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Cowboy Fun

Artist Frederic Remington (American, 1861 - 1909)

Datec. 1888

Mediumpen and ink on paper

Dimensions15 1/8 x 13 5/8 inches (38.4 x 34.6 cm)
Image: 12 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (31.1 x 28.6 cm)
Frame: 18 1/8 × 17 × 1 1/8 inches (46 × 43.2 × 2.9 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.10.3

ClassificationsPaper

DescriptionUnidentifiable sketch on reverse.

Label TextRemington drew this sketch to illustrate Theodore Roosevelt’s book Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail. Roosevelt wrote about his experiences as a rancher in the Dakota Territory. In the opening chapter, he described cowboys. “Singly, or in twos or threes, they gallop their wiry little horses down the street.” Roosevelt’s words helped create the concept of the cowboy. He said, “they are as hardy and self-reliant as any men who ever breathed.” He wrote, “Peril and hardship . . . never dim their reckless eyes nor break their bearing of defiant self-confidence.”

ProvenanceArtist; The Century Co., Union Square, New York, New York; presented December 1891 to Mrs. M.M. Dodge. (Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York); purchased June 8,1959 by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art

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