A Cavalryman's Breakfast on the Plains
Date: ca. 1892
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 01347
Credit Line: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Dimensions: 22 1/8 x 32 1/8" (56.2 x 81.6 cm)
Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON-
Provenance: The artist; (American Art Galleries, New York, New York, 1893); Walter Edwards, New York, New York, 1893; Mrs. Walter (Camilla Davis Leonard) Edwards, New York, New York; William Henry Leonard Edwards (son), New York, New York; Mrs. Wm. Henry L. (Susan Sherman White) Edwards (widow), New York, New York; Jonathan Walter Edwards (son), New York, New York, until 1950; Mrs. A. A. Kelly, New York, New York, 1950; (Newhouse Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, 1950); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1950; present owner
Exhibitions
Fourteenth Exhibition. New York, New York: Society of American
Artists, 1892.
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Frederic Remington's Southwest. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum,
January 4 - March 15, 1992; traveling exhibit: Memphis, Omaha.
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Frederic Remington's Southwest. Memphis, Tennessee: Memphis Brooks Museum
of Art, April 19 - June 21, 1992; traveling exhibit: Phoenix, Omaha.
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Frederic Remington's Southwest. Omaha, Nebraska: Joslyn Art Museum,
July 11 - September 6, 1992; traveling exhibit: Phoenix, Memphis.
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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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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 exhibition. Midland, Texas: Midland Public Library,
April 1 - 30, 1963.
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Remington and Russell. Corpus Christi, Texas: Art Museum of
South Texas, September 5 - October 2, 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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Western Art Exhibition. Topeka, Kansas: Topeka Gallery of Fine Arts,
April 1 - 30, 1974.
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Remington and Russell. Corpus Christi, Texas: Art Museum of South Texas,
October 11 - December 3, 1974.
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200 Years of American Illustration. New York, New York: The
New-York Historical Society Museum, September 10, 1976 - April 15, 1977.
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Masters of Western Art. San Angelo, Texas: Angelo State University,
June 16 - 29, 1977.
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Western Heritage Art Fair. Littleton, Colorado: July 14 - 16, 1978.
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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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The Passing of the Great West. Coral Gables, Florida: Lowe Art Museum,
University of Miami, October 2 - November 9, 1975.
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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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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. The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial
History of the West. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.,
Inc., 1966.
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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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Persimmon Hill, vol. 10, no. 3 (summer 1980).
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Art Museum of South Texas. Remington and Russell. Corpus
Christi, Texas: Art Museum of South Texas, 1974.
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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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Society of American Artists. Fourteenth Exhibition. New York,
New York: Society of American Artists, 1892.
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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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"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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Lowe Art Museum. The Passing of the Great West. Miami,
Florida: University of Miami, 1975.
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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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"Remingtons and Bric-A-Brac: Hawashima Textiles and Paintings by
a Japanese." New York Times, January 9, 1893.
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"Frederic Remington's Paintings and Studies," New York Sun,
January 9, 1893, p. 6, col. 5.
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Philip Morris. Remington. London: Leo Burnett Limited, 1981.
European film.
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Dippie, Brian E. "Frederic Remington's Wild West." American
Heritage, vol. 26, no. 3 (April 1975).
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Schomaekers, Gunter. A Pictorial History of the Old West of the
U.S.. Dorheim-Hessen, West Germany: Ahnert-Verlag, 1972.
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Baker, Donna. Artists in Our World, Frederic Remington.
Chicago, Illinois: Children's Press, 1977.
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Utley, Robert M. and Wilcomb E. Washburn. The Indian Wars.
American Heritage Publishing Co., n. d.
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Howze, William. "John Ford's Celluloid Canvas." Southwest Media
Review, vol. 3 (spring 1985).
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Bold, Christine. Selling the Wild West: Popular Western
Fiction, 1860-1960. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana
University Press, 1987.
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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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"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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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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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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Ballinger, James, K. Frederic Remington's Southwest. Phoenix,
Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, 1992.
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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected
Letters. New York: Abbeville Press, 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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Erisman, Fred. Frederic Remington. Boise State University
Western Writers Series. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, no.
16, 1975, p. 5-43.
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The Henry Art Gallery. Myth of the West intro. by Chris Bruce. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. 1990
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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.