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This rambunctious sculpture of cowboys brandishing their pistols, astride their charging horses, exemplifies the wild energy, reckless abandon, and masculine camaraderie in Frederic Remington’s vision of Western American life. After traveling throughout the Western territories, the native of Canton, New York, returned to his studio near New York City to chronicle vanquished Native American cultures and create images popularizing the cowboy as a national folk hero. As an illustrator, painter, sculptor, and writer, Remington created an image of the American West as a heroic battleground for westward expansion. . . .
- Emily Ballew Neff, Curator of American Painting and Sculpture Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online
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