Remington Catalogue
Gentleman Rider on the Paseo de la Reforma
Alternate Title: A Dandy on the Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City
Date: 1890
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 01163
Credit Line: Larry and Betty Lou Sheerin
Dimensions: 32 1/2 x 23" (82.6 x 58.4 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (July 1891), p. 212, wood engraving.
Inscription: lr: Copyright 1890/by FREDERIC REMINGTON
Illustration Inscription: ll: Varley; lr: Copyright 1890/by FREDERIC REMINGTON
Provenance: The artist; H. Conkling (purchased at 1893 AAG for $135); [?]; Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Hewitt; (Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, February 29, 1956); [?]; Estate of Mrs. Allan P. Kirby; (Sotheby's, New York, New York, October 22, 1982); present owner
Exhibitions
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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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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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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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Sotheby's. American 19th Century and Western Paintings,
Drawings and Sculpture. New York, sale 4939 (October 22, 1982).
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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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New York Times, January 14, 1893.
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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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"Selling Remington's Pictures. Lively Bidding at the American
Gallery." New York Daily Tribune, January 14, 1893, p. 7.
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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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Dodge, Col. Theodore Ayrault. Riders of Many Lands. New York:
Harper & Brothers Publishers, copyright 1893, published 1894.
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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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Remington ledger book of paintings, c. 1887-1892. No. 71.839. Frederic
Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. Valuable and Important Old Masters
and XIX Century Paintings; Property of the Philadelphia Museum of
Art . . . ; and from the Collection of Mr and Mrs J. Robert Hewitt; Estate
of the Late Theodore F. Tillinghast; and Other Owners. New
York, sale 1654 (February 29, 1956).
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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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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.