An Old-Time Northern Plains Indian
Alternate Title: The Coup
Date: ca. 1890
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 01149
Credit Line: Foxley Collection
Dimensions: 23 1/2 x 33 1/2" (59.69 x 84.46 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (May 1891), p. 851, wood engraving.
Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON-
Illustration Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON-; ll: A. LINDSAY Sc.
Provenance: The artist; Mr. Joseph Asay, 1891; Mrs. Josheph Asay; J.S. Coll[illeg.], Omaha, Nebraska, 1904; [?]; The firm of Peters, Campbell and Pearson, Council Bluffs, Iowa; (De Ville Galleries, Los Angeles, California, 1977); Private Collector, Oklahoma/California; (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, New York, June 1977); a bank; (J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, New York, 1988); Private Collector, Oklahoma; (Sotheby's, New York, New York, 2005); present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington. (New Rochelle Tri-Centennnial). New
Rochelle, New York: New Rochelle Public Library Exhibition Gallery,
March 1988.
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Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition. Omaha, Nebraska:
Omaha Exposition, June 1 - November 1, 1898.
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American Paintings. New York, New York: American Art Galleries,
opened April 7, 1890.
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Bibliographies
Harper's Weekly, (January 8, 1910).
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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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Garland, Hamlin. The Book of the American Indian. New York: Harper &
Brothers, 1923.
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American Art Association. American Paintings: Catalogue of
Paintings Exhibited by the Following American Artists: J. Wells
Champney, A. N. A.; William M. Chase, A. N. A.; Charles Melville
Dewey; C. Harry Eaton; F. K. M. Rehn; D. D. Millet, N. A.; Robt. C.
Minor, A. N. A.; H. R. Poore, A. N. A.; Frederick [sic] Remington;
Carleton Wiggins at the American Art Galleries}. New York:
American Art Association, 1890.
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Kennedy Galleries Inc. "American West." The Kennedy Quarterly,
vol. 15, no. 3 (June 1977).
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Levy, Florence N., ed. American Art Annual. Vol. 1. New York: The
MacMillan Company, 1899.
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Dodge, Col. Theodore Ayrault. Riders of Many Lands. New York:
Harper & Brothers Publishers, copyright 1893, published 1894.
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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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The Magazine Antiques, vol. 111 (January 1977), p. 113.
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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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Art-Talk, (October 1993).
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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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New Rochelle Council on the Arts. Frederic Remington (New
Rochelle Tri-Centennial). New Rochelle: New Rochelle Council on
the Arts, 1988.
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Allen, Douglas. "Remington: An American Original." Step-By-Step
Graphics, vol. 5, no. 1 (January 1989), p. 118-125.
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The Magazine Antiques, vol. 111, (February 1977), p. 304.
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Baigell, Matthew. The Western Art of Frederic Remington. New
York, New York: Ballantine Books, 1976.
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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.
