Remington Catalogue
Buying Polo Ponies in the West
Alternate Title: Horse Muster; Bronco and Dude, Choosing Polo Ponies
Date: ca. 1905
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02745
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 27 x 40″ (68.6 x 101.6 cm)
Illustration: Collier’s Weekly (March 5, 1910), p. 24-25, color halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington–
Illustration Inscription: Unsigned
Provenance: The artist; Carl Graham Fisher, Indianapolis, Minnesota; Private
Collection; present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken.
Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 – September 30,
1974.
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Collier Collection of Original Drawings and Paintings by
Distinguished American Painters and Illustrators. Indianapolis,
Indiana: John Herron Art Institute, February 2-23, 1907.
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How the West Was Won. New York, New York: Wildenstein & Co.,
May 22 – June 22, 1968.
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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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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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Wildenstein & Co. How the West Was Won, Paintings,
Watercolors, and Bronzes by Frederic Remington and Charles M.
Russell. New York: Wildenstein & Co., 1968.
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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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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1908-1909. No. FRAM 71.837. 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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John Herron Art Institute. Catalogue of the Collier Collection
of Original Drawings and Paintings by Distinguished American
Painters and Illustrators. Indianapolis: John Herron Art
Institute, 1907.
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Hassrick, Peter H. Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art. Washington: Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 2000
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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.