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The Old Dragoons of 1850

Frederic Remington · Modeled 1905, cast 1906–7

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist, New Rochelle, NY; sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1907; given back to the artist, 1907 [according to Tolles 1999, the artist swapped it for another 1907 cast]. Tiffany and Co., New York, by March 9, 1922; sold to George F. Harding, Jr. (1868–1939), Chicago, 1922; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, by 1939 [Harding Collection no. 552]; transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings, and Bronzes by Frederic Remington Lent by the George F. Harding Museum, June 21–Oct. 10, 1969, no cat.
Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, Illinois, George F. Harding Museum: Medieval and Renaissance Armor and Weapons, Remington Paintings, Bronzes and Drawings, Dec. 5, 1981–Jan. 31, 1982, cat. 552.
Art Institute of Chicago, Frederic Remington: Painting and Sculpture from the George F. Harding Collection, Sept. 1, 1982–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 28–Oct. 13, 2003, cat. 84.

Literature

“Complete List of Accessions, February 25 to March 25, 1907,” Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2, 4 (April 1907), 74–75.
Michael Edward Shapiro, Cast and Recast: The Sculpture of Frederic Remington (Washington DC: The Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981), 107.
Mitchell Museum, George F. Harding Museum: Medieval and Renaissance Armor and Weapons, Remington Paintings, Bronzes and Drawings, (Mt. Vernon, IL: Mitchell Museum, 1981), 19, cat. 552.
Charles Leroux, “Remington Legacy Rounded up for Art Institute Show,” Chicago Tribune, September 3, 1982, C3.
Michael D. Greenbaum, Icons of the West: Frederic Remington's Sculpture (Ogdensburg, NY: Frederic Remington Art Museum, 1996), 189.
Lauretta Dimmick, Donna J. Hassler, and Thayer Tolles, American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ed. Thayer Tolles (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999), 386, 388.
Judith A. Barter, <em>Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890–1940</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago; New York and Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills Press, 2003), 88, 89, 97, 99, 169, 183, cat. 84, fig. 10.

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