"Half Sliding, Half Plunging, Down Went the Little Mare"
Alternate Title: The Desparate [sic] Riding of the Buffalo Hunter; "Over a Cut-Bank"--Running Buffalo
Date: 1892
Medium: ink wash on board, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01403
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 29-3/16 x 19-3/4" (74.2 x 50.1 cm)
Illustration: Parkman, Francis. The Oregon Trail, 1892, opp. p. 365, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington./1892.--; reverse: The desparate riding of the buffalo hunter--.
Illustration Inscription: ll: Kurtz; lr: Frederic Remington./1892--
Provenance: The artist; Edward Howe Wales, Players Club (purchased at 1893 AAG for $100); Henry Francis du Pont, Winterthur, Delaware (son-in-law); The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware; last known with Nelson Doubleday, New York, New York
Exhibitions
Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Water-Colors by Frederic Remington,
A. N. A.. New York, New York: The American Art Galleries, American Art
Association, January 6 - 13, 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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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Frederic Remington: A Biography.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
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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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American Art Association. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings,
Drawings and Water-Colors by Frederic Remington, A.N.A.. New York:
American Art Association, 1893.
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New York Times, January 14, 1893.
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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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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.
