Remington Catalogue
Crossing a Dangerous Place
Alternate Title: Over a Bad Place, Rocky Mountains; A Dangerous Place
Date: ca. 1894
Medium: pen and ink wash heightened with Chinese white on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01934
Credit Line: Photograph courtesy of A.J. Kollar Fine Paintings, LLC; Seattle, Washington
Dimensions: 27 1/2 x 22″ (69.8 x 56 cm)
Illustration: Harper’s Monthly (July 1895), p. 242, halftone.
Inscription: lc: #44; lr: –Frederic Remington.–
Illustration Inscription: lr: –Frederic Remington–
Provenance: The artist; E.C. James, New York, New York, purchased at 1895 AAG; [?];
Madill; (Park-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, September 23,
1943); [?]; Private Collection, Florida; (Christie’s, New York,
New York, November 30, 1990, returned to owner); (Christie’s, New York, New York, 1997); present owner
Exhibitions
Paintings and Drawings by Frederic Remington, A. N. A.. New York,
New York: The American Art Galleries, American Art Association,
November 14-19, 1895.
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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, Frederic. Pony Tracks. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1895.
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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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American Art Association. Catalogue of a Collection of Original Works
in Black and White, Water-Color and Oil by Frederic Remington, A.
N. A.. New York: American Art Association, 1895.
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Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. English and American Furniture
[1700-1830]; Old Silver, Paintings, Oriental Rugs, Decorative
Objects; Property of Easterns, Ltd., London, England; Mrs. Joseph
F. Loewi; Mrs. Frank Day Tuttle; Propery of the Estate of the
Late Charles C. Kalbfleisch; And of Other Owners. New York,
sale 479 (September 23-25, 1943).
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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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Christie, Manson & Woods International, Inc. Important American
Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th
Centuries. New York sale (November 30, 1990).
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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.