American Art

American Art

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Property of The Newark Museum of Art, Sold to Support Museum Collections

Frederic Remington

Trooper of the Plains

Auction Closed

May 19, 03:38 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of The Newark Museum of Art, Sold to Support Museum Collections

Frederic Remington

1861 - 1909

Trooper of the Plains



inscribed copyright by / Frederic Remington (on the base) and Roman Bronze Works N-Y- (along the base) also numbered No. 13 (beneath the base) 

bronze with dark brown patina

height: 26 ¼ inches (66.7 cm)

Modeled in 1908; cast by 1921.

Mr. and Mrs. William V. Griffin, Peapack, New Jersey
Bequest to the present owner from the above, 1952
Bruce Wear, The Bronze World of Frederic Remington, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1966, p. 92, illustration of another example p. 93
Harold McCracken, The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial History of the West, Garden City, New York, 1966, fig. 381, p. 269, illustration of another example 
Peter Hassrick, Frederic Remington: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture in the Amon Carter Museum and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Collections, New York, 1973, no. 92, pp. 206-207, illustration of another example
Patricia Janis Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, p. 121, illustration of another example
Michael Edward Shapiro, Cast and Recast: The Sculpture of Frederic Remington, Washington, D.C., 1981, p. 115
American Art in the Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, 1981, p. 253, illustrated
Michael Edward Shapiro and Peter Hassrick, Frederic Remington: The Masterworks, New York, 1988, pp. 218, 221, 230-31, illustration of another example
Michael D. Greenbaum, Icons of the West: Frederic Remington's Sculpture, Ogdensburg, New York, 1996, pp. 147-151, 204, illustrated of another example