"As the Smoke Lifted He Discovered the Settler Kneeling for a Second Shot"
Alternate Title: "Do Seek Their Meat from God"
Date: ca. 1890
Medium: pen and ink wash and pencil with white on board, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01206
Credit Line: Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York
Dimensions: 20 3/16 x 31 13/16" (51.3 x 80.8 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (December 1892), p. 123, halftone.
Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON--; reverse: #14098 - No Meat; M.S. They Seek their Meat from God-/"As the smoke lifted he descerned the/settler kneeling for a second shot."/this size for do seek their meat from/God. Remington May - Proc/16-Dec '91/[illegible]
Illustration Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON--
Provenance: Robert McDowell; (M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, New York); Mrs. T. McDowell (daughter-in-law), Staten Island, New York, 1958; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York); Robert F. Rockwell Jr., Corning, New York, 1962; The Rockwell Foundation, Corning, New York; present owner
Exhibitions
Remington's West. Corning, New York: The Rockwell Museum,
September 6 - November 4, 1984.
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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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Duty, Michael. Remington's West. Corning, New York: The
Rockwell Museum, 1984.
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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.
