Frederic S. Remington
(american, 1861-1909)
The Rattlesnake, #69, bronze with brown patina, inscribed Copyright Frederic Remington, ROMAN BRONZE WORKS INC. N-Y- (on base) and No. 69 (inside the base)
Height 24 inches
Estimate $100,000-200,000
Property from the Estate of Augusta G. Bloom, Evanston, Illinois
Provenance:
Purchased at Tiffany & Co., New York, NY, as a wedding gift to Moses Bloom and Selma Schwartz , married November 27, 1918
By descent in the family to the present owner
Literature:
Harold McCracken, Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West, New York, 1947, n.p., pl. 47, example illustrated
Harold McCracken, The Frederic Remington Book, Garden City, NY, 1966, page 265, example illustrated
Peter H. Hassrick, Frederic Remington Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture in the Amon Carter Museum and The Sid W. Richardson Foundation Collections, New York, NY, 1973, pages 200-1, example illustrated
Michael Edward Shapiro, Frederic Remington: the masterworks New York, NY, 1988, pages 211, 213, example illustrated
Michael D. Greenbaum, Icons of the West, Frederic Remington's Sculpture, Ogdensburg, NY, 1996, pages 123-128, example illustrated
Brian Dippie, The Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection, Ogdensburg, New York, 2001, pp. 198-201, example illustrated