Pony Tracks in the Buffalo Trails
Date: 1904
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02732
Credit Line: Private Collection, Dallas, Texas
Dimensions: 30 1/8 x 51 1/8" (76.5 x 129.9 cm)
Illustration: Collier's Weekly (October 8, 1904), p. 16-17, color halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington-
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.
Provenance: The artist; (Annesly, Hilton); [?]; (Macbeth Galleries, New York, New York, until 1937); Bartlett Arkell, Canajoharie, New York, 1937; gift to Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery, Canajoharie, New York, 1937-1954; (Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, New York, 1954); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1954; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico); Vern Milligan, Castle Rock, Colorado; (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2011); present owner
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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Remington and Russell exhibition. College Station, Texas: Memorial Student
Center, Texas A & M University, November 12 - December 10, 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. Corpus Christi, Texas: Art Museum of
South Texas, September 5 - October 2, 1963.
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The Opening of the West. Birmingham, Alabama: Birmingham Museum of Art,
October 27 - December 1, 1963.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Staunton, Virginia: Mary Baldwin College,
1964.
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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. Stanford, California: Stanford Art Gallery
and Museum, March 29 - April 18, 1965; traveling exhibit: Salt Lake
City, Portland.
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Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Reynolda House, Piedmont University Center,
July 1 - 31, 1966.
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Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. New York, New York:
The New-York Historical Society, November 1, 1947 - January 1, 1948.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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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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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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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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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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Smith, Philip R. "Indians in Army Service." Army Digest, vol. 23,
no. 8 (August 1968).
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Grant, Bruce. Famous American Trails. Chicago: Rand McNally
& Co., 1971.
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Stevens, Lt. Col. Phillip H. Search Out the Land: A History of
American Military Scouts. Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1969.
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Department of Army, Executive Corridor, Pentagon, Washington
D.C., enlargement, 1972.
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Schomaekers, Gunter. A Pictorial History of the Old West of the
U.S.. Dorheim-Hessen, West Germany: Ahnert-Verlag, 1972.
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"The West Began at Plymouth Rock, Says Carter Museum." West Texas
Livestock Weekly, vol. 22, no. 48 (January 1, 1971).
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Baker, Donna. Artists in Our World, Frederic Remington.
Chicago, Illinois: Children's Press, 1977.
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Iowa State University and Winrock International. The Legacy of
the Stockman. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University and Winrock
International, January, 1985.
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Houghton Mifflin Co. Houghton Mifflin Reading Series. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986.
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Bouc, Ken. "Indian Wars." Fort Robinson Illustrated, vol. 64, no.
1 (January/February 1986).
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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1903-1909. No. FRAM 1918.266.
Frederic Remington Art Museum archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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Collier Catalogue of prints, some called "artist's proofs," of
varying sizes in b/w or color on pebbled art paper or board of Remington
paintings illustrated in Collier's Weekly - see Collier print
file for listing and individual painting record for print info.
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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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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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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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Wegner, Hart. "Frederic Remington and John Ford: Dynamic and
Static Composition Elements of 'Fort Apache.'" Explorations in
National Cinema, 1977 Film Studies Annual: Part One, p. 26-36.
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Gerald Peters Gallery. Remington the Years of Critical Acclaim. Singapore: Asiaprint Ltd. 1998
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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.