A Pool in the Desert
Date: ca. 1889
Medium: oil on canvas laid down on board, b/w
Catalogue Number: 00444
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 17-1/2 x 27-3/4" (44.4 x 70.5 cm)
Illustration: Century Magazine (April 1889), p. 910, wood engraving.
Inscription: lc: FREDERIC REMINGTON.
Illustration Inscription: lc: FREDERIC REMINGTON.; lr: R.C. COLLINS Sc
Provenance: (William Findlay Gallery, Chicago, Illinois); George Bates, Cary, Illinois; George Bates Estate; (Christie's, New York, New York, December 1, 1989, did not sell); (Rosenstock Arts, Denver, Colorado); (Cliff Logan, Austin, Texas); The Torch Collection, Torch Energy Advisors Incorporated, Houston, Texas; (Christie's East, 1 December 1999); (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2000); (J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, New York, 2000); 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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Christie, Manson & Woods International, Inc. A Distinguished
Collection of Western Paintings and Sculpture. The Property of a
Gentleman. New York sale (December 1, 1989).
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Points West, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Spring, 2013
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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.
