Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001916The Bronco Buster
Inscriptions
Signed recto, right, on base top, in cast: ""Frederic Remington" with "55" in F of signature; inscribed verso, on base side, in cast: "Copyrighted by / Frederic Remington 1895"; inscribed right, on base top, in cast: "The Henry-Bonnard Bronze Co.: Founders N.Y. 1899". Inscribed bottom, middle, etched: "55".
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.
Publications
Michael D. Greenbaum, Icons of the West: Frederic Remington's Sculpture (Frederic Remington Art Museum, 1996): 183. Sofia Ortega-Guerrero, “Americas in the Making,” in “In the Galleries,” ed. Elizabeth McGoey and Sara Picard, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 12, no. 1 (Spring 2026), https://doi.org/10.24926/24716839.21042.
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 Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company (American, 1872–1926)
- Date
- Modeled 1895, cast 1899
- Medium
- Bronze with brown patina
- Dimensions
- 60 × 54.7 × 34.5 cm (23 5/8 × 21 9/16 × 13 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- sculpture
- Style
- 19th century
- Place
- New York City
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- George F. Harding Collection
- Accession no.
- 1982.808
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