The Bear at Bay
Alternate Title: Roping a Grizzly
Date: ca. 1894
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01932
Credit Line: T. Boone Pickens
Dimensions: 25 1/8 x 35 1/4" (63.8 x 89.6 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (July 1895), p. 245, wood engraving.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington
Illustration Inscription: ll: Aikman--Sc; lr: Frederic Remington
Provenance: The artist; F. F. Cary, New York, New York, purchased at 1895 AAG; [?]; George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, Illinois; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; (Sotheby's, New York, New York, 2009); present owner
Exhibitions
Paintings and Drawings by Frederic Remington, A. N. A.. New York,
New York: The American Art Galleries, American Art Association,
November 14-19, 1895.
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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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Dippie, Brian W., intro. Frederic Remington: Paintings, Drawings
and Sculpture. Shreveport, Louisiana: Norton Art Gallery, 1979.
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Remington, Frederic. Pony Tracks. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1895.
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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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American Art Association. Catalogue of a Collection of Original Works
in Black and White, Water-Color and Oil by Frederic Remington, A.
N. A.. New York: American Art Association, 1895.
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New York Times, November 21, 1895.
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"Remington's Works Sold." New York Herald, November 20, 1895),
p. 7.
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Roosevelt, Theodore. Good Hunting. New York: Harper & Brothers
Publishers, 1907.
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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.
