Bronco Buster

Maker Frederic Remington (American, 1861 - 1909)

Makercast by Henry Bonnard Bronze Co. Foundry, N.Y. (American)

Collections

American Sculpture

ClassificationsSCULPTURE

Date1895

Mediumbronze

Dimensions23 × 12 × 21 in. (58.4 × 30.5 × 53.3 cm.) base: 7 × 14 in. (17.8 × 35.6 cm.)

SignedSigned in lower right: Frederic Remington

InscribedSigned in lower right: Frederic Remington

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift from the family of Margaret and Thomas Fleming

Status

On view

Label TextBronco Buster was Frederic Remington's first sculpture and his most enduringly popular. He modeled it in 1895 after a successful career as an illustrator and painter of primarily Western subjects. Details such as the leather-clad stirrup dangling empty from the saddle add to the implied action and lend authenticity to the depiction.

Object number91.249