Remington Catalogue
Training Horses to Leap Obstacles, Tenth United States Cavalry
Alternate Title: Nine Episodes at Cavalry School
Date: 1891
Medium: ink wash on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01268
Credit Line: Photograph Courtesy of Sotheby’s, Inc. © (2014)
Dimensions: 18 1/2 x 27 1/2″ (47.0 x 69.9 cm)
Illustration: Harper’s Weekly (September 19, 1891), p. 709, halftone.
Inscription: ul: “Hit ‘im agin”–; uc: “Refusing a cut-bank–“; ur: “Good boy”–; cl: “a dead steer”; c: “The completed thing.”–/FREDERIC REMINGTON.; lr: “Rather awkward”–; lc: “Squad drill”; lr: “Make ‘im go — make ‘im go?”–
Illustration Inscription: lc: FREDERIC REMINGTON
Provenance: (James Graham & Sons, New York, New York); Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge;
(Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, New York, October 31, 1975); J.
Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa,
Alabama; (Sotheby’s, New York, New York, December 5, 1985); present owner
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Frederic Remington: ‘The Soldier Artist.’ West Point, New York: U.S.
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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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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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Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. Important 19th and 20th Century
American Paintings and Bronzes from the Collection of the Late
Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge. New York, sale 3802 (October 31, 1975).
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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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Sculpture. New York, sale 5407 (December 5, 1985).
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Remington to Frederick B. Schell, c. 1891. Amon Carter Museum
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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.