04-07-2017 11:32 via theartnewspaper.com

Record for quintessential US cowboy sculpture in time for 4 July

The bronze sculpture, Coming Through the Rye (1902, cast by 1906), was a collaboration between Frederic Remington and Riccardo Bertelli of Roman Bronze Works. Although the foundry produced some of the cowboy chroniclers most complex pieces, this particular design proved more arduous than others. In 1908, the frustrated artist smashed his model with a metal bar, leaving just eight completed casts (and two prototypes). The sculpture"a dramatic portrayal of the American cowboy that
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