Remington Catalogue
Indian Riding Down a Hill
Alternate Title: Indian–Top Speed
Date: 1892
Medium: Pen and ink wash with goauche on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01410
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 17-3/4 x 10-1/2″ (45.1 x 26.7 cm)
Illustration: Parkman, Francis. The Oregon Trail, 1892, p. 173, halftone.
Inscription: lr: –Frederic Remington.
Illustration Inscription: c: Kurtz; lr: –Frederic Remington–.
Provenance: The artist; H.S. Bloodgood (purchased at 1893 AAG for $100); [?];
Museum of Western Art, Denver, Colorado; (Sotheby’s, New York,
New York, 1993); present owner
Exhibitions
Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Water-Colors by Frederic Remington,
A. N. A.. New York, New York: The American Art Galleries, American Art
Association, January 6 – 13, 1893.
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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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American Art Association. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings,
Drawings and Water-Colors by Frederic Remington, A.N.A.. New York:
American Art Association, 1893.
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New York Times, January 14, 1893.
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“Remingtons and Bric-A-Brac: Hawashima Textiles and Paintings by
a Japanese.” New York Times, January 9, 1893.
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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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“Art Notes. Current Exhibitions.” New York Press, [December 4, 1907]. Author possibly Wm. B. McCormack, art critic and editor of International Studio.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, c. 1887-1892. No. 71.839. Frederic
Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected
Letters. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1988.
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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.