This bucking Bronco Buster bronze by artist Frederic Remington has been cast from the finest silicon bronze by the talented artisans in our California art foundry and finished with Remington's classic dark bronze patina. The sculpture is mounted onto a marble base, stands 24.5" high, and is signed "Frederic Remington" in the bronze. There are innumerable foundries casting versions of "The Broncho Buster", but you will find none finer than this one.
Made from gallery quality, lost wax bronze, on a marble base, and measures 24.5"H x 19"W x 10"D.
ABOUT YOUR BRONZE SCULPTURE: We understand the hesitation to purchase an expensive bronze over the Internet. Indeed, there is a benefit to physically holding any work of art in your own hands to give it a thorough evaluation. However, we assure you that these are some of the finest museum quality bronzes being made.
HOW IS IT MADE? The piece is cast in the finest grade of silicon bronze. It costs more than other grades of bronze, but it simply looks better and lasts longer. From creating the mold to finish polishing, and every step in the process in between, everything takes place at the foundry in the USA. The foundry has been producing bronzes for over 32 years for such noteworthy clients as the White House, presidential libraries and public parks across the United States.
GUARANTEE: We stand behind every bronze with a 100% customer satisfaction guarantee. If you are not completely satisfied with your purchase, return it to us in its original packing materials and we will refund your money excluding the shipping charge. Why can we make this guarantee? Simply because it is rare that a customer returns a bronze! In fact, most of our customers come back to purchase bronzes from us again and again.
ABOUT FREDERIC REMINGTON:
Frederic Remington created iconic images of the Western frontier composed of Native Americans, cavalrymen and cowboys, subjects he described as "men with the bark on." Nowhere in his oeuvre is the cowboy more celebrated than in his first bronze subject, "The Broncho Buster".
Originally conceived in 1895, "The Broncho Buster", depicting a cowboy breaking in a wild horse, was an immediate success, symbolizing all that was triumphant and heroic of the West.
By the 1890s, Remington was a renowned illustrator, painter and an accomplished writer. Never complacent as an artist, he wanted to expand his repertoire of talent to include something "in the round as well as the flat." In 1894, at the urging of friends and fellow artists, Remington began modeling a rider mounted on a rearing horse. The subject of the cowboy was always a central and important theme to Remington's work. The artist had written in 1895 that "with me, cowboys are what gems and porcelains are to some others." Remington's keen observations and unabashed love for the cowboy and his way of life found direct expression in many of his published drawings and paintings. He also maintained an extensive collection of photographs that contained related images of rearing horses and cowboys that he drew upon for developing the intricate modeling found in his sculptures.
"The Broncho Buster", a subject derived from Remington's cache of works devoted to the rearing horse and rider, reflected the artist's incredible attention to detail combined with the ingenious rendering of a specific action, intense movement and sublime balance.
Remington recognized that his legacy as an artist would be defined by the longevity of his bronze sculptures and in 1895, wrote: "My oils will all get old and watery...my watercolors will fade -- but I am to endure in bronze...I am modeling -- I find I do well -- I am doing a cowboy on a bucking bronco and I am going to rattle down through the ages."
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