The Bronco Buster

Artist Frederic Remington (American, 1861-1909)

Date1895

DimensionsH: 22 5/8 in. (57.5 cm); W: 13 3/8 in. (34 cm); L: 21 7/8 in. (55.5 cm)

MediumBronze

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Lawrence Bell Fund and from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1998.4

Not on View

Label Text“Only those who have ridden a bronco for the first time it was saddled, or have lived through a railroad accident, can form any conception of such an experience,” remarked artist Frederic Remington about Bronco Buster, his first and most acclaimed sculpture. A New Yorker who experienced the West as a young adult, Remington captures the drama and danger of a professional horse breaker in action. As illustrator, painter—see his Indians Simulating Buffalo nearby—and sculptor, Remington romanticized the vanishing “Wild West,” in many ways defining the classic image of the American frontier.Published References"La chronique des arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 133, no. 1562, Mar. 1999, repr. p. 69.