In the Lodges of the Blackfeet Indians
Date: 1887
Medium: pen and ink on paper
Catalogue Number: 00155
Credit Line: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming
Dimensions: 17-3/4 x 25-1/2" (45.09 x 64.77 cm) (irreg. lower edge)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (July 23, 1887), p. 521, line engraving.
Inscription: ul: Preparing to Move--; uc: Blackfoot profile./--"Man-Shot"--; ur: Squaw & Papoose.; c: "Sopomoxo"/("Crowfoot"--)/Head Chief of the Blackfeet.; cr: In Winter Costume. Warrior.; ll: --A Family Group--; lc: A Camp Sketch./--In the Lodges of the Blackfeet/Frederic Remington del.--; lr: Remington.
Illustration Inscription: ul: Preparing to Move--; uc: Blackfoot profile./ --"Man-Shot"--; c: "Sopomoxo"/("Crowfoot"--)/Head Chief of the Blackfeet./ In Winter Costume.; cr: Squaw & Papoose./Warrior; ll: --A Family Group--; lc: A Camp sketch; lr: Remington.
Provenance: The artist; Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Harper; present owner
Exhibitions
Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The Gilcrease
Museum, December 18, 1983 - February 12, 1984; traveling
exhibit: Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Denver, Oakland, Houston.
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Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Notable Documentary
Artists of the Old West and Plains Indian Art. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo
Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 15, 1960.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Brooklyn, New York: The Brooklyn Museum of
Art, November 18 1981 - January 17, 1982; traveling exhibit: Pittsburgh,
Denver, Oakland, Tulsa, Houston.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Museum of Art,
Carnegie Institute, February 13 - April 4, 1982; traveling exhibit: Brooklyn,
Denver, Oakland, Tulsa, Houston.
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Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Oakland, California: The Oakland
Museum, June 17 - August 21, 1983; traveling exhibit: Brooklyn, Pittsburgh,
Denver, Tulsa, Houston.
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Art of the Wild West. Houston, Texas: Museum of Art of the American West,
March - June, 1984.
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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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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and
Sculpture by Notable Documentary Artists of the Old West and Plains
Indian Art. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1960.
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Card, Helen L. Scrapbooks of Remington illustrations, compiled c. 1945.
Vols. 1-9. Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming.
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The Saint Louis Art Museum in conjunction with the Buffalo Bill
Historical Center. Frederic Remington: The Masterworks.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1988.
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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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Custer, Elizabeth E. Following the Guidon. New York: Harper
& Brothers, 1890.
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Hassrick, Peter H. Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art. Washington: Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 2000
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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.
