In the Limelight
Alternate Title: Buffalo Bill in the Limelight
Date: ca. 1899
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02409
Credit Line: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming
Dimensions: 27 1/4 x 40" (69.2 x 101.6 cm)
Illustration: Wetmore, Helen Cody. Last of the Great Scouts, 1899, opp. p. 243, halftone.
Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington.
Illustration Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington.
Provenance: (Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, New York, 1971); present owner
Exhibitions
Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the
Buffalo Bill Historical Center. New York, New York: IBM Gallery,
December 13, 1988 - February 25, 1989; traveling exhibit: Palm Springs,
Chicago, Denver, Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill
Historical Center. Palm Springs, California: Palm Springs Desert Museum,
January 12 - April 3, 1988; traveling exhibit: New York, Chicago, Denver,
Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo
Bill Historical Center. Chicago, Illinois: Terra Museum of American
Art, November 14, 1989 - January 7, 1990; traveling exhibit: New York, Palm
Springs, Denver, Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo
Bill Historical Center. Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum,
February 3 - April 1, 1990; traveling exhibit: New York, Palm Springs,
Chicago, Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the
Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Louisville, Kentucky: J. B. Speed Art
Museum, December 14, 1993 - February 13, 1994; traveling exhibit: New York,
Palm Springs, Chicago, Denver, Orlando.
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Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the
Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Orlando, Florida: Orlando Museum of
Art, December 5, 1992 - February 14, 1993; traveling exhibit: New York, Palm
Springs, Chicago, Denver, Louisville.
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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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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Brooklyn, New York: The Brooklyn Museum of
Art, November 18 1981 - January 17, 1982; traveling exhibit: Pittsburgh,
Denver, Oakland, Tulsa, Houston.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Museum of Art,
Carnegie Institute, February 13 - April 4, 1982; traveling exhibit: Brooklyn,
Denver, Oakland, Tulsa, Houston.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Denver, Colorado: Colorado Historical Society,
January - May 1983; traveling exhibit: Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Oakland, Tulsa,
Houston.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Oakland, California: The Oakland
Museum, June 17 - August 21, 1983; traveling exhibit: Brooklyn, Pittsburgh,
Denver, Tulsa, Houston.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The Gilcrease
Museum, December 18, 1983 - February 12, 1984; traveling
exhibit: Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Denver, Oakland, Houston.
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Art of the Wild West. Houston, Texas: Museum of Art of the American West,
March - June, 1984.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Frederic Remington: A Biography.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
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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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Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Frederic Remington Centennial Exhibition and Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by other Notable Documentary Artists of the Old West and Plains Indian Art. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 1961.
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Brooklyn Museum. Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Brooklyn,
New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1982.
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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frontier America:
Art Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill Historical
Center. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1898-1902. No. FRAM 71.840.
Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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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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Kort, Pamela and Max Hollein ed. I Like America. Fictions of the Wild West. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. New York: Prestel Publishing, 2006
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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.
