A Shattered Idol
Date: ca. 1892
Medium: pen and ink wash on academy board, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01509
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 14 1/4 x 6 1/2" (36.20 x 16.51 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (April 30, 1892), p. 412, halftone.
Inscription: lr: F.Remington--; lc: One of Mrs. Davis' shattered idols.--/or/a cowboy in the days of the Illiad
Illustration Inscription: lr: F.Remington--
Provenance: Private Collection, by 1929; [?]; (Christie's, New York, New York, 2010); present owner
Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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McCracken, Harold. The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial
History of the West. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.,
Inc., 1966.
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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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Davis, Richard Harding. The West from a Car-Window. New York:
Harper & Brothers, 1892.
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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.
