Remington Catalogue
Prospectors in the Sierra Madre–“Out of Grub and the Promised Land in Sight”
Alternate Title: Out of Grub and the Promised Land in Sight
Date: ca. 1889
Medium: gouache on paper mounted on board, b/w
Catalogue Number: 00954
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 18 x 25″ (45.7 x 63.5 cm)
Illustration: Harper’s Weekly (April 26, 1890), p. 328-29, halftone.
Inscription: lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON–; reverse: Prospectors in the Sierra Madra [sic] – “Out of grub & the promised land in sight”-
Illustration Inscription: ll: KURTZ; lr: FREDERIC REMINGTON–
Provenance: Wentworth G. Marshall, Cleveland, Ohio, 1910; descended in the
family; (Sotheby’s, New York, New York, December 3,
1987); 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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Sotheby’s. Important American Paintings, Drawings and
Sculpture. New York, sale 5407 (December 5, 1985).
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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.