Sources & Further Study

Primary institutional resources

Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York — Major collection, biography, exhibitions, and object information.
Smithsonian American Art Museum — Digital collection records and essays for Remington paintings and sculpture.
National Gallery of Art — Collection records, exhibition materials, and scholarly context.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Object entries and essays on American art and western representation.
Amon Carter Museum of American Art — Important western-art collections and interpretive resources.
Buffalo Bill Center of the West — Collections and scholarship on western art and visual culture.

Research topics

Remington’s transition from illustration to painting and sculpture
The production and casting of his bronzes
His use of photography, models, and studio reconstruction
Nocturnes and late-career painterly experimentation
The role of illustrated magazines in constructing western mythology
Indigenous representation and the politics of frontier imagery
Comparisons with Charles M. Russell and other western artists

Reliable reference works to seek

Museum collection catalogues and exhibition catalogues devoted to Remington
Scholarly biographies from university or museum presses
Catalogues raisonnés for paintings, drawings, and sculpture
Peer-reviewed articles on American art, western history, and visual culture
Indigenous-authored histories of the Plains, Southwest, and U.S. military expansion

Object-analysis template

When adding a specific work, capture:

Artist and title
Date
Medium
Dimensions
Collection and accession number
Provenance and exhibition history
Subject and historical setting
Formal analysis
Primary-source evidence
Scholarly interpretation
Indigenous and alternative perspectives
Citation and access date

Note on citations

Use museum collection pages and published catalogues for exact dates, dimensions, titles, and ownership. Titles such as The Broncho Buster may refer to multiple casts or versions, so cite the specific object record rather than relying on a generalized title.