Remington Catalogue
The Pursuit
Date: ca. 1896
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02137
Credit Line: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Gift of the Estate of Sally D. Eddy. Photo: Travis Fullerton. © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Dimensions: 27 1/4 x 40″ (69.2 x 101.6 cm)
Illustration: Harper’s Monthly (April 1898), p. 733, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington
Provenance: Colonel F. W. Von Schrader, San Francisco, California; (M. Knoedler & Co.,
New York, New York, no. 14447); Joseph D. Eddy, New York, New
York; Sally D. Eddy; by bequest in 1976 to present owner
Exhibitions
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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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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Five Years of Collecting. Richmond, California: Virginia Museum,
March 25 – May 4, 1980.
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Art of the American West. Richmond, Virginia: Artmobile, Virginia Museum,
September 1977 – December 1978.
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Eleventh Annual Summer Exhibition of American Artists, New York,
New York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1918.
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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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Hassrick, Peter H. “Remington in the West.” Arts in Virginia, vol.
17, no. 2 (winter 1977), p. 18-31.
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Latendorf, E. W. Frederic Remington (Bibliographical Check
List). New York: Mannados Bookshop, 1947.
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Eleventh Annual Summer Exhibition of American Artists. New
York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1918.
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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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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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Downey, Fairfax. Indian-Fighting Army. New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1941.
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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.