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Untitled ("The Military Search for Belle McKeever," headpiece, Belle McKeever and soldier on horses)

Alternate Title: Belle McKeever and Lt. Edgar Wheelock

Date: ca. 1899

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: 02461

Credit Line: Private Collection

Dimensions: 23 x 18" (58.5 x 45.8 cm)

Illustration: Harper's Weekly (December 16, 1899), p. 17, halftone.

Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington--

Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington--


Provenance: (Newhouse Galleries, New York, New York); Mr. and Mrs. Kay Kimbell, Fort Worth, Texas; (Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, New York, October 16, 1974, did not sell); (David De Francesca, Los Angeles, California); Private Collection; (Sotheby's, New York, New York, 2004); [?]; (Christie's, New York, New York, 2006); present owner

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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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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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.