The Desert Prospector
Alternate Title: A Pack Train; Moonlight Scene
Date: ca. 1907
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02816
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 27 1/8 x 36" (68.5 x 91.5 cm)
Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington; lc: copyright 1909 by Frederic Remington
Provenance: The artist; Mr. Francis S. McIllhenny, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, purchased at 1908 Penn Academy); private collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (members of the McIllhenny family); (Christie's, New York, New York, 1985, returned to owner); Private Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; (O'Meara Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1987); (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1987); present owner
Exhibitions
Paintings by Frederic Remington. New York, New York: M. Knoedler & Co.,
December 2-14, 1907.
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103rd Annual Exhibition. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, January 20 - February 29, 1908.
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Bibliographies
Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Frederic Remington: A Biography.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
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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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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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Trask, John E. D. to Remington, February 12, 1908. Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Catalogue of the
103rd Annual Exhibition, January 20 to February 29, 1908.
Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1908.
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 103rd Annual Exhibition
installation photo. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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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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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1903-1909. No. FRAM 1918.266.
Frederic Remington Art Museum archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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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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Christie, Manson & Woods International, Inc. Important American
Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th
Centuries. New York sale (May 31, 1985).
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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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"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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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected
Letters. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1988.
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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.
