Remington Catalogue
"He Was the Law"
Alternate Title: Billy the Kid
Date: ca. 1901
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02563
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 27 x 40 1/4" (68.6 x 102.2 cm)
Illustration: Everybody's Magazine (September 1901), p. 303, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.
Illustration Inscription: lr: --Frederic Remington.
Provenance: George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, Illinois; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; (Christie's, New York, New York, 2011); 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.