"The Last Stand"
Date: 1902
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02691
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 25 x 23 3/4" (63.5 x 60.3 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (February 7, 1903) and {The Saturday Evening Post (February 7, 1903), p. 19, halftone.
Inscription: ll: Fredreic Remington
Illustration Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington
Provenance: The artist; commissioned by Smith and Wesson, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1902; (Sotheby's, New York, New York, 2012); present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken.
Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 30,
1974.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frederic Remington: An Exhibition
Honoring Harold McCracken. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center,
1974.
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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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Stern, Jean. Western Masters: A Comprehensive Exhibition.
Beverly Hills, California: Petersen Art Galleries, 1981.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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Smith & Wesson Arms Company published in 1902 the following
four Remingtons as prints ranging from 14 x 13-12" to 14 x 16" in b/w
or green and black or with blue tones and also used the images on
advertisement posters: The Last Stand, With the Greyhounds},
Hands Off}, A Critical Moment}.
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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.
