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Based on a drawing from the 1880s and cast in an edition of apparently less than twenty, it was accurately described by the artist as \"men represented as being on a carousal.\" Although the artist had not begun exhibiting his sculptures of cowboys and horses until 1895, he had for two decades been producing similar two-&shy;dimensional portrayals of the frontier, many widely reproduced as prints and illustrations. Collectively, these works helped construct for an increasingly settled east coast audience a romanticized image of the American West as appealingly rugged and without restraint. </P></SPAN>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"Remington’s most ambitious bronze sculpture, <i>Coming through the Rye </i>features four animated horses and riders in a composition remarkable for being largely elevated off the base, with the leftmost horse completely suspended. Based on a drawing from the 1880s and cast in an edition of less than twenty, it was accurately described by the artist to show “men represented as being on a carousal.” Although the artist did not begin exhibiting his sculptures of cowboys and horses until 1895, he had for two decades been producing similar two-dimensional portrayals of the frontier, many widely reproduced as prints and illustrations. Collectively, these works helped construct, for an increasingly settled East Coast audience, a romanticized image of the American West as appealingly rugged and unrestrained.\n","remarks":"AMER2_23-27_CLA  Day 1 Cataloguing"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Tiffany & Co. [Sotheby Parke-Bernet New York (NY), October 19, 1972, sale 3419, lot 25]. Purchased by Nelson Rockefeller (1908-1979), by 1979; acquired by his brother, Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (1910-2004), by 1979; donated to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1991.","remarks":null}],"datebegin":1902,"sortnumber":"1991    5y","published_date":"2026-02-11 10:35:52.078826","objectid":33539,"dimensions":"73 × 72 × 73 cm (28 3/4 × 28 3/8 × 28 3/4 in.)","on_view":true}