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Bulls Fighting

Founder Cast by Roman Bronze Works
1899–1900; cast 1906–07
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774
Borglum began modeling "Bulls Fighting" during the summer of 1899 among the Crow Creek Sioux in South Dakota. The animals—one wild, with longer horns; the other domesticated and stouter—are depicted at the moment of impact, their perfectly counter-balanced forms graphically underlining the intensity of their struggle. Borglum’s group offers a symbolic comment on the decline of the Texas longhorn cattle population in the early twentieth century, when other, weightier breeds were developed that yielded more meat and were preferred by ranchers.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Bulls Fighting
  • Artist: Solon Hannibal Borglum (American, Ogden, Utah 1868–1922 Stamford, Connecticut)
  • Founder: Cast by Roman Bronze Works
  • Date: 1899–1900; cast 1906–07
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Bronze
  • Dimensions: 4 1/4 × 20 1/2 × 2 3/8 in., 7 lb. (10.8 × 52.1 × 6 cm, 3.2 kg)
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1907
  • Object Number: 07.105
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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