Remington Catalogue
Riding the Line of the Wire Fence
Date: ca. 1890
Medium: pen and ink on paper
Catalogue Number: 01051
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 14 x 21 3/4″ (35.6 x 55.2 cm)
Illustration: Harper’s Monthly (July 1890), p. 239, line engraving.
Inscription: ll: “Riding the Line of the Wire Fence”–“Texas Types & Contrasts. MS.”; lc: FREDERIC REMINGTON.-
Illustration Inscription: lc: FREDERIC REMINGTON.
Provenance: (James Graham & Sons, New York, New York); Dan Lufkin,
Connecticut; (Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, New York); (Country Store
Gallery, Austin, Texas, 1980); 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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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.