"Thrust His Lance Through His Body and Rode Him Down"
Date: 1889
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 00550
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 27 7/8 x 19 1/2" (70.8 x 49.5 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (December 7, 1889), p. 980, wood engraving.
Inscription: ll: --REMINGTON
Illustration Inscription: ll: --REMINGTON; lr: R. STAUDENBAUR Sc.
Provenance: The artist; [?]; William E. Booth, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; (Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, January 28-29, 1970); Harrison Eiteljorg, Indianapolis, Indiana; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana by gift; (Christie's, New York, New York, 2010); present owner
Exhibitions
Colorado Collects Historic Western Art: The Nostalgia of the
Vanishing West. Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum, January 13 -
April 15, 1973.
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Eighteenth to Twentieth Century American Paintings. New York,
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1970.
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West America: A Selection of Paintings, Bronzes and Artifacts from
the Harrison Eiteljorg Collection. Indianapolis, Indiana:
Indianapolis Museum of Art, May 29 - June 28, 1971.
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American Paintings and Sculpture: Recent Accessions, 1972 - 1974.
Indianapolis, Indiana: Indianapolis Museum of Art, October 25 -
December 1, 1974.
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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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Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. American Paintings & Sculpture.
New York, sale 2977 (January 28-29, 1970).
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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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Denver Art Museum. Colorado Collects Historic Western Art: The
Nostalgia of the Vanishing West. Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum,
1973.
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Jones, Karen M. "Museum Accessions." The Magazine Antiques,
vol. 107, (February 1975), p. 246-258.
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Dippie, Brian W. The Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York 2001
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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.
