The Mexican Major
Date: 1889
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 00964
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, George F. Harding Collection
Dimensions: 34 1/4 x 49 1/8" (86.4 x 124.5 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (September 27, 1890), p. 752, halftone.
Inscription: ll: copyrighted-/FREDERIC REMINGTON-/'89.
Illustration Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON-/'89; lr: KURTZ
Provenance: (Wales Art Galleries, New York, New York, auction), 1909; William Randolph Hearst, New York, New York; George F. Harding, Chicago, Illinois; George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, Illinois; present owner
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Exhibitions
Harding Foundation, Medieval and Renaissance Armor and Weapons, Remington
Paintings, Bronzes and Drawings. Mt. Vernon, Illinois: Mitchell Museum,
December 5, 1981 - January 31, 1982.
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Forty-Third Exhibition: Oil Paintings. Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Art
Club, January 17 - February 14, 1891.
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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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American Paintings. New York, New York: American Art Galleries,
opened April 7, 1890.
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Bibliographies
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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American Art Association. American Paintings: Catalogue of
Paintings Exhibited by the Following American Artists: J. Wells
Champney, A. N. A.; William M. Chase, A. N. A.; Charles Melville
Dewey; C. Harry Eaton; F. K. M. Rehn; D. D. Millet, N. A.; Robt. C.
Minor, A. N. A.; H. R. Poore, A. N. A.; Frederick [sic] Remington;
Carleton Wiggins at the American Art Galleries}. New York:
American Art Association, 1890.
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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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Mitchell Museum. Harding Foundation, Medieval
and Renaissance Armor and Weapons, Remington Paintings, Bronzes
and Drawings. Mt. Vernon: Mitchell Museum, 1981.
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Ballinger, James, K. Frederic Remington's Southwest. Phoenix,
Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, 1992.
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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected
Letters. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1988.
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Boston Art Club. Forty-Third Exhibition: Oil Paintings. Boston:
Mills, Knight & Co., 1891.
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Remington to Frank Squires, January 30, 1890. The New-York Historical
Society, New York, New York.
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Brooklyn Art Club. Brooklyn Art Club Annual Exhibition at the
Art Association Galleries, Montague Street. Opening Monday Evening,
January 27 and Continuing Three Weeks. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Art
Club, 1890.
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Barter, Judith A. Window on the West : Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier 1890-1940, Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2003
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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.
