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Then He Sat Down, Still and Speechless, . . . At the Feet of Laughing Water

Alternate Title: The Famine; The Death of Minnehaha

Date: 1889

Medium: oil on canvas, b/w

Catalogue Number: 00877

Credit Line: R. W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana

Dimensions: 17 x 25" (43.2 x 63.5 cm)

Illustration: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha, 1891, opp. p. 204, photogravure.

Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON/'89

Illustration Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON/'89


Provenance: (The Old Print Shop Inc., Harry Shaw Newman, New York, New York, June-July 1946); Mr. R. W. Norton, Jr., Shreveport, Louisiana; present owner

Exhibitions

Frederic Remington Exhibition. New York, New York: The Old Print Shop Inc., Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, June-July 1946.
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New York, New York: The New-York Historical Society, October 1947 - December 1955.
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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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Watertown Daily Times, December 16, 1970.
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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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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.