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The Crazy Horse Fight

Alternate Title: Attacking the Indian Chief

Date: ca. 1896

Medium: oil on canvas, b/w

Catalogue Number: 02046

Credit Line: Private Collection

Dimensions: 22 1/2 x 34 1/2" (57.2 x 87.6 cm)

Illustration: Miles, Gen. Nelson A. Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, 1896, p. 257, halftone.

Inscription: lr: --Frederic Remington-

Illustration Inscription: lr: --Frederic Remington-


Provenance: (Findlay Galleries, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri, January 1928); (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, no. A29, April 1947); McCaughen and Burr; [?]; Robert Purcell, New York, New York; (James Graham & Sons, New York, New York); present owner

Exhibitions

Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 30, 1974.
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Bibliographies

McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1974.
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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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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1898-1902. No. FRAM 71.840. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Remington, Frederic. Rotogravure. Akron, OH: The Werner Co., c. 1898, undated portfolio of 14 b/w photogravures, 16 x 23" previously published in Personal Recollections of General Nelson A. Miles}.
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Remington, Frederic. Remington's Frontier Sketches. Intro. by George S. Rowe. Chicago: The Werner Co., 1898. Contains 15 Remington plates, b/w, 9-1/2 x 12-1/2", unpaginated, previously published in Personal Recollections of Nelson A. Miles}.
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National Museum of American Art. Inventory of American Paintings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. On-line computer database in progress; BBHC copy for Remington's paintings dates October 10, 1984.
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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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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.

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