The Frontier Guard and Custom-House
Date: 1892
Medium: ink wash on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01547
Credit Line: Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York
Dimensions: 22 x 30" (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (January 1893), p. 307, halftone.
Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington/Schmelkin--; lc: Why we lef Russia The frontier guard & custom house; lc: the custom-house
Illustration Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington/Schmeltkin--
Provenance: (City Book Auction, New York, New York); Remington Art Memorial, Ogdensburg, New York, 1946; 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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Remington Art Museum. The Remington Art Museum: 50th Anniversary.
Ogdensburg, New York: Archie Lee Stobie and Mildred E. Dillenbeck, 1973.
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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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Bigelow, Poultney. The Borderland of the Czar and Kaiser. New
York: Harper and Brothers, copyright 1894, published 1895.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, c. 1887-1892. No. 71.839. Frederic
Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected
Letters. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1988.
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Dippie, Brian W. The Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York 2001
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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.
