Remington Catalogue
Smugglers Attacked by Mexican Customs Guards
Alternate Title: Mexican Smugglers Ambuscaded; The Smugglers; Mexican Smugglers Attacked by Customs House Guards
Date: 1901
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02568
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 40 x 27 1/8″ (101.6 x 68.9 cm)
Illustration: Collier’s Weekly (October 26, 1901), p. 12-13, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/copyright 1901–P.H. Collier & Son
Reverse: There is a great deal of smuggling into Old Mexico and their Customs House Guards often have sagave fights… [with] them when they can find them. The certainty with which the Mexican government deals with its Outlaws impells [sic] the wrong-doers to offer resistence [sic] to the death.
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington
Provenance: The artist; (Jas. Earle & Son, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Private Collection, New York, New York; James Henry Roberts Cromwell, Ottawa, Canada, until 1948; (Newhouse Galleries, New York, New York, until 1950); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1950; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 1961; (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1999); (Thomas Nygard Gallery, Bozeman, Montana, 1999); present owner
Exhibitions
How the West Was Made: Fact and Fiction in the Works of
Remington and Russell. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
May 14 – August 7, 1994.
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Paintings Pastels and Drawings by Frederic Remington. New York,
New York: Clausen’s Gallery, December 9-30, 1901.
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Remington and Russell. Roswell, New Mexico: Roswell Museum and
Art Center, October 26 – November 30, 1963.
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Governor for a Day Ceremonies. Austin, Texas: State Capitol,
April 19, 1969.
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Remington Exhibition. Williamstown, Massachussetts: Sterling and Francine Clark
Art Institute, January 1 – April 1, 1973.
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The West of Frederic Remington in Paintings, Firearms and Sculpture.
San Antonio, Texas: The Witte Memorial Museum, October 1 – November
31, 1977.
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Fort Worth, Texas: Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Fort Worth Public
Library, 1950.
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Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Frederic Remington: A Biography.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
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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. Done in the Open: Drawings by Frederic
Remington. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, Publishers, 1902.
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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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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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Meyer, Susan E. America’s Great Illustrators. New York:
Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1978.
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Clausen’s Gallery. Paintings Pastels and Drawings by
Frederic Remington. New York: Clausen’s Gallery, 1901.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1898-1902. No. FRAM 71.840.
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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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.