Bronco+Buster,+The

Date: ca. 1909
 * [[image:http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=http://americanart.si.edu/images/2005/2005.23.2_1a.jpg&max=460 width="292" height="373" link="@http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=75126"]] || Title: **The Bronco Buster**

Artist: **Frederic Remington** Born: Canton, New York 1861 Died: Ridgefield, Connecticut 1909

Medium: Roman Bronze Works (Founder), bronze Dimensions: 23 1/4 x 20 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. (59.1 x 51.4 x 29.2 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Jean and William M. (Oz) Osborne in memory of Donald S. Vogel and in honor of Cheryl and Kevin Vogel

Accession: 2005.23.2 || Painter, sculptor. Born in Canton, New York, Remington found his spiritual home in the American West. In 1881 the young artist set out for the Montana Territory, determined to gain a firsthand knowledge of western life. During the next few years, he sampled sheepherding, gold prospecting, cowboy life, and cavalry maneuvers in the Southwest. At the same time, he produced black-and-white illustrations of cowboys, Indians, and Plains military campaigns that brought him considerable recognition. In the early 1890s he began to paint and sculpt these same subjects, eventually producing a body of some three thousand vivid pictorial narratives. These made his name synonymous with a powerful nostalgia for the vanishing Wild West.
 * Artist Biography: **

Hassrick. //Frederic Remington.// Vorpahl, Ben Merchant. //Frederic Remington and the West//, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978.
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Denver Art Museum. //Frederic Remington, The Late Years.// Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1981.

Shapiro, Michael Edward. //Cast and Recast: The Sculpture of Frederic Remington//. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981.

Charles Eldredge, Julie Schimmel, and William H. Truettner //Art in New Mexico, 1900–1945: Paths to Taos and Santa Fe// (Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1986)

SAAM Collections Page About the Artist
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