Remington Catalogue
The Call for Help
Alternate Title: At Bay
Date: ca. 1908
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02847
Credit Line: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Hogg Brothers Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Dimensions: 27 1/4 x 40 1/8″ (69.2 x 101.9 cm)
Illustration: Collier’s Weekly (December 17, 1910), p. 6, color halftone.
Inscription: lc: [Copyright information illegible]; lr: –Frederic Remington–/190 [illegible]
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington-
Provenance: (John Levy Galleries, New York, New York); William C. Hogg, Houston,
Texas; Miss Ima Hogg, Houston, Texas; present owner
Exhibitions
Hogg Brothers Collection of Works by Frederic Remington. Houston,
Texas; Museum of Fine Arts, April 16-30, 1944.
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Texas Centennial Exposition. Dallas, Texas: Museum of Fine Art,
June 6 – November 29, 1936.
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Paintings by Frederic Remington. New York, New York: M. Knoedler & Co.,
December 1-12, 1908.
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Frederic Remington Memorial Exhibition. Houston, Texas: Museum of
Fine Arts, Hogg Collection, October 1-28, 1925.
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Exhibition of the Works of Frederic Remington. Lent Through the
Courtesy of Hogg Brothers of Houston. Houston, Texas: Museum of
Fine Arts, February 26 – March 19, 1939.
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Loan Exhibition of the Works of Frederic Remington. Houston,
Texas: Museum of Fine Arts, Hogg Collection, summer 1940.
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Frederic Remington. Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine Arts, Music
Hall Foyer, February 20 – 28, 1956. From the Hogg Collection.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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McCracken, Harold. The Frederic Remington Book: A Pictorial
History of the West. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.,
Inc., 1966.
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Card, Helen L. “Frederic Remington, 1861-1909: Artist Historian of the Old West.” Scrapbooks of Remington illustrations, compiled c. 1944. Vol. 1-5. The Metropolitan Musem of Art, New York, New York.
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M. Knoedler & Co. Paintings by Frederic Remington on Exhibition at
the Galleries of M. Knoedler & Co., 355 Fifth Ave., Corner 34th Street, New
York. December 1st until 12th inclusive 1908. New York: M.
Knoedler & Co., 1908.
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Remington diary, 1908. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New
York.
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New York Evening Mail, December 2, 1908.
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Museum of Fine Art, Dallas. Texas Centennial Exposition.
Dallas, Texas: Museum of Fine Art, 1936.
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“Gallery Notes. Remington Paintings on View–Exhibit at Corcoran
Gallery.” New York Times, December 2, 1908, p. 8.
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“Art and Artists.” The Globe and Commerical Advertiser,
(December 3, 1908), p. 10.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1903-1909. No. FRAM 1918.266.
Frederic Remington Art Museum archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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“An Artist of the Plains. Frederic Remington’s Graphic Pictures at
the Knoedler’s Galleries.” New York Evening Post, December 3, 1908,
p. 9.
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“American Art. New Paintings by Mr. Remington and Mr. Dewey.”
New York Daily Tribune, December 6, 1908, part 2, p. 2.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1908-1909. No. FRAM 71.837. Frederic
Remington Art Museum Archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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National Museum of American Art. Inventory of American
Paintings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. On-line
computer database in progress; BBHC copy for Remington’s paintings
dates October 10, 1984.
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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The Frederic Remington Memorial
Exhibit. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1925.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Frederic Remington. Houston:
Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
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Neff, Emily Ballew Frederic Remington: The Hogg Brothers Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2000
The information presented here is based on the Catalogue Raisonné edited by Peter Hassrick in 2016 and was accurate to the best of our knowledge at that time.