The Scout: Friends or Enemies?
Date: 1902
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02603
Credit Line: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Dimensions: 27 x 40" (68.6 x 101.6 cm)
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.
Provenance: The artist; Lansing, Albany, New York; Ledyard Cogswell; Albany Institute of History and Art (J. Townsend Lansing bequest), Albany, New York; (John Levy Galleries, New York, New York); (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, no. A-4374); R. Sterling Clark; present owner
Exhibitions
Westward the Way. St. Louis, Missouri: City Art Museum of St. Louis,
October 23 - December 6, 1954.
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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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Texas Centennial Exposition. Dallas, Texas: Museum of Fine Art,
June 6 - November 29, 1936.
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Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Canada: August 27 -
Sepember 11, 1954.
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Exhibit 4: The First Two Rooms. Williamstown, Massachusetts: Sterling
and Francine Clark Art Institute, May 1955.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture.
Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
October 11 - November 12, 1967; traveling exhibit: Oshkosh, Williamstown.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and
Sculpture. Williamstown, Massachussetts: Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute, December 2 - 31, 1967; traveling exhibit: Oshkosh,
Minneapolis.
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How the West Was Won. New York, New York: Wildenstein & Co.,
May 22 - June 22, 1968.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Portrait of the Old West. New York:
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1952.
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Eliot, Alexander. Three Hundred Years of American Painting.
New York: Time, Inc., 1957.
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Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute, Williamstown, 1972.
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Baigell, Matthew. The Western Art of Frederic Remington. New
York, New York: Ballantine Books, 1976.
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Chapin, Louis. Great Masterpieces by Frederic Remington. New
York: Crown Publishers, 1979.
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Mukherjee, Sushil. "Treasures of the Clark Museum." Berkshire
Magazine, (winter 1982).
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Remington Art Memorial. A Catalogue of the Frederic Remington Memorial
Collection. New York: Privately Printed for the Remington
Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York, by the M. Knoedler Galleries, 1954.
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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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Persimmon Hill, vol. 10, no. 3 (summer 1980).
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Wildenstein & Co. How the West Was Won, Paintings,
Watercolors, and Bronzes by Frederic Remington and Charles M.
Russell. New York: Wildenstein & Co., 1968.
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Museum of Fine Art, Dallas. Texas Centennial Exposition.
Dallas, Texas: Museum of Fine Art, 1936.
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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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Perry T. Rathbone, ed. City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis,
Missouri and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Westward the Way.
St. Louis, Missouri: City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1954.
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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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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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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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Gerald Peters Gallery. Remington the Years of Critical Acclaim. Singapore: Asiaprint Ltd. 1998
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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.
