The Shot-Gun Messenger
Date: ca. 1894
Medium: pen and ink wash on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01879
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 21 x 28 1/5" (53.3 x 71.6 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (October 1894), p. 675, halftone.
Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington.
Illustration Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington
Provenance: (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, New York, October 1962); 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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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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Wister, Owen. Red Men and White. New York: Harper & Brothers
Publishers, copyright 1895, published 1896.
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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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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.
