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The Bronco Buster
Frederic Remington · Modeled 1895, cast 1899
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Michael D. Greenbaum, <em>Icons of the West: Frederic Remington's Sculpture</em> (Frederic Remington Art Museum, 1996): 183.
- Sofia Ortega-Guerrero, “Americas in the Making,” in “In the Galleries,” ed. Elizabeth McGoey and Sara Picard, <em>Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art</em> 12, no. 1 (Spring 2026), <a href="https://doi.org/10.24926/24716839.21042">https://doi.org/10.24926/24716839.21042</a>.
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