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An Indian Trapper

Date: 1889

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: 00981

Credit Line: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

Dimensions: 49 x 34 1/8" (124.5 x 86.7 cm)

Illustration: Harper's Monthly (May 1891), p. 855, wood engraving.

Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON--/'89

Illustration Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON--/'89; lr: F.R


Provenance: The artist; Samuel B. Duryea, Brooklyn, New York, 1890; [?]; (David B. Findlay Galleries, New York, New York 1952); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1952; present owner

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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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Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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Amerykanski Zachod (American West}, from the Amon Carter Museum). Poland: Wystawa Zorganizowana Przez Museum, 1974.
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Brooklyn Art Club Annual Exhibition at the Art Association Galleries. Brooklyn, New York: Brooklyn Art Club, January 27 - February 15, 1890.
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American Paintings. New York, New York: American Art Galleries, opened April 7, 1890.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Odessa, Texas: Ector County Library, April 8 - 14, 1962.
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Remington and Russell exhibition. Midland, Texas: Midland Public Library, April 1 - 30, 1963.
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Remington and Russell. Roswell, New Mexico: Roswell Museum and Art Center, October 26 - November 30, 1963.
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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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Remington and Russell exhibition. Plainview, Texas: Wayland Baptist College, April 15 - May 16, 1966.
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Paintings and Drawings by Frederic Remington and C.M. Russell from the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Boise, Idaho: Boise Art Association, October 1966; traveling exhibit: Billings, Pullman.
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Paintings and Drawings by Frederic Remington and C.M. Russell from the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Billings, Montana: Yellowstone Art Center, November, 1966; traveling exhibit: Boise, Pullman.
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Paintings and Drawings by Frederic Remington and C. M. Russell from the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Pullman, Washington: Washington State University, December 1966; traveling exhibit: Boise, Billings.
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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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The Russell Years, 1864-1926. Great Falls, Montana: C.M. Russell Gallery, May 1 - 28, 1969.
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Remington Exhibition. Williamstown, Massachussetts: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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The Westward Expansion. San Jose, California: San Jose Museum of Art, July 25 - August 31, 1975.
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Masters of Western Art. San Angelo, Texas: Angelo State University, June 16 - 29, 1977.
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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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The Mountain Man Exhibition. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, April 30 - September 30, 1978.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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How the West Was Won. New York, New York: Wildenstein & Co., May 22 - June 22, 1968.
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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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Harper's Weekly, (January 8, 1910).
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True, the Man's Magazine, (May 1954).
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McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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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Amon Carter Museum. Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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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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Garland, Hamlin. The Book of the American Indian. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923.
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Persimmon Hill, vol. 10, no. 3 (summer 1980).
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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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Wildenstein & Co. How the West Was Won, Paintings, Watercolors, and Bronzes by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. New York: Wildenstein & Co., 1968.
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American Art Association. American Paintings: Catalogue of Paintings Exhibited by the Following American Artists: J. Wells Champney, A. N. A.; William M. Chase, A. N. A.; Charles Melville Dewey; C. Harry Eaton; F. K. M. Rehn; D. D. Millet, N. A.; Robt. C. Minor, A. N. A.; H. R. Poore, A. N. A.; Frederick [sic] Remington; Carleton Wiggins at the American Art Galleries}. New York: American Art Association, 1890.
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Maxwell, Perriton. "Frederic Remington: Most Typical of American Artists." Pearson's Magazine, (October 1907), p. 394-407.
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Earle, Helen L. Biographical Sketches of American Artists. Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State Library, 1924.
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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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Meyer, Susan E. America's Great Illustrators. New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1978.
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Baker, Donna. Artists in Our World, Frederic Remington. Chicago, Illinois: Children's Press, 1977.
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"Frederic Remington: His Life and Art." Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People, (November 1982).
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Fronval, George. Les Peaux-Rouges. Paris, France: Fernand Nathan Editeur, 1972.
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Fronval, George. La Veritable Histoire des Indiens Peaux-Rouges. Paris, France: Fernand Nathan Editeur, 1973.
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Getlein, Frank. "Images of the Old West Painted While It Was Still There." Smithsonian Magazine, vol. 3, no. 2 (May 1972), p. 36-43.
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"Southwest Scene." Dallas Morning News, Sunday supplement, August 12, 1973.
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Pike, Donald G. "Images of an Era: The Mountain Man." The American West Magazine, vol. 12, no. 5 (September 1975).
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Amarillo Sunday News-Globe, August 2, 1982.
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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 to Samuel B. Duryea, February 17, 1890. Private collection.
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Dodge, Col. Theodore Ayrault. Riders of Many Lands. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, copyright 1893, published 1894.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, c. 1887-1892. No. 71.839. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Remington to Samuel B. Duryea, March 3, 1889. Private collection.
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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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New York Herald, January 28, 1890.
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Amon Carter Museum. Amerykanski Zachod, (American West}). Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1974.
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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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Remington to Frank Squires, January 30, 1890. The New-York Historical Society, New York, New York.
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Brooklyn Art Club. Brooklyn Art Club Annual Exhibition at the Art Association Galleries, Montague Street. Opening Monday Evening, January 27 and Continuing Three Weeks. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Art Club, 1890.
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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.

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