- TWELVE HEREND PORCELAIN ARTICLES, 20TH
TWELVE HEREND PORCELAIN ARTICLES, 20TH CENTURYA collection of twelve Herend porcelain articles20th centuryComprising three vases, one figure, two baby shoes, grasshopper, two ducks, two koalas on a branch, recumbent collie, monkey and a turkey, v
- JOHN WOODHOUSE AUDUBON (1812-1862),
JOHN WOODHOUSE AUDUBON (1812-1862), COLLIES SQUIRREL (PLATE CIV) Title: John Woodhouse Audubon (1812-1862), Collies Squirrel (Plate CIV) Medium: hand-colored lithograph on paper Dimensions: 26 1/2 x 20 1/2 Framed dimension: 30 3/4 x 24 3/4 x 5/8
- G. Plant, 20th c - Portrait of a Border
G. Plant, 20th c - Portrait of a Border Collie, signed, oil on canvas, 60 x 44cm More Information Good condition.
- A Staffordshire earthenware 'murder'
A Staffordshire earthenware 'murder' jug, c1870, moulded in relief and decorated in colours with William Collier and his family to one side and, to the other, the dramatic scene of the murder of the gamekeeper Thomas Smith by Collier at Whiston Eaves, Staffordshire, 26.5cm h More Information Slight staining of the crazed glaze but in generally well preserved condition, free from cracks or chips, no restoration
- ROY MASON (AMERICAN, 1886-1972) LANDSCAPE
ROY MASON (AMERICAN, 1886-1972) LANDSCAPE Oil on masonite. Signed (lower right).
Roy Mason (American, 1886-1972)
Roy Mason was a self-taught artist from Gilbert Mills, New York. As well as hunting and fishing scenes, he also did illustrations for magazines including Collier’s, True, and Reader’s Digest. Mason had firsthand knowledge of wildfowl, shooting and fishing for sport provided themes for most of his paintings. His use of the medium of watercolor enabled him to create landscapes and wildlife paintings that reached a large audience outside of the sporting community. While maintaining a studio in Batavia, New York, he began spending long periods in southern California in the 1930s. He began to exhibit his paintings with local and national art associations and to produce artwork for nationally distributed periodicals.
- ALAN COLLIER, OIL ON BOARD, TOTEM POLES,
ALAN COLLIER, OIL ON BOARD, TOTEM POLES, KISPOIX BCAlan Collier, oil on board. Signed lower right. Titled "Totem Poles, Kispoix, B.C." on labels verso. Measures appx 16" x 12" and 24" x 20" in frame. In very good original condition.
- An Undertaker's Porcelain Occupational
An Undertaker's Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug Belonging to William Collier
Late 19th/Early 20th Century
bearing the name William J. Collier in gilt lettering, and depicting a gentleman driving a horse-drawn hearse.
underside unmarked.
Height 3 1/2 inches.
together with a printed advertisement for W. J. Collier & Sons, Undertakers and Embalmers in Port Jervis, New York. The Colliers are also listed as the proprietors of Delaware House, providing coaching, carting, and freighting services.
According to the genealogical record, William Joseph Collier (1854-1935) was born on July 1, 1854, in Port Jervis, New York to Irish immigrants Thomas and Margaret Collier. U.S. Federal Census records from the early twentieth century indicate that he worked first as a liveryman but had established his own undertaking business by 1920. He and his wife, Barbara Anne, had three children together, including sons Fred and Thomas, presumably his business partners.
Property from the Collection of James Carpenter, Montague, New Jersey
- 19TH C. STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERY DOGEngland
19TH C. STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERY DOGEngland circa 1850, the seated figure, possibly a Border Collie, decorated with black painted detail, mounted atop a naturalistically modelled and painted ground, cracks. Measuring 4" high x 4.75" wide.
