Frederic Remington
Santa Del Inca – Roping Cattle at Punta Negra

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Artist Frederic Remington (American, 1861–1909)American, 1861–1909

CultureAmerican

Titles

Santa Del Inca – Roping Cattle at Punta Negra

Datec. 1895

MediumPen and ink, watercolor, and gouache with graphite on wove paper

DimensionsOverall: 16 × 21 in. (40.6 × 53.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Duncan W. Corbett

Object number2024.63

Not on view

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Department

American Art

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenanceThe artist, c. 1890; [sold at a New York gallery, possibly Henderson Galleries, 1936]1; Harrison Eiteljorg (1903-1997)2; Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, 1989-20123; [Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, 2012 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, July 21, 2012, lot 228]; purchased by Duncan Corbett, July 21, 2012; given to MFAH, 2024.

1. A backing paper removed from Roping Cattle at Punta Negra during conservation in 1991 featured a taped-on image of the work with an inscription whose first line reads “Sale 1936 N.Y.” Its second line appears to read either “Aiderson Galleries” or “Henderson Galleries.” A Henderson Galleries existed at 63 Ardsley Court in New York as of 1927, when it advertised a sale of antiques in a publication of the American Type Founders Company, but more research is necessary to determine whether this was where the Remington was sold.

2. Indianapolis businessman and philanthropist Harrison Eiteljorg developed an appreciation for Western art through travel in the region galvanized by his role in the coal industry. As his collection of art, artifacts, furniture, and bronzes grew, he began displaying portions of it publicly, first in a gallery in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, then in the Harrison Eiteljorg Gallery of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which opened in 1976. Eiteljorg’s dream of a permanent home for his collection came to fruition in June 1989 with the opening of the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, in whose planning, building, and staffing he had been intimately involved.

3. According to Rebekah Ryan, Collections Manager at the Eiteljorn Museum, the museum’s exhibition history was tracked only haphazardly until the early 2000s, but records indicate that Roping Cattle at Punta Negra was shown in the Eiteljorg’s American West Gallery for an indeterminate period of time between 1991 and 2004, placed in storage, then displayed for the final time from 2006 to 2008 in the Gund Gallery. It was deaccessioned in early 2012 with the justification that the work’s South American subject matter made it “not appropriate to the mission” of the Eiteljorg.
Exhibition HistoryN/A
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Signed in ink, left bottom edge: FREDERIC REMINGTON

None known

Catalogue raisonnéHassick and Webster 1072

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