Remington Catalogue
An Argument with the Town Marshal
Date: ca. 1905
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02766
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 26 3/4 x 40" (67.9 x 101.6 cm)
Illustration: Collier's Weekly (February 11, 1905), p. 18-19, color halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington
Provenance: The artist; George P. Hilton, Albany, New York; [?]; (Douthitt Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, 1943); John R. Black Jr., Rio Rancho, New Mexico; Mrs. Wm. O. Braceklein and Charles H. Hill III, Dallas, Texas; (Sotheby's, New York, New York, December 1, 1994); present owner
Exhibitions
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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Visions of the West. Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art,
September 28 - November 30, 1986.
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New York, New York: Douthitt Gallery, June 26, 1942.
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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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Sotheby's. American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. New
York, sale 6633 (December 1, 1994).
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New York Sun, June 26, 1942. Clipping refers to Douthitt Gallery
exhibition.
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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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Ward, Don. Cowboys and Cattle Country. New York: American
Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1961.
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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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Gerald Peters Gallery in association with Mongerson-Wunderlich
Galleries. Frederic Remington. Santa Fe, New Mexico: The Peters
Corporation, 1991.
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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. 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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Allen, Douglas. "Remington: An American Original." Step-By-Step
Graphics, vol. 5, no. 1 (January 1989), p. 118-125.
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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.