Coming Through the Rye (Over the Range)
Modeled 1902, cast in bronze 1902–6
Medium
Bronze with brown patina
Dimensions
72.4 × 71.1 × 47 cm (28 1/2 × 28 × 18 1/2 in.)
Classification
sculpture
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
97918
Art Historical Context
Step into the dynamic world of the American West with Frederic Remington *Coming Through the Rye (Over the Range)*, bronze sculpture modeled in 2 and cast between 1902 and 1906. This 28½ × 28 × 18½-inch work, adorned with a rich brown patina, captures raw energy of frontier life, likely depicting riders bursting through tall rye fields or cresting a distant range. Housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Arts of the department, it exemplifies Remington's mastery in translating his painterly visions into three-dimensional form. Frederic Remington, a leading chronicler of the vanishing American...
About the Artist
Frederic Remington
Frederic Remington (1861–1909) was an American painter, sculptor, and illustrator who became the preeminent visual chronicler of the American West. Born in Canton, New York, he studied briefly at the Yale School of the Fine Arts and the Art Students League of New York before making his first trip west in 1881, where he found the subject matter that would define his career. Remington's paintings a...