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"I Shall Do My Best to Set Down Exactly What Happens"

Alternate Title: News from the Front

Date: ca. 1902

Medium: pen and ink on paper

Catalogue Number: 02664

Credit Line: Private Collection

Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 15" (22.2 x 38.1 cm)

Illustration: Colliers Weekly (January 11, 1902), p. 14, line engraving.

Inscription: lc: F. Remington

Illustration Inscription: lc: F. Remington


Provenance: Alec Dzieman, Southampton, Long Island, New York; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, no. WCA-2433); present owner

Exhibitions

Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 30, 1974.
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Bibliographies

McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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McCracken, Harold. The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial History of the West. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1966.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Frederic Remington: A Biography. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1974.
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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, Frederic. Done in the Open: Drawings by Frederic Remington. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, Publishers, 1902.
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Hassrick, Peter. Frederic Remington. An essay and catalogue to accompany a retrospective exhibition of the work of Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1973.
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Edgerton, Giles. "Frederic Remington. Painter and Sculptor: A Pioneer in Distinctive American Art." The Craftsman, vol. 15, (March 1909), p. 658-670.
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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.