A Sample Steed
Date: ca. 1891
Medium: gouache on academy board, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01266
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 18 5/8 x 23 1/2" (47.31 x 59.69 cm)
Illustration: Century Magazine (September 1891), p. 672, wood engraving.
Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON--; lc, margin: 5 inches; lr, margin in Remington's hand: M.S. "Cal-via Vera Cruz & Sun Blas.---/"Pioneer equistrienism."-- lr, margin in larger writing: Mr. Chas V. Mapes 68 W 40. St; r margin: [illegible]/Gold m[at][cut off]/16
Illustration Inscription: ll: EVANS Sc; lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON--
Provenance: The artist; Mr. Chas V. Mapes, New York, New York; [?]; Kemper Military Academy, Boonville, Missouri; Tom Danis, St. Louis, Missouri; (Martin Kodner, Kodner Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri); Sydney M. Shoenberg, Jr., Saint Louis, Missouri; present owner
Exhibitions
World's Columbian Exposition. Chicago, Illinois: 1893.
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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 Department of Publicity and Promotion, M. P. Handy Chief, ed.
World's Columbian Exposition. 1893. Official Catalogue. Chicago:
W. B. Gonkey Company, Publishers, 1893.
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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.
