On the Bridle Path, Central Park, New York, 1889

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink, wash, and gouache on wove paper

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Arthur C. Nash)

Accession Number

2015.19.1004

Artists / Makers

Frederic Remington (artist) American, 1861 - 1909

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Provenance

(Edward Eberstadt & Sons, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1962; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Edward Eberstadt & Sons

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.