Remington Catalogue
A Fantasy from the Pony War Dance
Alternate Title: An Impression of the Pony War Dance; Piny War Dance
Date: 1890
Medium: watercolor and gouache on paper
Catalogue Number: 01180
Credit Line: The Broe Family Collection
Dimensions: 20 1/2 x 21 1/4" (52.1 x 55.2 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (December 1891), p. 39, wood engraving.
Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON--
Illustration Inscription: ll: F. S. KING Sc; lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON--
Provenance: The artist; W. Kurtz, New York, New York (purchased at AAG 1893 for $141); [?]; (J.W. Young Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, 1946); [?]; (Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, April 7, 1971); Private Collection, New Jersey; (Sotheby's, New York, New York, December 3, 2003); present owner
Exhibitions
Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Water-Colors by Frederic Remington,
A. N. A.. New York, New York: The American Art Galleries, American Art
Association, January 6 - 13, 1893.
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Western Paintings. New York, New York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1948.
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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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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Frederic Remington: A Biography.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
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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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Garland, Hamlin. The Book of the American Indian. New York: Harper &
Brothers, 1923.
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Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. Important 19th and 20th Century
American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. New York, sale 3185
(April 7-8, 1971).
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American Art Association. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings,
Drawings and Water-Colors by Frederic Remington, A.N.A.. New York:
American Art Association, 1893.
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"Mr. Remington's Pictures. Something Less that 100 Works Fetch
Something More than $7,000." New York Sun, January 13,
1893, p. 2, col. 7.
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New York Times, January 14, 1893.
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"Selling Remington's Pictures. Lively Bidding at the American
Gallery." New York Daily Tribune, January 14, 1893, p. 7.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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Harper's Monthly (December 1891), color print 7 x 7-1/4" of A
Fantasy from the Pony War Dance}.
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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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Harper's Monthly published color print of A Fantasy from the
Pony War Dance}, 7 x 7-1/4", no date given in Samuels 1990.
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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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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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Ralph, Julian. On Canada's Frontier. New York: Harper's
Brothers, 1892.
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Remington to Frederick B. Schell, c. 1891. Amon Carter Museum
Library, Fort Worth, Texas.
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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.