Remington Catalogue
The Baffled Chiefs Leaving the Fort
Date: ca. 1897
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02277
Credit Line: Courtesy of the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis
Dimensions: 26 1/4 x 39 1/8" (66.7 x 99.4 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (June 1897), p.83, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington-/copyright 1899 Harpers Bros-
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington-
Provenance: (The Old Print Shop Inc., Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, New York, New York, June-July 1946); Clements Library, University of Michigan; (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, New York, June 1974); Harrison Eiteljorg, 1974; present owner by gift
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Exhibitions
Frederic Remington Exhibition. New York, New York: The Old Print Shop
Inc., Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, June-July 1946.
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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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Kennedy Galleries Inc. "Paintings of the American West." The
Kennedy Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 2 (June 1974).
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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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Moore, Charles. The Northwest Under Three Flags. New York:
Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900.
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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.