On the Southern Plains
Alternate Title: On the Southern Plains in 1860; On the Southern Plains, 1868; Cavalry Charge on the Southern Plains
Date: ca. 1907
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02843
Credit Line: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dimensions: 30 1/8 x 51 1/8" (76.5 x 129.9 cm)
Illustration: Collier's Weekly (November 27, 1909), p. 8, color halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/1907lr: "Frederic Remington/1907"; lower center: "Copyright 1907 P.F. Collier & Son"
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/1907
Provenance: Estate of the artist; Eva Remington, 1909-1910; Henry Smith, New York, New York (along with A. Barton Hepburn, Augustus Thomas, James Wall Finn, Harry Folsom, John C. Howard, George A. Hearn, Horace Russell, William R. Mygatt, W. B. Wheelock, Mrs. G.P. Hilton, William T. Evans, George M. Wright, Samuel T. Shaw, Ray L. Skofield, 1911); present owner
Exhibitions
Masters of the West: Painting and Sculpture Depicting the American Western
Heritage. New York, New York: Grand Central Art Galleries,
December 4 - 30, 1984.
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Remington To Today. New York, New York: Grand Central Art Galleries,
April 5-30, 1955.
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Frederic Remington's Southwest. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum,
January 4 - March 15, 1992; traveling exhibit: Memphis, Omaha.
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Frederic Remington's Southwest. Memphis, Tennessee: Memphis Brooks Museum
of Art, April 19 - June 21, 1992; traveling exhibit: Phoenix, Omaha.
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Frederic Remington's Southwest. Omaha, Nebraska: Joslyn Art Museum,
July 11 - September 6, 1992; traveling exhibit: Phoenix, Memphis.
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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
Arts, October 15, 1988 - January 8, 1989; traveling exhibit: St.
Louis, Cody, New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. New York, New York: The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, February 10 - April 16, 1989; traveling exhibit: St. Louis,
Cody, Houston.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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New York, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September [16] -
October 31, 1942.
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Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Notable Documentary
Artists of the Old West and Plains Indian Art. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo
Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 15, 1960.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture.
Oshkosh: Paine Art Center and Arboretum, August 1 - September 24, 1967;
traveling exhibit: Minneapolis, Williamstown.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture.
Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
October 11 - November 12, 1967; traveling exhibit: Oshkosh, Williamstown.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and
Sculpture. Williamstown, Massachussetts: Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute, December 2 - 31, 1967; traveling exhibit: Oshkosh,
Minneapolis.
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Paintings by Frederic Remington. New York, New York: M. Knoedler & Co.,
December 2-14, 1907.
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A Special Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Frederic Remington and
Portraits by A. de Ferraris of Vienna. Chicago, Illinois: Reinhardt's
Annex Gallery, February 10-22, 1908.
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Exhibition and Sale of Paintings and Drawings by Frederick
[sic] Remington}. Boston, Massachusetts: Galleries of Doll & Richards,
January 8-20, 1909.
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Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken.
Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 30,
1974.
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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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Gregg, Richard N. Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of
Painting and Sculpture. Oshkosh, Wisconsin: Paine Art Center
and Arboretum, 1967.
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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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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frederic Remington: An Exhibition
Honoring Harold McCracken. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center,
1974.
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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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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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Doll & Richards Gallery. Exhibition of Paintings By Frederic Remington.
Boston: Doll & Richards Gallery, 1909.
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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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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and
Sculpture by Notable Documentary Artists of the Old West and Plains
Indian Art. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1960.
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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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Remington diary, 1907. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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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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"Art Notes: Current Exhibitions." Unidentified newspaper clipping on Knoedler 1907 exhibition. Frederic Remington Art Museum archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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New York Herald, December 1, c. 1912.
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New York Evening Star, December 20, 1911.
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New York Sun, December 21, 1911.
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New York Tribune, December 21, 1911.
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New York Times, December 21, 1911.
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New York Herald, December 21, 1911.
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New York Tribune, September 20, 1942.
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Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc. Masters of the West: Paintings and
Sculpture Depicting the American Western Heritage. New York:
Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., 1984.
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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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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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"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 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. Eight New Remington Prints. New York:
P. F. Collier & Son, 1909, portfolio: The Warrior's Last Ride};
With the Eye of the Mind}; Indians Simulating Buffalo}; On the
Southern Plains}; The Sentinel}; Pool in the Desert}; The Snow
Trail}; The Dead Men}.
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Ballinger, James, K. Frederic Remington's Southwest. Phoenix,
Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, 1992.
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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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Devree, Howard. "Under Museum Banners." The New York Times,
September 20, 1942, section 8, p. 5, col. 6.
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Devree, Howard. "4 Museums Open Special Displays." The New York
Times, September 16, 1942, p. 20, col. 6.
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Hale, Philip L. "Art." The Boston Herald, January 9, 1909, vol.
125, p. 6, col. 7.
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Ewers, John C. Artists of the Old West. Garden City, New York: Doubleday
& Co., 1965.
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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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Allen, Douglas. "Remington: An American Original." Step-By-Step
Graphics, vol. 5, no. 1 (January 1989), p. 118-125.
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Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc. Remington Today. New York:
Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., 1955.
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"The Almanac. Remington and the West." The Magazine Antiques,
vol 42, no. 4 (October 1942), p. 205-208.
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Burke, Doreen Bolger. American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, Volume III, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1846
and 1864. Kathleen Luhrs, ed. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of
Art in Association with Princeton University Press, 1982.
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Dippie, Brian W. The Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York 2001
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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.
