Lot 114
  • 114

Remington, Frederic

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • A Bunch of Buckskins. New York: R.H. Russell, 1901
  • Paper, Ink
8 lithographs (sheet: 20 x 15 in.; 508 x 381 mm) printed in colors on wove paper; including the title page, printed in black and red, and introductory note by Owen Wister. Each signed in stone and inscribed Copyright 1901 by Robert Howard Russell (lower left). Lacking the publisher's cloth portfolio, otherwise complete. Scattered minor creasing; matted, glazed, and framed.

Catalogue Note

"...the Frontier glows before us once more in living flesh and blood." (Wister)

Remington's seminal portfolio of chromolithographs depicting characters from the American West, featuring four "rough rider" archetypes — A Cavalry Officer, An Army Packer, An Arizona Cowboy, A Trapper — and four Native American — A Cheyenne Buck, A Sioux Chief, A Breed, and Old Ramon.