A Revolver Charge
Alternate Title: Fantasia; An Arab Charge
Date: 1894
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 01906
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 35 3/4 x 60" (90.8 x 152.4 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (December 1894), p. 9, halftone.
Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington/Algiers--
Illustration Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington/Algiers--; lr: Kurtz
Provenance: The artist; L. G. Tewkesbury, New York, New York, purchased at AAG 1895; (M. Knoedler and Co., New York, New York); (Babcock Galleries, New York, New York); (Holland Galleries, New York, New York); Mrs. Elmer E. Smathers, New York, New York; (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, New York, March 6, 1948); (David B. Findlay Galleries, New York, New York); Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, New York); Britt Brown, Wichita, Kansas; (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico); (Baird Ryan, New York, New York); present owner
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Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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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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Amon Carter Museum. Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Worth, Texas:
Amon Carter Museum, 1961.
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American Art Association. Catalogue of a Collection of Original Works
in Black and White, Water-Color and Oil by Frederic Remington, A.
N. A.. New York: American Art Association, 1895.
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New York Times, November 21, 1895.
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"Remington's Works Sold." New York Herald, November 20, 1895),
p. 7.
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"American Art Association. Notable Pictures, Jewels, Laces and
Porcelains. Diamonds of Rare Size and Brilliancy - Point Lace of
Most Exquisite Make - Many Fans." New York Times, November 15,
1895, sec. 2, p. 5.
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"The Chronicle of Arts. Exhibitions and Other topics. A Masterpiece
by Turner and the Necessity for Putting it in Our Museum - One of
Sir Joshua's Classical Attempts - Some New
Drawings by Americans - Mr. Frost, Mr. Remington and Mr. Abbey -
The Hollyer Platinotypes - Gaillard's Engravings." New York Daily
Tribune, November 17, 1895, p. 27.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1908-1909. No. FRAM 71.837. Frederic
Remington Art Museum Archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. Art & Other Personal Property of
the Estate of the Late Mrs Elmer E. Smathers; American and Other
Paintings, Tapestries and Oriental Rugs; French and Other
Furniture, Silver and Gold Ware, Furs. New York, sale 941
(March 6, 1948).
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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected
Letters. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1988.
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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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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.