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Such as These the Shapes They Painted on the Birch-Bark and the Deer-Skin

Date: 1889

Medium: oil on canvas, b/w

Catalogue Number: 00873

Credit Line: Private Collection

Dimensions: 17 1/8 x 25 1/8 " (43.497 x 63.817 cm)

Illustration: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha, 1891, opp. p. 146, photogravure.

Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON./'89

Illustration Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON./'89


Provenance: Dr. Thornton Boileau, Detroit, Michigan: Linda Dupre, Auburn, Massachusetts; (Thomas Nygard Gallery, Bozeman, Montana, 1999); (J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, New York, 2001); present owner

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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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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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Copley Prints, Curtis and Cameron, Boston, copyright 1903 the Hiawatha paintings, reproduced as sepia photogravures, horizontal and vertical formats 6-3/4 x 9-1/2", 9-1/2 x 13-3/8", 14-1/8 x 19-7/8".
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Tatum, StephenIn the Remington Moment. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
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Anderson, Nancy K. George de Forest Brush- The Indian Paintings. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 2008
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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.