The Long-Horn Cattle Sign
Date: 1908
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02860
Credit Line: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Dimensions: 27 1/8 x 40" (68.9 x 101.6 cm)
Illustration: Collier's Weekly (May 6, 1911), p. 8, color halftone.
Inscription: lr: --Frederic Remington/1908; also lr but very faint: Copyrighted 1911 by P.F. Collier & Sons
Illustration Inscription: lr: --Frederic Remington
Provenance: The artist's estate, until 1912; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York); J. B. Cobbs, Stamford, Connecticut; (Findlay Galleries, Kansas City); (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, no. A30); Keith Merrill, Washington, D.C.; [?]; Mrs. Howard C. Gilmour, New York, New York; Albert K. Mitchell, New York, New York; (M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, New York, 1953); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1953; 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. 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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Remington and Russell. Roswell, New Mexico: Roswell Museum and
Art Center, October 26 - November 30, 1963.
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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. Portland, Oregon: Portland Art Museum,
January 15 - February 15, 1965; traveling exhibit: Salt Lake City, 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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Governor for a Day Ceremonies. Austin, Texas: State Capitol,
April 19, 1969.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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Paintings by Frederic Remington. New York, New York: M. Knoedler & Co.,
December 1-12, 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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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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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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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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Doll & Richards Gallery. Exhibition of Paintings By Frederic Remington.
Boston: Doll & Richards Gallery, 1909.
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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 1st until 12th inclusive 1908. New York: M.
Knoedler & Co., 1908.
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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, 1908. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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Remington 1909 diary. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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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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Hassrick, Peter. "Remington in the Southwest." Southwestern Historical
Quarterly, vol. 76, no. 3 (January 1973), p. 297-314.
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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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"An Artist of the Plains. Frederic Remington's Graphic Pictures at
the Knoedler's Galleries." New York Evening Post, December 3, 1908,
p. 9.
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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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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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Price, Byron B. ed. Charles M. Russell A Catalogue Raisonne. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007
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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.
