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Arrival of a Courier

Alternate Title: Arrival of a Courier–Arizona Territory

Date: 1890

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: 01139

Credit Line: R. W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana

Dimensions: 36 x 48″ (96.5 x 121.9 cm)

Illustration: Century Magazine (March 1891), p. 646, wood engraving.

Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON–/Arizona Ty./1890

Illustration Inscription: ll: EVANS Sc.; lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON/Arizona Ty ’90


Provenance: The artist; J. A. Wyeth, New York, New York, purchased at AAG
1893 for $130; [?]; James Bergin, New Rochelle, New York; R. W.
Norton Jr., Shreveport, Louisiana; present owner

Exhibitions

Ogdensburg, New York: Frederic Remington Art Museum, 1955 – 1960.
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St. Louis Exposition 1892, Ninth Annual Exhibition. St. Louis,
Missouri: St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall, September 7 –
October 22, 1892.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
January 1 – April 1, 1973.
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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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66th Annual Exhibition. New York, New York: National Academy of Design,
1891.
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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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Kuenning, Howard F., Peter Mirakian, Jr., Roger A. Rains, Michael
W. Taylor, eds. Frederic Remington: ‘The Soldier Artist.’ West
Point, New York: U.S. Military Academy, 1979.
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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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Dippie, Brian W., intro. Frederic Remington: Paintings, Drawings
and Sculpture
. Shreveport, Louisiana: Norton Art Gallery, 1979.
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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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Hassrick, Peter. Frederic Remington. An essay and catalogue to
accompany a retrospective exhibition of the work of Frederic
Remington
. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1973.
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“Mr. Remington’s Pictures. Something Less that 100 Works Fetch
Something More than $7,000.” New York Sun, January 13,
1893, p. 2, col. 7.
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New York Times, January 14, 1893.
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“Remingtons and Bric-A-Brac: Hawashima Textiles and Paintings by
a Japanese.” New York Times, January 9, 1893.
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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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St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall Association. Catalogue of
the Art Collection of the St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall
Association. Ninth Annual Exhibition.
St. Louis: St. Louis Exposition and
Music Hall Association, 1892.
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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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Remington ledger book of paintings, c. 1887-1892. No. 71.839. Frederic
Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected
Letters
. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1988.
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Brooks, Elbridge S. The Century Book for Young Americans. New
York: The Century Co., 1894.
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Dippie, Brian W. The Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York 2001
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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.