The Advance-Guard, or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush)

1. Frederic Remington, 1890; E.H. Wales, 1893. George F. Harding, Jr. (1868–1939), Chicago, by 1939 [Harding Collection no. 405]; 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.

• St. Louis, 1892.
• New York, American Art Galleries, 1893.
• 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. 405.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Frederic Remington</em>, Sept. 1–Oct. 11, 1982, no cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/2838/window-on-the-west-chicago-and-the-art-of-the-new-frontier-1890-1940"><em>Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890-1940</em></a>, June 10–Oct. 16, 2003, cat. 73.
• Shanghai Museum, <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 8.

• <em>New York Times</em> (January 9, 1893).
• <em>New York Daily Tribune</em> (January 14, 1893), 7, col. 5.
• <em>New York Sun</em> (January 14, 1893), 2, col. 7.
• <em>New York Times</em> (January 14, 1893), 8, col. 4.
• Frederic Remington, “The Advance Guard, or The Military Sacrifice,” <em>Harper’s Weekly</em> (September 16, 1893), 886, ill., 888–889.
• Remington, 1895, 55 (ill.).
• Earle 1924, 265.
• Downey, 1941, ill. opp. p. 234 as <em>The Ambush</em>.
• Frederic Remington, <em>Pony Tracks</em> (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961), ill.
• Harold McCracken, <em>The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial History of the West</em> (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966), no. 212.
• Peggy and Harold Samuels, ed. <em>The Collected Writings of Frederic Remington</em> (Doubleday, 1979), 110, ill.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Annual Report, 1982–83</em> (Chicago, 1983), fig. 20, 26, ill.

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