Conjuring Back the Buffalo
Alternate Title: Conjuring the Buffalo Back; Prayer to the Great Spirit
Date: 1889
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 00982
Credit Line: Tacoma Art Museum, Haub Family Collection, Gift of Erivan and Helga Haub
Dimensions: 35 x 20" (88.9 x 50.8 cm)
Illustration: Century Magazine (August 1892), p. 571, wood engraving.
Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON/Bow River-Can. Far North West
Illustration Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON/H DAVIDSON S
Provenance: The artist; Horace G. Young, Albany, New York (personal friend of Remington); (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York, 1960); Mrs. Norman B. Woolworth, New York, New York; (Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, New York); Private Collection; (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 1992); (James Graham & Sons, New York, New York, December 1992); Erivan and Helga Haub, Tacoma, Washington; present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington. Chicago, Illinois: Mongerson-Wunderlich, in association
with Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 21 - July 31, 1991;
traveling exhibit: Santa Fe.
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Frederic Remington. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Gerald Peters Gallery, in
association with Mongerson-Wunderlich, Chicago, Illinois, May 3 -
June 11, 1991; traveling exhibit: Chicago.
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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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Fifth Prize Fund Exhibition. American Paintings and Sculpture. New
York, New York: American Art Galleries, 1889.
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How the West Was Won. New York, New York: Wildenstein & Co.,
May 22 - June 22, 1968.
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American Paintings. New York, New York: American Art Galleries,
opened April 7, 1890.
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The American Painting Collection of Mrs. Norman B. Woolworth.
New York, New York: Coe Kerr Gallery, 1970.
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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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Bibliographies
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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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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Gerdts, William H. The American Painting Collection of Mrs. Norman
B. Woolworth. New York: Coe Kerr Gallery Inc., 1970.
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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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The Daily Graphic, April 29, 1889.
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American Art Galleries. Fifth Prize Fund Exhibition. American
Paintings and Sculpture. New York: American Art Galleries,
1889.
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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 ledger book of paintings, 1908-1909. No. FRAM 71.837. Frederic
Remington Art Museum Archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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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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Remington ledger book of paintings, c. 1887-1892. No. 71.839. Frederic
Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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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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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.
