Mexican Doorways
Date: 1891
Medium: ink wash on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01258
Credit Line: Collection of The University of Arizona Museum of Art & Archive of Visual Arts, Tucson
Dimensions: 18 x 27" (45.7 x 68.6 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (July 25, 1891), p. 560, halftone.
Inscription: ul: Garden Gate--"Aguas Calientes"; uc: Poor Quarter City of Mexico.; ur: Gateway to Orizaba.; cl: A hacienda.--; c: Church front, City of Mexico.; ll: Stake and mud hut.; lrc: Orizaba.-- --Piedras Negras.--; lr: Frederic Remington.--/--Mexico--
Illustration Inscription: ul: Garden Gate--"Aguas Calientes"; uc: Poor Quarter City of Mexico.; ur: Gateway to Orizaba.; cl: A hacienda.--; c: Church front, City of Mexico.; ll: Stake and mud hut.; lrc: Orizaba.-- --Piedras Negras.--; lr: Frederic Remington.--/--Mexico--
Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Bell, gift to Uuniversity of Arizona in 1959; present owner
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: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken.
Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 30,
1974.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture.
Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
October 11 - November 12, 1967; traveling exhibit: Oshkosh, Williamstown.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture.
Oshkosh: Paine Art Center and Arboretum, August 1 - September 24, 1967;
traveling exhibit: Minneapolis, Williamstown.
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The Discovery of the West. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum,
March 1 - 31, 1961.
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The 19th Annual Tucson Festival Exhibition, A Collector's Exhibition:
The West--Past and Present. Tucson, Arizona: Tucson Art Center,
December 11, 1967 - January 31, 1968.
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How the West Was Won. New York, New York: Wildenstein & Co.,
May 22 - June 22, 1968.
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Utah and the West. Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah Museum of Fine
Arts, May 1 - October 1, 1976.
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Bibliographies
Gregg, Richard N. Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of
Painting and Sculpture. Oshkosh, Wisconsin: Paine Art Center
and Arboretum, 1967.
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McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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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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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Tucson Art Center. The 19th Annual Tucson Festival
Exhibition, A Collector's Exhibition: The West--Past and
Present. Tucson, Arizona: Tucson Art Center, 1967.
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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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The University of Arizona Museum of Art. Paintings and
Sculpture in the Permanent Collection with Selected Drawings and
Watercolors. Tucson, Arizona: The University of Arizona Museum of Art,
1983.
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Ballinger, James, K. Frederic Remington's Southwest. Phoenix,
Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, 1992.
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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.
