Remington Catalogue
Splitting the Herd
Alternate Title: Splitting the Buffalo Herd
Date: ca. 1890
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01085
Credit Line: Photograph Courtesy of Sotheby’s, Inc. © (2014)
Dimensions: 29 3/4 x 21 3/4″ (75.5 x 55.3 cm)
Illustration: Century Magazine (November 1890), p. 117, wood engraving.
Inscription: ll: REMINGTON–
Illustration Inscription: ll: REMINGTON–; lr: CS [C.Schwartzburger] Sc
Provenance: Century Co., New York, New York; [?]; Jacob Gould Schurman III, San
Francisco, California; Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Cooke, San Francisco,
California; Mr. and Mrs. F. Trevors, Ventura, California, 1977; (Bradley
Galleries, Santa Barbara, California); (Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New
York, New York, April 25, 1980, withdrawn from sale); [?]; (Kennedy
Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, 1984); [?]; (Rosenstock Arts, Denver, Colorado); present owner
Exhibitions
World’s Columbian Exposition. Chicago, Illinois: 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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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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Kennedy Galleries Inc. “Painters of the Old West.” The Kennedy
Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 4 (October 1960).
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Beebe, Lucius and Charles Clegg. The American West. New York: Bonanza
Books, 1955.
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Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. American 19th & 20th Century
Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors & Sculpture. New York, sale
4365 (April 25, 1980).
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The Department of Publicity and Promotion, M. P. Handy Chief, ed.
World’s Columbian Exposition. 1893. Official Catalogue. Chicago:
W. B. Gonkey Company, Publishers, 1893.
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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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Roosevelt, Theodore. The Wilderness Hunter. New York: G. P.
Putnam’s Sons, 1893.
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Roosevelt, Theodore. Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and on the
Great Plains. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1899.
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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.