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The Buffalo Hunt

Date: 1890

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: 00989

Credit Line: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming

Dimensions: 34 x 49″ (86.4 x 124.5 cm)

Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON-/’90


Provenance: The artist; Peck (Am Art Assoc, 1893); (Findlay Gallery, New York, New York for $500); [?]; Mary Louise Ellsworth; (James Graham & Sons, New York, New York); William
E. Weiss, Wheeling, West Virginia; by gift to present owner, 1962.

Exhibitions

The West of Buffalo Bill. Atlanta, Georgia: High Museum of Art,
November 15, 1975 – January 18, 1976.
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The Bison in Art. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
February 17 – April 3, 1977; traveling exhibit: Cody, Calgary, Omaha.
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The Bison in Art. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center,
May 1 – September 30, 1977; traveling exhibit: Fort Worth, Calgary, Omaha.
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The Bison in Art. Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Glenbow-Alberta
Institute, October 15 – November 27, 1977; traveling exhibit: Fort
Worth, Cody, Omaha.
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American Masters in the West Omaha, Nebraska: Joslyn Art Museum,
May 20 – July 2, 1978; long-term traveling exhibit 1976 – 1981.
Anschutz collection.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Brooklyn, New York: The Brooklyn Museum of
Art, November 18 1981 – January 17, 1982; traveling exhibit: Pittsburgh,
Denver, Oakland, Tulsa, Houston.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Museum of Art,
Carnegie Institute, February 13 – April 4, 1982; traveling exhibit: Brooklyn,
Denver, Oakland, Tulsa, Houston.
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Weiss Family Collection of Western Art. Wheeling, West Virginia: Mansion
Museum, Oglebay Institute, September 10 – November 6, 1983.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Oakland, California: The Oakland
Museum, June 17 – August 21, 1983; traveling exhibit: Brooklyn, Pittsburgh,
Denver, Tulsa, Houston.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The Gilcrease
Museum, December 18, 1983 – February 12, 1984; traveling
exhibit: Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Denver, Oakland, Houston.
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Art of the Wild West. Houston, Texas: Museum of Art of the American West,
March – June, 1984.
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Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
. New York, New York: IBM Gallery,
December 13, 1988 – February 25, 1989; traveling exhibit: Palm Springs,
Chicago, Denver, Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill
Historical Center
. Palm Springs, California: Palm Springs Desert Museum,
January 12 – April 3, 1988; traveling exhibit: New York, Chicago, Denver,
Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo
Bill Historical Center
. Chicago, Illinois: Terra Museum of American
Art, November 14, 1989 – January 7, 1990; traveling exhibit: New York, Palm
Springs, Denver, Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo
Bill Historical Center
. Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum,
February 3 – April 1, 1990; traveling exhibit: New York, Palm Springs,
Chicago, Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
. Louisville, Kentucky: J. B. Speed Art
Museum, December 14, 1993 – February 13, 1994; traveling exhibit: New York,
Palm Springs, Chicago, Denver, Orlando.
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Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
. Orlando, Florida: Orlando Museum of
Art, December 5, 1992 – February 14, 1993; traveling exhibit: New York, Palm
Springs, Chicago, Denver, Louisville.
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Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Water-Colors by Frederic Remington,
A. N. A.
. New York, New York: The American Art Galleries, American Art
Association, January 6 – 13, 1893.
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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 Late Years. Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum,
July 11 – August 30, 1981.
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Bibliographies

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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Hassrick, Peter H. Frederic Remington: The Late Years. Denver, Colorado:
Denver Art Museum, 1981.
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American Art Association. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings,
Drawings and Water-Colors by Frederic Remington, A.N.A.
. New York:
American Art Association, 1893.
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“Mr. Remington’s Pictures. Something Less that 100 Works Fetch
Something More than $7,000.” New York Sun, January 13,
1893, p. 2, col. 7.
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New York Times, January 14, 1893.
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“Remingtons and Bric-A-Brac: Hawashima Textiles and Paintings by
a Japanese.” New York Times, January 9, 1893.
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“Frederic Remington’s Paintings and Studies,” New York Sun,
January 9, 1893, p. 6, col. 5.
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“Minor Exhibitions.” The Art Amateur, vol. 28, (March 1893),
p. 98-99.
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“Selling Remington’s Pictures. Lively Bidding at the American
Gallery.” New York Daily Tribune, January 14, 1893, p. 7.
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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frontier America:
Art Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill Historical
Center
. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988.
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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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Remington ledger book of paintings, c. 1887-1892. No. 71.839. Frederic
Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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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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Remington to Frederick B. Schell, May 11, 1891. Denver Public Library,
Denver, Colorado, Western History Department.
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Remington to Frederick B. Schell, c. 1891. Denver Public Library,
Denver, Colorado, Western History Department.
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Hassrick, Peter H. Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art. Washington: Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 2000
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Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Go West! Art of the American Frontier, Cody, WY: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 2013
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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.