Signaling the Main Command
Alternate Title: Signalling the Main Command
Date: 1885
Medium: watercolor on paper
Catalogue Number: 00041
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 22 x 32" (55.9 x 81.3 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (July 17, 1886), p. 452, wood engraving.
Inscription: ll: Remington/85
Illustration Inscription: ll: Remington/85
Provenance: Mannados Book Shop, New York, New York; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York no. WCA-1496, 1955); Mr. and Mrs. James Ryan Williams, Cincinnati, Ohio; (Christie's, New York, New York, 2001); present owner
Exhibitions
Hogg Brothers Collection of Works by Frederic Remington. Houston,
Texas; Museum of Fine Arts, April 16-30, 1944.
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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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The Far West: Exhibition of Paintings and Bronzes. New York,
New York: M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., November 15 - December 4,
1954.
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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: 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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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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Dippie, Brian E. "Frederic Remington's Wild West." American
Heritage, vol. 26, no. 3 (April 1975).
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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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Neff, Emily Ballew Frederic Remington: The Hogg Brothers Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2000
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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.
