"The Moose Could Hear Him Coming for an Hour"
Alternate Title: Bull Moose, Listening
Date: ca. 1899
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02431
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 24 x 20" (61.0 x 50.8 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (June 1899), p. 100, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington--
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington--
Provenance: (Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, October 22, 1969; [?]; Gilbert De Lucia, New York, New York, 1976; (Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, New York, October 27, 1977); 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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Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. American 19th & 20th Century
Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors & Sculpture. New York, sale
4038 (October 27, 1977).
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Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. Important 19th and 20th Century
American Paintings & Sculpture: Various Owners, Including Mr.
and Mrs. Kirk Shivell; Estate of the Late Eliza Howard Burd . . . .
New York, sale 2914 (October 22, 1969).
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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.
