"The Major Sought to Block that Morning's Ride in Vain"
Alternate Title: The Escort
Date: ca. 1903
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02698
Credit Line: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Dimensions: 40 1/2 x 27 5/8" (102.9 x 70.2 cm)
Illustration: King, Gen. Charles. A Daughter of the Sioux, 1903, p. 21, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington
Provenance: (C. Bland Jamison Gallery, Los Angeles, California); Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 1950; present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington Exhibition. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The Gilcrease
Museum, September 22, 1961.
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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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American Scene, vol. 5, no. 4 (1964).
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Rossi, Paul A. and David C. Hunt. The Art of the Old West: From
the Collection of the Gilcrease Institute. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1971.
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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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Dykes, Jeff C. "Frederic Remington--Western Historian." American
Scene, vol. 4, no. 2 (summer 1961), p. 4-17.
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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.
