"This Was a Fatal Embarquation"
Date: 1898
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02352
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, George F. Harding Collection
Dimensions: 27 x 40 1/4" (68.8 x 102.2 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (June 1898), p. 55, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington-
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington-
Provenance: (American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, 1935); [?]; George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, Illinois; present owner
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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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. The Collected Writings of Frederic
Remington. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
1979.
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American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc. French,
English and American Furniture, Tapestries, Rugs and Silver.
Property of the Late R. Arthur Heller, A. E. Norden, and Others.}
New York sale (January 18-19, 1935).
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Levy, Florence N., ed. Vol. 32. American Art Annual. Washington,
D.C.: The American Federation of Arts, 1936.
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The Saint Louis Art Museum in conjunction with the Buffalo Bill
Historical Center. Frederic Remington: The Masterworks.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1988.
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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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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.
