Remington Catalogue
The Melee
Alternate Title: The Troop A Melee, Dickel's Academy
Date: 1891
Medium: ink wash, gouache and graphite on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01317
Credit Line: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.
Dimensions: 18 5/8 x 21 7/16" (47.3 x 54.4 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (January 2, 1892), p. 8, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/"Dickels."; lc: The Troop A. Melee
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.--/"Dickels"
Provenance: (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, New York, October 1962); Mr. and Mrs, R. Crosby Kemper, Kansas City, Missouri; 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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Kennedy Galleries Inc. "Recent Acquisitions in Important
Western and Sporting Paintings and Sculpture." The Kennedy
Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 2 (October 1962).
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Remington ledger book of paintings, c. 1887-1892. No. 71.839. Frederic
Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Remington to Arthur B. Turner, December 16, 1891. The New-York Historical
Society, 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.