Downing the Nigh Leader
Alternate Title: The Attack
Date: 1907
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02835
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 30 x 50" (76.2 x 127 cm)
Illustration: Collier's Weekly (April 20, 1907), p. 10, color halftone.
Inscription: lr: --Frederic Remington/1907
Illustration Inscription: lr: --Frederic Remington/1907
Provenance: The artist; (M. Knoedler & Co, New York, New York, no.C-3485, consigned by Remington June 1907); Mr. William M. Wood, Boston, Massachusetts, purchased March 1908; [?]; Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth; Mrs. Lincoln Ellsworth; (J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, New York); Museum of Western Art, Denver, Colorado; present owner
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Exhibitions
Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. St. Louis, Missouri: Saint Louis
Art Museum, March 11 - May 22, 1988; traveling exhibit: Cody, Houston,
New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill
Historical Center, June 17 - September 5, 1988; traveling exhibit: St.
Louis, Houston, New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. New York, New York: The Metropolitan
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Bibliographies
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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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History of the West. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.,
Inc., 1966.
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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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Reinhardt's Annex Gallery. A Special Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Frederic Remington and Portraits by A. de Ferraris of Vienna. Chicago, Illinois: Reinhardt's Annex Gallery, 1908.
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M. Knoedler & Co. Paintings by Frederic Remington on Exhibition at
the Galleries of M. Knoedler & Co., 355 Fifth Ave., Corner 34th Street,
New York. December 2nd until the 14th inclusive 1907. New York: M.
Knoedler & Co., 1907.
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Hassrick, Peter H. The Way West. Art of Frontier America. New
York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1977.
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Remington diary, 1907. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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Remington diary, 1908. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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Museum of Western Art. Catalog of the Collection of the Museum
of Western Art. Denver, Colorado: Museum of Western Art, 1983.
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American Art News, December 7, 1907.
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"Remington's New Pictures Exhibited: Paintings of Western Life in
Old Days Shown at the Knoedler Galleries." Unidentified clipping
of 1907 Knoedler exhibition. Frederic Remington
Art Museum archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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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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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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H. J. Bub, Vice President Stewart-Jordan Co., Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, to Emma Caten. Buffalo Bill Historical Center,
Cody, Wyoming, William F. Cody archives.
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Nemerov, Alexander. Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century
America. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995.
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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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The Saint Louis Art Museum in conjunction with the Buffalo Bill
Historical Center. Frederic Remington: The Masterworks.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1988.
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"Notes and Reviews." The Craftsman, vol. 13 (October 1907), p. 119.
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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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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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"Art Notes. Current Exhibitions." New York Press, [December 4, 1907]. Author possibly Wm. B. McCormack, art critic and editor of International Studio.
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Collier catalogue of prints, some called "artist's proofs,"
of varying sizes in b/w and color on pebbled art paper or board of
Remington paintings illustrated in Collier's Weekly, 1907.
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Collier catalgoue of prints, some called "artist's proofs,"
of varying sizes in b/w or color on pebble art paper or board of
Remington paintings illustrated in Collier's Weekly.
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Remington, Frederic. Frederic Remington 4 Pictures. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1907. Portfolio: Radisson and Groseilliers}; The Parley}; The Howl of the Weather}; Downing the Nigh Leader} plus four prints by C. D. Gibson.
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Twenty-five Art Pictures Representing the Best Work of America's Greatest Artists. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, no date, portfolio with five Remingtons: Calling the Moose}; Coming to the Call}; Downing the Nigh Leader}; The Buffalo Hunter/Runner}.
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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 Frederic Remington Art Memorial Museum." York State
Tradition, vol. 24, no. 1 (winter 1970), p. 27-38.
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Gerald Peters Gallery. Remington the Years of Critical Acclaim. Singapore: Asiaprint Ltd. 1998
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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.