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The Pioneers

Alternate Title: The Missouri River Adventures; The Coming of the Traders

Date: ca. 1903

Medium: oil

Catalogue Number: 02706

Illustration: Collier’s Weekly (February 13, 1904), p. 18-19, color halftone.

Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington-

Illustration Inscription: lr: –Frederic Remington–


Provenance: No information available

Exhibitions

Special Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Frederick [sic] Remington}. New York, New York: Noe Art Galleries, March 14-24, 1904.
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Bibliographies

Remington Art Memorial. A Catalogue of the Frederic Remington Memorial
Collection
. New York: Privately Printed for the Remington
Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York, by the M. Knoedler Galleries, 1954.
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McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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McCracken, Harold. The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial
History of the West
. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.,
Inc., 1966.
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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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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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Noe Art Galleries. Special Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Frederick
[
sic] Remington from March Fourteenth to Twenty-sixth Inclusive}. New
York: Noe Art Galleries, 1904.
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Remington diary, 1908. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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“Paintings by Remington. Grim Tragedies of the Plains Told in Strong Colors,” New York Times, March 15, 1904.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1903-1909. No. FRAM 1918.266.
Frederic Remington Art Museum archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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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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Collier catalgoue of prints, some called “artist’s proofs,”
of varying sizes in b/w or color on pebble art paper or board of
Remington paintings illustrated in Collier’s Weekly.
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Remington, Frederic. Remington Portfolio of Drawings. New
York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1904, portfolio of three full-color 5 x
7-1/2″ prints on soft mat: The Pioneers}, The Santa Fe Trade},
The Gathering of the Trappers} with The Creek Indian} illus. on
cover.
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Vail, R. W. G. Frederic Remington: Chronicler of the Vanished
West
. New York: The New York Public Library, 1929. (Reprinted March,
1929, from the the Bulletin} of The New York Public Library,
February, 1929, pages 71-75, where it appeared under the title:
“The Frederic Remington Collection.”
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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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McKown, Robin. Painter of the Old West. New York: Julia
Messner, Inc., 1959.
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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.

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