# The Bronco Buster

- By: Frederic Remington (Cast by Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company (American, 1872–1926))
- Date: Modeled 1895, cast 1899
- Medium: Bronze with brown patina
- Classification: Sculpture
- Dimensions: 60 × 54.7 × 34.5 cm (23 5/8 × 21 9/16 × 13 5/8 in.)
- Culture: New York City
- Credit line: George F. Harding Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/97916)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/9c28758d-90d1-0794-87db-ddf2b20a0a3d/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A technical achievement in bronze, this composition of a cowboy attempting to tame a horse portrays an idea of the Western United States in dramatic and violent terms: white settler-colonialists in the act of subduing nature and flesh. As a painter and illustrator, Frederic Remington garnered success by crafting mythic, romanticized views of frontier life; The Bronco Buster was his first attempt to do so in sculpture. For white audiences living east of the Mississippi River at the turn of the 20th century, the artist's triumphant figures came to represent a singular—and distorted—vision of an unfamiliar American West.

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