Remington Catalogue
The Well in the Desert
Date: ca. 1897
Medium: ink wash and gouache on commercial watercolor board, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02219
Credit Line: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas
Dimensions: 26 1/8 x 38 1/8" (66.4 x 96.8 cm)
Illustration: Remington, Frederic. Drawings, 1897, n. p., halftone.
Inscription: ll: Copyright 1897/Russell & Son; lr: --Frederic Remington--; reverse in Remington's handwriting: 6 cols/Half tone/"The Well in the desert"
Illustration Inscription: lr: --Frederic Remington--
Provenance: The artist; (Noonan and Kocian, St. Louis, Missouri, purchased at 1897 Hart & Watson); [?]; (C. Bland Jamison, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1958); H.J. Lutcher Stark, Orange, Texas, 1958; Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, Orange, Texas, 1965; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art (present owner)
Exhibitions
Paintings and Drawings by Mr. Frederic Remington. Boston,
Massachusetts: Hart & Watson, closed December 11, 1897.
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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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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Frederic Remington: A Biography.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
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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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Hart & Watson. Paintings and Drawings by Mr. Frederic Remington
on Exhibition at 423 Boylston Street, Boston. Boston: Hart &
Watson, 1897.
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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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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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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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Downey, Fairfax. Indian-Fighting Army. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1941.
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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.