Remington Catalogue
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Alternate Title: Aiding a Comrade
Date: ca. 1890
Medium: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: 00999
Credit Line: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Hogg Brothers Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Dimensions: 34 x 48 1/8″ (86.4 x 122.2 cm)
Inscription: ll: FREDERIC REMINGTON
Provenance: The artist; Horace G. Young, Albany, New York, until 1921); (M. Knoedler
& Co., New York, New York); Howard Young, New York, New York, purchased
June 1922); 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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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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Frederic Remington and the Story of the West. Houston, Texas:
Museum of Fine Arts, February 17 – September 1, 1991.
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Loan Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Water Colors. Albany, New
York: Albany Historical and Art Society, November 1898.
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American Paintings. New York, New York: American Art Galleries,
opened April 7, 1890.
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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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Texas Centennial Exposition. Dallas, Texas: Museum of Fine Art,
June 6 – November 29, 1936.
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How the West Was Won. New York, New York: Wildenstein & Co.,
May 22 – June 22, 1968.
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Bibliographies
Getlein, Frank. “The Lure of the Great West.” Country Beautiful,
(1973).
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Schriever, George. “Russell Remington.” Southwest Art, (May 1977),
p. 40-55.
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Wildenstein & Co. How the West Was Won, Paintings,
Watercolors, and Bronzes by Frederic Remington and Charles M.
Russell. New York: Wildenstein & Co., 1968.
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American Art Association. American Paintings: Catalogue of
Paintings Exhibited by the Following American Artists: J. Wells
Champney, A. N. A.; William M. Chase, A. N. A.; Charles Melville
Dewey; C. Harry Eaton; F. K. M. Rehn; D. D. Millet, N. A.; Robt. C.
Minor, A. N. A.; H. R. Poore, A. N. A.; Frederick [sic] Remington;
Carleton Wiggins at the American Art Galleries}. New York:
American Art Association, 1890.
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Museum of Fine Art, Dallas. Texas Centennial Exposition.
Dallas, Texas: Museum of Fine Art, 1936.
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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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Albany Historical and Art Society. Loan Exhibition
of Oil Paintings and Water Colors. Albany, New York: Albany Historical
and Art Society, 1898.
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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, c. 1887-1892. No. 71.839. Frederic
Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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“The American Art Galleries. The Work of Ten American Artists.”
New York Daily Tribune, April 8, 1890, p. 10, col. 1.
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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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Neff, Emily Ballew Frederic Remington: The Hogg Brothers Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2000
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.