Remington Catalogue
Pursuing the Indians
Alternate Title: Guarding the Supply Train
Date: ca. 1896
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02055
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 27 x 40″ (68.6 x 101.6 cm)
Illustration: Miles, Gen. Nelson A. Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, 1896, p. 269, halftone.
Inscription: lr: –Frederic Remington
Illustration Inscription: ll: The Werner Company; lr: –Frederic Remington
Provenance: Private Collection, Chicago; (Kende Galleries, New York, New York,
September 28-29, 1945); [?]; Private Collection; (James Graham &
Sons, New York, New York); Hal Wallis, Los Angeles, California;
(on loan to John Wayne until 1982); (Troy’s Cowboy Art Gallery, Arizona;
private collection; (Ace Powell Galleries, Kalispell, Montana); Private
Collection, Kalispell, Montana; (Jim Browne, Bigfork Art and Auction,
Bigfork, Montana, 1988); present owner
Exhibitions
American Paintings in Los Angeles Collections. Los Angeles,
California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 7 – June 30, 1974.
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Collector’s Choice. Palm Springs, California: Palm Springs Desert Museum,
January 24 – February 15, 1976.
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First Annual Bigfork Art and Auction. Bigfork, Montana: Bigfork Art and
Cultural Center, August 21, 1988.
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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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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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Wildenstein & Co. How the West Was Won, Paintings,
Watercolors, and Bronzes by Frederic Remington and Charles M.
Russell. New York: Wildenstein & Co., 1968.
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“Montana’s First Bigfork Art Show a Success.” Antiques West,
vol. 8, no. 11 (November 1988).
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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Remington, Frederic. Rotogravure. Akron, OH: The Werner Co.,
c. 1898, undated portfolio of 14 b/w photogravures, 16 x 23″
previously published in Personal Recollections of General Nelson
A. Miles}.
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Remington, Frederic. Remington’s Frontier Sketches. Intro. by
George S. Rowe. Chicago: The Werner Co., 1898. Contains 15
Remington plates, b/w, 9-1/2 x 12-1/2″, unpaginated, previously published
in Personal Recollections of Nelson A. Miles}.
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W. D. Harvey, Racine, Wisconsin, 1907, b/w and sepia prints of
previously published images from Personal Recollections of Gen.
Nelson A. Miles.
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Kende Galleries. English and American Furniture and
Decorations, Porcelain, Glass, Iron Locks, Arms, Oriental Rugs,
Oil Paintings: Property of Mrs. Gertrude Leitner Grant, Armonk,
New York; Mrs. Godfrey Peckitt, Spring Lake, New Jersey; and
Other Private Owners . . . . New York, sale 208 (September 28-29, 1945).
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Downey, Fairfax. Indian-Fighting Army. New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1941.
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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.