Frederic Remington
The Flight

ArtistAmerican, 1861–1909
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • The Flight
  • (A Sage-Brush Pioneer)
Date1895
PlaceUnited States
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 23 × 33 3/16 in. (58.4 × 84.3 cm)
Frame: 30 1/8 × 40 1/8in. (76.5 × 101.9cm)
Credit LineThe Hogg Brothers Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object number43.8
Not on view

Explore Further

Department
American Art
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistorySaginaw Museum, Michigan, 1951.

VA Hospital, Houston, 1956.

"The Century Club exhibition," M. Knoedler, Co., New York, April–May 1956.

"Faces of America," El Paso Museum of Art, December 10, 1960–March 31, 1961.

[Frederic Remington exhibition], American Embassy, Wellington, New Zealand, March 1–June 9, 1971.

"The Works of Charles Russell and Frederic Remington," Tyler Museum of Art, Texas, October 16–December 17, 1972.

"Frederic Remington in the Southwest," Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, January 1–April 1, 1973.

The home of Mr. and Mrs. William Kilroy, Houston, Texas, February 9–April 20, 1987.

The Houstonian (The Manor House), Houston, Texas, July 6–9, 1990.

"Frederic Remington and the Story of the West," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 17–September 1, 1991.

Bayou Bend Museum of Americana at Tenneco, Houston, September 22, 1991–February 26, 1993.

"Remington and Russell Revisited," National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, June 29–September 30, 2007.

"Frederic Remington and the American West: Selections from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Art, Cypress Creek, Texas, March 22–June 29, 2008.

"Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph," Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, February 4–April 24, 2011; Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 20–September 11, 2011.

"Drama, Death, Dirge: Frederic Remington’s American West," Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, September 30, 2014–March 8, 2015.

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

The Call for Help
Frederic Remington
c. 1908
Oil on canvas
43.9
A New Year on the Cimarron
Frederic Remington
1903
Oil on canvas
43.10
The Scout
Frederic Remington
c. 1902
Oil on canvas
2013.653
The Hussar
Frederic Remington
1893
Oil on canvas
43.13
The Mier Expedition: The Drawing of the Black Bean
Frederic Remington
1896
Oil on canvas
43.14
Scouts Climbing a Mountain
Frederic Remington
1891
Oil on canvas
43.11
The Transgressor
Frederic Remington
1891
Oil on canvas
43.12
The Blanket Signal
Frederic Remington
c. 1896
Oil on canvas
43.16
The Emigrants
Frederic Remington
c. 1904
Oil on canvas
43.15
Change of Ownership (The Stampede; Horse Thieves)
Frederic Remington
1903
Oil on canvas
43.17
The Lookout
Frederic Remington
1887
Oil on canvas
43.19