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Coming Through the Rye

Artist:
Frederic Remington (American, Canton, New York 1861–1909 Ridgefield, Connecticut)
Date:
1902, cast before 1939
Medium:
Bronze
Dimensions:
27 1/4 x 30 x 26 1/4 in. (69.2 x 76.2 x 66.7 cm)
Classification:
Sculpture
Credit Line:
Bequest of Jacob Ruppert, 1939
Accession Number:
39.65.44a, b
Not on view
"Coming through the Rye” was inspired by the artist's own illustrations, one published in "Century Magazine" in October 1888 and the other in “Harper’s Weekly” in December 1889. Four mounted cowboys, pistols raised aloft, keep a steady pace in a tight, boisterous group. The Metropolitan’s bronze is almost certainly a posthumous, unauthorized cast done by Roman Bronze Works.
Signature: [top of base]: Copyri[gh]ted by / Frederic Remington

Marking: [foundry mark, back of base]: ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N.Y.
Jacob Ruppert, New York, d. 1939

Essays
America Comes of Age: 1876–1900
American Bronze Casting
American Scenes of Everyday Life, 1840–1910
Bronze Statuettes of the American West, 1850–1915
Frederic Remington (1861–1909)

Timelines
The United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.–present

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