Remington Catalogue
The Navajo Indians
Alternate Title: Scenes of Navajo Life
Date: ca. 1890
Medium: pen and ink on paper
Catalogue Number: 01052
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 16 1/2 x 25" (42.0 x 63.5 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (July 5, 1890), p. 528, line engraving.
Inscription: ll: "The Navajo Church"--natural rock/"Havotacks"--natural rock formation.--; uc: Mounted Navajo.--; c: A Navajo Warrior.; lc: A Navajo Scout./Frederic Remington/--from photographs by Witteck & Son and other sources.-- cr: --Navajo Boys with Sheep.--C
Illustration Inscription: uc: Mounted Navajo.--; c: Navajo Warrior.; lc: A Navajo Scout.; cr: --Navajo boys with sheep.--Cradle; ll: "The Navajo Church"--natural rock/"Havotacks"--natural rock formation--; lr: --Navajo "Hogan" or lodge.--
Provenance: (KBT); (James Graham & Sons, New York, New York); (Texas Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas); (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, New York); [?]; (Kodner Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri); present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken.
Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 30,
1974.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frederic Remington: An Exhibition
Honoring Harold McCracken. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center,
1974.
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Card, Helen L. "Frederic Remington, 1861-1909: Artist Historian of the Old West." Scrapbooks of Remington illustrations, compiled c. 1944. Vol. 1-5. The Metropolitan Musem of Art, New York, New York.
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Tatum, Stephen. In the Remington Moment. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
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The information presented here is based on the Catalogue Raisonné edited by Peter Hassrick in 2016 and was accurate to the best of our knowledge at that time.