The Old Stage-Coach of the Plains
Date: 1901
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02590
Credit Line: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Dimensions: 40 1/4 x 27 1/4" (102.2 x 69.2 cm)
Illustration: Century Magazine (January 1902), frontispiece, color halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington
Provenance: The artist; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York); George P. Messervy, New York, New York; Mrs. C. T. Jeffrey, New York, New York; (William O'Brien Gallery, Chicago, Illinois); (James Graham & Sons, New York, New York, 1946); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1946); present owner
Exhibitions
How the West Was Made: Fact and Fiction in the Works of
Remington and Russell. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
May 14 - August 7, 1994.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. St. Louis, Missouri: Saint Louis
Art Museum, March 11 - May 22, 1988; traveling exhibit: Cody, Houston,
New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill
Historical Center, June 17 - September 5, 1988; traveling exhibit: St.
Louis, Houston, New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine
Arts, October 15, 1988 - January 8, 1989; traveling exhibit: St.
Louis, Cody, New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. New York, New York: The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, February 10 - April 16, 1989; traveling exhibit: St. Louis,
Cody, Houston.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. College Station, Texas: Memorial Student
Center, Texas A & M University, November 12 - December 10, 1962.
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Remington and Russell. Corpus Christi, Texas: Art Museum of
South Texas, September 5 - October 2, 1963.
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The Opening of the West. Birmingham, Alabama: Birmingham Museum of Art,
October 27 - December 1, 1963.
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Remington and Russell. Roswell, New Mexico: Roswell Museum and
Art Center, October 26 - November 30, 1963.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Staunton, Virginia: Mary Baldwin College,
1964.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah,
November 1 - 30, 1964; traveling exhibit: Portland, Stanford.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Portland, Oregon: Portland Art Museum,
January 15 - February 15, 1965; traveling exhibit: Salt Lake City, Stanford.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Stanford, California: Stanford Art Gallery
and Museum, March 29 - April 18, 1965; traveling exhibit: Salt Lake
City, Portland.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech Museum,
February 22 - March 22, 1972.
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Western art exhibition. Dallas, Texas: Republic National Bank of Dallas,
October 6 - 12, 1972.
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Frontier America: The Far West. The Netherlands: Haags Gemeentemuseum,
March 15 - May 15, 1976; traveling exhibit: Zurich; Munich; Vienna.
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Frontier America: The Far West. Zurich, Switzerland: Kunsthaus,
June 15 - August 15, 1976; traveling exhibit: The Netherlands; Munich;
Vienna.
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Frontier America: The Far West. Munich, West Germany: Haus der Kunst,
September 15 - November 15, 1976; traveling exhibit: The Netherlands; Zurich;
Vienna.
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Frontier America: The Far West. Vienna, Austria: Osterreichisches
Museum fur angewandte Kunst, January 19 - March 31, 1977; traveling exhibit:
The Netherlands; Zurich; Munich.
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West Comes East: Frontier Painting and Sculpture from the Amon Carter
Museum. Worcester, Massachusetts: Worcester Art Museum, April 25 -
June 24, 1979.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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Fort Worth, Texas: Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Fort Worth Public
Library, 1950.
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Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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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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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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Amon Carter Museum. Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas:
Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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Hassrick, Peter. Frederic Remington: Painting, Drawings and
Sculpture in the Amon Carter and Sid W. Richardson Foundation Collections.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1973.
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Hassrick, Peter H. The Way West. Art of Frontier America. New
York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1977.
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Hassrick, Peter. Frederic Remington. An essay and catalogue to
accompany a retrospective exhibition of the work of Frederic
Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1973.
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Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Catalogue of the Collection
1972. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art,
1973.
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Philip Morris. Remington. London: Leo Burnett Limited, 1981.
European film.
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Meyer, Susan E. America's Great Illustrators. New York:
Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1978.
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Baker, Donna. Artists in Our World, Frederic Remington.
Chicago, Illinois: Children's Press, 1977.
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Nemerov, Alexander. Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century
America. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995.
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Carlsen, Robert. Encounters. New York: McGraw-Hill Book
Company, 1984.
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Hassrick, Peter. "Remington in the Southwest." Southwestern Historical
Quarterly, vol. 76, no. 3 (January 1973), p. 297-314.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1903-1909. No. FRAM 1918.266.
Frederic Remington Art Museum archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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The Saint Louis Art Museum in conjunction with the Buffalo Bill
Historical Center. Frederic Remington: The Masterworks.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1988.
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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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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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Gerald Peters Gallery in association with Mongerson-Wunderlich
Galleries. Frederic Remington. Santa Fe, New Mexico: The Peters
Corporation, 1991.
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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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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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Cantwell, Robert. "He Went to See the West Die". Sports
Illustrated, vol. 43, no. 6, (August 11, 1975), p. 55-63.
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Baigell, Matthew. The Western Art of Frederic Remington. New
York, New York: Ballantine Books, 1976.
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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.