Remington Catalogue
Five-Foot Hurdle Bareback
Alternate Title: West Point Riding Academy
Date: 1891
Medium: ink wash on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01332
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 15 3/4 x 20 3/4" (40 x 52.7 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (June 4, 1892), p. 541, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.--West Point Riding Hall--; reverse: 5 Foot Hurdle, Bare Back
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.--West Point Riding Hall--
Provenance: The artist; Private Collection; (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, New York); Mr. Robert Simpson, New York, until 1984; (Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, New York, returned to owner August 1986; Private Collection, Scranton, Pennsylvania; [?]; (Christie's, New York, New York, 1996); 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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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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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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Remington to Frederick B. Schell, November 14, 1891. Denver Public
Library, Denver, Colorado, Western History Department.
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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.