Trailing Texas Cattle
Alternate Title: Head of the Drive
Date: ca. 1904
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02733
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 30 1/2 x 51 1/2" (77.5 x 130.8 cm)
Illustration: Collier's Weekly (November 12, 1904), p. 16-17, color halftone.
Inscription: lc: copyright 1904 by P.F. Collier & Son; lr: --Frederic Remington
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington--
Provenance: The artist; (O'Brien Gallery, Chicago, Illinois); [?]; present owner
Exhibitions
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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Special Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Frederick [sic] Remington.
New York, New York: Noe Art Galleries, March 20 - April 1, 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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Noe Galleries. Special Exhibition of Recent Paintings
by Frederick [sic] Remington from March Twentieth to April First,
1905, inclusive at the Noe Galleries}. New York: Noe Art
Galleries, 1905.
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Remington diary, 1907. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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Current Literature, (November 1907).
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Earle, Helen L. Biographical Sketches of American Artists.
Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State Library, 1924.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
