Remington Catalogue
Down Brakes!
Alternate Title: A Rocky Mountain Mule on a Down Grade
Date: ca. 1888
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 00333
Credit Line: The Brinton Museum, Big Horn, Wyoming
Dimensions: 16-3/4 x 15-1/4" (42.55 x 38.74 cm)
Illustration: Century Magazine (June 1888), p. 207, wood engraving.
Inscription: lr: Remington
Illustration Inscription: lr: Remington
Provenance: Bradford Brinton; Helen Brinton, 1936; the Helen Brinton Trust, 1961; present owner
Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Frederic Remington: A Biography.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
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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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Roosevelt, Theodore. Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail. New
York: The Century Co., 1888.
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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.