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The Buffalo Hunt

Date: 1890

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: 00989

Credit Line: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming

Dimensions: 34 x 49" (86.4 x 124.5 cm)

Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON-/'90


Provenance: The artist; Peck (Am Art Assoc, 1893); (Findlay Gallery, New York, New York for $500); [?]; Mary Louise Ellsworth; (James Graham & Sons, New York, New York); William E. Weiss, Wheeling, West Virginia; by gift to present owner, 1962.

Exhibitions

The West of Buffalo Bill. Atlanta, Georgia: High Museum of Art, November 15, 1975 - January 18, 1976.
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The Bison in Art. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, February 17 - April 3, 1977; traveling exhibit: Cody, Calgary, Omaha.
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The Bison in Art. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 30, 1977; traveling exhibit: Fort Worth, Calgary, Omaha.
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The Bison in Art. Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Glenbow-Alberta Institute, October 15 - November 27, 1977; traveling exhibit: Fort Worth, Cody, Omaha.
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American Masters in the West Omaha, Nebraska: Joslyn Art Museum, May 20 - July 2, 1978; long-term traveling exhibit 1976 - 1981. Anschutz collection.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Brooklyn, New York: The Brooklyn Museum of Art, November 18 1981 - January 17, 1982; traveling exhibit: Pittsburgh, Denver, Oakland, Tulsa, Houston.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, February 13 - April 4, 1982; traveling exhibit: Brooklyn, Denver, Oakland, Tulsa, Houston.
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Weiss Family Collection of Western Art. Wheeling, West Virginia: Mansion Museum, Oglebay Institute, September 10 - November 6, 1983.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Oakland, California: The Oakland Museum, June 17 - August 21, 1983; traveling exhibit: Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Denver, Tulsa, Houston.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The Gilcrease Museum, December 18, 1983 - February 12, 1984; traveling exhibit: Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Denver, Oakland, Houston.
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Art of the Wild West. Houston, Texas: Museum of Art of the American West, March - June, 1984.
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Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. New York, New York: IBM Gallery, December 13, 1988 - February 25, 1989; traveling exhibit: Palm Springs, Chicago, Denver, Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Palm Springs, California: Palm Springs Desert Museum, January 12 - April 3, 1988; traveling exhibit: New York, Chicago, Denver, Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Chicago, Illinois: Terra Museum of American Art, November 14, 1989 - January 7, 1990; traveling exhibit: New York, Palm Springs, Denver, Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum, February 3 - April 1, 1990; traveling exhibit: New York, Palm Springs, Chicago, Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Louisville, Kentucky: J. B. Speed Art Museum, December 14, 1993 - February 13, 1994; traveling exhibit: New York, Palm Springs, Chicago, Denver, Orlando.
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Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Orlando, Florida: Orlando Museum of Art, December 5, 1992 - February 14, 1993; traveling exhibit: New York, Palm Springs, Chicago, Denver, Louisville.
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Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Water-Colors by Frederic Remington, A. N. A.. New York, New York: The American Art Galleries, American Art Association, January 6 - 13, 1893.
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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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Frederic Remington: The Late Years. Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum, July 11 - August 30, 1981.
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Bibliographies

McCracken, Harold. The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial History of the West. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1966.
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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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Hassrick, Peter H. Frederic Remington: The Late Years. Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum, 1981.
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American Art Association. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Water-Colors by Frederic Remington, A.N.A.. New York: American Art Association, 1893.
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"Mr. Remington's Pictures. Something Less that 100 Works Fetch Something More than $7,000." New York Sun, January 13, 1893, p. 2, col. 7.
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New York Times, January 14, 1893.
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"Remingtons and Bric-A-Brac: Hawashima Textiles and Paintings by a Japanese." New York Times, January 9, 1893.
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"Frederic Remington's Paintings and Studies," New York Sun, January 9, 1893, p. 6, col. 5.
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"Minor Exhibitions." The Art Amateur, vol. 28, (March 1893), p. 98-99.
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"Selling Remington's Pictures. Lively Bidding at the American Gallery." New York Daily Tribune, January 14, 1893, p. 7.
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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frontier America: Art Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 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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Remington ledger book of paintings, c. 1887-1892. No. 71.839. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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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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Remington to Frederick B. Schell, May 11, 1891. Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado, Western History Department.
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Remington to Frederick B. Schell, c. 1891. Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado, Western History Department.
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Hassrick, Peter H. Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art. Washington: Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 2000
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Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Go West! Art of the American Frontier, Cody, WY: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 2013
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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.