Home Grown
American sculpture of the mid- to late 19th century was often classical and often romantic, but it showed a special bent for a dramatic, narrative, almost journalistic realism (especially appropriate for nationalistic themes) as witnessed by the frontier life depicted by Frederic Remington. This was the beginning of the style of "Western Art" that continued with Alexander Phimister Proctor and others through the 20th into the 21st century.
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Cowboy at Rest by Solon Borglum, 1904
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Cowboy by Frederic Remington, 1908
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Appeal to the Great Spirit by Cyrus Dallin
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Hudson McKnight Memorial, by Alexander Phimister Proctor, 1931
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