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Miners Prospecting for Gold

Date: ca. 1888

Medium: oil on board, b/w

Catalogue Number: 00220

Credit Line: Private Collection

Dimensions: 18 x 24" (45.7 x 61.0 cm)

Illustration: Muir, John, ed. Picturesque California, 1888, p. 236, blue-tone photogravure.

Inscription: lr: REMINGTON.

Illustration Inscription: lr: REMINGTON.


Provenance: (Gesner Fine Arts, Largo, Florida); (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1985); (Texas Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas); Vernon Savings & Loan, Dallas, Texas, 1984; (Sotheby's, New York, New York, 1988); present owner

Bibliographies

McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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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Texas Art Gallery. Dallas sale (December 1, 1984).
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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Muir, John, ed. Picturesque California. San Fransisco: J. Dewing Publishing Co., 1888. Limited edition black-and-white and sepia photogravures, page size 14 x 19" in portfolio; trade edition 12-1/2 x 16-1/2; bound two volumes 11 x 14-1/4".
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National Museum of American Art. Inventory of American Paintings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. On-line computer database in progress; BBHC copy for Remington's paintings dates October 10, 1984.
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Jussim, Estelle. Visual Communication and the Graphic Arts. Photographic Technologies in the Nineteenth Century. New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1983.
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Dippie, Brian W. The Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York 2001
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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.