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"The Right of the Road"-- A Hazardous Encounter on a Rocky Mountain Trail

Alternate Title: The Tortoise and the Hare

Date: 1900

Medium: oil on canvas, b/w

Catalogue Number: 02503

Credit Line: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

Dimensions: 27 1/8 x 40 1/8" (68.9 x 101.9 cm)

Illustration: Collier's Weekly (September 1, 1900), p. 12-13, halftone.

Inscription: ll: --Frederic Remington/Copyright by Collier's Weekly 1900

Illustration Inscription: ll: --Frederic Remington.


Provenance: The artist; (Jas. Earle & Son, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, purchased at 1901 Clausen's); [?]; James Henry Roberts Cromwell, New York, New York, c. 1936-1948; (Newhouse Galleries, New York, New York, until 1950); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1950; present owner

Exhibitions

Paintings Pastels and Drawings by Frederic Remington. New York, New York: Clausen's Gallery, December 9-30, 1901.
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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. Corpus Christi, Texas: Art Museum of South Texas, September 5 - October 2, 1963.
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Charles Russell Exhibition. McAllen, Texas: McAllen State Bank, March 1 - April 4, 1964.
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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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Paintings and Drawings by Frederic Remington and C.M. Russell from the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Boise, Idaho: Boise Art Association, October 1966; traveling exhibit: Billings, Pullman.
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Paintings and Drawings by Frederic Remington and C.M. Russell from the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Billings, Montana: Yellowstone Art Center, November, 1966; traveling exhibit: Boise, Pullman.
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Paintings and Drawings by Frederic Remington and C. M. Russell from the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Pullman, Washington: Washington State University, December 1966; traveling exhibit: Boise, Billings.
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Remington Exhibition. Williamstown, Massachussetts: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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American Illustration 1800 to the Present. Charlotte, North Carolina: Mint Museum of Art, (American Federation of the Arts, New York, New York), November 13 - January 8, 1978; traveling exhibit: Tuscaloosa, Oakland, Houston.
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American Illustration 1800 to the Present. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Art Gallery, University of Alabama, (American Federation of the Arts, New York, New York), February 2 - March 10, 1978; travelling exhibit: Charlotte, Oakland, Houston.
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American Illustration 1800 to the Present. Oakland, California: Oakland Museum, (American Federation of the Arts, New York, New York), April 11 - June 11, 1978; traveling exhibit: Charlotte, Tuscaloosa, Houston.
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American Illustration 1800 to the Present. Houson, Texas: Sewal Art Gallery, Rice University, (American Federation of the Arts, New York, New York), October 14, 1978; traveling exhibit: Charlotte, Tuscaloosa, Oakland.
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The American Magazine 1890-1940. Wilmington, Delaware: Delaware Art Museum, September 16 - December 2, 1979.
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The Popular West: American Illustrators, 1900-1940. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, April 1 - May 30, 1982.
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Remington's West. Corning, New York: The Rockwell Museum, September 6 - November 4, 1984.
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Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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Fort Worth, Texas: Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Fort Worth Public Library, 1950.
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Bibliographies

McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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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Remington, Frederic. Done in the Open: Drawings by Frederic Remington. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, Publishers, 1902.
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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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Duty, Michael. Remington's West. Corning, New York: The Rockwell Museum, 1984.
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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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"History of Illustration, Nostalgic, Incomplete." The Houston Post, September 10, 1978, p. 3AA.
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"But Is It Art?" The Charlotte News, (November 12, 1977).
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The Oakland Museum. "Major Exhibitions Showcase Images of America's Past." The Museum of California, (April 1978), p. 10.
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Hawkes, Elizabeth. "Magazines and Their Illustrations." The American Magazine, (fall 1979), p. 27.
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Clausen's Gallery. Paintings Pastels and Drawings by Frederic Remington. New York: Clausen's Gallery, 1901.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1898-1902. No. FRAM 71.840. 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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Dippie, Brian W. Remington & Russell. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
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The Henry Art Gallery. Myth of the West intro. by Chris Bruce.  New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. 1990
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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.