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The Bronco Buster

Brown bronze statue of man with riding crop atop a rearing horse.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • Brown bronze statue of man with riding crop atop a rearing horse.

Date:

Modeled 1895, cast 1899

Artist:

Frederic Remington (American, 1861–1909)
Cast by Henry-Bonnard Bronze Co. (American, 19th century)

About this artwork

A technical achievement in bronze, this composition of a cowboy attempting to tame a horse portrays an idea of the Western United States in dramatic and violent terms: white settler-colonialists in the act of subduing nature and flesh. As a painter and illustrator, Frederic Remington garnered success by crafting mythic, romanticized views of frontier life; The Bronco Buster was his first attempt to do so in sculpture. For white audiences living east of the Mississippi River at the turn of the 20th century, the artist’s triumphant figures came to represent a singular—and distorted—vision of an unfamiliar American West.

Status

On View, Gallery 161

Department

Arts of the Americas

Artist

Frederic Remington (Sculptor)

Title

The Bronco Buster

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Modeled 1895

Medium

Bronze with brown patina

Edition

No. 55

Inscriptions

Signed recto, right, on base top, in cast: ""Frederic Remington" with "55" in F of signature; inscribed verso, on base side, in cast: "Copyrighted by / Frederic Remington 1895"; inscribed right, on base top, in cast: "The Henry-Bonnard Bronze Co.: Founders N.Y. 1899". Inscribed bottom, middle, etched: "55".

Dimensions

60 × 54.7 × 34.5 cm (23 5/8 × 21 9/16 × 13 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

George F. Harding Collection

Reference Number

1982.808

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