Remington Catalogue
Coming to the Call
Date: ca. 1905
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02775
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 27 1/4 x 40 1/4″ (69.3 x 102.2 cm)
Illustration: Collier’s Weekly (August 19, 1905), p. 14-15, color halftone.
Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington-
Illustration Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington-
Provenance: The artist; Robert J. Collier, $500; [?]; (Howard Young Galleries, New
York, New York); Alfred G. Wilson, Detroit, Michigan; Estate of Matilda
R. Wilson, Meadow Brook Hall, Rochester, Michigan; (Parke-Bernet Galleries,
Inc., New York, New York, December 10, 1970); Private Collection; (Sotheby’s,
New York, New York, May 30, 1984); (J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York,
New York); present owner
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Exhibitions
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
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Cody, Houston.
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Catalogue of the Collier Collection: An Important Collection of
Original Drawings and Paintings by Distinguished American
Painters and Illustrators; Works Especially Executed for and
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Bibliographies
Remington Art Memorial. A Catalogue of the Frederic Remington Memorial
Collection. New York: Privately Printed for the Remington
Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York, by the M. Knoedler Galleries, 1954.
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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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Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. Important American Paintings, Sculpture
and Drawings 18th, 19th, 20th Century. New York, sale 3133,
(December 10, 1970).
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Sotheby’s. Important American Paintings, Drawings and
Sculpture. New York, sale 5190 (May 30, 1984).
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Current Literature, (November 1907).
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Earle, Helen L. Biographical Sketches of American Artists.
Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State Library, 1924.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1903-1909. No. FRAM 1918.266.
Frederic Remington Art Museum archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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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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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1908-1909. No. FRAM 71.837. Frederic
Remington Art Museum Archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Remington, Frederic. Remington’s Four Best Paintings. New
York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1908, portfolio of four Remington
prints: Caught in the Circle}, Coming to the Call}, His First
Lesson}, and Evening on a Canadian Lake}, presented in a manila
envelope.
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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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Gerald Peters Gallery in association with Mongerson-Wunderlich
Galleries. Frederic Remington. Santa Fe, New Mexico: The Peters
Corporation, 1991.
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Collier Catalogue of prints, some called “artist’s proofs,” of
varying sizes in b/w or color on pebbled art paper or board of Remington
paintings illustrated in Collier’s Weekly – see Collier print
file for listing and individual painting record for print info.
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Collier catalogue of prints, some called “artist’s proofs,”
of varying sizes in b/w and color on pebbled art paper or board of
Remington paintings illustrated in Collier’s Weekly, 1907.
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Collier catalgoue of prints, some called “artist’s proofs,”
of varying sizes in b/w or color on pebble art paper or board of
Remington paintings illustrated in Collier’s Weekly.
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Twenty-five Art Pictures Representing the Best Work of America’s Greatest Artists. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, no date, portfolio with five Remingtons: Calling the Moose}; Coming to the Call}; Downing the Nigh Leader}; The Buffalo Hunter/Runner}.
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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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Allen, Douglas. “Remington: An American Original.” Step-By-Step
Graphics, vol. 5, no. 1 (January 1989), p. 118-125.
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Tatum, Stephen. In the Remington Moment. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
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Hassrick, Peter H. The Frederic Remington Studio, rev. ed.
Cody: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 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.