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Durgy Rescuing the Girl

Date: 1891

Medium: pen and ink wash and graphite on paper, b/w

Catalogue Number: 01279

Credit Line: Private Collection

Dimensions: 19 1/4 x 16 3/8" (48.9 x 41.6 cm)

Illustration: Harper's Weekly (October 3, 1891), p. 745, halftone.

Inscription: ll: REMINGTON./"Durgy rescuing the girl--M.S. The Jonah of Lucky Valley.--"

Illustration Inscription: ll: REMINGTON.


Provenance: (Mannados Book Shop, New York, New York, 1947); Joseph E. McCarrell, San Francisco; (Argonaut Bookshop, San Francisco, 1950); Harry B. Smith, San Francisco, 1950-1955; (John Howell--Books, San Francisco, 1955); (Nancy Taylor, Fort Worth, Texas, 1955); Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 1955; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; (Coeur D'Alene Art Auction, Hayden, Idaho, 1999); present owner

Exhibitions

Remington and Russell exhibition. San Antonio, Texas: Citizens National Bank, September 14 - October 11, 1970.
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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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Hassrick, Peter. Frederic Remington: Painting, Drawings and Sculpture in the Amon Carter and Sid W. Richardson Foundation Collections. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1973.
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Latendorf, E. W. Frederic Remington (Bibliographical Check List). New York: Mannados Bookshop, 1947.
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Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Catalogue of the Collection 1972. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1973.
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Seely, Howard. The Jonah of Lucky Valley and Other Stories. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892.
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Remington to Frederick B. Schell, c. 1891. Archives Division, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas.
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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.