The Bell Mare
Alternate Title: Pack Train in Moonlight; In the Enemy's Country
Date: 1903
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02707
Credit Line: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Dimensions: 34 3/4 x 26 3/4" (88.3 x 67.9 cm)
Illustration: Collier's Weekly (August 13, 1904), p. 14-15, color halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington./copyright 1903 By Frederic Remington
Illustration Inscription: lc: Frederic Remington./copyright 1903 By Frederic Remington
Provenance: American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, nos. A-4282 and CA-3053); Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 1950; present owner
Exhibitions
Exhibition of Paintings and Bronzes by Frederic Remington and
Charles M. Russell. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The Gilcrease Museum, May - October
1950.
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Collier Collection of Original Drawings and Paintings by
Distinguished American Painters and Illustrators. Indianapolis,
Indiana: John Herron Art Institute, February 2-23, 1907.
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Catalogue of the Collier Collection: An Important Collection of
Original Drawings and Paintings by Distinguished American
Painters and Illustrators; Works Especially Executed for and
Exclusively Reproduced in Collier's Weekly. New York, New York: American Art
Galleries, American Art Association, November 4-11, 1905.
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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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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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American Scene, vol. 5, no. 4 (1964).
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Edgerton, Giles. "Frederic Remington. Painter and Sculptor: A
Pioneer in Distinctive American Art." The Craftsman, vol. 15,
(March 1909), p. 658-670.
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Dippie, Brian E. "Frederic Remington's Wild West." American
Heritage, vol. 26, no. 3 (April 1975).
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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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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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Remington, Frederic. Remington Portfolio of Drawings. New
York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1904, portfolio of three full-color 5 x
7-1/2" prints on soft mat: The Pioneers}, The Santa Fe Trade},
The Gathering of the Trappers} with The Creek Indian} illus. on
cover.
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Remington, Frederic. Six Remington Paintings in Colors. New
York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1906, portfolio, full-color prints
17-1/2 x 23-1/2": Gathering of the Trappers}, Argument with the
Town Marshal}, The Bell Mare}, The Emigrants}, Pony Tracks in
the Buffalo Trail}, The Buffalo Runners}.
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Identical to 1906 portfolio of same title except Trailing Texas
Cattle replaces Gathering of the Trappers}.
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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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McKown, Robin. Painter of the Old West. New York: Julia
Messner, Inc., 1959.
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John Herron Art Institute. Catalogue of the Collier Collection
of Original Drawings and Paintings by Distinguished American
Painters and Illustrators. Indianapolis: John Herron Art
Institute, 1907.
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Thomas Gilcrease Foundation. Exhibition of Paintings and Bronzes
by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. Tulsa, Oklahoma: Thomas
Gilcrease Foundation, 1950.
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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.
