Remington Catalogue
The Luckless Hunter
Date: 1909
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02907
Credit Line: Courtesy Sid Richardson Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Dimensions: 26 7/8 x 28 7/8" (68.3 x 73.3 cm)
Illustration: Scribner's Magazine (February 1910), p. 181, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/1909; on reverse a tag reading: Helmer Ericson Studio, 118 W. Pedregosa, Santa Barbara, California. Restoration and cleaning (Oct., 1941)"; another tag reads: [illegible] axi Robert Wood[s Bliss Dum]barton Oaks, Night on the Tra
Illustration Inscription: lr: --Frederic Remington./1909.
Provenance: The artist; (M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, New York); William H. Bliss, New York, New York, 1909 Knoedler; Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York); (Newhouse Galleries, New York, New York); present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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Dedication of LBJ Library. Austin, Texas: University of Texas,
April - May 1971.
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Austin, Texas: Sid Richardson Hall, University of Texas, May - June 1971.
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Remington and Russell. Tyler, Texas: Tyler Museum of Art,
October 16 - December 26, 1972.
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College Station, Texas: J. Earl Rudder Conference Center, Texas A & M
University, January - July 1974.
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Paintings by Frederic Remington. New York, New York: M. Knoedler &
Co., November 29 - December 11, 1909.
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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. 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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Dippie, Brian W. Remington and Russell. Austin, Texas:
University of Texas Press, 1982.
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Cortissoz, Royal. "Frederic Remington: A Painter of American
Life." Scribner's Magazine, vol. 47, no. 22 (February 1910).
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M. Knoedler & Co. Paintings by Frederic Remington on Exhibition at
the Galleries of M. Knoedler & Co., 355 Fifth Avenue, Corner of 34th Street,
New York. November 29th to December 11th, 1909 inclusive. New
York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1909.
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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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M. Knoedler & Co. Portrait of the Old West. New York: M. Knoedler
& Co., 1952.
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Remington 1909 diary. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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"Art Exhibitions. New Pictures by Two American Painters." New York Daily
Tribune, December 7, 1909, p. 7.
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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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List of paintings shown in 1909 Knoedler exhibit. In Remington's
hand and found in ledger book FRAM 71.837. Frederic Remington Art Museum
Archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Cortissoz, Royal. American Artists. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1923.
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Dippie, Brian W. Remington & Russell. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
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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.