Remington Catalogue
Infantryman in Field Costume
Alternate Title: The Infantryman; U. S. Infantryman In Service Trim
Date: 1890
Medium: watercolor on paper
Catalogue Number: 01140
Credit Line: New Britain Museum of American Art
Dimensions: 18 x 10″ (45.7 x 25.4 cm)
Illustration: Century Magazine (March 1891), p. 655, wood engraving.
Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington/’90 with compliments to/No. 4.- — J.S. Hartley.–; also signed under mat: U.S. Infantryman in service trim with compliments to J. S. Hartley.
Illustration Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington
Provenance: The artist; (William Macbeth, Inc., New York, New York); present owner through the Harriet Russell Stanley Fund, 1952.
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington’s Southwest. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum,
January 4 – March 15, 1992; traveling exhibit: Memphis, Omaha.
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Frederic Remington’s Southwest. Memphis, Tennessee: Memphis Brooks Museum
of Art, April 19 – June 21, 1992; traveling exhibit: Phoenix, Omaha.
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Frederic Remington’s Southwest. Omaha, Nebraska: Joslyn Art Museum,
July 11 – September 6, 1992; traveling exhibit: Phoenix, Memphis.
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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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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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Ballinger, James, K. Frederic Remington’s Southwest. Phoenix,
Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, 1992.
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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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Downey, Fairfax. Indian-Fighting Army. New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1941.
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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.