The First of the Race
Date: 1888
Medium: pen and ink on paper
Catalogue Number: 00407
Credit Line: Private Collection, Previously owned by Dr. Harold McCracken
Dimensions: 16-1/4 x 14-1/8" (41.28 x 35.89 cm)
Illustration: Century Magazine (January 1889), p. 333, line engraving.
Inscription: ul: B654; ur: 3655/WA [purple stamp, rest of stamp erased] Aug. 12 [in pencil]; lr: Frederic Remington.; across bottom in pencil: mat = 9 J568-- 1/2-- inch; reverse: ul: WCA written over in blue ink]-2104; c: cost 40.; center stamp with purple ink: ART
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington.
Provenance: C. C. Bradley III, Syracuse, New York; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, no.WCA-2104); Harold McCracken, Cody, Wyoming; 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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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected
Letters. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1988.
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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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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.
