Remington Catalogue
The Ceremony of the Fastest Horse
Alternate Title: Over the Prairie Fled White Otter With His Stolen Bride; The Chief and His Bride
Date: ca. 1900
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02519
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, George F. Harding Collection
Dimensions: 27 1/8 x 40" (68.8 x 101.6 cm)
Illustration: The Cosmopolitan (December 1905), frontispiece, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.
Provenance: George F. Harding; George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, Illinois; present owner
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Harding Foundation, Medieval and Renaissance Armor and Weapons, Remington
Paintings, Bronzes and Drawings. Mt. Vernon, Illinois: Mitchell Museum,
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Frederic Remington: A Biography.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
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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. The Collected Writings of Frederic
Remington. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
1979.
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Remington, Frederic. The Way of an Indian. New York: Fox
Duffield & Company, 1906.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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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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Fox Duffield & Company, New York, 1906, published nine color
prints, approx. 9 x 14", from Remington's novel, The Way of an
Indian.
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McConnell Printing Co., New York, published nine color prints
from Remington's novel, The Way of an Indian, as supplements to the
Chicago Examiner}, 1906.
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Mitchell Museum. Harding Foundation, Medieval
and Renaissance Armor and Weapons, Remington Paintings, Bronzes
and Drawings. Mt. Vernon: Mitchell Museum, 1981.
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Hassrick, Peter H. Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art. Washington: Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 2000
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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.