Remington Catalogue
"We Struck Some Boggy Ground"
Date: 1896
Medium: ink wash and gouache heightened with white on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02113
Credit Line: R. W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana
Dimensions: 20 x 29 1/4" (50.8 x 74.3 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (December 1896), p. 65, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington; reverse in pencil in another hand: We struck some boggy ground. M.S. "How the law got into the Chaparral." L.S. Thompson. Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington
Provenance: L. S. Thompson, Tuxedo Park, New York; (James Graham & Sons, New York, New York); Mr. R. W. Norton Jr., Shreveport, Louisiana; present owner
Exhibitions
Ogdensburg, New York: Frederic Remington Art Museum, 1955 - 1960.
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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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Dippie, Brian W., intro. Frederic Remington: Paintings, Drawings
and Sculpture. Shreveport, Louisiana: Norton Art Gallery, 1979.
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McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington's Own West. New York: The Dial
Press, 1960.
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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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Remington, Frederic. Crooked Trails. New York: Harper &
Brothers, 1898.
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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected
Letters. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1988.
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King, General Charles. To the Front; A Sequel to Cadet Days. New York:
Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1908.
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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.