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My Bunkie

finished 1899
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 765
Between 1893 and 1905 Schreyvogel made frequent visits to the Western states and territories, collecting Indigenous and military material for the detailed paintings he produced in his Hoboken, New Jersey, studio. My Bunkie portrays, in freeze-frame suspended animation, an event described to Schreyvogel by a veteran frontier trooper he met in Colorado. In the heat of a violent conflict on the plains, a soldier heroically rescues a bunkmate who has lost his mount in a skirmish with unseen Native figures. Two other cavalrymen continue their fire, protecting and covering for their fellow soldiers. When the painting was exhibited in New York in 1900, it elicited comparisons to Remington’s "Wounded Bunkie" (39.65.46a, b) with its shared codes of comradeship and freeze-frame suspended animation.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: My Bunkie
  • Artist: Charles Schreyvogel (1861–1912)
  • Date: finished 1899
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 25 3/16 x 34in. (64 x 86.4cm)
    Framed: 33 3/8 x 47 5/8 x 4in. (84.8 x 121 x 10.2cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of friends of the artist, by subscription, 1912
  • Object Number: 12.227
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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