The Advance-Guard, or the Military Sacrifice
Alternate Title: (The Advance, or the Military Sacrifice; The Ambush, altern.)
Date: 1890
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 01207
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, George F. Harding Collection
Dimensions: 34 3/8 x 48 1/2" (87.3 x 123.2 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (September 16, 1893), p. 888-889, halftone.
Inscription: ll: --FREDERIC REMINGTON-/1890-
Illustration Inscription: ll: --FREDERIC REMINGTON-/1890-
Provenance: The artist; Edward H. Wales, purchased at AAG 1893 for $250; [?]; George Harding Collection, Chicago, Illinois; present owner
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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St. Louis Exposition 1892, Ninth Annual Exhibition. St. Louis,
Missouri: St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall, September 7 -
October 22, 1892.
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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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McCracken, Harold. The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial
History of the West. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.,
Inc., 1966.
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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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Remington, Frederic. Pony Tracks. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1895.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. The Collected Writings of Frederic
Remington. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
1979.
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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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"Mr. Remington's Pictures. Something Less that 100 Works Fetch
Something More than $7,000." New York Sun, January 13,
1893, p. 2, col. 7.
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New York Times, January 14, 1893.
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Earle, Helen L. Biographical Sketches of American Artists.
Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State Library, 1924.
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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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"Selling Remington's Pictures. Lively Bidding at the American
Gallery." New York Daily Tribune, January 14, 1893, p. 7.
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St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall Association. Catalogue of
the Art Collection of the St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall
Association. Ninth Annual Exhibition. St. Louis: St. Louis Exposition and
Music Hall Association, 1892.
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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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Mitchell Museum. Harding Foundation, Medieval
and Renaissance Armor and Weapons, Remington Paintings, Bronzes
and Drawings. Mt. Vernon: Mitchell Museum, 1981.
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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected
Letters. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1988.
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Downey, Fairfax. Indian-Fighting Army. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1941.
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Remington to Frederick B. Schell, November 7, 1891. Denver Public
Library, Denver, Colorado, Western History Department.
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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.
