How the Horses Died for Their Country at Santiago

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Arts of the Americas

1899

Frederic Remington (American, 1861–1909)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Frederic Remington
Title: How the Horses Died for Their Country at Santiago
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1899
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 68.6 × 101.7 cm (27 × 40 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: George F. Harding Collection
Reference Number: 1982.794
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Peter H. Hassrick, et al., Frederick Remington Catalogue Raisonné, accessed May 5, 2020, http://remington.centerofthewest.org, cat. 02442.

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings and Bronzes by Frederic Remington Lent by the George F. Harding Museum, June 21–Oct. 10, 1969, as Thus the Horses Die for their Country.
Art Institute of Chicago, Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier 1890–1940, June 28–Oct. 13, 2003, cat. 79.

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