
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001409A Mexican Vaquero
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right: "Copyright 1890 / By/ Frederic Remington"
Provenance
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.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings and Bronzes by Frederic Remington Lent by the George F. Harding Museum, June 21–Oct. 10, 1969. Mt. Vernon, Ill., Mitchell Museum, Harding Foundation, Medieval and Renaissance Armor and Weapons, Remington Paintings, Bronzes and Drawings, Dec. 5, 1981–Jan. 31, 1982, cat. no. 405. Art Institute of Chicago, Frederic Remington, Sept. 1–Oct. 11, 1982, no cat. Corning, NY, The Rockwell Museum, Remington’s West, Sept. 6–Nov. 4, 1984, Michael Duty, p. 6, ill. Phoenix Art Museum, Frederic Remington’s Southwest, 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, Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier 1890–1940, June 28–Oct. 13, 2003, cat. 82, fig. 4, p. 84, 169.
Publications
Theodore Ayrault Dodge, “Some American Riders,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 83 (July 1891), 204–214, ill. p. 209. Harold McCracken, Frederic Remington, Artists of the Old West (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1947), 130. Harold McCracken, The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial History of the West (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1966), 184, no. 261. Peter H. Hassrick and Melissa J. Webster, Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, Volume I (Buffalo Bill Historical Center / University of Washington Press, 1996), no. 1165. Peter H. Hassrick, et al., Frederick Remington Catalogue Raisonné, accessed May 5, 2020, http://remington.centerofthewest.org, cat. 01165.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Frederic Remington (American, 1861–1909)
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 82.6 × 58.4 cm (32 1/2 × 23 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- New York
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- George F. Harding Collection
- Accession no.
- 1982.799
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