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Then Began the Greatest Battle That the Sun Had Ever Looked On

Alternate Title: Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather; An Indian Battle

Date: 1889

Medium: oil on canvas, b/w

Catalogue Number: 00876

Credit Line: Houston Museum of Natural Science

Dimensions: 27 15/16 x 19 15/16" (71.0 x 50.6 cm)

Illustration: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha, 1891, opp. p. 90, photogravure.

Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON.

Illustration Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON.


Provenance: (The Old Print Shop Inc., Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, New York, New York, June-July 1946); Mr. A. T. McDannald, Houston, Texas; present owner

Exhibitions

Frederic Remington Exhibition. New York, New York: The Old Print Shop Inc., Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, June-July 1946.
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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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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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Copley Prints, Curtis and Cameron, Boston, copyright 1903 the Hiawatha paintings, reproduced as sepia photogravures, horizontal and vertical formats 6-3/4 x 9-1/2", 9-1/2 x 13-3/8", 14-1/8 x 19-7/8".
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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.