On the Bridle Path, Central Park, New York
1889
Artist, American, 1861 - 1909
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink, wash, and gouache on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Arthur C. Nash)
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Dimensions
image (irregular): 31.75 × 23.81 cm (12 1/2 × 9 3/8 in.)
sheet (irregular): 45.88 × 35.72 cm (18 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.1004
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Edward Eberstadt & Sons, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1962; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1963
Progress of An American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1963
1967
Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota; Clark Art Institute, WIlliamstown, Massachusetts, 1967, no. 5, repro
1973
Frederic Remington in the Southwest, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 1973, p. 19, no. 13, repro
1980
That’s Entertainment, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980, no. 32
1981
The Artist as Illustrator, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981, no. 25
Bibliography
1889
Harper's Weekly 33, no. 1698 (July 6, 1889): pp. 540-541, 547.
1970
Jackson, Marta, and Owen Wister. The Illustrations of Frederic Remington. New York: Crown Publishers, 1970, p. 31.
1983
Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 124, no. 831.
Inscriptions
lower left in black ink: Frederic Remington 1889; lower right margin in graphite by unknown hand: 10 1/4 / 13 1/2 / 10 D/P / x / 14; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 1154
Wikidata ID
Q64570695