Remington Catalogue
A False Start
Alternate Title: The Start
Date: ca. 1887
Medium: gouache, pen and ink on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 00140
Credit Line: National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Saratoga Springs, New York
Dimensions: 15 x 21″ (38.10 x 53.34 cm)
Illustration: Harper’s Weekly (June 18, 1887), p. 436, wood engraving.
Inscription: ll: –The Start–/from a sketch made at Sheeps Bay.; lr: –Remington.
Illustration Inscription: lr: Remington.
Provenance: Mr. Francis Skiddy von Stade, New York, New York; estate of Mr. Francis
Skiddy von Stade; 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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William Doyle Galleries. Important American and European 19th
and 20th Century Paintings. New York sale (September 22, 1982).
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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.