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A Mexican Vaquero
Frederic Remington (American, 1861–1909)LinkedCulture matchlcp-9c671eda15f1
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- New York
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 97907
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
A trip to Mexico in 1889 provided Frederic Remington with a wealth of firsthand material for paintings and illustrations created later in his New York studio. Here Remington depicted a vaquero, a Mexican horseman similar to the cowboys of the American frontier. The figure sits astride his horse at an elevated position, his head and torso above the horizon, outlined by the pale blue sky behind him. Portraying the man with a direct gaze and his hand on the reins, Remington suggested that the vaquero was a fixture of the local terrain. The artist created a version of A Mexican Vaquero as a wood engraving, which appeared in Harper’s Monthly in 1891.
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- Credit line
- George F. Harding Collection
- Provenance
- George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, by 1982; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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American Western and Military ArtThese objects are connected through their depiction of American frontier life, military subjects, and Western themes, primarily from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with several works appearing to be by Frederic
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