The Old Dragoons of 1850

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The Old Dragoons of 1850

Frederic Remington (American, 1861–1909)LinkedCulture matchlcp-9c671eda15f1

Date
Modeled 1905, cast 1906–7
Medium
Bronze with black patina
Culture
New York
Department
Arts of the Americas
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
97927

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The Old Dragoons of 1850 is another feat of Frederic Remington’s technical achievement. Stretching, twisting men and horses move at top speed, depicted by Remington in an arrested moment in time. The complex sculpture suggests the chaos of eyewitness observation, yet it also achieves the choreographed monumentality and unity of synthetic composition. Remington designed his three-dimensional works after the drawings and photographs he made on his trips to the West, and the ability to freeze motion photographically undoubtedly fed the force and dynamism of his sculpture.

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Credit line
George F. Harding Collection
Provenance
The artist, modeled 1905, cast 1906–07 [email from Thayer Tolles, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator, in curatorial file]; sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 1907 [Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art April 1907]; given back to the artist, c. September 1907 [according to Tolles 1999, the artist swapped it for another 1907 cast]. Tiffany and Co., New York, by March 9, 1922 [according to Greenbaum 1996]; sold to George F. Harding, Jr. (1868–1939), Chicago, March 9, 1922 [according to Barter 2003]; George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, no. 552, by 1939 [according to Leroux 1982]; transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.

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