Remington Catalogue
" 'You Know This Thing Chief?' The Indian Nodded Slightly"
Alternate Title: "You Know This Thing, Chief?"
Date: 1890
Medium: gouache and watercolor on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01042
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 19 x 27" (48.3 x 68.6 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (May 31, 1890), p. 421, halftone.
Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON.--
Illustration Inscription: ll: KURTZ FREDERIC REMINGTON.--
Provenance: The artist; Mr. Harry Bamback, Bedford Hill, New York; Bamback family, Cambridge, New York; Mrs. Wendy P. Moran, Rochester, New York (Harry Bamback's granddaughter); (D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York); (Dr. Van Kirke Nelson, Kalispell, Montana and J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, New York); (National Finals Art Auction, Sun Valley, Idaho, 1988); William W. Kennedy, Arlington Heights, Illinois, 1989; John Cushman, Los Angeles, California; (Altermann Galleries, Dallas, Texas, 2002); [?]; (Coeur D'Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada, 2013); present owner
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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"Remington Tops Out National Finals Art Auction." Art-Talk,
(January 1989), p. 41.
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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.