Remington Catalogue
The Music at the “Baile”
Alternate Title: Mexican Cowboy Musicians; “Jack’s Ranche” – Mexico
Date: 1893
Medium: pen and ink wash on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01709
Credit Line: Private Collection, Previously owned by Dr. Harold McCracken
Dimensions: 18 3/4 x 21 1/2″ (47.6 x 54.6 cm)
Illustration: Harper’s Monthly (December 1893), p. 79, halftone.
Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington/”Jack’s ranche”–/Mexico.–
Illustration Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington/”Jack’s Ranche”–/Mexico.–
Provenance: The artist; Thomas Robins, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (purchased
at 1895 AAG); [?]; Harold McCracken, Cody, Wyoming; present owner
Exhibitions
Paintings and Drawings by Frederic Remington, A. N. A.. New York,
New York: The American Art Galleries, American Art Association,
November 14-19, 1895.
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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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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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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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Remington, Frederic. Pony Tracks. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1895.
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American Art Association. Catalogue of a Collection of Original Works
in Black and White, Water-Color and Oil by Frederic Remington, A.
N. A.. New York: American Art Association, 1895.
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McKown, Robin. Painter of the Old West. New York: Julia
Messner, Inc., 1959.
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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.