Frederic Remington (1861-1909)


My Comrade signed 'Frederic Remington' (lower right)pen and ink with wash on illustration board19 3/4 x 9inExecuted in 1893-94.
|ProvenanceSale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, October 27, 1977, lot 130. Altermann Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas.Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1985.LiteratureF. Remington, "In the Sierra Madre with the Punchers," Harper's Monthly, February 1894, p. 351, illustrated.P.H. Hassrick and M.J. Webster, Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, vol. II, Cody, Wyoming, 1996, p. 489, no. 1732, illustrated.S.H. McGarry, Honoring The Western Tradition: The L.D. "Brink" Brinkman Collection, Kerrville, Texas, 2003, p. 33, illustrated.Remington's records, according to Peter Hassrick, identify the subject as Bill (Will) Harper, of the Harper Publishing House. Harper accompanied Remington on his February/March 1893 trip to Mexico and appears in the photograph, "The Chihuahua Bunch" taken by Remington on the trip.