Remington Catalogue
The Story of Where the Sun Goes
Date: 1907
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02838
Credit Line: Private Collection, California
Dimensions: 26 x 36" (66.0 x 91.4 cm)
Illustration: Collier's Weekly (November 23, 1907), p. 18-19, color halftone.
Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington; lc: Copyright 1907 by P.F. Collier & Son
Illustration Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington.
Provenance: Estate of artist; (M. Knoelder & Co., New York, New York, no. C-3910); Frank J. Marion, Stamford, Connecticut; (Schweitzer Gallery, New York, New York); (James Graham & Sons, New York, New York, by 1963); L. R. French, Jr., Odessa, Texas, by 1967; (Sotheby's, New York, New York, November 30, 1989); Michael D. Greenbaum, Paradise Valley, Arizona; (Christie's, New York, New York, May, 2010); (Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada, 2014); present owner
Exhibitions
Chicago, Illinois: O'Briens Art Gallery, February 1909.
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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.
Oshkosh: Paine Art Center and Arboretum, August 1 - September 24, 1967;
traveling exhibit: Minneapolis, 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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Paintings by Frederic Remington. New York, New York: M. Knoedler & Co.,
December 2-14, 1907.
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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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Exhibition and Sale of Paintings and Drawings by Frederick
[sic] Remington}. Boston, Massachusetts: Galleries of Doll & Richards,
January 8-20, 1909.
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Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken.
Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 30,
1974.
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Frederic Remington, The Color of Night. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 13-July 13; Traveled to Tulsa, Oklahoma, August 10-November 9; Denver, Colorado, December 13-March 14, 2004.
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Art of the Old West from the L.R. French, Jr., Collection. Palm
Springs, California: Palm Springs Desert Museum, February 6 - April 5, 1987.
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Bibliographies
Gregg, Richard N. Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of
Painting and Sculpture. Oshkosh, Wisconsin: Paine Art Center
and Arboretum, 1967.
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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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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frederic Remington: An Exhibition
Honoring Harold McCracken. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center,
1974.
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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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Doll & Richards Gallery. Exhibition of Paintings By Frederic Remington.
Boston: Doll & Richards Gallery, 1909.
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Reinhardt's Annex Gallery. A Special Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Frederic Remington and Portraits by A. de Ferraris of Vienna. Chicago, Illinois: Reinhardt's Annex Gallery, 1908.
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Eleventh Annual Summer Exhibition of American Artists. New
York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1918.
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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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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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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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Chicago Record Herald, February 7, 1909.
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Sotheby's. American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. New
York, sale 5941 (November 30, 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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Hale, Philip L. "Art." The Boston Herald, January 9, 1909, vol.
125, p. 6, col. 7.
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Antiques, vol. 84 (November 1963), p. 495.
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Tatum, Stephen. In the Remington Moment. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
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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.