The First and Best Camp of the Trip
Alternate Title: Campfire in the Canadian Northwest
Date: 1895
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02020
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, George F. Harding Collection
Dimensions: 27 1/8 x 40 3/16" (68.8 x 102.1 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (January 1896), p. 213, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.
Provenance: (American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, 1938); [?]; George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, Illinois; present owner
Exhibitions
American Historical Paintings Illustrating Pioneer & Sporting
Life in America During the XVIII-XIX Century. New York, New York:
American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., January 27, 1938.
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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, Anderson Galleries, Inc. American
Historical Paintings Illustrating Pioneer and Sporting Life in
America During the XVIII - XIX Century Including Splendid
Examples of the Work of A. F. Tait, George Durrie, Louis Maurer,
William Tylee Ranney, Samuel Colman, Edward Savage, Frederic
Remington & Some of the Well-Known Portrait Painters Together
With Examples of Pioneer or Backwoods Art Sold By Order of
Several Consignors To Be Sold at Auction Thursday Evening,
January Twenty-Seventh at Eight-Fifteen O'Clock. New York, sale
4368 (January 27, 1938).
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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected
Letters. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1988.
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Whitney, Caspar. On Snow-Shoes to the Barren Grounds.
Twenty-Eight Hundred Miles After Musk-Oxen and Wood-Bison. New
York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896.
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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.
