Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001405First and Best Camp of the Trip
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right: "Frederic Remington"
Provenance
George F. Harding, Jr. (1868–1939), Chicago, by 1939 [Harding Collection no. 386]; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, 1939 [the museum closed in 1964 and the collection was placed in storage in Chicago and New York]; transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 30, 1982 [incoming receipt, RX13605, July 30, 1982; copy in curatorial object file]; accessioned by the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings and Bronzes by Frederic Remington Lent by the George F. Harding Museum, June 21–Oct. 10, 1969, as Campfire in the Canadian Northwest.
Publications
Peter H. Hassrick, et al.,Frederick Remington Catalogue Raisonné, accessed May 5, 2020, http://remington.centerofthewest.org, cat. 02020.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Frederic Remington (American, 1861–1909)
- Date
- 1895
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 68.9 × 102.6 cm (27 1/8 × 40 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- New York
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- George F. Harding Collection
- Accession no.
- 1982.788
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