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"Assuming That Rags Are Picturesque, How Can You Beat It?"

Alternate Title: Mr. Rags

Date: 1894

Catalogue Number: 01903

Illustration: Harper's Monthly (December 1894), p. 13, line engraving.

Illustration Inscription: lr: --Frederic Remington/Algiers.--


Provenance: The artist; A. A. Hand, Lawrence, Long Island, New York, purchased at 1895 AAG

Exhibitions

Paintings and Drawings by Frederic Remington, A. N. A.. New York, New York: The American Art Galleries, American Art Association, November 14-19, 1895.
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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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American Art Association. Catalogue of a Collection of Original Works in Black and White, Water-Color and Oil by Frederic Remington, A. N. A.. New York: American Art Association, 1895.
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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected Letters. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1988.
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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.