- 12VOL J.CHANDLER HARRIS BOOKS WITH FIRST
12VOL J.CHANDLER HARRIS BOOKS WITH FIRST EDITIONS A lot of twelve books by Joel Chandler Harris, some first editions. Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1899 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Later printing. Peach colored boards with pictorial cover. 8vo. 236pp. Nights with Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris, Published 1884 by George Routledge and Sons. Blue pictorial cover with gilt titling and decoration. 8vo. 300pp. The Bishop and The Boogerman by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1909 by Doubleday, Page. Green cloth boards with gilt titling. 8vo. 184pp. Uncle Remus Returns by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1918 by Houghton Mifflin. Tan cloth boards with pictorial design. 8vo. 175pp. The Making of a Statesman by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1902 by McClure, Phillips. Tan cloth boards with brown titling. 8vo. 247pp. Sister Jane by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1896 by Houghton Mifflin. Green cloth boards with gilt titling and decoration. 8vo. 363pp. Daddy Jake The Runaway and Other Stories by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1889 by The Century Company. Pictorial boards. 4to. 145pp. On The Plantation by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1892 by D. Appleton. Tan pictorial boards with an image of a rabbit. 8vo. 233pp. On The Wing of Occasions by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1900 by Doubleday, Page. Green cloth boards with gilt titling. 8vo. 310pp. The Story of Aaron by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1896 by Osgood. First British edition. Bound in brown boards with repairs. 8vo. 198pp. Little Mr. Thimblefinger by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1894 by Doubleday, Page. Pictorial cloth clover with rabbit and fox. 8vo. 230pp. Joel Chandler Harris: Editor and Essayist, Miscellaneous Literary, Political, and Social Writings. Edited by Julia Collier Harris. Published 1931 by The University of North Carolina Press. Green cloth boards with gilt titling on the spine. 8vo. 429pp.
- MARK TWAIN SIGNED LETTER TO COLONEL
MARK TWAIN SIGNED LETTER TO COLONEL GEORGE HARVEY Samuel Clemens one page autographed letter signed. Dated February 22, with no year present. Boldly written and signed letter to Colonel George Brinton McClellan Harvey (1864-1928), United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom and owner of Harper?s Weekly. The letter is asking about a having his nephew Sam Moffett pen an article for the North American Review, a literary magazine. Great insight into the everyday life of Clemens. Mark Twain had a propensity to only write on the outer parts of a folded letter which makes it easier to read and display. You cannot ask for a better signature than on this letter. Sam Moffett, after an illustrious career and as the editor at Collier?s Weekly Magazine, drowned on August 2, 1908.
- HOWARD CONNOLLY BIRCH FOREST LANDSCAPE
HOWARD CONNOLLY BIRCH FOREST LANDSCAPE PAINTING Rhode Island,1903-1990Impressionist depiction of a birch forest with warm light filtering through the leaves. Connolly was a prolific artist and illustrated for numerous publications including publications including "Colliers", "The Toronto Star", and "Yankee Magazine." Best known for his pin-ups, Connolly was also a well known sporting, landscape, seascape, and floral still life painter. A well known work of his was the British guardsman illustration on Beefeater Gin bottles.
- JOHN FRENCH SLOAN (AMERICAN, 1871-1951),
JOHN FRENCH SLOAN (AMERICAN, 1871-1951), ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION FOR "A JOB OF WORK" BY P. G. WODEHOUSE Charcoal on wove paper, circa 1913, signed at lower right, inscribed in pencil "'Dunlop, old man, how would it be to take in a show?' / (illegible) p. 11 - Job of Work," stamped with the publisher's copyright to verso "Copyright by P.F. Collier & Son, Inc.," unframed.
- Clement John Hemming, late 19th/early
Clement John Hemming, late 19th/early 20th c - A Birmingham Carthorse and Driver, a collie dog to their side; A Gentleman on his Horse, the roadside with an itinerant labourer, a pair, one signed and dated 1905, oil on boards, 17 x 29.5cm More Information Each with a degree of craquelure, yet no discernible flaked losses. Contemporary gilt frames with slight wear and losses.
