
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001413The Mexican Major
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left: "Copyrighted/ Frederic Remington/ '89"
Provenance
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.
Exhibition history
New York, American Art Galleries, 1890 Boston Art Club, 1891. 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. Phoenix Art Museum, Frederic Remington’s Southwest, 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, Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier 1890–1940, June 28–Oct. 13, 2003, cat. 81, fig. 5, p. 85, 169.
Publications
Harper’s Weekly, September 27, 1890, ill. p. 752. Henry C. Pitz, Frederic Remington: 173 Drawings and Illustrations (Dover Publications, Inc., 1972), ill. no. 113. 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. 964. Peter H. Hassrick, et al., Frederick Remington Catalogue Raisonné, accessed May 5, 2020, http://remington.centerofthewest.org, cat. 00964.
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
- 1889
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 87 × 124.8 cm (34 1/4 × 49 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- New York
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- George F. Harding Collection
- Accession no.
- 1982.804
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