Bronco Buster

Bronco Buster

"Bronco Buster" is a sculpture made of bronze in 1895 by American sculptor Frederic Remington. It portrays a rugged Western frontier cowboy character fighting to stay aboard a rearing, plunging bronco, with a stirrup swinging free, a quirt in one hand and a fistful of mane and reins in the other. It was the first and remains the most popular of all Remington's sculpture designs, most likely due to the publicity surrounding President Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, to whom Remington presented it as a gift. This casting now resides in the White House's Oval Office as a centerpiece and permanent element of the collection.

The sculpture was executed in the summer of 1895, and later that fall it was copyrighted with the United States Copyright Office. Sculpting was a new medium for Remington at this time, and this new method of portrayal was a total success in the eyes of his collectors and art historians.Fact|date=May 2007 Breaking away from the restricted limits of flat paper, pen & ink and watercolor; Remington moved to the next level of his artistic potential, through the more effective medium of three dimensional expressions. Remington, who always strived to capture the essence of the moment in his work, now found he was more able to effectively express that which he had observed first hand:

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.

The original sculpture is located along the East River Drive (also known as "Kelly Drive") in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.


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