Remington Catalogue
"Say Boss, Ah Wasn't Thar -- Ah Only Heerd 'Bout It from Men What Was."
Alternate Title: How the Worm Turned; Live and Let Die
Date: 1901
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02557
Credit Line: Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, gift of Mary Ellsworth Manning, Joseph C. Ellsworth, Mr. and Mrs. George R. Steiner, and the Class of 1965
Dimensions: 19 1/4 x 29 1/4" (48.90 x 74.30 cm)
Illustration: Collier's Weekly (May 4, 1901), p. 12, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/1901; reverse: "How the Worm Turned"/Remington/Rec'd April of 1901
Illustration Inscription: lr: --Frederic Remington/1901-
Provenance: The artist; Mrs. Minnie Miner Ellsworth; Mary Manning, Joseph Ellsworth and Mr. and Mrs. George R. Steiner; present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington: 'The Soldier Artist.' West Point, New York: U.S.
Military Academy, May 19 - June 6, 1979.
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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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Remington, Frederic. Done in the Open: Drawings by Frederic
Remington. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, Publishers, 1902.
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Kuenning, Howard F., Peter Mirakian, Jr., Roger A. Rains, Michael
W. Taylor, eds. Frederic Remington: 'The Soldier Artist.' West
Point, New York: U.S. Military Academy, 1979.
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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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National Museum of American Art. Inventory of American
Paintings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. On-line
computer database in progress; BBHC copy for Remington's paintings
dates October 10, 1984.
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Manley, Atwood. "Frederic Remington and the University." St.
Lawrence Bulletin, (winter 1966), p. 4-7.
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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.