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"I Whistled and Sang Like a School-Boy"

Alternate Title: The Prospector; Prospector on Horse

Date: ca. 1893

Medium: pen and ink wash on paper, b/w

Catalogue Number: 01717

Credit Line: Tim and Elaine Peterson

Dimensions: 17-1/4 x 16-1/4" (43.8 x 41.3 cm)

Illustration: Harper's Bazaar (December 16, 1893), p. 1028, halftone.

Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON.--

Illustration Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON--


Provenance: Estate of Earl C. Adams, San Marino, California; (Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, California); [?]; (Mongerson Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, Illinois); present owner

Exhibitions

The West Remembered: Artists and Images 1837-1973: Selections from the Collection of Earl C. Adams. Santa Barbara, California: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, November 10, 1973 - January 6, 1974; travelling exhibit: San Francisco.
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The West Remembered: Artists and Images 1837-1973: Selections from the Collection of Earl C. Adams. San Francisco, California: The Old Mint, June 16 - September 15, 1973; traveling exhibit: Santa Barbara.
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Visions of the Last Frontier. San Francisco, California: Montgomery Gallery, October 13 - November 27, 1987.
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Bibliographies

Mongerson Wunderlich. Frederic Remington's West. Chicago, Illinois: Mongerson Wunderlich, 1997.
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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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California Historical Society. The West Remembered: Artists and Images 1837-1973: Selections from the Collection of Earl C. Adams. San Francisco, California: California Historical Society, 1973.
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Montgomery Gallery. Visions of the Last Frontier. San Francisco: Montgomery Gallery, 1987.
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Gerald Peters Gallery in association with Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries. Frederic Remington. Santa Fe, New Mexico: The Peters Corporation, 1991.
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Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries. The Contemporary Western Vision and Classic 19th and Early 20th Century Western Art. Chicago: Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries, 1990.
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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.