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"A First-Class Fighting Man"

Alternate Title: U.S. Soldier - Spanish American War

Date: 1899

Medium: oil on canvas, b/w

Catalogue Number: 02412

Credit Line: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Hogg Brothers Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg

Dimensions: 36 x 24" (91.4 x 61 cm)

Illustration: Collier's Weekly (March 25, 1899), p. 12-13, halftone.

Inscription: lr: --Frederic Remington/Havana/Cuba

Illustration Inscription: lc: --Frederic Remington


Provenance: The Hogg Brothers Collection, Houston, Texas; Miss Ima Hogg, Houston, Texas; present owner

Exhibitions

Frederic Remington and the Story of the West. Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine Arts, February 17 - September 1, 1991.
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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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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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Allen, Douglas. Frederic Remington and the Spanish-American War. New York: Crown, 1971.
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Remington, Frederic. Done in the Open: Drawings by Frederic Remington. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, Publishers, 1902.
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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's Weekly, 1899, reproduced A First-Class Fighting Man} as a b/w "artist's proof" printed on heavy plate paper, 16 x 22" with self-border. (Advertised in 8-12-99 issue of Collier's Weekly} for 50 cents.)
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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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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


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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.

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