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The Emigrants

Date: ca. 1904

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: 02727

Credit Line: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Hogg Brothers Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg

Dimensions: 30 1/4 x 45 1/4" (76.84 x 114.94 cm)

Illustration: Collier's Weekly (May 14, 1904), p. 16-17, color halftone.

Inscription: lr: --Frederic Remington

Illustration Inscription: lr: --Frederic Remington


Provenance: The artist; (Annesley & Co., Albany, New York); collector in Schenectady, New York; [?]; (John Levy Galleries, New York, New York); The Hogg Brothers Collection, 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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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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Frederic Remington and the Story of the West. Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine Arts, February 17 - September 1, 1991.
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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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Texas Centennial Exposition. Dallas, Texas: Museum of Fine Art, June 6 - November 29, 1936.
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Frederic Remington Centennial Exhibition. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 15, 1961.
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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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Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Frederic Remington Centennial Exhibition and Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by other Notable Documentary Artists of the Old West and Plains Indian Art. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 1961.
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Edgerton, Giles. "Frederic Remington. Painter and Sculptor: A Pioneer in Distinctive American Art." The Craftsman, vol. 15, (March 1909), p. 658-670.
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Museum of Fine Art, Dallas. Texas Centennial Exposition. Dallas, Texas: Museum of Fine Art, 1936.
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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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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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Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Remington: The Complete Prints. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
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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 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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Remington, Frederic. Remington Portfolio of Drawings. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1904, portfolio of three full-color 5 x 7-1/2" prints on soft mat: The Pioneers}, The Santa Fe Trade}, The Gathering of the Trappers} with The Creek Indian} illus. on cover.
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Remington, Frederic. Six Remington Paintings in Colors. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1906, portfolio, full-color prints 17-1/2 x 23-1/2": Gathering of the Trappers}, Argument with the Town Marshal}, The Bell Mare}, The Emigrants}, Pony Tracks in the Buffalo Trail}, The Buffalo Runners}.
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Identical to 1906 portfolio of same title except Trailing Texas Cattle replaces Gathering of the Trappers}.
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Vail, R. W. G. Frederic Remington: Chronicler of the Vanished West. New York: The New York Public Library, 1929. (Reprinted March, 1929, from the the Bulletin} of The New York Public Library, February, 1929, pages 71-75, where it appeared under the title: "The Frederic Remington Collection."
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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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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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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.

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