The Stampede by Lightning
Alternate Title: The Stampede
Date: 1908
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02872
Credit Line: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Dimensions: 27 x 40" (68.58 x 101.60 cm)
Illustration: Collier's Weekly (February 18, 1911), p. 8, color halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/1908-
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington
Provenance: The artist; Ray L. Skofield, Santa Barbara, California; Hobart O. Schofield, Santa Barbara, California, (Ray's son); (William MacBeth Gallery, New York, New York); Dr. Philip G. Cole Collection, Tarrytown, New York, 1934; Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1946; present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington Exhibition. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The Gilcrease
Museum, September 22, 1961.
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Paintings by Frederic Remington. New York, New York: M. Knoedler & Co.,
December 1-12, 1908.
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Exhibition of Paintings and Bronzes by Frederic Remington and
Charles M. Russell. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The Gilcrease Museum, May - October
1950.
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Treasures of the Old West. Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum,
January 7 - March 11, 1984; traveling exhibit: Cody.
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Treasures of the Old West. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical
Center, May 5 - September 20, 1984; traveling exhibit: Denver.
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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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Isaacson, Robert. Frederic Remington: A Painter of American
Life. New York: Robert Isaacson, privately printed, 1943.
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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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Broder, Patricia Janis. Great Paintings of the American Old
West. New York: Abbeville Press, 1979.
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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Treasures of the Old
West. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1984.
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M. Knoedler & Co. Paintings by Frederic Remington on Exhibition at
the Galleries of M. Knoedler & Co., 355 Fifth Ave., Corner 34th Street, New
York. December 1st until 12th inclusive 1908. New York: M.
Knoedler & Co., 1908.
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Hassrick, Peter H. The Way West. Art of Frontier America. New
York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1977.
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Rossi, Paul A. and David C. Hunt. The Art of the Old West: From
the Collection of the Gilcrease Institute. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1971.
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Remington diary, 1908. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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"Gallery Notes. Remington Paintings on View--Exhibit at Corcoran
Gallery." New York Times, December 2, 1908, p. 8.
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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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"An Artist of the Plains. Frederic Remington's Graphic Pictures at
the Knoedler's Galleries." New York Evening Post, December 3, 1908,
p. 9.
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The Craftsman, vol. 15, (January 1909), p. 501-502.
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Ward, Don. Cowboys and Cattle Country. New York: American
Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1961.
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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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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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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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Remington to Hobart O. Schofield, December 12, 1908. The
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Thomas Gilcrease Foundation. Exhibition of Paintings and Bronzes
by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. Tulsa, Oklahoma: Thomas
Gilcrease Foundation, 1950.
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Allen, Douglas. "Remington: An American Original." Step-By-Step
Graphics, vol. 5, no. 1 (January 1989), p. 118-125.
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Dykes, Jeff C. "Frederic Remington--Western Historian." American
Scene, vol. 4, no. 2 (summer 1961), p. 4-17.
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Dippie, Brian W. The Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York 2001
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Baigell, Matthew. The Western Art of Frederic Remington. New
York, New York: Ballantine Books, 1976.
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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.
