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Skirmish Line Target Practice in the Regular Army

Date: 1889

Medium: pencil, ink wash and gouache on paper, b/w

Catalogue Number: 00520

Credit Line: Private Collection

Dimensions: 18 1/4 x 25 1/2" (46.34 x 64.77 cm)

Illustration: Harper's Weekly (October 26, 1889), p. 861, halftone.

Inscription: ul: Infanty file closer-; c: Infantry firing with the "Texas grip".; cr: "An arrangement in horse flesh & black"-; ll: Volley Fireing -cavalry.-/Frederic Remington./-89; lr: At 600 yards.--/-cavalry-

Illustration Inscription: ul: Infantry file closer-; uc: Infantry firing with the "Texas grip."; cr: "An arrangement in horse flesh and black"--.; ll: Volley Firing -cavalry-/Frederic Remington./-89; lr: At 600 yards.--/-cavalry-


Provenance: The Hogg Brothers Collection, Houston, Texas; Miss Ima Hogg, Houston, Texas; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (43.65); (H. Peter Findlay Inc., New York, New York/Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, New York, 1973); (Aquavella Galleries, New York, New York, 1974); [?]; (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1992); William B. Ruger, New Port, New Hampshire; present owner

Exhibitions

Frederic Remington. New York, New York: Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc., 1973.
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Frederic Remington and the Story of the West. Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine Arts, February 17 - September 1, 1991.
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Frederic Remington's Southwest. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, January 4 - March 15, 1992; traveling exhibit: Memphis, Omaha.
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Frederic Remington's Southwest. Memphis, Tennessee: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, April 19 - June 21, 1992; traveling exhibit: Phoenix, Omaha.
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Frederic Remington's Southwest. Omaha, Nebraska: Joslyn Art Museum, July 11 - September 6, 1992; traveling exhibit: Phoenix, Memphis.
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Bibliographies

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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Card, Helen L. Scrapbooks of Remington illustrations, compiled c. 1945. Vols. 1-9. Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming.
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Ballinger, James, K. Frederic Remington's Southwest. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, 1992.
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Coe Kerr Gallery Inc. Frederic Remington. New York: Coe Kerr Gallery Inc., 1973.
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Tatum, StephenIn the Remington Moment. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
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Conzelman, Adrienne Ruger. After the Hunt The Art Collection of William B. Ruger, Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, PA, 2002
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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.