The Great Explorers. IV-Raddison
Alternate Title: Radisson and Groseiller; Pierre Raddison; Exploring the Lakes
Date: 1905
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02780
Credit Line: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming
Dimensions: 17 x 29 3/4" (43.2 x 75.6 cm)
Illustration: Collier's Weekly (January 13, 1906), p. 8, color halftone.
Inscription: ll: --Frederic Remington--
Illustration Inscription: ll: --Frederic Remington--
Provenance: The artist; Mr. Daniel McCoy, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Mr. Ralph McCoy (son), Grand Rapids, Michigan; Mrs. Ralph (Julia McDonald) McCoy, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Mrs. Margaret McCoy Frank (daughter of Julia McCoy), Rockville, Maryland; present owner
Exhibitions
Frontier America: Art Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo
Bill Historical Center. Chicago, Illinois: Terra Museum of American
Art, November 14, 1989 - January 7, 1990; traveling exhibit: New York, Palm
Springs, Denver, Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo
Bill Historical Center. Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum,
February 3 - April 1, 1990; traveling exhibit: New York, Palm Springs,
Chicago, Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the
Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Orlando, Florida: Orlando Museum of
Art, December 5, 1992 - February 14, 1993; traveling exhibit: New York, Palm
Springs, Chicago, Denver, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the
Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Louisville, Kentucky: J. B. Speed Art
Museum, December 14, 1993 - February 13, 1994; traveling exhibit: New York,
Palm Springs, Chicago, Denver, Orlando.
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Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the
Buffalo Bill Historical Center. New York, New York: IBM Gallery,
December 13, 1988 - February 25, 1989; traveling exhibit: Palm Springs,
Chicago, Denver, Orlando, Louisville.
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Frontier America: Art and Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill
Historical Center. Palm Springs, California: Palm Springs Desert Museum,
January 12 - April 3, 1988; traveling exhibit: New York, Chicago, Denver,
Orlando, Louisville.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. St. Louis, Missouri: Saint Louis
Art Museum, March 11 - May 22, 1988; traveling exhibit: Cody, Houston,
New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill
Historical Center, June 17 - September 5, 1988; traveling exhibit: St.
Louis, Houston, New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine
Arts, October 15, 1988 - January 8, 1989; traveling exhibit: St.
Louis, Cody, New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. New York, New York: The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, February 10 - April 16, 1989; traveling exhibit: St. Louis,
Cody, Houston.
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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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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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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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Hassrick, Peter H. "Frederic Remington's Studio: A Reflection."
The Magazine Antiques, vol. 5, no. 146 (November 1994), p.
666-673.
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Palm Springs Desert Museum. Art of the Old West from the L. R.
French, Jr., Collection. Palm Springs, California: Palm Springs Desert
Museum, 1987.
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American Art Association. Catalogue of the Collier Collection.
New York: American Art Association, 1905.
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Nemerov, Alexander. Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century
America. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995.
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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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The Saint Louis Art Museum in conjunction with the Buffalo Bill
Historical Center. Frederic Remington: The Masterworks.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1988.
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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frontier America:
Art Treasures of the Old West from the Buffalo Bill Historical
Center. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988.
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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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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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Remington, Frederic. Frederic Remington 4 Pictures. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1907. Portfolio: Radisson and Groseilliers}; The Parley}; The Howl of the Weather}; Downing the Nigh Leader} plus four prints by C. D. Gibson.
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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected
Letters. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1988.
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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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Hassrick, Peter H. Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art. Washington: Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 2000
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Points West, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Spring, 2013
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Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Go West! Art of the American Frontier, Cody, WY: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 2013
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Hassrick, Peter H. The Frederic Remington Studio, rev. ed.
Cody: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 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.