Old Delaware Chief
Alternate Title: An Old Delaware Hunter
Date: 1892
Medium: pen and ink wash on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01426
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 25 x 25" (63.5 x 63.5 cm)
Illustration: Parkman, Francis. The Oregon Trail, 1892, p. 22, halftone.
Inscription: lr: --Frederic Remington./"old Deleware chief."
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.
Provenance: The artist; Private Collection, descended through family to present owner
Exhibitions
New Britain, Connecticut: New Britain Museum of American Art,
September 21, 1976 - 1988. Long-term loan from private collector.
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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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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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National Museum of American Art. Inventory of American
Paintings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. On-line
computer database in progress; BBHC copy for Remington's paintings
dates October 10, 1984.
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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.