- Large collection of ephemera, including:
Large collection of ephemera, including: Norman Rockwell coffee table book, books on Elvis and WIllie Nelson, a collection of magazines including Life, Colliers and more. Condition: some magazines with wear and losses to edges CT Transfer Fee $10
- 22 VOLUMES THE HARVARD CLASSICS22 volumes
22 VOLUMES THE HARVARD CLASSICS22 volumes Harvard Classics leather bound books, P.F. Collier & Son Corporation, New York, 62nd printing, 1969. Including: Bacon Milton Browne, English Essays, Franklin & Penn, Cervantes, R.H. Dana Jr. Two Years Before the Mast, American Historical Documents, Walton & Bunyan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays & English Traits, Stories From the Thousand and One Nights, Prefaces & Prologues, English Poetry (3 volumes), The Divine Comedy, Edmund Burke, The Odyssey of Homer, Folklore & Fable, Charles Darwin The Voyage of Beagle, Plato, Plutarch's Lives, Essays English & American, Elizabethan Drama. Each book 8 5/8" x 5 3/4". Burke first pages torn, one English Poetry spine torn, Fables spine torn, corners bumped and some with minor discoloration and scratches to covers.
- (11) MCKINLEY ROOSEVELT JUGATES(lot
(11) MCKINLEY ROOSEVELT JUGATES(lot of 11) McKinley Roosevelt jugates; (1) red, white, blue ribbons, backmark Political Equipment & Mfg. Co.,
2,25"diameter; (1) quadgate, four images: McKinley, Roosevelt, Van Sant, Morris, backmark Christie & Collier, Duluth, Minn,/Whitehead & Hoag, 1.25" diameter; (1) gilt, Whitehead & Hoag, 1.25"; (1) real photos, backmark J. Floersheim, Kunstadter & Co., 1.25" diam; (1) "Prosperity at Home, Prestiege Abroad", backmark of J.H. Shaw Co., Philadelphia, .75"; (5) all different, three backmarked Whitehead & Hoag, one backmark Bastian Bros. Co., one Baldwin & Gleason CO, New York, one lacking backmark
- MARK MCDOWELL (B.1954) WILDFLOWERS LITHOGRAPHFramed
MARK MCDOWELL (B.1954) WILDFLOWERS LITHOGRAPHFramed lithograph on paper, "Wildflowers in Midnight Sky," signed lower right McDowell (Mark McDowell, Arizona, New Mexico, b.1954), numbered 24/ 40, label verso for Gavin Collier & Co. Custom Framers, New Mexico, sight: approx 29.5"h, 41.5"w, overall: approx 33.25"h, 45.25"w *Provenance: The family of Alfred A. King (Texas, 1916-2006) great-grandson of Captain Richard King, founder of the now 825,000 acre Texas King Ranch.*
- ART BOOKS, GOODACRE, GIBSON, OROZCO,
ART BOOKS, GOODACRE, GIBSON, OROZCO, GIBSON(lot of 4) Art Related Books: (1) "Glenna Goodacre: The First 25 Years", Museum of Texas Tech University, 1995,
216 pages, autographed by Goodacre in black ink, profusely illustrated; (1) "Sketches and Cartoons", Charles Dana Gibson (Gibson girls), R.H. Russell, New York, 1898, profusely illustrated, exterior in poor condition; (1) "Orozco", Jose Clemente Orozco, Mexico, 1949, dust cover, text in Spanish, profusely illustrated; (1) "Done in the Open, Drawings by Frederick Remington", P.F. Collier, 1902, profusely illustrated, exterior in poor condition, largest book: 12"h, 17.75"w, .75"d, total: 14lbs
- (2) OLAF CARL WIEGHORST (D.1988) SIGNED
(2) OLAF CARL WIEGHORST (D.1988) SIGNED PRINTS(lot of 2) Framed signed and numbered collector's prints, c. 1978, after Olaf Carl Wieghorst (Denmark, California, 1899-1988), produced by American Masters, printed by Jeffries Banknote Company, Collier Art Corporation labels verso, including: (1) "Range Chuck," signed lower right, numbered 333/ 550 lower left, sight: approx 17"h, 22"w, overall: approx 26.5"h, 31.5"w, (1) "Mogollon Trail," signed lower right, numbered 329/ 550 lower left, sight: approx 18"h, 22"w, overall: approx 31"h, 27"w; 25lbs total **Provenance: From the Estate of Huey Keeney of Tyler, Texas**
