Remington Catalogue
"What Do You Call Bein' 'Oncommon Sweet'?"
Alternate Title: Jonah of Lucky Valley, A Quiet Evening in the Tent
Date: ca. 1891
Medium: pen and ink wash on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01283
Credit Line: Private Collection, Previously owned by Dr. Harold McCracken
Dimensions: 14 3/8 x 11 5/8" (36.51 x 29.53 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (October 10, 1891), p. 769, halftone.
Inscription: ll: REMINGTON--
Illustration Inscription: ll: REMINGTON--; lr: KURTZ
Provenance: Harold McCracken, Cody, Wyoming; 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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Seely, Howard. The Jonah of Lucky Valley and Other Stories. New
York: Harper & Brothers, 1892.
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Remington to Frederick B. Schell, c. 1891. Archives Division, Kansas
State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas.
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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.