A Sunday Afternoon Sport
Alternate Title: The Chicken Pull, A Sunday Afternoon Sport in Caloma [sic], California
Date: ca. 1891
Medium: pen and ink wash on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01242
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 19 x 28" (48.3 x 71.1 cm)
Illustration: Century Magazine (June 1891), p. 267, wood engraving.
Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON--
Illustration Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON. E.H DE L'ORME/Sc
Provenance: (Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, New York, April 11, 1973); [?]; (Saks Galleries, Denver, Colorado); 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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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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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Southwest Art, vol. 5, no. 3 (September 1975).
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Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. Important 18th, 19th and Early 20th
Century American Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture. New
York, sale 3498 (April 11, 1973).
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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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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.
