Remington Catalogue
Thus the Birch Canoe Was Builded . . . In the Bosom of the Forest
Date: 1889
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 00881
Credit Line: Houston Museum of Natural Science
Dimensions: 19 15/16 x 28" (50.6 x 71.0 cm)
Illustration: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha, 1891, opp. p. 70, photogravure.
Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON.-
Illustration Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON.-
Provenance: (The Old Print Shop Inc., Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, New York, New York, June-July 1946); Mr. A. T. McDannald, Houston, Texas; present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington Exhibition. New York, New York: The Old Print Shop
Inc., Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, June-July 1946.
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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 H. Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art. Washington: Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 2000
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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.