The Mess Tent at Night
Date: ca. 1890
Medium: ink wash on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01175
Credit Line: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming
Dimensions: 12 x 20 1/2" (30.5 x 52.1 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (November 1891), p. 891, wood engraving.
Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON.--/Dunn's Camp.--; reverse: The Mess Tent at Night
Illustration Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON.--/Dunn's Camp--; lr: W.H. CLARK Sc
Provenance: [Joseph Abbrescia]; (The Village Art Gallery, Skobie, Illinois); present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken.
Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 30,
1974.
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The Enduring West. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Albuquerque Museum,
July 28 - September 3, 1978.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Frederic Remington: A Biography.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
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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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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 ledger book of paintings, c. 1887-1892. No. 71.839. Frederic
Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Ralph, Julian. On Canada's Frontier. New York: Harper's
Brothers, 1892.
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Remington to Frederick Schell, September 30, 1890. Denver Public
Library, Denver, Colorado, Western History Department.
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Points West, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Spring, 2013
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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.
