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A Thrilling Experience of Life on the Plains. "Splitting" a Herd of Stampeded Buffaloes

Alternate Title: Splitting the Herd

Date: 1889

Medium: pen and ink wash and pencil heightened with white on board, b/w

Catalogue Number: 00547

Credit Line: Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York

Dimensions: 18 x 25 1/4" (45.72 x 64.14 cm)

Illustration: St. Nicholas Magazine (December 1889), p. 141, wood engraving.

Inscription: lc: Remington./'89

Illustration Inscription: lc: Remington./'89; lr: Aitken


Provenance: (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, New York); Robert F. Rockwell, Jr., Corning, New York; The Rockwell Foundation, Corning, New York; present owner

Exhibitions

Remington's West. Corning, New York: The Rockwell Museum, September 6 - November 4, 1984.
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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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Duty, Michael. Remington's West. Corning, New York: The Rockwell Museum, 1984.
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Hassrick, Peter H. Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art. Washington: Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 2000
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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.