Rally on the Battalion

Details

FREDERIC REMINGTON (1861-1909)
Rally on the Battalion
signed ‘Remington’ (lower left)
oil on board
16 ¾ x 24 ¼ in. (42.5 x 61.6 cm.)
Painted in 1888.

Provenance

The artist.
Harper & Brothers, New York, commissioned from the above, 1888.
By descent in the Harper family to the present owner.

Literature

“The Peekskill Camp,” Harper's Weekly, August 4, 1888, pp. 572-73, illustrated.
P.H. Hassrick and M.J. Webster, Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, vol. I, Cody, Wyoming, 1996, p. 149, no. 351, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

The present work was reproduced as an illustration for "The Peekskill Camp", published in the August 4, 1888 issue of Harper's Weekly. The state camp at Peekskill served as the annual encampment of the New York State National Guard which operated from June 15 to August 11 each year.

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