The Mountain Man

between 1903 and 1909

Frederic Sackrider Remington American, 1861-1909

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About the Artwork

Title The Mountain Man

Artwork Date between 1903 and 1909

Artist Frederic Sackrider Remington

Life Dates 1861-1909

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Bronze

Dimensions Overall: 28 inches (71.1 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Gift of George G. Booth

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 37.11

Markings

Signed Signed, on left of base: Frederic Remington

Inscriptions Inscribed, at bottom right of base: Roman Bronze Works, N.Y.

Marks Marked, proper back right, bottom: N.11

Provenance

George G. Booth;
1937-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

McCracken, Harold. The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial History of the West. Garden City, NY, 1966 (fig. 370, ill. of another unidentified example).

Wear, Bruce. The Bronze World of Frederic Remington. Tulsa, OK, 1966, pp. 72-73 (ill. of another unidentified example).

Westward the Artist. Peoria, IL., 1968, no 107 (ill. of another unidentified example).

Broder, Patricia Janis. Bronzes of the American West. New York, 1973, p. 125 (ill. of another example in the Amon Carter Museum).

Hassrick, Peter. Frederic Remington: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture in the Amon Carter Museum and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Collections. New York, 1973, no. 85, pp. 194-195 (ill. of another example in the Amon Carter Museum).

"Family Art Game." DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit Free Press (June 4, 1978): p. 11 (ill.).

"Family Art Game." DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit News (April 29, 1984): p. 32 (ill.).

Shapiro, Michael Edward, and Peter H. Hassrick. Frederick Remington: The Masterworks. Exh. cat., New York, 1988, pp. 205, 210-211, 214, 231, 267 (ill. of another example in the collection of North American Life and Casualty, Minneapolis, MN)

Shapiro, Michael Edward. Cast and Recast: The Sculpture of Frederic Remington. Exh. cat., Washington, D.C., 1981. Reprint, Fort Worth, 1990, pp. 77-81, 105 (figs. 33, 69-74, ills. of other examples in museum collections)

Greenbaum, Michael D. Icons of the West: Frederic Remington’s Sculpture. Ogdensburg, N.Y., 1996, pp. 105-112, 190, (ills. of other examples in museum collections).

Tolles, Thayer. American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 1: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865. New York, 1999, pp. 384-386, no. 166 (ill. of another example in the Met Museum).

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