The Unknown Explorers
Date: ca. 1905
Medium: original oil; image here of color lithograph
Catalogue Number: 02740
Credit Line: Photograph courtesy of Frederic Remington Art Museum
Illustration: Collier's Weekly (August 11, 1906), cover, color halftone.
Illustration Inscription: Unsigned
Provenance: No information available
Exhibitions
Catalogue of the Collier Collection: An Important Collection of
Original Drawings and Paintings by Distinguished American
Painters and Illustrators; Works Especially Executed for and
Exclusively Reproduced in Collier's Weekly. New York, New York: American Art
Galleries, American Art Association, November 4-11, 1905.
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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
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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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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Dippie, Brian W. Remington & Russell. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
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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.