- (4) GERMAN WWII HELMET, PRE WAR CARDS
(4) GERMAN WWII HELMET, PRE WAR CARDS & PHOTO BOOK(lot of 4) German WWII and pre-war items: (1) WWII helmet, worn painted white iron cross at top, some dents, (1) "Die Deutsche Wehrmacht", 1936 cigarette card album complete with 270 mounted cards showing Hitler, generals and soldiers in various activities in the German army navy and air corps, very good condition, overall: 13"h, 10.25"w, 3/8"d; (1) "Der Weltkrieg", cigarette card album complete with 270 mouned cards showing scenes from WWI, 1914-1918, overall: 10.25"h, 13.75"w, .5/8"d; (1) "Collier's Photographic History of the European War", P.F. Collier & Son, New York, 1915, prior to U.S. entry, 144 pages of mostly photo illustrations, shows photos of political and military leaders of involved countries, post battle scenes with bodies, refugees, armored vehicles, submarines, battle ships, aeroplanes, dirigible, and more, 12:h, 16.75"w, 1"d, total: 9.85lbs
- J. FRANK DOBIE ARCHIVE, BOOKS, LETTERS,
J. FRANK DOBIE ARCHIVE, BOOKS, LETTERS, PHOTOS(lot) Archive of J. Frank Dobie (Texas, 1888-1964), author, folklorist, newspaper columnist: (1) "Pony Tracks", Frederick Remington, U. of Oklahoma Press,
1961, forward by Dobie with handwritten sentiment to Ralph Johnston by Dobie dated November, 1961; (1) "I'll Tell You a Tale", J. Frank Dobie, Little, Brown and Company, 1960; (1) "A Portrait of Pancho", Winston Bode, Pemberton Press, Austin, 1965, a biography of Dobie with many photo illustrations of him; (2) "Cow People", J. Frank Dobie, Little, Brown and Company, 1964; (1) "Done in the Open, Drawings by Frederick Remington", .F. Collier, 1902, pencil signed at the first interior page by Dobie with long paragraph, dated November, 1963, book in very poor condition; (8) group of 8"x10" black and white photos of Dobie in various poses taken on the same day; (1) a monograph by Dobie for the Texas Ornithological Society, May, 1956, ink signed by Dobie, the subject being the Roadrunner bird (Paisano in Spanish) which became the name of his ranch; (2) color photos of the Paisano ranch house; (9) typed signed letters by Dobie to Ralph A. Johnston, some with handwritten notations, most discussing upcoming and past hunting trips, one mentions Dobie's and Johnston's art investments, one a note to Johnston with appended carbon copy of a letter giving insight to Dobie's recent stay at the White House as a guest of President Lyndon Johnson in April of 1964, two months prior to Dobie's receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom and four months prior to his death; (large quantity) collection of letters, many written by Dobie's wife Bertha, typed and by hand, regarding Dobie, her life, correspondence with the University of Texas and more, largest book: 16.25"h, 11.25"w, .75"d, total: 12.75lbs *Note: Ralph A. Johnston (Texas, 1899-1966), oil man and noted for his philanthropy was a longtime friend and hunting companion of Dobie. Upon Dobie's death Johnston purchased the 254 acre Paisano ranch and subsequently deeded it to the University of Texas for dedicated use as a retreat for Texas writers. Dobie dedicated his book "Cow People" to Johnston.
- MAUD EARL (1864-1943): STUDY OF A BLACK
MAUD EARL (1864-1943): STUDY OF A BLACK CHOW AND A ROUGH COLLIEOil on canvas, signed 'Maud Earl' lower right.
39 x 54 in., 46 x 61 in. (frame).
Condition
Some surface soiling and a few scuffs. Otherwise in good condition.
- UNSIGNED. OIL ON PANEL. DOGS Oil on
UNSIGNED. OIL ON PANEL. DOGS Oil on panel. Portrait of Collies. Apparently unsigned. From a Dobbs Ferry, NY estate. Dimensions: 8" h x 10" w. Condition: Good. Flaking, scuffs at upper corners.
