Untitled ("The Old Transcontinentals," mules pulling freighter)
Alternate Title: The Old Transcontinental Freighter; Mule Train
Date: ca. 1890
Medium: pen and ink and graphite on paper
Catalogue Number: 01209
Credit Line: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Dimensions: 6 3/4 x 22 5/8" (17.2 x 57.5 cm)
Illustration: Outing (June 1903), p. 317, line engraving.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington
Provenance: John Mitchell, New York, New York; (Newhouse Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, 1950); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1950; 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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Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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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 Exhibition. Williamstown, Massachussetts: Sterling and Francine Clark
Art Institute, January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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Beyond the Endless River: Western American Drawings and Watercolors of
the Nineteenth Century. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum,
January 12 - February 18, 1979; traveling exhibit: San Diego, Wichita.
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Beyond the Endless River: Western American Drawings and Watercolors of the
Nineteenth Century. San Diego, California: San Diego Museum of Art,
March 10 - April 15, 1979; traveling exhibit: Phoenix, Wichita.
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Beyond the Endless River: Western American Drawings and Watercolors of
the Nineteenth Century. Wichita, Kansas: Wichita Art Museum, May
1 - June 15, 1979; traveling exhibit: Phoenix, San Diego.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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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California Historical Society. The West Remembered: Artists and
Images 1837-1973: Selections from the Collection of Earl C.
Adams. San Francisco, California: California Historical Society, 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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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.
