Lassoing Wild Horses

Inscriptions

Inscribed base top, behind left foot of front horse, in cast: "Solon-Borglum"; inscribed right, bottom-middle, on base, in cast: "Solon Borglum".

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890–1940, June 28–Oct. 13, 2003, cat. 13.

Publications

Judith A. Barter, Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890–1940, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), 164, cat. 13 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Solon Hannibal Borglum (American, 1868–1922)
Date: 1898
Medium: Bronze with brown patina
Dimensions: 77.4 × 86 × 52.1 cm (30 1/2 × 33 7/8 × 20 9/16 in.)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: bronze
Place: United States
Department: Arts of the Americas
Credit line: George F. Harding Collection
Accession no.: 1982.817

Provenance

Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, by 1924; sold to George F. Harding, Jr. (1868–1939), Chicago, by 1924 [Harding Collection no. 536]; 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 receipt, RX13663, July 30, 1982; copy in curatorial object file]; accessioned by the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.