The Smoke Signal
Date: ca. 1901
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02761
Credit Line: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Dimensions: 30 3/8 x 48 1/4" (77.2 x 122.6 cm)
Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington
Provenance: The artist; Arthur C. Bradley, Newport, New Hampshire; [?]; (David B. Findlay Galleries, New York, New York, 1953); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1953; present owner
Exhibitions
Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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Stamp ceremony. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art,
October 4, 1961.
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Sandipex exhibition, International Philatelic exhibition. San Diego,
California: Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, July 16 - 20, 1969.
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West Comes East: Frontier Painting and Sculpture from the Amon Carter
Museum. Worcester, Massachusetts: Worcester Art Museum, April 25 -
June 24, 1979.
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The Wild West: Painting and Sculpture by Frederic Remington & Charles M.
Russell. New Orleans, Louisiana: New Orleans Museum of Art,
November 18, 1979 - February 3, 1980.
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Collecting: A Texas Phenomenon. San Antonio, Texas: Marion Koogler McNay
Art Museum, November 21 - December 24, 1986.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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How the West Was Won. New York, New York: Wildenstein & Co.,
May 22 - June 22, 1968.
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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. 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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Amon Carter Museum. Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas:
Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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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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Persimmon Hill, vol. 10, no. 3 (summer 1980).
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U. S. Postage Stamp, 1961.
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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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Wildenstein & Co. How the West Was Won, Paintings,
Watercolors, and Bronzes by Frederic Remington and Charles M.
Russell. New York: Wildenstein & Co., 1968.
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Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Catalogue of the Collection
1972. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art,
1973.
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Philip Morris. Remington. London: Leo Burnett Limited, 1981.
European film.
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Worcester Art Museum. West Comes East: Frontier Painting and Sculpture from the Amon Carter Museum. Worcester, Massachusetts: Worcester Art Museum, 1979.
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Meyer, Susan E. America's Great Illustrators. New York:
Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1978.
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Schomaekers, Gunter. A Pictorial History of the Old West of the
U.S.. Dorheim-Hessen, West Germany: Ahnert-Verlag, 1972.
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Baker, Donna. Artists in Our World, Frederic Remington.
Chicago, Illinois: Children's Press, 1977.
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Dary, David. "The Kansas Prankster Who Won Fame in Art." Kansas City Star,
December 6, 1970, Sunday magazine.
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"Frederic Remington: His Life and Art." Cobblestone: The History
Magazine for Young People, (November 1982).
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Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum. Collecting: A Texas
Phenonmenon. San Antonio, Texas: Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum,
1986.
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U.S.I.A., Washington, D.C. "Postal Series of American
Paintings." Bulletin, 1971.
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U.S. Postal Service, Washington, D.C. Public stamp replicas,
1972.
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Fronval, George. Les Peaux-Rouges. Paris, France: Fernand Nathan
Editeur, 1972.
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Fronval, George. La Veritable Histoire des Indiens
Peaux-Rouges. Paris, France: Fernand Nathan Editeur, 1973.
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Petersen Print Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA. Reproduced in
portfolio, 16 x 20", 1975.
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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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Hassrick, Peter H. Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art. Washington: Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 2000
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Baigell, Matthew. The Western Art of Frederic Remington. New
York, New York: Ballantine Books, 1976.
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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.
