The Map in the Sand
Alternate Title: Map in the Sand
Date: ca. 1905
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02768
Credit Line: Cincinnati Art Museum; Bequest of William J. Williams and gift of the Williams Family in his honor, 2012
Dimensions: 2603/4 x 49" (67.9 x 124.5 cm)
Illustration: Collier's Weekly (March 18, 1905), p. 16, halftone.
Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington.
Illustration Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington.
Provenance: The artist; Thomas Newbury; Elizabeth Newbury (daughter); (Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, 1959); W. J. Williams Family Collection, Cincinnati, Ohio; present owner
Exhibitions
Art Students League of New York Centennial Exhibition. New York,
New York: Art Students League, March 6 - 29, 1975.
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Cincinnati Collects Paintings. Cincinnati, Ohio: Cincinnati Art Museum,
March 30 - May 22, 1983.
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How the West Was Won. New York, New York: Wildenstein & Co.,
May 22 - June 22, 1968.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture.
Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
October 11 - November 12, 1967; traveling exhibit: Oshkosh, Williamstown.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture.
Oshkosh: Paine Art Center and Arboretum, August 1 - September 24, 1967;
traveling exhibit: Minneapolis, Williamstown.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and
Sculpture. Williamstown, Massachussetts: Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute, December 2 - 31, 1967; traveling exhibit: Oshkosh,
Minneapolis.
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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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Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken.
Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 30,
1974.
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Special Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Frederick [sic] Remington.
New York, New York: Noe Art Galleries, March 20 - April 1, 1905.
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The Land of Buffalo Bill: Inaugural Loan Exhibition of Paintings,
Watercolors and Sculpture. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical
Center, May 15 - September 15, 1959.
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Bibliographies
Gregg, Richard N. Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of
Painting and Sculpture. Oshkosh, Wisconsin: Paine Art Center
and Arboretum, 1967.
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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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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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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. The Collected Writings of Frederic
Remington. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
1979.
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Noe Galleries. Special Exhibition of Recent Paintings
by Frederick [sic] Remington from March Twentieth to April First,
1905, inclusive at the Noe Galleries}. New York: Noe Art
Galleries, 1905.
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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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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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Kennedy Galleries Inc. "Sections of American Nineteenth Century
Paintings from our Current Stock." The Kennedy Quarterly, vol. 1,
no. 1 (December 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.
