
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
The Mexican Major
Frederic Remington · 1889
Provenance
Ownership history
- W.R. Hearst Collection, New York. George F. Harding, Jr. (1868–1939), Chicago, by 1939 [Harding Collection no. 396]; 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
- New York, American Art Galleries, 1890
- Boston Art Club, 1891.
- 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.
- Phoenix Art Museum, <em>Frederic Remington’s Southwest</em>, Jan. 4–Mar. 15, 1992, James K. Ballinger, p. 44, 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 1890–1940</em>, June 28–Oct. 13, 2003, cat. 81, fig. 5, p. 85, 169.
Literature
Published references
- <em>Harper’s Weekly</em>, September 27, 1890, ill. p. 752.
- Henry C. Pitz, <em>Frederic Remington: 173 Drawings and Illustrations</em> (Dover Publications, Inc., 1972), ill. no. 113.
- 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. 964.
- 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. 00964.
Comparables
Related holdings by the same hand
Pony tracks
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The song of Hiawatha
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

On the Head-Waters--Burgess Finding a Ford
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pitched It Sheer into the River . . . Where It Still Is Seen in the Summer
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Wounded Bunkie
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Old Dragoons of 1850
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Cheyenne
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Broncho Buster
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum holdings, not sale records. Auction results are only shown when a licensed price source is connected.
Research assistant