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FREDERIC REMINGTON

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 500.00 USD
FREDERIC REMINGTON
(1861 - 1909) American painter, illustrator and artist remembered for his works based on western themes, most notably his sculpture Broncho Buster and his paintings Last Stand and A Dash For the Timber. A.L.S. mentioning one of his most famous illustrations, 1p. 4to., New Rochelle, Jan. 11 [n.y.], to a gentleman, in part: "...Came home from West - nearly had pneumonia - all right soon - Hiawatha $375 wholesale you owe me. I am nearly always at home...Will see about Fallencraft [?]...". Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his acclaimed poem "The Song of Hiawatha" in 1855; Remington in part revived interest in it with his evocative illustrations created for a deluxe edition for Houghton Mifflin, published in 1900. Fine.

Estimate: $400 - 500.

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