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A Bull-Fight in Mexico

Alternate Title: Death in the Afternoon; Corrida

Date: 1889

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: 00461

Credit Line: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California

Dimensions: 24 x 32" (61 x 81.3 cm)

Illustration: Harper's Weekly (June 1, 1889), p. 432-33, wood engraving.

Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON/City of MEXICO '89

Illustration Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON/MEXICO '89


Provenance: (John Nicholson Galleries, New York, New York, 1950, as {Death in the Afternoon}); Levison Collection; (Hirschl & Aldler, New York, New York, 1959); present owner

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Exhibitions

Frederic Remington's Southwest. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, January 4 - March 15, 1992; traveling exhibit: Memphis, Omaha.
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Frederic Remington's Southwest. Memphis, Tennessee: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, April 19 - June 21, 1992; traveling exhibit: Phoenix, Omaha.
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Frederic Remington's Southwest. Omaha, Nebraska: Joslyn Art Museum, July 11 - September 6, 1992; traveling exhibit: Phoenix, Memphis.
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New York, New York: Schneider-Gabriel Galleries, 1946.
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The Far West: Exhibition of Paintings and Bronzes. New York, New York: M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., November 15 - December 4, 1954.
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Two Hundred Years. Santa Barbara, California: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1961.
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Bibliographies

McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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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Mead, Katherine Harper, ed. (The Preston Morton Collection of American Art. Santa Barbara, California: The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1981.
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Two Hundred Years. Santa Barbara, California: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1961.
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Ballinger, James, K. Frederic Remington's Southwest. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, 1992.
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Antiques, (November 1959).
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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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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.