Album, 1888-1891, undated.

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Album, 1888-1891, undated.

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Album containing thirty-eight undated original pencil and pen and ink sketches by American artist Frederic Remington depicting military subjects and subjects and scenes of the American West; accompanied by ten letters by Remington, 1888-1891 and undated, addressed to recipients in New Rochelle and New York City. Included are four letters to illustrator Frederic B. Schell as well as individual letters to William Cary, E. Leslie Gillian, Arthur B. Turner, and Richard Watson Gilder.

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New-York Historical Society

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Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909

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Frederic Remington was born October 4, 1861 in Canton, New York. He was educated at the Vermont Episcopal Institute and attended Yale University. He worked as a cowboy, scout, and ran a sheep and mule ranch in the west. He married Eva Caten on October 1, 1884. Remington was a painter, sculptor and illustrator of Indians, cowbnoys and the American soldier at war. His travels took him to Germany, Russia, North Africa, Cuba and all over North America. Frederic Remington died December 26, 1909 in Ne...

Schell, Frederic B

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Gillian, E. Leslie.

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Turner, Arthur B.

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Cary, William de la Montagne, 1840-1922

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William Cary left New York City in 1860 for a trip west with no particular destination in mind. After reaching San Francisco he returned back home, just before the outbreak of the Civil War, with many sketches of what he had seen. He painted scenes from his sketches and from his memory for the rest of his life. Many of his works appeared in Leslie's Weekly and Harper's Weekly. From the description of Warrior on horseback sketch, undated. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record ...

Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909

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Gilder authored the book, THE NEW DAY, A POEM IN SONGS AND SONNETS... (New York : Scribner, Armstrong and Company, 1876) in which this is tipped in. It contains the bookplate of Brainerd. From the description of Autograph letter signed to Ira Hutchinson Brainerd, [1876?] Dec. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398276 Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909), American poet and editor, served as editor-in-chief of Scribner's Monthly and its successor The Century Illustrated Monthly...