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A Voyageur or Canoe-Man of Great Slave Lake

Alternate Title: Indian Guide

Date: ca. 1892

Medium: pen and ink on paper

Catalogue Number: 01487

Credit Line: On long-term loan to the Orlando Museum of Art from an anonymous lender

Dimensions: 12 7/8 x 6 3/4" (32.7 x 17.1 cm)

Illustration: Harper's Monthly (March 1892), p. 500, line engraving.

Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington/after photograph-; reverse: A Voyager or canoeman of the Slave Lake from photo of one of Comm. Wrigley's crew--Ralph's Hudson Bay articles 1/4/92

Illustration Inscription: lr: --Frederic Remington/after photograph--


Provenance: Descended through family to present owner

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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Ralph, Julian. On Canada's Frontier. New York: Harper's Brothers, 1892.
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Tatum, StephenIn the Remington Moment. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
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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.