The Bronco Buster
The Bronco Buster (also The Broncho Buster per convention at the time of sculpting) is a
The sculpture was executed in the summer of 1895, and later that fall it was
Only those who have ridden a bronco the first time it was saddled, or have lived through a railroad accident, can form any conception of the solemnity of such experiences. Few Eastern people appreciate the sky-rocket bounds, grunts, and stiff-legged striking.[1]
With this in mind, he decided to sculpt a bucking bronco for his first piece. Using techniques from his previous works to help focus the subject's figure, Remington removed the figure from its context and isolated it into a grounded free-floating form, thus achieving a lifelike quality and vigorous movement. The artist's reference file for the sculpture included a photograph of a cowboy that very closely resembled his 1892 illustration of A Bucking Bronco. The Bronco Buster followed the same kind of process liberating horse and man from two-dimensionality as before.
On September 13, 1898, at
An original cast resided in the Oval Office, a gift of Virginia Hatfield and Mrs. Louis Hatfield Stickney, from Jimmy Carter's to Donald Trump's administrations. It was moved out of the office during the Biden Administration.[2]
Another original Remington sculpture, The Cowboy, 1907, is located along
In popular culture
The Oval Office statue can be seen in the 2009 photograph Hair Like Mine.
In 2014, the Denver Art Museum made a bet with the Seattle Art Museum over the outcome of Super Bowl XLVIII, wherein the losing city's museum would temporarily loan the other a work of art. Denver put up a cast of Bronco Buster against Seattle's Sound of Waves, a 1901 Japanese screen by artist Tsuji Kakō.[3] As the Denver Broncos lost to the Seattle Seahawks, the bronze was shipped to Seattle where it was scheduled to be on display for three months.
See also
References
- ^ The Bronco Buster (1885) by Frederic Remington. REMINGTON-ART.COM.
- ^ "Remington's 'Bronco Buster' no longer in Oval Office after Biden administration makeover". Archived from the original on 2021-02-22.
- ^ Denver, Seattle museums put artworks on the line in Super Bowl wager, via LAtimes.com