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The Bear-Trap

Alternate Title: Trapped in the Wilderness

Date: 1892

Medium: ink and wash on paper mounted on board, b/w

Catalogue Number: 01465

Credit Line: Private Collection

Dimensions: 18-1/2 x 25" (47.0 x 63.5 cm)

Illustration: Harper's Monthly (February 1892), p. 379, halftone.

Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON--

Illustration Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON


Provenance: (Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, New York, October 25, 1979); present owner

Bibliographies

McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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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Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. American 19th & 20th Century Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors & Sculpture. New York, sale 4290 (October 25, 1979).
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Ralph, Julian. On Canada's Frontier. New York: Harper's Brothers, 1892.
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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.