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"The Captain Was a Gentleman and a Scholar, But He Didn't Look the Part"

Date: ca. 1899

Medium: ink wash on paper, b/w

Catalogue Number: 02466

Credit Line: R. W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana

Dimensions: 14 1/2 x 12 1/4" (36.8 x 31.1 cm)

Illustration: Harper's Monthly (January 1900), p. 267, halftone.

Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.--

Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.--


Provenance: Mr. R. W. Norton, Jr., Shreveport, Louisiana; 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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Dippie, Brian W., intro. Frederic Remington: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. Shreveport, Louisiana: Norton Art Gallery, 1979.
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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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Remington, Frederic. Men with the Bark On. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900.
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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.