Later, Remington established a relationship with the Roman Bronze Works foundry of New York, circa 1900 as a fire at his original casting firm put the firm in jeopardy. Since this was an accurate way to reproduce an artist’s work, the sand cast alternately did not allow the artist to easily make a change. Sand casting, a method Remington used for his early bronzes, involved making a negative sand mold from the foundry’s plaster cast of the artist’s original clay model.
The foundry produced sixty four sand castings of the bronze. The famous work called Bronco Buster was first case at the Henry Bonnard bronze company in New York between 1895-1900. Remington’s bronzes were successful in part due to the casting abilities of his selected foundries. Remington worked predominantly in the loss wax casting method. Many of his original paintings are in major museums whereby his lithographic prints were reproduced in magazines and newspapers. Remington’s oil paintings depicted traditional western scenes: Native Americans, cowboys, horses, saloons, etc. His paintings capture the rough and tumble nature of the cowboy experience.
Remington was known for both his paintings and his sculptures of western subjects. By 1886, Remington’s work was published in such publications of the day as Harper’s Weekly, Century Magazine, and Outing Youth’s Companion. Remington married in 1884 and shortly thereafter, he and his wife moved first to Kansas City and later, onto New York. In 1883, shortly after his initial trip west, Remington purchased a sheep ranch near Peabody, Kansas. Following his father’s death in 1881, Remington made a trip to the western United States. A relative of the famed artist best known for his portraits of Native American indians named George Catlin, Frederic Remington briefly attended the Yale Art School in New Haven, CT. Frederic Remington (American, 1861-1909) was both a successful painter and sculptor born in New York and associated with the western tradition of art subjects.
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