Old Dick

Artist Frederic Remington (American, 1861 - 1909)

Date1885

MediumWatercolor over graphite

DimensionsOverall: 9 11/16 × 10 3/8 inches (24.61 × 26.35 cm)

Credit LineGift of Jane L Hough in memory of Franklin and Nellie Hough, my great grandparents, who knew Frederick Remington who painted Nellie’s horse, “Old Dick”

Object number2024.65

Signed“Remington/85” appears below the image at lower left in blue-grey watercolor. The title is present along the lower edge at right, also in blue-grey watercolor: “Old Dick”. Inscriptions on the verso are in graphite pencil: at left upper edge, “To B. Hough/Sat Noon”; at right, “2430.”

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DescriptionThis small, horizontally oriented watercolor depicts a brown horse eating from a trough. Its body runs nearly parallel to the picture plane with its head at the left side of the composition and its tail at the right.Provenance

Provenance

The artist’s gift to Nellie Hough Boyd (1860-1934), Kansas City, MO, 1885–1934;

By descent to her grandson, Edwin A. Hough (1908-1995), Washington, D.C., 1934–1995 [1];

By descent to his daughter, Jane L. Hough and David L. Scull, Co-Trustees, Edwin A. and Edith B. Hough Trust, MD, 1995-2024 [2];

Jane Hough’s gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2024.

[1] Edwin Hough lent the painting to The Nelson-Atkins Museum in 1935, where it remained a loan through the Hough Trust after his death.

[2] David L. Scull legally granted Jane Hough full ownership of the painting in 2024.

Published References

Adams, Henry, ed. American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1992), 106–107.

Hasserick, Peter, ed. Frederic Remington: a catalogue raisonné of paintings, watercolors and drawings. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996), #30.

Hough, Nellie. “Remington at Twenty-Three.” The Internation Studio; an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, Vol. 76, No. 309 (February 1923): 413.

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