The Bronco Buster

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of the Americas

Modeled 1909, cast 1912

Frederic Remington (American, 1861–1909)
Cast by Roman Bronze Works (American, founded 1897)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Frederic Remington (Sculptor)
Title: The Bronco Buster
Place: New York (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Modeled 1909
Medium: Bronze with dark brown patina
Edition: Cast number 4
Inscriptions: Signed on base, top-right, in cast: Copyright By / Frederic Remington; foundry mark on base, top-left, in cast: ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y-; incised on base, bottom: No 4; brass plaque affixed on base recto, middle, inscribed in black ink: TO / BURNETT W. ROBBINS / FROM / KERWIN H. FULTON / 1935.
Dimensions: 82.6 × 34.9 × 47 cm (32 1/2 × 13 3/4 × 18 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. Burr L. Robbins
Reference Number: 1959.214
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Paine Art Center & Arboretum et al., Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Oshkosh, WI: The Paine Art Center and Arboretum, 1967), cat. 55.
Michael D. Greenbaum, Icons of the West: Frederic Remington’s Sculpture (Ogdensburg, NY: Frederic Remington Art Museum, 1996): 183.

Oshkosh, WI, The Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Aug. 1–Sept. 24, 1967, cat. 55; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Oct. 11–Nov. 12, 1967; Williamstown, MA, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Dec. 2–31, 1967.
Evanston, IL, Terra Museum of American Art, Important Western Art from Chicago Collections, Nov. 5–Dec. 14, 1980.

Kerwin H. Fulton (1885–1955), New York, by 1935; to Burr W. Robbins (1872–1952), Chicago, 1935; by descent to Burr L. Robbins (1902–1980), Chicago, by 1959 [incoming receipt, RX2954, Oct. 28, 1959; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1959.

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