Frederic Remington
The Herd Boy

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • The Herd Boy
Datec. 1905
PlaceUnited States
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 27 1/8 × 45 1/4 in. (69 × 114.9 cm)
Frame (outer): 37 1/4 × 55 3/8 × 3 1/2 in. (94.6 × 140.7 × 8.9 cm)
Credit LineThe Hogg Brothers Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object number43.24
Not on view

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Department
American Art
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Western Art Exhibition," Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, February 4, 1965.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, October 12–November 12, 1967.

"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.

"The American Landscape East to West: Themes in Painting and Photography, 1780-1910," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 6, 2003–January 19, 2004.

"The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890 - 1950," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 29, 2006–January 28, 2007; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 4–June 3, 2007.

"Art Across America," National Museum of Korea, Seoul, February 4–May 19, 2013; Daejeon Museum of Art, South Korea, June 17–September 1, 2013.

"America: Painting a Nation," Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, November 8, 2013–February 9, 2014.

"Night and Day: Frederic Remington's Final Decade," Sid Richardson Museum, Fort Worth, September 24, 2022–April 30, 2023.

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