
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
A Mexican Vaquero
Frederic Remington · 1890
Provenance
Ownership history
- George F. Harding, Jr. (1868–1939), Chicago, by 1939 [Harding Collection no. 400]; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, 1939 [the museum closed in 1964 and the collection was placed in storage in Chicago and New York]; transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 30, 1982 [incoming receipt, RX13605, July 30, 1982; copy in curatorial object file]; accessioned by the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Paintings and Bronzes by Frederic Remington Lent by the George F. Harding Museum</em>, June 21–Oct. 10, 1969.
- Mt. Vernon, Ill., Mitchell Museum, <em>Harding Foundation, Medieval and Renaissance Armor and Weapons, Remington Paintings, Bronzes and Drawings</em>, Dec. 5, 1981–Jan. 31, 1982, cat. no. 405.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Frederic Remington</em>, Sept. 1–Oct. 11, 1982, no cat.
- Corning, NY, The Rockwell Museum, <em>Remington’s West</em>, Sept. 6–Nov. 4, 1984, Michael Duty, p. 6, ill.
- Phoenix Art Museum, <em>Frederic Remington’s Southwest</em>, Jan. 4–Mar. 15, 1992, James K. Ballinger, p. 36, ill.; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Apr. 19–June 12, 1992; Omaha, Neb., Joslyn Art Museum, July 11–Sept. 6, 1992.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier</em> 1890–1940, June 28–Oct. 13, 2003, cat. 82, fig. 4, p. 84, 169.
Literature
Published references
- Theodore Ayrault Dodge, “Some American Riders,” <em>Harper’s New Monthly Magazine</em>, 83 (July 1891), 204–214, ill. p. 209.
- Harold McCracken, <em>Frederic Remington, Artists of the Old West</em> (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1947), 130.
- Harold McCracken, <em>The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial History of the West</em> (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1966), 184, no. 261.
- Peter H. Hassrick and Melissa J. Webster, <em>Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, Volume I</em> (Buffalo Bill Historical Center / University of Washington Press, 1996), no. 1165.
- Peter H. Hassrick, et al., <em>Frederick Remington Catalogue Raisonné</em>, accessed May 5, 2020, <a href="http://remington.centerofthewest.org">http://remington.centerofthewest.org</a>, cat. 01165.
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