"Tom Kicked Away the Stirrups and Grasped the Low Branch of a Live-Oak Tree"
Alternate Title: Tom Kicked Away at the Stirrups; Tom's Ride
Date: ca. 1888
Medium: gouache on illustration board, b/w
Catalogue Number: 00278
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 15-1/2 x 12-1/2" (39.4 x 31.8 cm)
Illustration: St. Nicholas Magazine (March 1888), p. 358, wood engraving.
Inscription: ll: Remington-; handwritten on reverse: "Tom Kicked Away the Stirrups and Grasped the Low Branch of a Live Oak/Tree"/Illustration for page 358 "St Nicholas Magazine" March 1888/Article Title, "Tom's Ride"/Robert E. Tenny, artist Frederic Remington/Sold
Illustration Inscription: ll: Remington
Provenance: The artist; {Century Magazine}; E. Gottschalk, New York; Kern Dodge, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (purchased from Gottschalk in January, 1918); (J.W. Young Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, 1946); Robert Peters, Phoenix, Arizona; (Parke-Bernet, New York, New York, 1971); (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, New York); present owner
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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Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. Important 18th, 19th and Early
20th Century American Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors and
Sculpture. New York, sale 3255 (October 27-28, 1971).
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National Museum of American Art. Inventory of American
Paintings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. On-line
computer database in progress; BBHC copy for Remington's paintings
dates October 10, 1984.
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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.
