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"Through the Smoke Sprang the Daring Soldier"

Alternate Title: The Dull Knife Fight

Date: 1897

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: 02285

Credit Line: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

Dimensions: 27 1/4 x 40" (69.2 x 101.6 cm)

Illustration: Harper's Monthly (August 1897), p. 334, halftone.

Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington/Copyright 1897/Harper Bros.

Illustration Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington-


Provenance: The artist; (Hart & Watson, Boston, Massachusetts, purchased at 1897 Hart & Watson); Paul M. Hamlen; (James Graham & Sons, Inc., New York, New York, 1946); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1946; 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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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. St. Louis, Missouri: Saint Louis Art Museum, March 11 - May 22, 1988; traveling exhibit: Cody, Houston, New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, June 17 - September 5, 1988; traveling exhibit: St. Louis, Houston, New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine Arts, October 15, 1988 - January 8, 1989; traveling exhibit: St. Louis, Cody, New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. New York, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 10 - April 16, 1989; traveling exhibit: St. Louis, Cody, Houston.
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Paintings and Drawings by Mr. Frederic Remington. Boston, Massachusetts: Hart & Watson, closed December 11, 1897.
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Remington and Russell. Roswell, New Mexico: Roswell Museum and Art Center, October 26 - November 30, 1963.
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Charles Russell Exhibition. McAllen, Texas: McAllen State Bank, March 1 - April 4, 1964.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah, November 1 - 30, 1964; traveling exhibit: Portland, Stanford.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Portland, Oregon: Portland Art Museum, January 15 - February 15, 1965; traveling exhibit: Salt Lake City, Stanford.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Stanford, California: Stanford Art Gallery and Museum, March 29 - April 18, 1965; traveling exhibit: Salt Lake City, Portland.
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Governor for a Day Ceremonies. Austin, Texas: State Capitol, April 19, 1969.
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Remington and Russell. Corpus Christi, Texas: Art Museum of South Texas, October 11 - December 3, 1974.
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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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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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Remington's West. Corning, New York: The Rockwell Museum, September 6 - November 4, 1984.
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Frederic Remington: 'The Soldier Artist.' West Point, New York: U.S. Military Academy, May 19 - June 6, 1979.
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Bibliographies

McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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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Kuenning, Howard F., Peter Mirakian, Jr., Roger A. Rains, Michael W. Taylor, eds. Frederic Remington: 'The Soldier Artist.' West Point, New York: U.S. Military Academy, 1979.
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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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Duty, Michael. Remington's West. Corning, New York: The Rockwell Museum, 1984.
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Art Museum of South Texas. Remington and Russell. Corpus Christi, Texas: Art Museum of South Texas, 1974.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. The Collected Writings of Frederic Remington. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979.
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Hart & Watson. Paintings and Drawings by Mr. Frederic Remington on Exhibition at 423 Boylston Street, Boston. Boston: Hart & Watson, 1897.
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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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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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Baker, Donna. Artists in Our World, Frederic Remington. Chicago, Illinois: Children's Press, 1977.
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Goetzman, William H. and William N.Goetzman. The West of the Imagination. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1986.
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Howze, William. "John Ford's Celluloid Canvas." Southwest Media Review, vol. 3 (spring 1985).
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The Saint Louis Art Museum in conjunction with the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1988.
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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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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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"The Fine Arts: Paintings and Drawings by Frederic Remington." Boston Evening Transcript, December 8, 1897, p. 16, col. 5.
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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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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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Lieutenant Carter P. Johnson to Remington, August 27, 1897. Amon Carter Museum Library, Fort Worth, Texas.
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Kort, Pamela and Max Hollein ed. I Like America. Fictions of the Wild West. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. New York: Prestel Publishing, 2006
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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.