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The Fire Eater Raised His Arms to the Thunder Bird

The Fire Eater Raised His Arms to the Thunder Bird

Alternate Title: Fire-Eater Raised His Arms; Fire Eater Raised His Arms Heavenward; Thanking the Thunderbird

Date: ca. 1900

Medium: oil on canvas, b/w

Catalogue Number: 02523

Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, George F. Harding Collection

Dimensions: 27 1/4 x 40 3/16" (69.2 x 102.0 cm)

Illustration: The Cosmopolitan (January 1906), frontispiece, halftone.

Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington-

Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington-

Provenance: George F. Harding, Chicago, Illinois; George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, Illinois; present owner

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Catalogue number 02523a

Exhibitions

Harding Foundation, Medieval and Renaissance Armor and Weapons, Remington Paintings, Bronzes and Drawings. Mt. Vernon, Illinois: Mitchell Museum, December 5, 1981 - January 31, 1982.
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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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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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Tatum, Stephen. In the Remington Moment. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
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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.