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Frederic Remington (1861 – 1909)
The Story of Where the Sun Goes (1907)
oil on canvas
27 × 36 inches
signed lower left

Verso:
Labels, various exhibitions

The Story of Where the Sun Goes is listed as number 2838 in the Frederic Remington Catalogue Raisonné.

PROVENANCE:
Frank Marion, Stamford, Connecticut, by 1911
Schweitzer Gallery, New York, New York
James Graham & Sons, New York, by 1963
L. R. French, Jr., Odessa, Texas, by 1967
Present owner, 1989

EXHIBITIONS:
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, December 1907
Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Cody, Wyoming, May 1 - September 15, 1963
Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, August 1 - September 24, 1967
Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Cody, Wyoming, 1974
Art of the Old West, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California, February-April 1987
Frederic Remington, The Color of Night: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 13 - July 13, 2003; The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, August 10 - November 9, 2003; The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, December 13, 2003 - March 14, 2004

LITERATURE:
Frederic Remington “The Story of Where the Sun Goes,” Collier’s Weekly, Vol. 40, No. 9 (P. F. Collier & Son, November 23, 1907), pages 18-19, illustrated color halftone
Harold McCracken, The Frederic Remington Book (Garden City, New York: 1966), page 91, plate 115, illustrated
Exhibition Catalog, Frederic Remington: A Catalogue (Oshkosh, WI: The Paine Art Center and Arboretum, 1967), no. 57, illustrated
Exhibition Catalog, Art of the Old West (Palm Springs, CA: Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1987), page 16, no. 5, illustrated
Peter H. Hassrick and Melissa J. Webster, Frederic Remington A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, Volume II (Cody, WY: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1996), page 817, illustrated halftone
Nancy K. Anderson, Frederic Remington, The Color of Night (Princeton, NJ: National Gallery of Art in association with Princeton University Press, 2003), pages 152-3, illustrated

202

Frederic Remington

1861 – 1909

The Story of Where the Sun Goes (1907)
oil on canvas
27 × 36 inches
signed lower left
Sold at Auction: $1,705,000
Condition ReportSurface condition excellent. Unlined, and original canvas. Spots of inpainting on lower-right corner at edge of frame. Three spots of inpainting in lower-left corner, along edge of frame. Two spots of inpainting along center of left edge.

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