The Outlaw (Primary Title)
Frederic Remington, American, 1861 - 1909 (Artist)
Frederic Remington was a far less prolific sculptor than painter, producing just twenty-two designs. Nonetheless, after first attempting sculpture in 1894, he predicted to a friend: “I am to endure in bronze.” Remington’s sculptures challenge the versatility of the medium, and they adapt the same mythic figures of the American western frontier that appear in his paintings and drawings. The most technically daring of his bronzes, The Outlaw exploits the tensile strength of the metal by depicting a horse that bucks so violently that it seems suspended in air. Its confident rider leans far back in the saddle, shifting his weight vertically over his mount’s forelegs as they plummet back to earth—already grounded through a convenient patch of sagebrush.
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