Watching the Dust of the Hostiles
Alternate Title: Watching the Dust of the Hostiles from the Bluffs of the Stronghold
Date: 1890
Medium: ink wash on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01138
Credit Line: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming
Dimensions: 20 3/8 x 26 5/8" (51.8 x 67.6 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (January 31, 1891), p. 89, halftone.
Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON.--/from sketch on stroghold/Dec. 27th 1890
Illustration Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON.--/from sketch on stroghold/Dec. 27th 1890
Provenance: The artist; Herbert and Vida Glass, Bullville, New York; Walter Buhl Ford III, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan; Henry Ford II, Dearborn, Michigan; present owner by gift
Exhibitions
Sights West: Presenting the Winchester Museum Collection. Cody,
Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, April - October 1976.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture.
Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
October 11 - November 12, 1967; traveling exhibit: Oshkosh, Williamstown.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture.
Oshkosh: Paine Art Center and Arboretum, August 1 - September 24, 1967;
traveling exhibit: Minneapolis, Williamstown.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and
Sculpture. Williamstown, Massachussetts: Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute, December 2 - 31, 1967; traveling exhibit: Oshkosh,
Minneapolis.
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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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Bibliographies
Gregg, Richard N. Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of
Painting and Sculpture. Oshkosh, Wisconsin: Paine Art Center
and Arboretum, 1967.
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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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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, Frederic. Pony Tracks. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1895.
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Antiques, vol. 90 (November 1966), p. 629.
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Remington to Frederick B. Schell, April 28, 1891. Denver Public Library,
Denver, Colorado, Western History Department.
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Neff, Emily Ballew Frederic Remington: The Hogg Brothers Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 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.
