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Historic Frederic Remington Letters and Portrait

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD
Historic Frederic Remington Letters and Portrait
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Also included is a drawing of Frederic Remington by Theodore Russell Davis. 20 1/8" by 32" framed. With a long, diverse career as an illustrator, especially of Civil War subjects, Theodore Davis, known as Theo, is said to have "covered more areas of the fighting than any other artist." His work was highly detailed in documenting people and places, and much of it resulted from hurried notes he took during battles. He was wounded twice and had his horse shot out from under him. In his Civil War reporting, he worked for Harper's, but traveled with William H. Russell, a neutral British journalist, and told people he was an artist for the Illustrated London News. This way, he also served as a spy for the North because he learned much about Southern weaponry. Sometimes he was in the center of the action, especially when he traveled with General Grant's staff at the Vicksburg campaign and was part of General Sherman's March to the Sea. After the War, he continued reportorial work for Harper's, recording Southern reconstruction and travelling extensively in the Far West. He was one of the first artists to document the Sioux Indians, and in 1865, helped fight against one of their attacks on an Overland Stage leaving Atchison, Kansas. He was with General Custer in 1867 and traveled with Hancock's Indian Expedition in 1867. Towards the end of his career, he retired to Asbury Park, New Jersey to do free-lance work. He was a consultant on cyclorama painting projects and for the July, 1889 issue of St. Nicholas magazine, wrote a treatise titled How a Battle is Sketched. Letters read as follows: Letter 1: My dear Col McClellan, Yes sir I have the distinguished honor to have overlooked a pair of crocodile shoes in your teepee at Gettysburg. And as they are very dear to me if you will kindly forward them to me by express I shall be grateful. I have made corns in my feet breaking in mine old pantaloons and I hate to lose them. Whenever I go away from home I dissipate my belongings over my backtrail and they come along in neatly wrapped up parcels for weeks afterwards. Shoes, pantaloons, 1 undershirt, 1 sock, 3 handkerchiefs, plus 20ct .... I am like Captain Hare's (7th Cav) Ideas of quartermaster for soldiers "it is no good for a soldier unless you can spike it on to him". Yours Faithfully Frederic Remington Letter 2: My Dear Ralph, Notes - here is what someone wrote - "Old Sun - Na-to-see-a-pin (NA TO SA PI) his wife - Old Calf Wife - Onis-tah-pi-tah-ke-I I don't know whats its all about Mr Whyte and Mr. Benson ( not your Benson) but keeper of Stony Mountain Penitentiary Winnipeg. The man who had the Buffalo herd -) went out to Blackfoot Reservation to negotiate since Railroad matters - laying a water pipe - Mr Whyte was regarded as of little consequence but Mr Benson was put on a high pedestal by the Indians and called "Ahneokas" with accent on the first and third syllable - it means "The Keeper of the Buffalo". Bear Down on the idea that the "reds" think Buffalo will come back again - it is the dolce dream of the savage - I send you this before I loose it. Yours Truly Frederic Remington Provenance: Gerald P. Peters Fine American Paintings, Santa Fe, New Mexico, circa 1990
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