The Gold Bug
Alternate Title: Western Mining Prospectors
Date: 1897
Medium: ink wash on paper mounted on cardboard, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02171
Credit Line: William R. Hewlett
Dimensions: 22 x 27" (55.9 x 68.6 cm)
Illustration: Remington, Frederic. Drawings, 1897, n. p., halftone.
Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington.; lr: Copyright 1897/Russell & Son.
Illustration Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington.
Provenance: Mr. Joseph Jefferson; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York); Mrs. Hamilton Vreeland, Jr., Reno, Nevada; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, no.CA-8781, April 1972); (Midwestern Galleries, Cinncinati, Ohio, purchased May 1972); (J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, New York); (John Howell-Books, San Francisco, California, 1973); present owner
Exhibitions
Paintings and Drawings by Mr. Frederic Remington. Boston,
Massachusetts: Hart & Watson, closed December 11, 1897.
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Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken.
Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 30,
1974.
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Frederic Remington Centennial Exhibition. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo
Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 15, 1961.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Frederic Remington: A Biography.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
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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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Commemorative stamp, 1898
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Hart & Watson. Paintings and Drawings by Mr. Frederic Remington
on Exhibition at 423 Boylston Street, Boston. Boston: Hart &
Watson, 1897.
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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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McKown, Robin. Painter of the Old West. New York: Julia
Messner, Inc., 1959.
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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.
