Remington Catalogue
The Charge on the Sun-Pole
Alternate Title: Sioux Indians Charging The Sun-Pole
Date: ca. 1890
Medium: oil on board, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01024
Credit Line: National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Dimensions: 18 1/2 x 24 1/2" (46.99 x 62.23 cm)
Illustration: Century Magazine (March 1890), p. 755, wood engraving.
Inscription: lr: F. REMINGTON.; stamped on reverse: This picture is presented to W. L. Fraser by the Century Co.... 18/It has been engraved, published and/copyrighted by the Century Co./New York/and must not be reproduced or published without consent on the reverse
Illustration Inscription: ll: F. REMINGTON.; lr: EVANS Sc
Provenance: The Century Co., New York, New York; W. L. Frazer; (J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, New York, 1970); Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Seymour III, Fort Worth, Texas; (Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, New York, 1979); present owner
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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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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frederic Remington: An Exhibition
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1974.
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St. Clair, Philip, ed. Frederic Remington: The American West.
Kent: Velour Ltd., 1978.
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Persimmon Hill, vol. 10, no. 3 (summer 1980).
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Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. American 19th & 20th Century
Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors & Sculpture. New York, sale
4236 (April 20, 1979).
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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Antiques, vol. 97 (February 1970), p. 210.
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The Magazine Antiques, vol. 115 (March 1979), p. 410, 493.
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computer database in progress; BBHC copy for Remington's paintings
dates October 10, 1984.
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Howard, Major-General O. O. My Life and Experiences Among Our
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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.