At the Mouth of Rapid Creek--General Carr Receiving the Report of a Scout
Alternate Title: Civilian Scout Reporting To General E. A. Carr, Rapid Creek, North Dakota, December 23, 1890
Date: 1891
Medium: ink wash and gouache on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01202
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 19 1/2 x 27 1/2" (49.53 x 69.85 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (January 16, 1892), p. 64, halftone.
Inscription: lr: _FREDERIC REMINGTON--/From Sketch 6th Cav. Camp. Rapid Creek./--Dec. 23 --1890--
Illustration Inscription: ll: KURTZ; lr: --FREDERIC REMINGTON-/--From Sketch 6th Cav. Camp. Rapid Creek./Dec.23-1890.--
Provenance: Boatman's National Bank, St. Louis, Missouri, 1988; (Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, 2012); [?]; (The Legacy Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming, 2015); (Scottsdale Art Auction, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2015); present owner
Bibliographies
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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Carter, Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. From Yorktown to Santiago with
the Sixth U.S. Cavalry. Baltimore, Maryland: The Lord Baltimore Press,
1900.
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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected
Letters. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1988.
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Remington to Arthur B. Turner, January 15, 1892. Denver Public Library,
Denver, Colorado, Western History Department.
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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.
