Instructor and Cadets
Alternate Title: West Point Riding Hall; General Reviewing the Troops
Date: 1891
Medium: ink wash and gouache on board, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01333
Credit Line: Gift of Geraldine Greller, George Greller, Marjorie Bartels and William Greller in memory of George and Marjorie Greller
Dimensions: 14 x 20" (35.6 x 50.8 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (June 4, 1892), p. 544, halftone.
Inscription: lc: Frederic Remington./from sketch West Point Riding Hall--; reverse: Instructor and cadets
Illustration Inscription: lc: Frederic Remington./from sketch West Point Riding Hall--
Provenance: William D. Reilly, Cedarhurst, New York; Estate of Mrs. Lincoln Ellsworth; descended through the family to Private Collector; (Sotheby's, New York, New York, May 27, 1993); 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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Remington ledger book of paintings, c. 1887-1892. No. 71.839. Frederic
Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected
Letters. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1988.
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Sotheby's. American Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings. New
York, sale 6429 (May 27, 1993).
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Remington to Frederick B. Schell, November 14, 1891. Denver Public
Library, Denver, Colorado, Western History Department.
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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.
