Remington Catalogue
Custer's Last Charge
Alternate Title: A Sabre Charge; Custer's Last Stand
Date: ca. 1896
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02042
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 25 x 35" (63.5 x 88.9 cm)
Illustration: Spofford, A. R., editor. The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events . . ., 1896, vol. 10, p. 252, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington--
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington--
Provenance: (Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, New York); Arthur V. Davis, New York; (James Graham & Sons, New York, New York); Mr. and Mrs. L. R. French, Jr.; (Sotheby's, New York, New York, November 30, 1989); present owner
Exhibitions
Art of the Old West from the L.R. French, Jr., Collection. Palm
Springs, California: Palm Springs Desert Museum, February 6 - April 5, 1987.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture.
Oshkosh: Paine Art Center and Arboretum, August 1 - September 24, 1967;
traveling exhibit: Minneapolis, Williamstown.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture.
Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
October 11 - November 12, 1967; traveling exhibit: Oshkosh, Williamstown.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and
Sculpture. Williamstown, Massachussetts: Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute, December 2 - 31, 1967; traveling exhibit: Oshkosh,
Minneapolis.
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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
Gregg, Richard N. Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of
Painting and Sculpture. Oshkosh, Wisconsin: Paine Art Center
and Arboretum, 1967.
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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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Palm Springs Desert Museum. Art of the Old West from the L. R.
French, Jr., Collection. Palm Springs, California: Palm Springs Desert
Museum, 1987.
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Sotheby's. American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. New
York, sale 5941 (November 30, 1989).
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National Museum of American Art. Inventory of American
Paintings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. On-line
computer database in progress; BBHC copy for Remington's paintings
dates October 10, 1984.
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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.