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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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,
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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
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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. 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
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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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Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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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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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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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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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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Baigell, Matthew. The Western Art of Frederic Remington. New
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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.