Slave Market

Arts of the Americas

1893

Frederic Remington (American, 1861–1909)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Frederic Remington
Title: Slave Market
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.: 1893
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left: Frederic Remington
Dimensions: 73 × 103.5 cm (28 3/4 × 40 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: George F. Harding Collection
Reference Number: 1982.800
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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.

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.

George F. Harding, Jr. (1868–1939), Chicago, IL; George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, no. 402, by 1982 [copy of incoming receipt RX13605 in curatorial object file]; transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.

Hassrick 01677

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