Roasting the Christmas Beef in a Cavalry Camp
Date: ca. 1892
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 01544
Credit Line: Yale University Art Gallery
Dimensions: 29-1/8" x 45-1/16" (74 x 114.5 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (December 24, 1892), p. 1236-37, halftone.
Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON--
Illustration Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON--; lr: KURTZ
Provenance: Mrs. Dorothy Knox Goodyear Rogers, Long Island, New York; 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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Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Water-Colors by Frederic Remington,
A. N. A.. New York, New York: The American Art Galleries, American Art
Association, January 6 - 13, 1893.
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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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American Art Association. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings,
Drawings and Water-Colors by Frederic Remington, A.N.A.. New York:
American Art Association, 1893.
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Yale University Art Gallery. A Checklist of American Paintings
at Yale University. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery,
1982.
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New York Times, January 14, 1893.
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"Remingtons and Bric-A-Brac: Hawashima Textiles and Paintings by
a Japanese." New York Times, January 9, 1893.
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"Frederic Remington's Paintings and Studies," New York Sun,
January 9, 1893, p. 6, col. 5.
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"Frederic Remington's Pictures." New York Evening Post,
January 10, 1893, p. 4.
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"Selling Remington's Pictures. Lively Bidding at the American
Gallery." New York Daily Tribune, January 14, 1893, p. 7.
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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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"Art Notes. Current Exhibitions." New York Press, [December 4, 1907]. Author possibly Wm. B. McCormack, art critic and editor of International Studio.
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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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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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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.