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Frederic Remington

An Incident in the Opening up of a Cattle Country

1887

Oil on panel

17 1/4 in x 24 7/8 in (43.8 cm x 63.5 cm)

Museum purchase

87.46.1

Autry Museum of the American West

Art and Artifacts

Painting by Frederic Remington, An Incident in the Opening up of a Cattle Country, 1887. Signed and dated in bottom right corner. Published in Century Illustrated Magazine, 1888 and in Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail by Theodore Roosevelt, 1888. This painting was one of five works the artist sent to the 1889 Paris Universal Exposition. The basic format on which later works such as The Last Lull in the Fight and Caught in the Circle would be based.

cowboys--shooting

horses

Art of the West selected works from the Autry Museum / edited by Amy Scott ; foreword by Stephen Aron ; afterword by Brian W. Dippie. page 88

Remington, Russell and the language of Western art Peter H. Hassrick page 80

South Dakota History 2002 Fall, vol. 32, no. 3. page 230

West-fever Brian W. Dippie ; introduction by James H. Nottage. page 70

La mythologie de l’Ouest dans l’art américain, 1830-1940 sous la direction de Laurent Salomé ; [auteurs, Joan Carpenter Troccoli ... et al.]. page 81

Frederic Remington a catalogue raisonne / edited by Peter H. Hassrick ; With Contributions by Sarah E. Boehme, Doyle L. Buhler, Laura F. Fry, Peter H. Hassrick, B. Byron Price, Melissa W. Speidel, and Ron Tyler ; Foreword by Bruce B. Eldredge. page 18

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