American Art Collaborative

Painting by Frederic Remington, An Incident in the Opening up of a Cattle Country, 1887. Signed and dated in bottom right corner. Published in Century Illustrated Magazine, 1888 and in Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail by Theodore Roosevelt, 1888. This painting was one of five works the artist sent to the 1889 Paris Universal Exposition. The basic format on which later works such as The Last Lull in the Fight and Caught in the Circle would be based.