The Potlatch
Date: ca. 1890
Medium: gouache on paperboard, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01198
Credit Line: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas
Dimensions: 17 3/8 x 28" (44.1 x 71.1 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (January 1892), p. 185, wood engraving.
Inscription: ll: REMINGTON--.; reverse: Cat 348/K231/17 3/8 x 28; --The potlatch--/The Land of the potlatch; to/Mrs. Boyd/In oak dark/no mat/ Mrs Boyd
Illustration Inscription: ll: REMINGTON--.; lr: L. Faber Sc.
Provenance: Mrs. Boyd; (purchased May 1, 1961 through the Wally Findlay Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation); accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
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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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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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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Ralph, Julian. On Canada's Frontier. New York: Harper's
Brothers, 1892.
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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.
