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The Visitation of the Buffalo Gun

Alternate Title: The Episode of the Buffalo Gun; The Mystery of the Buffalo Gun; A Buffalo Episode

Date: 1909

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: 02926

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)

Inscription: ll: Frederic Remington/1909


Provenance: Artist's estate; [?]; Howard Young, New York, New York, July 1922; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, 1922, no. 4264-15414); Findlay Art Galleries, Kansas City, June 1922; [?]; Hogg Brothers; 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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Masters of the West: Painting and Sculpture Depicting the American Western Heritage. New York, New York: Grand Central Art Galleries, December 4 - 30, 1984.
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Remington To Today. New York, New York: Grand Central Art Galleries, April 5-30, 1955.
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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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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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The West Remembered: Artists and Images 1837-1973: Selections from the Collection of Earl C. Adams. San Francisco, California: The Old Mint, June 16 - September 15, 1973; traveling exhibit: Santa Barbara.
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Frederic Remington. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, January 1 - April 1, 1973.
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Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture. Oshkosh: Paine Art Center and Arboretum, August 1 - September 24, 1967; traveling exhibit: Minneapolis, Williamstown.
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Paintings by Frederic Remington. New York, New York: M. Knoedler & Co., November 29 - December 11, 1909.
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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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Gregg, Richard N. Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture. Oshkosh, Wisconsin: Paine Art Center and Arboretum, 1967.
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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 Avenue, Corner of 34th Street, New York. November 29th to December 11th, 1909 inclusive. New York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1909.
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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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Remington 1909 diary. Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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New York Herald, December 26, 1909.
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American Art News, (December 11, 1909).
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Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc. Masters of the West: Paintings and Sculpture Depicting the American Western Heritage. New York: Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., 1984.
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Dippie, Brian E. "Frederic Remington's Wild West." American Heritage, vol. 26, no. 3 (April 1975).
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"Frederic Remington Pictures. Paintings of Indian and Hunting Scenes in the West." New York Evening Post, December 9, 1909, p. 9.
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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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List of paintings shown in 1909 Knoedler exhibit. In Remington's hand and found in ledger book FRAM 71.837. Frederic Remington Art Museum Archives, Ogdensburg, New York.
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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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Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc. Remington Today. New York: Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., 1955.
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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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Barter, Judith A. Window on the West : Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier 1890-1940, Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2003
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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.