Remington Catalogue


An Arizona Water Hole
Alternate Title: Fight for the Water Hole; Fight for the Waterhole; A Water-hole in the Arizona Desert
Date: ca. 1903
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02703
Credit Line: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Hogg Brothers Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Dimensions: 27 1/8 x 40 1/8 (68.90 x 101.92 cm)
Illustration: Collier’s Weekly (December 5, 1903), p. 24-25, color halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington-/copyright 1903 By Frederic Remington
Illustration Inscription: lr: Fredreic Remington/copyright 1903 By Frederic Remington
Provenance: The artist; Robert J. Collier, New York, New York; [?]; James T. DeShields,
Dallas, Texas; [?]; The Hogg Brothers Collection, Houston, Texas; Miss Ima
Hogg, Houston, Texas; present owner
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Exhibitions
Hogg Brothers Collection of Works by Frederic Remington. Houston,
Texas; Museum of Fine Arts, April 16-30, 1944.
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Frederic Remington Memorial Exhibition. Houston, Texas: Museum of
Fine Arts, Hogg Collection, October 1-28, 1925.
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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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The American West: Painters from Catlin to Russell. Los
Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 21 –
May 28, 1972; traveling exhibit: San Francisco, St. Louis.
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The American West: Painters from Catlin to Russell. San Francisco,
California: M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, June 9 – September 4, 1972; traveling
exhibit: Los Angeles, St. Louis.
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The American West: Painters from Catlin to Russell. St. Louis,
Missouri: The Saint Louis Art Museum, November 2 – December 31, 1972;
traveling exhibit: Los Angeles, San Francisco.
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Frederic Remington’s Southwest. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum,
January 4 – March 15, 1992; traveling exhibit: Memphis, Omaha.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. St. Louis, Missouri: Saint Louis
Art Museum, March 11 – May 22, 1988; traveling exhibit: Cody, Houston,
New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill
Historical Center, June 17 – September 5, 1988; traveling exhibit: St.
Louis, Houston, New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine
Arts, October 15, 1988 – January 8, 1989; traveling exhibit: St.
Louis, Cody, New York.
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Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. New York, New York: The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, February 10 – April 16, 1989; traveling exhibit: St. Louis,
Cody, Houston.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
January 1 – April 1, 1973.
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Catalogue of the Collier Collection: An Important Collection of
Original Drawings and Paintings by Distinguished American
Painters and Illustrators; Works Especially Executed for and
Exclusively Reproduced in Collier’s Weekly. New York, New York: American Art
Galleries, American Art Association, November 4-11, 1905.
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Bibliographies
Remington Art Memorial. A Catalogue of the Frederic Remington Memorial
Collection. New York: Privately Printed for the Remington
Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York, by the M. Knoedler Galleries, 1954.
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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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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Frederic Remington: A Biography.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
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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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Isaacson, Robert. Frederic Remington: A Painter of American
Life. New York: Robert Isaacson, privately printed, 1943.
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Schriever, George. “Russell Remington.” Southwest Art, (May 1977),
p. 40-55.
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Hassrick, Peter. Frederic Remington. An essay and catalogue to
accompany a retrospective exhibition of the work of Frederic
Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1973.
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Unidentified newspaper clipping, April 9, 1903. Review of 1903 Noe
exhibition. Frederic Remington Art Museum archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Nemerov, Alexander. Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century
America. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995.
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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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Ward, Don. Cowboys and Cattle Country. New York: American
Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1961.
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The Saint Louis Art Museum in conjunction with the Buffalo Bill
Historical Center. Frederic Remington: The Masterworks.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1988.
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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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Ratcliffe, Sam D. “For the Love of Texas: Fames T. DeShields:
Art Patron and Historian.” Legacies: A History Journal for
Dallas and North Central Texas, (spring 1990), p. 16-25.
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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, 1898-1902. No. FRAM 71.840.
Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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Collier Catalogue of prints, some called “artist’s proofs,” of
varying sizes in b/w or color on pebbled art paper or board of Remington
paintings illustrated in Collier’s Weekly – see Collier print
file for listing and individual painting record for print info.
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Collier catalogue of prints, some called “artist’s proofs,”
of varying sizes in b/w and color on pebbled art paper or board of
Remington paintings illustrated in Collier’s Weekly, 1907.
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Collier catalgoue of prints, some called “artist’s proofs,”
of varying sizes in b/w or color on pebble art paper or board of
Remington paintings illustrated in Collier’s Weekly.
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Miniature reproduction of Caught in the Circle, 3-3/4 x 5-1/2″,
copyright by Collier’s 1906.
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Ballinger, James, K. Frederic Remington’s Southwest. Phoenix,
Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, 1992.
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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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McKown, Robin. Painter of the Old West. New York: Julia
Messner, Inc., 1959.
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The American West: Painters from Catlin to
Russell. New York: The Viking Press, in association with the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, 1972.
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Wegner, Hart. “Frederic Remington and John Ford: Dynamic and
Static Composition Elements of ‘Fort Apache.'” Explorations in
National Cinema, 1977 Film Studies Annual: Part One, p. 26-36.
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Allen, Douglas. “Remington: An American Original.” Step-By-Step
Graphics, vol. 5, no. 1 (January 1989), p. 118-125.
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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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Cantwell, Robert. “He Went to See the West Die”. Sports
Illustrated, vol. 43, no. 6, (August 11, 1975), p. 55-63.
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John J. Clinton to Remington, January 6 1909. Frederic Remington Art Museum,
Ogdensburg, New York.
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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
Dippie, Brian W. The Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York 2001
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The Henry Art Gallery. Myth of the West intro. by Chris Bruce. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. 1990
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Baigell, Matthew. The Western Art of Frederic Remington. New
York, New York: Ballantine Books, 1976.
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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.