United States
1890s
Pencil on Bush Stock Farm letterhead
Drawing 10½ × 7¾ in. (26.7 × 19.7 cm); framed 18 × 15½ in. (45.7 × 39.4 cm)
Provenance: J. Frederick Caine, St. Augustine, Florida
This pencil sketch by Frederic Remington is drawn on Bush Stock Farm letterhead, with the heading identifying the Orchard, Colorado farm and its horse Phoebus II.349, with George Wilson Jr. listed as proprietor. Remington (1861–1909) was the foremost illustrator and artist of the American West in the late nineteenth century, producing paintings, drawings, and sculptures that defined the popular image of cowboys, cavalry, and frontier life for American audiences. The sketch depicts a standing cowboy figure in Remington's characteristic line, signed by the artist.
The use of stock farm letterhead as a drawing surface reflects the informal working practice of an artist producing sketches in the field or in correspondence, and such signed working drawings on identified paper carry documentary interest beyond the image alone. J. Frederick Caine provenance from St. Augustine, Florida connects the piece to a Florida collection with documented holdings of American material. Signed Remington drawings with identified paper provenance are seldom encountered outside major institutional collections.
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United States
1890s
Pencil on Bush Stock Farm letterhead
Drawing 10½ × 7¾ in. (26.7 × 19.7 cm); framed 18 × 15½ in. (45.7 × 39.4 cm)
Provenance: J. Frederick Caine, St. Augustine, Florida
This pencil sketch by Frederic Remington is drawn on Bush Stock Farm letterhead, with the heading identifying the Orchard, Colorado farm and its horse Phoebus II.349, with George Wilson Jr. listed as proprietor. Remington (1861–1909) was the foremost illustrator and artist of the American West in the late nineteenth century, producing paintings, drawings, and sculptures that defined the popular image of cowboys, cavalry, and frontier life for American audiences. The sketch depicts a standing cowboy figure in Remington's characteristic line, signed by the artist.
The use of stock farm letterhead as a drawing surface reflects the informal working practice of an artist producing sketches in the field or in correspondence, and such signed working drawings on identified paper carry documentary interest beyond the image alone. J. Frederick Caine provenance from St. Augustine, Florida connects the piece to a Florida collection with documented holdings of American material. Signed Remington drawings with identified paper provenance are seldom encountered outside major institutional collections.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
