Prisoners Drawing Their Beans
Alternate Title: The Mier Expedition: The Drawing of the Black Bean
Date: 1896
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 02109
Credit Line: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Hogg Brothers Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Dimensions: 27 x 40" (68.6 x 101.6 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (December 1896), p. 67, halftone.
Inscription: lr:FredericRemington-/copyright 1896/Harper Bros.
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington-
Provenance: The Hogg Brothers Collection, Houston, Texas; Miss Ima Hogg and Mr. Tom 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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Frederic Remington Slept Here, 1991 Centennial Exhibition. Tampa,
Florida: H. B. Plant Museum, January 18 - March 16, 1991.
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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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Frederic Remington. Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine Arts, Music
Hall Foyer, February 20 - 28, 1956. From the Hogg Collection.
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Frederic Remington and the Story of the West. Houston, Texas:
Museum of Fine Arts, February 17 - September 1, 1991.
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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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Paintings and Drawings by Mr. Frederic Remington. Boston,
Massachusetts: Hart & Watson, closed December 11, 1897.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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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Hart & Watson. Paintings and Drawings by Mr. Frederic Remington
on Exhibition at 423 Boylston Street, Boston. Boston: Hart &
Watson, 1897.
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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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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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Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989.
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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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Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Frederic Remington: Selected
Letters. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1988.
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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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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Frederic Remington. Houston:
Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
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Henry B. Plant Museum. Cracker Cowboys of Florida. Tampa,
Florida: Free Press Publishing Co., 1991.
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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.
