Mule Train Crossing the Sierras
Alternate Title: The Pack Train
Date: ca. 1888
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 00221
Credit Line: '21' Club, New York, New York
Dimensions: 18 x 22" (45.72 x 55.88 cm)
Illustration: Muir, John, ed. Picturesque California, 1888, p. 28, b/w photogravure.
Inscription: lc: REMINGTON.
Illustration Inscription: lc: REMINGTON.
Provenance: The estate of Bernon S. Prentice, New York & Holmdel, New Jersey; (Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, April 17-18, 1952); present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken.
Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 30,
1974.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frederic Remington: An Exhibition
Honoring Harold McCracken. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center,
1974.
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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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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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Muir, John, ed. Picturesque California. San Fransisco: J.
Dewing Publishing Co., 1888. Limited edition black-and-white and
sepia photogravures, page size 14 x 19" in portfolio; trade
edition 12-1/2 x 16-1/2; bound two volumes 11 x 14-1/4".
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Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. American and English Paintings,
Currier & Ives Prints, Furniture & Decorations Collected by the
Late Bernon S. Prentice, New York & Holmdel, N.J . . . . . New York,
sale 1337 (April 17-19, 1952).
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National Museum of American Art. Inventory of American
Paintings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. On-line
computer database in progress; BBHC copy for Remington's paintings
dates October 10, 1984.
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Naylor, Maria. "Frederic Remington at the "21" Club, New York."
The Connoisseur, (December 1973), p. 266-275.
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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.
