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Indian Scouts Watching Custer's Advance

Date: ca. 1890

Medium: oil on canvas on board

Catalogue Number: 01190

Credit Line: Photograph Courtesy of Sotheby's, Inc. © (2014)

Dimensions: 21 1/2 x 33 1/2" (54.61 x 85.09 cm)

Illustration: Century Magazine (January 1892), p. 358, wood engraving.

Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON--

Illustration Inscription: ll: H.D. Sc; lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON--


Provenance: The artist; Mr. George Hazen, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Soest, Wyoming, descended in the family until 1986; (Overland Trail Fine Art Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona, March 1986); (Daniel Liberman, Art Dealer, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1986); William C. Foxley, Denver, Colorado; (Sotheby's, New York, New York, December 1, 1988); 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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Sotheby's. American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. New York, sale 5787 (December 1, 1988).
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Howard, Major-General O. O. My Life and Experiences Among Our Hostile Indians. Hartford, Connecticut: A. D. Worthington & Company, 1907.
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Godfrey, Lt. Edward Settle. Battle of the Little Big Horn. Portland: The Champoeg Press, 1908.
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Humfreville, J. Lee. Twenty Years Among Our Savage Indians. Hartford, Connecticut: The Hartford Publishing Company, 1897.
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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.