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Frederic Remington

The Couriers

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April 20, 09:25 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Frederic Remington

1861 - 1909

The Couriers


signed Frederic Remington (lower left); bearing the inscription Genl. Miles Indian Campaign / Courier (on the reverse)

ink and wash with white highlights on paperboard

image: 17½ x 23½ in. (44.4 x 59.7 cm.); sheet: 21¾ x 28¼ in. (55.2 x 71.8 cm.)

Executed circa 1890-91. 

General Miles's Indian Campaign (commissioned by 1891)

Museum of the American Indian, New York

Private Collection 

Leopold D. Silberstein, New York

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York

Wolf Family Collection No. 0136 (acquired from the above on March 22, 1971)

Major G.W. Baird, "General Miles's Indian Campaigns," The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, vol. XLII, 1891, no. 3, p. 366, illustrated
Peter Hassrick & Melissa Webster, Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, vol. I, Cody, Wyoming, 1996, no. 1155, p. 356, illustrated