About the Artwork
Lassoing Wild Horses
1898
Solon Hannibal Borglum (Artist) American, 1868-1922 (Foundry) Roman Bronze Works, N.Y. founded 1899, active 19th-20th century
Bronze
Overall: 30 × 25 × 15 inches (76.2 × 63.5 × 38.1 cm)
Sculpture
American Art before 1950
Gift of Ralph Harman Booth
16.13
Copyright Not Evaluated
Markings
Signed, on top of base, running from front to rear: Solon Borglum.
Inscribed, on left side of base, near rear of piece, the letters G L U M are barely discernible.
Mark, on left rear third of the base (the section of the base over which the horse's tail extends): Roman Bronze Works N.Y.
Provenance
Ralph Harman Booth;1916-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Societé des Artistes Français, Salon de 1898. Exh. cat., La Galerie des Machines. Paris, 1898, no. 3195. [as La chasse des chevaux sauvages”]
Goodrich, Arthur. “The Frontier in Sculpture.” World’s Work, Vol.3. New York,1902, p. 1864.
Frank Sewell. “ A Sculpture of the Prairie, Solon H. Borglum.” The Century Magazine (June 1904): p. 249.
Armstrong, Selene Ayer. “Solon H. Borglum: Sculpture of American Life.” Craftsman 12 (1907): p. 388.
Bulletin of the DIA 10, no. 7 (March 1916).
American Sculpture: 1900-1965. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, Michigan,1965, no. 8.
Broder, P.J. Bronzes of the American West. New York, 1973, p. 74 (pl. 64, of another example at the Gilcrest Institute, Tulsa).
“Family Art Game.” Detroit News, April 29, 1984, p. 25 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement].
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Solon Hannibal Borglum; Roman Bronze Works, N.Y., Lassoing Wild Horses, 1898, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Ralph Harman Booth, 16.13.
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