Remington Catalogue
His First Lesson
Date: 1903
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02702
Credit Line: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Dimensions: 27 1/4 x 40″ (69.2 x 101.6 cm)
Illustration: Collier’s Weekly (September 26, 1903), p. 18-19, color halftone.
Inscription: lr: Copyright 1903 By Frederic Remington-
Illustration Inscription: lr: Copyright 1903 By Frederic Remington-
Provenance: The artist; Robert J. Collier, New York, New York; [?]; Governor Ernest
Whitworth Marland, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1929-1939; W. L. Moody
III, Galveston, Texas, 1930-1935; (Enrich-Newhouse Galleries, Inc.,
New York, New York, 1935); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1935;
present owner
Exhibitions
How the West Was Made: Fact and Fiction in the Works of
Remington and Russell. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
May 14 – August 7, 1994.
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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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Collier Collection of Original Drawings and Paintings by
Distinguished American Painters and Illustrators. Indianapolis,
Indiana: John Herron Art Institute, February 2-23, 1907.
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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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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. New York, New York: The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, February 10 – April 16, 1989; traveling exhibit: St. Louis,
Cody, Houston.
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Remington and Russell. Corpus Christi, Texas: Art Museum of
South Texas, September 5 – October 2, 1963.
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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 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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Governor for a Day Ceremonies. Austin, Texas: State Capitol,
April 19, 1969.
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Remington and Russell. Tyler, Texas: Tyler Museum of Art,
October 16 – December 26, 1972.
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Remington Exhibition. Williamstown, Massachussetts: Sterling and Francine Clark
Art Institute, January 1 – April 1, 1973.
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Festival of the Great Southwest. Houston, Texas: Sakowitz, Inc.,
September 24 – October 30, 1973.
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Western Art Exhibition. Topeka, Kansas: Topeka Gallery of Fine Arts,
April 1 – 30, 1974.
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America as Art. Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts,
April 30 – September 12, 1976.
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200 Years of American Illustration. New York, New York: The
New-York Historical Society Museum, September 10, 1976 – April 15, 1977.
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Masters of Western Art. San Angelo, Texas: Angelo State University,
June 16 – 29, 1977.
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Western Heritage Art Fair. Littleton, Colorado: July 14 – 16, 1978.
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West Comes East: Frontier Painting and Sculpture from the Amon Carter
Museum. Worcester, Massachusetts: Worcester Art Museum, April 25 –
June 24, 1979.
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Between Friends. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The Gilcrease Museum, July 19 –
September 19, 1982.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
January 1 – April 1, 1973.
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How the West Was Won. New York, New York: Wildenstein & Co.,
May 22 – June 22, 1968.
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Catalogue of the Collier Collection: An Important Collection of
Original Drawings and Paintings by Distinguished American
Painters and Illustrators; Works Especially Executed for and
Exclusively Reproduced in Collier’s Weekly. New York, New York: American Art
Galleries, American Art Association, November 4-11, 1905.
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Fort Worth, Texas: Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Fort Worth Public
Library, 1950.
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Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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Special Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Frederick [sic]
Remington}. New York, New York: Noe Art Galleries, April 6-18, 1903.
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New York, New York: Newhouse Galleries, 1934.
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Bibliographies
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. 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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Amon Carter Museum. Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas:
Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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Hassrick, Peter H. Frederic Remington: The Late Years. Denver, Colorado:
Denver Art Museum, 1981.
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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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Noe Art Galleries. Special Exhibition of Recent
Paintings by Frederick [sic] Remington}. New York: Noe Art
Galleries, 1903.
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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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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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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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Meyer, Susan E. America’s Great Illustrators. New York:
Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1978.
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Ayres, Linda, Jane Myers, Mark Thistlethwaite, and Ron Tyler.
American Paintings: Selections from the Amon Carter Museum.
Oxmoor House, 1986.
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Raboff, Ernest. Art for Children: Frederic Remington. New
York: Gemini-Smith, Inc., 1973.
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Nemerov, Alexander. Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century
America. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995.
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Johnston, Harry J. My Home on the Range. St. Paul, Minnesota: The
Webb Publishing Co., 1942.
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Clark, Carol. “The Visual Arts.” Southern Accents, (spring
1983).
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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1903-1909. No. FRAM 1918.266.
Frederic Remington Art Museum archives, Ogdensburg, 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, 1908-1909. No. FRAM 71.837. Frederic
Remington Art Museum Archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Remington, Frederic. Remington’s Four Best Paintings. New
York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1908, portfolio of four Remington
prints: Caught in the Circle}, Coming to the Call}, His First
Lesson}, and Evening on a Canadian Lake}, presented in a manila
envelope.
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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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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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Collier Catalogue of prints, some called “artist’s proofs,” of
varying sizes in b/w or color on pebbled art paper or board of Remington
paintings illustrated in Collier’s Weekly – see Collier print
file for listing and individual painting record for print info.
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Collier catalgoue of prints, some called “artist’s proofs,”
of varying sizes in b/w or color on pebble art paper or board of
Remington paintings illustrated in Collier’s Weekly.
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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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Wister, Owen. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains. New York:
The Macmillan Company, new edition, 1929.
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Wister, Owen. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains. New
York: The MacMillan Company, 1911.
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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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John Herron Art Institute. Catalogue of the Collier Collection
of Original Drawings and Paintings by Distinguished American
Painters and Illustrators. Indianapolis: John Herron Art
Institute, 1907.
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Hassrick, Peter H. “Westering America. The Amon Carter Museum
Collection, Fort Worth.” The Magazine Antiques, vol. 107 (September
1975), p. 436-446.
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Denver Art Museum. Western Passages: Shaping the West, American Sculptors of the 19th Century, Denver: Petrie Institute of Western Art, Denver Art Museum, 2010
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Baigell, Matthew. The Western Art of Frederic Remington. New
York, New York: Ballantine Books, 1976.
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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.