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A Peril of the Plains

Date: ca. 1888

Medium: gouache on paper, b/w

Catalogue Number: 00419

Credit Line: Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York

Dimensions: 18 x 24-1/2" (45.7 x 62.2 cm)

Illustration: Century Magazine (November 1890), p. 106, wood engraving.

Inscription: lr: REMINGTON.

Illustration Inscription: ll: FH.WS.; lr: REMINGTON.


Provenance: (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, New York); Robert Purcell estate, New York, New York; present owner

Exhibitions

How the West Was Won. New York, New York: Wildenstein & Co., May 22 - June 22, 1968.
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Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 30, 1974.
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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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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1974.
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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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Wildenstein & Co. How the West Was Won, Paintings, Watercolors, and Bronzes by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. New York: Wildenstein & Co., 1968.
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Howard, Major-General O. O. My Life and Experiences Among Our Hostile Indians. Hartford, Connecticut: A. D. Worthington & Company, 1907.
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Humfreville, J. Lee. Twenty Years Among Our Savage Indians. Hartford, Connecticut: The Hartford Publishing Company, 1897.
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Dippie, Brian W. The Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York 2001
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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.