- Paint decorated trunk, Paint decorated
Paint decorated trunk, Paint decorated trunk, metal banding and iron handles, marked in paint on sides Collier-3, likely used in the military, 2nd 1/2 19th c, Civil War Era,19"h x 31"w x 29"d, wear to paint, splits in top
- HENRI LEBASQUE "FEMME AU COLLIER" OIL
HENRI LEBASQUE "FEMME AU COLLIER" OIL ON CANVAS Joseph Henri Baptiste Lebasque (French, 1865-1937) "Femme au Collier" Post-Impressionist oil painting on canvas depicting a portrait of a fashionable young Black woman likely in Bohemian Paris in the 1920s, she dons an Art Deco costume comprising a blue cloche hat, reddish orange flapper dress, gold earrings, and coral necklace, signed to lower right and housed in a gilt wood frame. Image: 33" H x 22.5" W; frame: 39" H x 28.75" W. Catalog raisonne number 777. Provenance: From a 620 Eighth Avenue estate; Sotheby's sale, London, November 5, 1969, lot 103; Gregoire Gallery, New York; Blache sale, Versailles, June 25, 1968, lot 118; Gallery of the Institute of Paris.
- PRINT, GEORGES ROUAULT Georges Rouault
PRINT, GEORGES ROUAULT Georges Rouault (French, 1871-1958), "Femme au Collier from 'Reincarnations du Pere Ubu'"), etching with aquatint, pen signed lower right, overall (with frame): 16.75"h x 13.25"w. Provenance: Property from the estate of internationally recognized textile artist and designer, Mr. Julian Tomchin (San Francisco, CA).
- (6) Porcelain dog figurines, c/o Gort
(6) Porcelain dog figurines, c/o Gort bone china 101-D signed "ID" (9" l x 7" h), Jack Russell Terrier marked "22" (6-1/4" l x 5" h), Mortens Studio seated Collie (5-3/4" h), Royal Doulton standing Collie HN1058 (7" l x 5-1/8" h), Royal Copenhagen Wire-haired Terrier No 3170 (4" l x 3-1/4" h), Wade puppies (1-5/8" w x 1-1/4" h)
- RARE SMALL SIZE CHIPPENDALE SUGAR BOX.
RARE SMALL SIZE CHIPPENDALE SUGAR BOX. A very well made ca.1800, likely VA/PA, cherry sugar box with dovetailed construction, a single board cherry locking lid, and an interior till, a dovetailed locking drawer, with an applied bracket base. Based on small size and quality, likely made for valuables of the day, sugar cane and tea. 20”H x 22”L x 16”D. Literature: see 'Are Cellarets from the East Coast and Sugar Chests from Kentucky', by P.E. Collie.
- Thomas Frederick Collier (1823-1885)
Thomas Frederick Collier (1823-1885) - Still Life with a Bird's Nest, signed, watercolour, 13.5 x 18cm More Information Good condition, in the original gilt mount and ribbon-and-reed frame
- EDWARD EVERETT HENRY (1893-1961)Cold
EDWARD EVERETT HENRY (1893-1961)Cold Spring Camp, 1939
signed and dated "EVERETT HENRY N.Y.C. 1939" upper left
oil on canvas, 40 by 60 in.
inscribed "Cold Spring Camp and the Salmon Waters of George Washington Hill on the River Matapedia Quebec" lower center
Born in Brooklyn in 1893 and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Henry studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts, founded by William Merritt Chase, where he also taught after graduating. He joined the Army’s Camouflage Corps during World War I, served in France, and returned to develop a successful career as an artist and illustrator. His work appeared in “Saturday Evening Post” and “Collier’s,” among other magazines, and his drawing of the first College Football game between Princeton and Yale was reproduced by Currier & Ives in 1930. Also in the 1930s, Henry created murals for corporate clients like Ford and the Pennsylvania Railroad, and had a side business painting pictorial estate plans of private clients’ homes and property.
On top of this vibrant career, Henry was known as a pictorial cartographer. He created exuberant, detailed, and beautiful maps, such as "The New Map of the World" in 1928 and a series of literary maps based on classic literature like “Tom Sawyer,” “Ivanhoe,” and “Moby Dick” in the 1950s. He lived in New Canaan, Connecticut, and Amagansett, New York, where he died in 1961.
