"Making a Possible"
Date: ca. 1892
Medium: ink wash and goauche on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01581
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 14 1/2 x 20" (36.8 x 50.8 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (June 10, 1893), p. 553, halftone.
Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington/Making a Possible/ Revolver Practice -- 1st US cav--
Illustration Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington./after photo.
Provenance: (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, New York, 1962); [?]; Russell B. Aitken Collection; (Christie's, New York, New York 2003); (Sotheby's, New York, New York, 2003); 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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Kennedy Galleries Inc. "Recent Acquisitions in Important
Western and Sporting Paintings and Sculpture." The Kennedy
Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 2 (October 1962).
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Remington to Arthur B. Turner, c. 1892. Denver Public Library, Denver,
Colorado, Western History Department.
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Remington to Arthur B. Turner, c. 1892. Amon Carter Museum Library, Fort
Worth, Texas.
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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.
