A Blackfoot Indian
Alternate Title: Blackfoot Indian Chief; A Blackfoot Chief
Date: 1888
Medium: oil on canvas covered academy board
Catalogue Number: 00420
Credit Line: Denver Art Museum, the Roath Collection
Dimensions: 22 x 16" (55.7 x 40.5 cm)
Illustration: Century Magazine (August 1892), p. 575, wood engraving.
Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON./'88
Illustration Inscription: ll: E.H. Sc; lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON./'88
Provenance: John Mitchell, New York, New York; (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); Warner Collection, Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; (Sotheby's, New York, New York, October 22, 1981); (James Graham & Sons, New York, New York); Private Collection, Aspen, Colorado; The Roath Collection, Englewood, Colorado; by gift to present owner
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Exhibitions
The American West: Painters from Catlin to Russell. Los
Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 21 -
May 28, 1972; traveling exhibit: San Francisco, St. Louis.
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The American West: Painters from Catlin to Russell. St. Louis,
Missouri: The Saint Louis Art Museum, November 2 - December 31, 1972;
traveling exhibit: Los Angeles, San Francisco.
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Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Water-Colors by Frederic Remington,
A. N. A.. New York, New York: The American Art Galleries, American Art
Association, January 6 - 13, 1893.
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Frederic Remington. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Gerald Peters Gallery, in
association with Mongerson-Wunderlich, Chicago, Illinois, May 3 -
June 11, 1991; traveling exhibit: Chicago.
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The American West: Painters from Catlin to Russell. San Francisco,
California: M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, June 9 - September 4, 1972; traveling
exhibit: Los Angeles, St. Louis.
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Frederic Remington: 'The Soldier Artist.' West Point, New York: U.S.
Military Academy, May 19 - June 6, 1979.
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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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Kuenning, Howard F., Peter Mirakian, Jr., Roger A. Rains, Michael
W. Taylor, eds. Frederic Remington: 'The Soldier Artist.' West
Point, New York: U.S. Military Academy, 1979.
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Getlein, Frank. "The Lure of the Great West." Country Beautiful,
(1973).
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Sotheby's. American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. New
York, sale 6633 (December 1, 1994).
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Sotheby's. American 18th Century, 19th Century and Western
Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. New York, sale 4707M
(October 22, 1981).
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American Art Association. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings,
Drawings and Water-Colors by Frederic Remington, A.N.A.. New York:
American Art Association, 1893.
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Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. Important American Western Paintings
and Watercolors: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Kay Kimbell,
Fort Worth, Texas. New York, sale 3678A (October 16, 1974).
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Gerald Peters Gallery in association with Mongerson-Wunderlich
Galleries. Frederic Remington. Santa Fe, New Mexico: The Peters
Corporation, 1991.
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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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Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The American West: Painters from Catlin to
Russell. New York: The Viking Press, in association with the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, 1972.
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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.