This detailed and stunning map of the Matapedia River in Quebec identifies named pools, like Jim's Rock Pool, Three Island Pool, and the Gulch Pool. It shows the Cold Spring Camp’s location on the bend near Clark’s Brook, and identifies the shoreline by owner, including the Restigouche Salmon Club at the mouth of the river.
It also shows the train tracks that connect Montreal to the village of Matapedia. This historic overnight train would leave in the evening, allowing salmon anglers to wake up and go fishing early the next morning.
The painted map is peppered with fish species, deer, porcupine, moose, quail, duck, and rabbit typical of the area, with salmon flies at the lower right and a faux-birch scroll cartouche at lower center.
Provenance: Private Collection, Connecticut
- JOHN NEWTON HOWITT (1885-1958)Bass Fishing
signed
JOHN NEWTON HOWITT (1885-1958)Bass Fishing
signed "John Newton Howitt" lower left
oil on canvas, 29 1/2 by 23 1/2 in.
Howitt was born in White Plains, New York, in 1885. As a young boy with polio, he was encouraged to draw by his father, and went on to study at the Art Students League. He created many covers and illustrations for magazines such as "Liberty," "Colliers", and "The Saturday Evening Post" during the Golden Age of Illustration between 1910 and 1930, in addition to advertisement work. During the Depression, he painted covers for pulp magazines such as "Horror Stories", "Dime Detective," and "Terror Tails," which he signed only with “H,” but which garnered him fame today. In the 1940s, he returned to mainstream magazine illustration. Howitt died in Port Jervis, New York, in 1958 after a long, successful career as a working artist.
- ARTHUR BURDETT FROST (1851-1928)"With
ARTHUR BURDETT FROST (1851-1928)"With One Final Puff He Rolled Into the Trench," 1917
estate stamp "A B Frost" lower right
ink wash, 17 1/2 by 12 1/2 in.
Arthur B. Frost was born in Philadelphia in 1851, but spent his most prolific years in New Jersey. Considered one of the great illustrators of the Golden Age of American Illustration, he illustrated more than ninety books and produced thousands of illustrations for “Harper’s Weekly,” “Scribner’s,” and “Life” magazines. Frost’s illustrative work chronicles the mood and details of the daily life of farmers, hunters, and fishermen, as well as barnyards and pastoral motifs. By 1876, he was on Harper’s staff working on many books, including “Tom Sawyer,” “Uncle Remus,” and “Mr. Dooley.” He also illustrated Theodore Roosevelt’s sporting book, "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman." Frost was an ardent sportsman who spent his summers and autumns fishing, rowing, and hunting ducks and snipe. He completed hundreds of watercolors and oils of the New Jersey seaside. Frost is best known for his hunting and shooting prints which capture the drama of sport in realistic, detailed settings. Frost lived at his estate, Moneysunk, in Convent Station, New Jersey.
A.B. Frost created this drawing as an illustration for the story "Wamble: His Day Out," which appeared in "Collier's Weekly" in 1917.
Provenance: The Estate of the Artist
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Sale 3834, item 405, January 29, 1976
The Estate of Ann Dickinson Dale
Literature: Samuel Hopkins Adams, "Wamble: His Day Out," Collier's Weekly, January 13, 1917, pp. 16-18, illustrated.
- A CHINESE TEA BOWL AND SAUCER Jingdezhen,
A CHINESE TEA BOWL AND SAUCER Jingdezhen, the Dutch decoration circa 1720-25, perhaps by Gerrit van der Kaade, after Adriaen Colliert, and painted in the Kakiemon style, with two parrots in turquoise, red and yellow enamels, highlighted in gilt, the birds perched on a budding rose tree within a scalloped brown rim Provenance: Bt. Phillips, 11th December 1991 lot 168. Literature: Helen Espir op.cif.fig.44 for the print, 45 for a dish.
- 1802 NEEDLEWORK, SARAH COLLIER. Depicting
1802 NEEDLEWORK, SARAH COLLIER. Depicting William Cowper’s Christian hymn “Light Shining Out of Darkness”, with houses and sailboat at bottom, and bordered by arching vines. Highly contrasted and very legible. Image 17.5”H x 12”W, Frame 20”H x 15”W. Sussman Collection.
