Captain Dodge's Colored Troopers to the Rescue
Alternate Title: The Charge of the 9th Cavalry--Relief of Thornbury's [sic] Command; Thornburgh's Command
Date: ca. 1891
Medium: tempera on academy board
Catalogue Number: 01270
Credit Line: Collection of the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
Dimensions: 19 5/16 x 36 11/16" (49 x 93.2 cm)
Illustration: Century Magazine (October 1891), p. 842, wood engraving.
Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON--
Illustration Inscription: ll: C STATE Sc; lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON--
Provenance: George G. Raymond; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, no. CA-621); Walter Wallace; [?]; Charles Stewart Mott; 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: 'The Soldier Artist.' West Point, New York: U.S.
Military Academy, May 19 - June 6, 1979.
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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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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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McCracken, Harold. The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial
History of the West. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.,
Inc., 1966.
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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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Remington ledger book of paintings, c. 1887-1892. No. 71.839. Frederic
Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Ballinger, James, K. Frederic Remington's Southwest. Phoenix,
Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, 1992.
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Downey, Fairfax. Indian-Fighting Army. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1941.
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Hassrick, Peter H. Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art. Washington: Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 2000
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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.
