Remington Catalogue
A “Government Six” Mired Down
Date: ca. 1896
Medium: watercolor on paper board
Catalogue Number: 02117
Credit Line: U. S. Naval Academy, Anapolis, Maryland
Dimensions: 22 x 29 3/4″ (55.88 x 75.56 cm)
Illustration: The Cosmopolitan (February 1897), p. 353, halftone.
Inscription: lr: To the Ward-Room U.S.S.S. “Raleigh”/from the Master-Gunner.–/Frederic Remington–
Illustration Inscription: lr: –Frederic Remington–
Provenance: The artist; Officers’ Wardroom, USS Raleigh, commissioned U.S. Naval Ship
(decommissioned in 1921 and watercolor transfered to Naval Academy);
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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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. The Collected Writings of Frederic
Remington. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
1979.
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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.