The Gossips
Date: 1909
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02903
Credit Line: Gift in memory of Esther Paine LaCroix and Morris Felton LaCroix by Susanne LaCroix Phippen and Richard D. Phippen, 2012. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
Dimensions: 27 x 40" (68.6 x 101.6 cm)
Illustration: Scribner's Magazine (February 1910), p. 185, halftone.
Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington/1909
Illustration Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington
Provenance: The artist; Mr. William A. Paine, Boston, purchased at 1909 Knoedler; Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Phippen, Essex, Massachusetts; present owner by gift
Exhibitions
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: 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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Frederic Remington: The Late Years. Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum,
July 11 - August 30, 1981.
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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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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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McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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: The Late Years. Denver, Colorado:
Denver Art Museum, 1981.
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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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Earle, Helen L. Biographical Sketches of American Artists.
Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State Library, 1924.
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"Art Exhibitions. New Pictures by Two American Painters." New York Daily
Tribune, December 7, 1909, p. 7.
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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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Gerald Peters Gallery in association with Mongerson-Wunderlich
Galleries. Frederic Remington. Santa Fe, New Mexico: The Peters
Corporation, 1991.
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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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Cortissoz, Royal. American Artists. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1923.
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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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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.
