Frederic Remington: The Hogg Brothers Collection

$29.95 at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

By Emily Ballew Neff (Author), Wynne H. Phelan (Author) This handsome and generously illustrated book showcases the most important works from this collection--including paintings, works on paper, and a bronze sculpture--establishing each within its appropriate historical, cultural, and political contexts. Drawing on unpublished archival information, the book discusses Remington's spectacular rise to fame as a popular illustrator who mythologized the experience of westward expansion and whose works created the…