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The Quarrel

Alternate Title: The Showdown, “A Show Down”

Date: 1907

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: 02842

Credit Line: National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Dimensions: 27 x 40″ (68.6 x 101.6 cm)

Illustration: Collier’s Weekly (August 14, 1909), p. 8, color halftone.

Inscription: lr: –Frederic Remington.

Illustration Inscription: lr: –Frederic Remington.


Provenance: The artist; a friend of Al Brolley’s (Brolley lived in Albany,
New York); [?]; (Kennedy & Co., New York, New York); (M. Knoedler
& Co., New York, New York, no. A-5219); Albert K. Mitchell, Albuquerque,
New Mexico; present owner

Exhibitions

A Special Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Frederic Remington and
Portraits by A. de Ferraris of Vienna
. Chicago, Illinois: Reinhardt’s
Annex Gallery, February 10-22, 1908.
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Masters of the West: Painting and Sculpture Depicting the American Western
Heritage
. New York, New York: Grand Central Art Galleries,
December 4 – 30, 1984.
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Remington To Today. New York, New York: Grand Central Art Galleries,
April 5-30, 1955.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
January 1 – April 1, 1973.
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Paintings by Frederic Remington. New York, New York: M. Knoedler & Co.,
December 2-14, 1907.
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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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McCracken, Harold. The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial
History of the West
. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.,
Inc., 1966.
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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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Persimmon Hill, vol. 10, no. 3 (summer 1980).
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Remington, Frederic. Frederic Remington’s Paintings. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1912, portfolio in manila envelope containing: Bringing Home the New Cook; The Quarrel; Benighted for a Dry Camp; In From the Night Herd.
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M. Knoedler & Co. Paintings by Frederic Remington on Exhibition at
the Galleries of M. Knoedler & Co., 355 Fifth Ave., Corner 34th Street,
New York. December 2nd until the 14th inclusive 1907
. New York: M.
Knoedler & Co., 1907.
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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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Remington diary, 1907. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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Remington 1909 diary. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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“Art Notes: Current Exhibitions.” Unidentified newspaper clipping on Knoedler 1907 exhibition. Frederic Remington Art Museum archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc. Masters of the West: Paintings and
Sculpture Depicting the American Western Heritage
. New York:
Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., 1984.
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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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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1903-1909. No. FRAM 1918.266.
Frederic Remington Art Museum archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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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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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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“Art Notes. Current Exhibitions.” New York Press, [December 4, 1907]. Author possibly Wm. B. McCormack, art critic and editor of International Studio.
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Remington, Frederic. Remington’s Four Best Paintings. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1912, portfolio with envelope containing: Bringing Home the New Cook; The Quarrel; Benighted for a Dry Camp; In from the Night Herd.
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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected
Letters
. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1988.
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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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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc. Remington Today. New York:
Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., 1955.
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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.