Remington Catalogue
An Attack on a Stage-Coach
Alternate Title: The Fight with the Stage Coach
Date: 1887
Medium: pen and ink on paper
Catalogue Number: 00094
Credit Line: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming
Dimensions: 12-3/8 x 17-15/16" (31.43 x 45.56 cm)
Illustration: Custer, Elizabeth B. Tenting on the Plains, 1887, p. 683, line engraving.
Inscription: ll: The Fight with the Stage coach.--/Mrs. Custers Book.; lr: Frederic Remington.
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.
Provenance: The artist; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Saalfield, Akron, Ohio; 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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Prairie Visions: Art of the American West. Topeka, Kansas:
Historical Society, October 22, 1984 - June 1, 1985.
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Stagecoach: 1846-1990. Los Angeles, California: The Autry
Museum of Western Heritage, June 19 - September 19, 1990.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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McCracken, Harold. The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial
History of the West. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.,
Inc., 1966.
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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.