- FREDERIC REMINGTON (1861-1909), FEEDING
FREDERIC REMINGTON (1861-1909), FEEDING THE DOGS (HUNTING MUSK OX: FEED) Title: Frederic Remington (1861-1909), Feeding the Dogs (Hunting Musk Ox: Feed) Medium: oil en grisaille on canvas Dimensions: 22 x 20 Frame dimensions: 28 x 26 1/4 x 2 1/4 Notes: Born in 1861, in Canton, NY, Frederic Remington was the son of Seth Pierre Remington, a newspaper publisher, and Clara Sackrider Remington. He studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts from 1878 – 1879, but following the death of his father in 1880, he did not return to school, opting instead to work as a reporter for the Albany Morning Express. Later that summer, he vacationed and sketched in the Montana Territory, one of which was published in the Harper’s Weekly of February 25, 1882. He continued to sketch during travels through the New Mexico and Arizona Territories as well as Texas over the next two years.
By 1887, Remington’s illustrations were regularly published in the various Harper’s publications (Bazaar, Monthly, Weekly, Young People) in addition to Scribner’s, Collier’s, and Century, among others. His works were exhibited widely: at The National Academy of Design, the American Watercolor Society, Boston Arts Club, the 1889 Paris International Exposition (he won the silver medal for his painting Last Lull in the Fight, now lost), the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He continued to travel extensively throughout the Western States and territories, Canada, and Mexico, with additional excursions to Florida, Cuba, Europe, and Algiers. Beginning in the 1880s, his travels included time at Crow and Blackfeet Indian reservations, the Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma), the battlegrounds of Little Bighorn (July 1876) and Wounded Knee (December 1890), and Buffalo Bill Cody’s ranch in Wyoming. He made his last trip West in September of 1908 and died at his home in Ridgefield, CT in December 1909.
Remington’s work can be divided into several categories, and this current example belongs to the most prolific of Remington’s oeuvre: illustrations. In the late 1880s and 1890s, these were primarily done en grisaille for easy reproduction in publications. Feeding the Dogs belongs to the artist’s mature painting style, where the tightly rendered compositions of his earlier work had developed into more modeled figures and lively, fluid scenes. The circular arrangement of the figure and the four dogs in the foreground is repeated several times, two dogs and a figure are visible in the middle ground and three additional figures and their dogs are arranged around the lodge in the background. The piece of food suspended between the primary figure’s outstretched arm and the two dogs leaping towards it and the raised whip of one of the other men convey a sense of action within the scene.
In December 1895, Harper’s Monthly began publishing Caspar W. Whitney’s “On Snow-Shoes to the Barren Grounds.” The article spanned five issues, all accompanied by illustrations. Three main illustrations by Remington were included in each issue, the current example is the penultimate work for the end of the story. Whitney’s story describes his adventure to hunt in the Barren Grounds (or Barren Lands), an approximately 200,000-square-mile-area in northern Canada. The tundra region is nearly uninhabited and, at the time, accessible only by canoe during the summer months and by sled and snowshoe the rest of the year. The latter allowed better access to the area to hunt muskox.
In a letter to Owen Wister (historian and writer of Western fiction,1860 – 1938) in October 1895, the artist noted that he was working on illustrations for Whitney’s Harper’s Monthly article. A second letter from Whitney to the artist on December 7, 1895, acknowledged that Whitney was pleased with the work and asked for additional illustrations. Since it is unclear if Remington had finished in December or was still working on the project in early 1896, the catalogue raisonne dates the current example and other illustrations for the story published in the February, March, and April issues with a date range of 1895 – 1896.
- OIL PAINTING OF COLLIE DOG, LATE 19TH
OIL PAINTING OF COLLIE DOG, LATE 19TH CENTURYAn oil on board of a collie dog by the door, good colours in period gold painted frame. Late 19th century. Ex Lawless collection. Dimensions, 25.5" x 21". FRANCAIS: Huile sur panneau d'un chien Colley près de la porte, de belles couleurs dans un cadre peint or d'époque. Fin du 19e siècle. Ex-collection Lawless.