Remington Catalogue
The Frontier Trooper’s Thanatopsis
Alternate Title: The Trooper’s Thanatopsis
Date: 1889
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 00453
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 28 1/4 x 21 1/4″ (71.8 x 54 cm)
Illustration: Harper’s Weekly (April 13, 1889), cover and p. 277, wood engraving.
Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington./’89.; on back stretcher: Dr. Alexander, Frederic Remington
Illustration Inscription: Unsigned
Provenance: The artist; Dr. W. T. Alexander, Washington Heights, New York;
Andrew Mills; (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, New York); Britt Brown, Wichita, Kansas; (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2004); present owner
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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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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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McCracken, Harold. The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial
History of the West. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.,
Inc., 1966.
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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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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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Remington ledger book of paintings, c. 1887-1892. No. 71.839. Frederic
Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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“Frederic Remington’s First Painting.” The Saturday Evening
Post, (November 1900).
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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.