The Blanket Signal
Date: 1909
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02894
Credit Line: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Bequest of Stephen and Priscilla Davies Paine in memory of William A. and Ruth Ward Paine
Dimensions: 28 x 40" (71.1 x 101.6 cm)
Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington/1909
Provenance: The artist; (M. Knoelder & Co., New York, New York); Mr. and Mrs. William Alfred Paine, Boston, Massachusetts, purchased at 1909 Knoedler; Stephen and Priscilla Paine, Boston Massachusetts; present owner
Exhibitions
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.
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. Williamstown, Massachussetts: Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute, December 2 - 31, 1967; traveling exhibit: Oshkosh,
Minneapolis.
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Paintings by Frederic Remington. New York, New York: M. Knoedler &
Co., November 29 - December 11, 1909.
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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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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Frederic Remington: A Biography.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
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M. Knoedler & Co. Paintings by Frederic Remington on Exhibition at
the Galleries of M. Knoedler & Co., 355 Fifth Avenue, Corner of 34th Street,
New York. November 29th to December 11th, 1909 inclusive. New
York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1909.
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Remington 1909 diary. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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"New Paintings Shown by Mr. Remington." New York Herald,
December 9, 1909, p. 5.
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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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List of paintings shown in 1909 Knoedler exhibit. In Remington's
hand and found in ledger book FRAM 71.837. Frederic Remington Art Museum
Archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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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.
