"He Sais He Weel Not Put de Woman on de Blanket"
Alternate Title: Bargaining for a Bride; Bartering for a Bride
Date: 1898
Medium: watercolor on paper
Catalogue Number: 02372
Credit Line: Taft Family Collection, Cincinnati, Ohio
Dimensions: 25-1/2 x 38" (64.8 x 96.5 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (September 1898), p. 591, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.; reverse: 1898
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.
Provenance: The artist; (Frederick Keppel & Co., New York, New York); [?]; Hulbert Taft, Sr., Cincinnati, Ohio, purchased in the 1920s; descended through family to present owner
Exhibitions
How the West Was Won. New York, New York: Wildenstein & Co.,
May 22 - June 22, 1968.
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New York, New York: Douthitt Gallery, September 1938.
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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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Isaacson, Robert. Frederic Remington: A Painter of American
Life. New York: Robert Isaacson, privately printed, 1943.
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Garland, Hamlin. The Book of the American Indian. New York: Harper &
Brothers, 1923.
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Spur, (September 1938).
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Wildenstein & Co. How the West Was Won, Paintings,
Watercolors, and Bronzes by Frederic Remington and Charles M.
Russell. New York: Wildenstein & Co., 1968.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1898-1902. No. FRAM 71.840.
Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Remington, Frederic. Sundown Leflare. New York: Harper &
Brothers Publishers, 1899.
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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.