Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001810The Bronco Buster
Inscriptions
Signed on base, top-right, in cast: Copyright By / Frederic Remington; foundry mark on base, top-left, in cast: ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y-; incised on base, bottom: No 4; brass plaque affixed on base recto, middle, inscribed in black ink: TO / BURNETT W. ROBBINS / FROM / KERWIN H. FULTON / 1935.
Provenance
Kerwin H. Fulton (1885–1955), New York, by 1935; to Burr W. Robbins (1872–1952), Chicago, 1935; by descent to Burr L. Robbins (1902–1980), Chicago, by 1959 [incoming receipt, RX2954, Oct. 28, 1959; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1959.
Exhibition history
Oshkosh, WI, The Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Aug. 1–Sept. 24, 1967, cat. 55; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Oct. 11–Nov. 12, 1967; Williamstown, MA, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Dec. 2–31, 1967. Evanston, IL, Terra Museum of American Art, Important Western Art from Chicago Collections, Nov. 5–Dec. 14, 1980.
Publications
Paine Art Center & Arboretum et al., Frederic Remington: A Retrospective Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Oshkosh, WI: The Paine Art Center and Arboretum, 1967), cat. 55. Michael D. Greenbaum, Icons of the West: Frederic Remington's Sculpture (Ogdensburg, NY: Frederic Remington Art Museum, 1996): 183.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Frederic Remington (American, 1861–1909) / Cast by Roman Bronze Works (American, founded 1897)
- Date
- Modeled 1909, cast 1912
- Medium
- Bronze with dark brown patina
- Dimensions
- 82.6 × 34.9 × 47 cm (32 1/2 × 13 3/4 × 18 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- sculpture
- Place
- New York
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. Burr L. Robbins
- Accession no.
- 1959.214
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