Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2013 Finding the Real Frederic Remington By Peter H. Hassrick Back in the mid-1980s, the then-named Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, embarked on an ambitious exhibition plan to reveal the hidden talents of American artist Frederic Remington. In his lifetime, Remington was revered mostly as the “pictorial […]
Please note: Peter Hassrick passed away in 2019. He is greatly missed. One might question whether Peter Hassrick realizes he’s retired; clearly his Buffalo Bill Center of the West “director emeritus” title fools no one. There’s more than an honorary title here—there’s real work involved. Hassrick, the Center’s Director Emeritus and a Senior Scholar, continues […]
Melissa J. Webster Catalogue raisonné, a French term, literally means “reasoned catalogue”1 and is translated as descriptive catalogue. A catalogue raisonné lists and often illustrates either a particular category of an artist’s work or the entire oeuvre. The Remington catalogue raisonné includes signed oils, watercolors and drawings by the artist. It also includes any unsigned oils, watercolors and […]