Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001410Slave Market
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower left: Frederic Remington
Provenance
George F. Harding, Jr. (1868–1939), Chicago, by 1939 [Harding Collection no. 402]; 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 The Slave Market.
Publications
Henry M. Stanley, "Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa," Harper's New Monthly Magazine 86, no. 514 (Mar. 1893): 613–632 (ill.), as A Slave Market. Peter H. Hassrick, et al., Frederick Remington Catalogue Raisonné, accessed May 5, 2020, http://remington.centerofthewest.org, cat. 01677, as A Slave Market.
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
- 1893
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 73 × 103.5 cm (28 3/4 × 40 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- George F. Harding Collection
- Accession no.
- 1982.800
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