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Questionable Companionship

Date: 1889

Medium: pen and ink on paper

Catalogue Number: 00963

Credit Line: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming

Dimensions: 19 3/4 x 24 5/8" (50.1 x 62.6 cm)

Illustration: Harper's Weekly (August 9, 1890), p. 624, line engraving.

Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON/'89; reverse in Remington's hand in pen: "Questionable Companionship"--/drawn from the painting by Frederic Remington.--; across bottom in another hand in pencil: Reinhardt; also in pencil: 13-3/4 + 20/no 5/3 May 20

Illustration Inscription: Unsigned


Provenance: The artist; (Henry Reinhardt, Chicago, Illinois); [?]; Private Collection, Houston, Texas; (Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, New York, New York, 1948 - returned to owner); (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, New York); present owner

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Exhibitions

Dedication Exhibit. Salt Lake City, Utah: Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State, November 15, 1982 - February 6, 1983.
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Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 30, 1974.
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Frederic Remington Centennial Exhibition. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 15, 1961.
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The Enduring West. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Albuquerque Museum, July 28 - September 3, 1978.
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Washington, D.C.: U.S. Senate, Office of Senator Alan K. Simpson, July 25, 1979 - July 22, 1980.
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Bibliographies

Remington Art Memorial. A Catalogue of the Frederic Remington Memorial Collection. New York: Privately Printed for the Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York, by the M. Knoedler Galleries, 1954.
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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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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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Garland, Hamlin. The Book of the American Indian. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923.
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The Magazine Antiques, vol 53 (June 1948), p. 419, 467.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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McKown, Robin. Painter of the Old West. New York: Julia Messner, Inc., 1959.
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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.