: Gerald Peters
Collection of Western American Art. Santa Fe: The Peters
Corporation, 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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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.
