Untitled ("Frontier Types," initial-piece, head of frontiersman)
Alternate Title: Initial Letter.--Frontier Types; Frontier Type Portrait
Date: ca. 1888
Medium: pen and ink on paper
Catalogue Number: 00366
Credit Line: National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Dimensions: 7-1/2 x 6-1/2" (19.05 x 16.51 cm)
Illustration: Century Magazine (October 1888), p. 831, line engraving.
Inscription: ll: Initial letter. --Frontier Types.
Illustration Inscription: Unsigned
Provenance: The artist; James Hathaway Kidder, descended through family; Mrs. C. Deas Gadsden, Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, 1992; present owner
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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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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Roosevelt, Theodore. Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail. New
York: The Century Co., 1888.
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Humfreville, J. Lee. Twenty Years Among Our Savage Indians.
Hartford, Connecticut: The Hartford Publishing Company, 1897.
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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.
