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
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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.
