Like a Ghost That Goes at Sunrise He Beheld a Maiden Walking
Date: 1889
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 00739
Credit Line: Owner and location unknown
Dimensions: 28 x 20" (71.12 x 50.80 cm)
Illustration: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha, 1891, opp. p. 18, photogravure.
Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON/'89
Illustration Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON/'89
Provenance: Mr. Houghton Mifflin, Colorado, April 1969; (Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, no. 22904); Mr. William Young, Massachusetts, April 1969; (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, New York, June 1969); present owner
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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Kennedy Galleries Inc. "Western Words: An Exhibition of
Important Paintings of the American West." The Kennedy
Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 1 (June 1969).
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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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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.
