Holding Up the Pay Escort
Alternate Title: The Hold Up
Date: 1895
Medium: watercolor on paper
Catalogue Number: 02009
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 20 x 28 3/4" (50.8 x 73.0 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (November 1895), p. 852, halftone.
Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington
Illustration Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington
Provenance: (American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, 1938); Howard Moorepark, Hollywood, California; Walter Reed Bimson, Phoenix, Arizona; Valley National Bank of Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona; present owner
Exhibitions
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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American Historical Paintings Illustrating Pioneer & Sporting
Life in America During the XVIII-XIX Century. New York, New York:
American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., January 27, 1938.
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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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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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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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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Bimson, Walter. The West and Walter Bimson. Tucson, Arizona:
The University of Arizona Museum of Art, 1971.
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American West, (May 16, 1977), p. 26-27.
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Wister, Owen. Red Men and White. New York: Harper & Brothers
Publishers, copyright 1895, published 1896.
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American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc. American
Historical Paintings Illustrating Pioneer and Sporting Life in
America During the XVIII - XIX Century Including Splendid
Examples of the Work of A. F. Tait, George Durrie, Louis Maurer,
William Tylee Ranney, Samuel Colman, Edward Savage, Frederic
Remington & Some of the Well-Known Portrait Painters Together
With Examples of Pioneer or Backwoods Art Sold By Order of
Several Consignors To Be Sold at Auction Thursday Evening,
January Twenty-Seventh at Eight-Fifteen O'Clock. New York, sale
4368 (January 27, 1938).
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Ballinger, James, K. Frederic Remington's Southwest. Phoenix,
Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, 1992.
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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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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.