A Post Office in the "Cow Country"
Alternate Title: Latest News
Date: ca. 1901
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02566
Credit Line: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming
Dimensions: 27 3/8 x 40 3/8" (63.53 x 102.55 cm)
Illustration: Collier's Weekly (October 5, 1901), p. 12-13, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington./Big Horn Basin-
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington
Provenance: The artist; Mr. and Mrs. Frederic B. Hussey, prior to 1930; descended through family to William Magee (grand-nephew of Husseys), Anchorage, Alaska, 1970; present owner
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Exhibitions
Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Musuem, December 29, 1980 - February
15, 1981.
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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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The American Cowboy. Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress,
March 26 - October 2, 1983; traveling exhibit: San Antonio, Denver,
Calgary, San Jose.
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The American Cowboy. San Antonio, Texas: Institute of Texan
Cultures, University of Texas, December 1, 1983 - January 31, 1984;
traveling exhibit: Washington, D.C., Denver, Calgary, San Jose.
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The American Cowboy. Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum, March
7 - April 29, 1984; traveling exhibit: Washington, D.C., San Antonio,
Calgary, San Jose.
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The American Cowboy. Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Glenbow-Alberta
Institute, June 4 - July 27, 1984; traveling exhibit: Washington, D.C., San
Antonio, Denver, San Jose.
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The American Cowboy. San Jose, California: San Jose Museum of Art,
September 3 - October 26, 1984; traveling exhibit: Washington, D.C., San
Antonio, Denver, Calgary.
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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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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. Done in the Open: Drawings by Frederic
Remington. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, Publishers, 1902.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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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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Collier Catalogue of prints, some called "artist's proofs," of
varying sizes in b/w or color on pebbled art paper or board of Remington
paintings illustrated in Collier's Weekly - see Collier print
file for listing and individual painting record for print info.
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Wister, Owen. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains. New York:
The Macmillan Company, new edition, 1929.
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Wister, Owen. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains. New
York: The MacMillan Company, 1911.
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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.
