General George Crook on the Trail
Date: ca. 1891
Medium: pen and ink on paperboard
Catalogue Number: 01233
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 17 x 16" (43.2 x 40.6 cm)
Illustration: Century Magazine (March 1891), p. 645, line engraving.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.--; ll: "The Grey Fox."--/Gen. Geo. Crooke--on campaign-- -Capt. Bourks article--; reverse, inscribed in another hand: Gen. Geo Crook on the Trail; and stamped: Art Department/The Century Co.,/Union Square/New York City
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.--
Provenance: Theodore Roosevelt; descended in the family; (Sotheby's, New York, New York, November 30, 1989); 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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Remington ledger book of paintings, c. 1887-1892. No. 71.839. Frederic
Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Sotheby's. American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. New
York, sale 5941 (November 30, 1989).
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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.