Remington Catalogue
Indian Horse-Race–Coming over the Scratch
Date: ca. 1889
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 00478
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 18 x 28″ (45.72 x 71.12 cm)
Illustration: Century Magazine (July 1889), p. 404, wood engraving.
Inscription: ll: REMINGTON.
Illustration Inscription: ll: REMINGTON.; lr: Evans S
Provenance: Mary Mapes Dodge, New York, New York (editor of {St. Nicholas Magazine});
descended in the family; (Sotheby’s, New York, New York, April 23, 1982);
present owner
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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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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Allen, Douglas, ed. Frederic Remington’s Own Outdoors. New
York: The Dial Press, 1964.
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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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Sotheby’s. American 19th Century and Western Paintings,
Drawings and Sculpture. New York, sale 4841M (April 23, 1982).
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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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Montana, The Magazine of Western History. Autumn, 1996
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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.