Art Institute of Chicago
The Bronco Buster
Frederic Remington (American, 1861–1909)LinkedCulture matchlcp-9c671eda15f1
- Date
- Modeled 1895, cast 1899
- Medium
- Bronze with brown patina
- Culture
- New York City
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 97916
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
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.
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- Credit line
- George F. Harding Collection
- Provenance
- George F. Harding, Jr. (1868–1939), Chicago, by 1939; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, 1939 [the museum closed in 1964 and the collection was placed in storage in Chicago and New York]; transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 30, 1982 [incoming permanent receipt RX13663, July 30, 1982, Harding inventory no. 461; copy in curatorial file]; accessioned by the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.
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- Object type
- AAT300301253
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American Western and Military ArtThese objects are connected through their depiction of American frontier life, military subjects, and Western themes, primarily from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with several works appearing to be by Frederic
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