Bronco Buster
Frederic Remington, American, 1861 - 1909
Roman Bronze Works, New York
original 1895; cast about 1919-1920
Bronze
Roman Bronze Works, N.Y., cast no. 262 (276 identified)
Overall: 22 1/2 in. (57.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Lawrence Marx Jr., Class of 1936
S.960.13.2
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Sculpture
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on base, below horse's right front leg: copyright by / Frederic Remington; along top edge of base, behind horse's right rear leg: ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y-; beneath base: 262
Exhibition History
Director's Choice, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 10-July 10, 1966.
Images of the West: Selections from the Permanent Collection, MALS 190, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 15-August 28, 1994.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 2, 2009-present.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 26, 1996-June 22, 1997.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 22, 2008.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1997-May 8, 2007.
Publication History
Michael Edward Shapiro, Cast and Recast: The Sculpture of Frederick Remington, Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981, p. 37-43, 63-69.
Connie Skewes, Roots and Wings, Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth Printing Services, 1990.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 122, no. 95.
Provenance
Lawrence Marx, Jr. (1915-2006), Purchase, New York; given to present collection, 1960.
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