Remington Catalogue
“A First-Class Fighting Man”
Alternate Title: U.S. Soldier – Spanish American War
Date: 1899
Medium: oil on canvas, b/w
Catalogue Number: 02412
Credit Line: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Hogg Brothers Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Dimensions: 36 x 24″ (91.4 x 61 cm)
Illustration: Collier’s Weekly (March 25, 1899), p. 12-13, halftone.
Inscription: lr: –Frederic Remington/Havana/Cuba
Illustration Inscription: lc: –Frederic Remington
Provenance: The Hogg Brothers Collection, Houston, Texas; Miss Ima Hogg,
Houston, Texas; present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington and the Story of the West. Houston, Texas:
Museum of Fine Arts, February 17 – September 1, 1991.
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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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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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Allen, Douglas. Frederic Remington and the Spanish-American
War. New York: Crown, 1971.
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Remington, Frederic. Done in the Open: Drawings by Frederic
Remington. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, Publishers, 1902.
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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’s Weekly, 1899, reproduced A First-Class Fighting Man}
as a b/w “artist’s proof” printed on heavy plate paper, 16 x 22″
with self-border. (Advertised in 8-12-99 issue of Collier’s
Weekly} for 50 cents.)
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Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, the Camera & the Old West.
Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1983.
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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
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.