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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


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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.