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Prospecting for Cattle Range

Alternate Title: The Prospectors

Date: 1889

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: 00430

Credit Line: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming

Dimensions: 29 1/4 x 50 1/4″ (74.3 x 127.7 cm)

Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON/’89


Provenance: The artist; Milton E. Milner, Montana; (Harry Sickles c. 1910); Herschel
Jones, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Peter Ronald, Louisville, Kentucky
(grandson of Herschel Jones); (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York,
New York, 1958); (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York); C. V. Whitney,
Lexington, Kentucky; present owner by gift, 1960

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Exhibitions

Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill
Historical Center
. Palm Springs, California: Palm Springs Desert Museum,
January 12 – April 3, 1988; traveling exhibit: New York, Chicago, Denver,
Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo
Bill Historical Center
. Chicago, Illinois: Terra Museum of American
Art, November 14, 1989 – January 7, 1990; traveling exhibit: New York, Palm
Springs, Denver, Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo
Bill Historical Center
. Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum,
February 3 – April 1, 1990; traveling exhibit: New York, Palm Springs,
Chicago, Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
. New York, New York: IBM Gallery,
December 13, 1988 – February 25, 1989; traveling exhibit: Palm Springs,
Chicago, Denver, Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
. Orlando, Florida: Orlando Museum of
Art, December 5, 1992 – February 14, 1993; traveling exhibit: New York, Palm
Springs, Chicago, Denver, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
. Louisville, Kentucky: J. B. Speed Art
Museum, December 14, 1993 – February 13, 1994; traveling exhibit: New York,
Palm Springs, Chicago, Denver, Orlando.
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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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200 Years of American Painting. Fresno, California: Fresno Arts Center,
November 20 – December 30, 1977.
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Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Musuem, December 29, 1980 – February
15, 1981.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Brooklyn, New York: The Brooklyn Museum of
Art, November 18 1981 – January 17, 1982; traveling exhibit: Pittsburgh,
Denver, Oakland, Tulsa, Houston.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Museum of Art,
Carnegie Institute, February 13 – April 4, 1982; traveling exhibit: Brooklyn,
Denver, Oakland, Tulsa, Houston.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Denver, Colorado: Colorado Historical Society,
January – May 1983; traveling exhibit: Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Oakland, Tulsa,
Houston.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Oakland, California: The Oakland
Museum, June 17 – August 21, 1983; traveling exhibit: Brooklyn, Pittsburgh,
Denver, Tulsa, Houston.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The Gilcrease
Museum, December 18, 1983 – February 12, 1984; traveling
exhibit: Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Denver, Oakland, Houston.
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Art of the Wild West. Houston, Texas: Museum of Art of the American West,
March – June, 1984.
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How the West Was Won. New York, New York: Wildenstein & Co.,
May 22 – June 22, 1968.
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Frederic Remington Centennial Exhibition. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo
Bill Historical Center, May 1 – September 15, 1961.
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The Land of Buffalo Bill: Inaugural Loan Exhibition of Paintings,
Watercolors and Sculpture
. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical
Center, May 15 – September 15, 1959.
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Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Notable Documentary
Artists of the Old West and Plains Indian Art
. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo
Bill Historical Center, May 1 – September 15, 1960.
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Bibliographies

McCracken, Harold. The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial
History of the West
. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.,
Inc., 1966.
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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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Hassrick, Peter. “The Buffalo Bill Historical Center.” The American
West
, vol. 14, no. 3 (May/June 1977), p. 16-29.
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Fresno Arts Center. 200 Years of American
Painting
. Fresno, California: Fresno Arts Center, 1977.
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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and
Sculpture by Notable Documentary Artists of the Old West and Plains
Indian Art
. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1960.
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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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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frontier America:
Art Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill Historical
Center
. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988.
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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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Points West, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Spring, 2013
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Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Go West! Art of the American Frontier, Cody, WY: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 2013
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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.