Remington Catalogue
Crossing Water to Escape a Prairie Fire
Date: ca. 1891
Medium: ink wash and gouache on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01243
Credit Line: Courtesy Bill and Irma Runyon Art Collection, Forsyth Galleries, Texas A&M University
Dimensions: 14 x 22″ (35.56 x 55.88 cm)
Illustration: Century Magazine (July 1891), p. 411, wood engraving.
Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON.
Illustration Inscription: lc: PUTNAM Sc; lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON.
Provenance: The artist; Henry W. Sage, Sr., San Francisco, California; Henry W.
Sage, Jr., San Francisco, California and New York (son); Henry W. Sage
III, San Francisco, California and Florida (son of H. Sage, Jr.);
(Rainone Galleries, Inc., Arlington, Texas, 1982); J. W. Runyon,
Jr., Dallas, Texas, 1982; present owner
Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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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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.