The Fire Eater Slung His Victim Across His Pony, Taking His Scalp
Date: ca. 1900
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02524
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, George F. Harding Collection
Dimensions: 40 1/4 x 27 5/16" (102.2 x 69.3 cm)
Illustration: The Cosmopolitan (January 1906), p. 312, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington-
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington-
Provenance: George F. Harding, Chicago, Illinois; George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, Illinois; present owner
Exhibitions
Harding Foundation, Medieval and Renaissance Armor and Weapons, Remington
Paintings, Bronzes and Drawings. Mt. Vernon, Illinois: Mitchell Museum,
December 5, 1981 - January 31, 1982.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Frederic Remington: A Biography.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
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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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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. The Collected Writings of Frederic
Remington. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
1979.
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Remington, Frederic. The Way of an Indian. New York: Fox
Duffield & Company, 1906.
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Mitchell Museum. Harding Foundation, Medieval
and Renaissance Armor and Weapons, Remington Paintings, Bronzes
and Drawings. Mt. Vernon: Mitchell Museum, 1981.
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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.
