A Native Sportsman
Alternate Title: The Possum Hunter
Date: ca. 1894
Medium: pen and ink wash on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01859
Credit Line: Courtesy Sotheby's New York
Dimensions: 12 x 6" (30.5 x 15.2 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (September 1894), p. 627, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/"West. Virginia".
Illustration Inscription: Unsigned
Provenance: Private Collection (father); to Private Collection (son), by descent; (Sotheby's, New York, New York, May 20, 1998); present owner
Exhibitions
Paintings and Drawings by Frederic Remington, A. N. A.. New York,
New York: The American Art Galleries, American Art Association,
November 14-19, 1895.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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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American Art Association. Catalogue of a Collection of Original Works
in Black and White, Water-Color and Oil by Frederic Remington, A.
N. A.. New York: American Art Association, 1895.
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Ralph, Julian. Dixie or Southern Scenes and Sketches. New
York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896.
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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.