Pitched It Sheer into the River . . . Where It Still Is Seen in the Summer
Alternate Title: Hiawatha's Friends
Date: 1889
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 00789
Credit Line: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dimensions: 20 x 28 1/4" (50.8 x 71.8 cm)
Illustration: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha, 1891, opp. p. 64, photogravure.
Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON-/'89.
Illustration Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON/'89.
Provenance: (Scott & Fowles, New York, New York); Private Collector; present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken.
Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 30,
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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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frederic Remington: An Exhibition
Honoring Harold McCracken. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center,
1974.
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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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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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Burke, Doreen Bolger. American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, Volume III, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1846
and 1864. Kathleen Luhrs, ed. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of
Art in Association with Princeton University Press, 1982.
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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.
