The Grass Fire
Alternate Title: Backfiring
Date: 1908
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02888
Credit Line: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Dimensions: 27 1/8 x 40 1/8" (68.9 x 101.9 cm)
Illustration: Collier's Weekly (April 3, 1909), p. 8, color halftone.
Inscription: ll: Copyrighted [illegible] by P.F. Collier; lr: Frederic Remington/1908--
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/1908--
Provenance: The artist; (M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, New York); [?]; (David B. Findlay Galleries, New York, New York, 1949); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1949; present owner
Exhibitions
How the West Was Made: Fact and Fiction in the Works of
Remington and Russell. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
May 14 - August 7, 1994.
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Remington and Russell. Roswell, New Mexico: Roswell Museum and
Art Center, October 26 - November 30, 1963.
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Charles Russell Exhibition. McAllen, Texas: McAllen State Bank,
March 1 - April 4, 1964.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah,
November 1 - 30, 1964; traveling exhibit: Portland, Stanford.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Portland, Oregon: Portland Art Museum,
January 15 - February 15, 1965; traveling exhibit: Salt Lake City, Stanford.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Stanford, California: Stanford Art Gallery
and Museum, March 29 - April 18, 1965; traveling exhibit: Salt Lake
City, Portland.
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Governor for a Day Ceremonies. Austin, Texas: State Capitol,
April 19, 1969.
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Remington and Russell. Tyler, Texas: Tyler Museum of Art,
October 16 - December 26, 1972.
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Fakes and Forgeries. Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Minneapolis Institute of
Arts, July 11 - September 29, 1973.
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Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water. Spokane, Washington: 1974 World's Fair
Exposition, May 1 - November 1, 1974.
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The American Personality. Los Angeles, California: Grunwald Center for the
Graphic Arts, University of California, October 12 - December 12, 1976.
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Masters of Western Art. San Angelo, Texas: Angelo State University,
June 16 - 29, 1977.
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Western Heritage Art Fair. Littleton, Colorado: July 14 - 16, 1978.
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West Comes East: Frontier Painting and Sculpture from the Amon Carter
Museum. Worcester, Massachusetts: Worcester Art Museum, April 25 -
June 24, 1979.
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Between Friends. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The Gilcrease Museum, July 19 -
September 19, 1982.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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Paintings by Frederic Remington. New York, New York: M. Knoedler & Co.,
December 1-12, 1908.
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Bibliographies
Remington Art Memorial. A Catalogue of the Frederic Remington Memorial
Collection. New York: Privately Printed for the Remington
Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York, by the M. Knoedler Galleries, 1954.
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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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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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Schriever, George. "Russell Remington." Southwest Art, (May 1977),
p. 40-55.
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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. Frederic Remington. An essay and catalogue to
accompany a retrospective exhibition of the work of Frederic
Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1973.
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Remington diary, 1908. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Catalogue of the Collection
1972. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art,
1973.
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Philip Morris. Remington. London: Leo Burnett Limited, 1981.
European film.
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Schomaekers, Gunter. A Pictorial History of the Old West of the
U.S.. Dorheim-Hessen, West Germany: Ahnert-Verlag, 1972.
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Hassrick, Peter. "Remington in the Southwest." Southwestern Historical
Quarterly, vol. 76, no. 3 (January 1973), p. 297-314.
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Byer, Robert S. "Fakes & Forgeries." International Travel
Magazine, vol. 3, p. 6.
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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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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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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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Gerald Peters Gallery. Remington the Years of Critical Acclaim. Singapore: Asiaprint Ltd. 1998
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IFAR Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, 2011
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Points West, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Spring, 2013
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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.
