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Crossing Water to Escape a Prairie Fire

Date: ca. 1891

Medium: ink wash and gouache on paper, b/w

Catalogue Number: 01243

Credit Line: Courtesy Bill and Irma Runyon Art Collection, Forsyth Galleries, Texas A&M University

Dimensions: 14 x 22" (35.56 x 55.88 cm)

Illustration: Century Magazine (July 1891), p. 411, wood engraving.

Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON.

Illustration Inscription: lc: PUTNAM Sc; lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON.


Provenance: The artist; Henry W. Sage, Sr., San Francisco, California; Henry W. Sage, Jr., San Francisco, California and New York (son); Henry W. Sage III, San Francisco, California and Florida (son of H. Sage, Jr.); (Rainone Galleries, Inc., Arlington, Texas, 1982); J. W. Runyon, Jr., Dallas, Texas, 1982; 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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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.