File:What an Unbranded Cow Has Cost by Frederic Remington 1895.jpeg
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Summary
Frederic Remington: What an Unbranded Cow Has Cost
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| Title |
What an unbranded cow has cost |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1895 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | 71.3 × 89.2 cm (28 × 35.1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
1977.114 |
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| Credit line |
1931: given by Thomas M. Evans, B.A. |
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| Inscriptions | Signature bottom left | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Loosely inspired by the "cattle wars" of the 1880s and 1890s, in which wealthy cattle barons gradually displaced independent homesteaders and small-scale ranchers, Frederic Remington's painting depicts the deadly aftermath of a shootout over the ownership of an unbranded cow. The painting illustrated a nostalgic article in Harper's Monthly by Remington's friend Owen Wister about the history of cowboys, whom Wister likened to Anglo-Saxon knights. Remington and Wister's glorification of the American cowboy as a symbol of Anglo-Saxon culture was a response to the perceived threat represented by increasing immigration. Remington sought to celebrate the cowpuncher, but the mournful tone of this painting instead affirms that this mythic figure and his frontier world were vanishing.[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yale University Art Gallery ID: 24069  |
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| Source/Photographer | Yale University Art Gallery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| current | 16:01, 5 October 2020 | | 3,000 × 1,971 (1.82 MB) | 0m9Ep | Brightness, color |
| 10:46, 15 November 2018 |  | 3,000 × 1,971 (1.56 MB) | Trzęsacz | same source, new URL; https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/24069 | |
| 03:08, 5 December 2012 |  | 2,000 × 1,306 (1.07 MB) | Botaurus | larger image, same source | |
| 08:28, 14 March 2011 |  | 700 × 460 (225 KB) | MarmadukePercy | {{Information |Description ={{en|1="What an Unbranded Cow Has Cost," oil on canvas, by the American artist Frederic Remington. 28 1/16 in. x 35 1/8 in. Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Thomas M. Evans, B.A. 1931. Courtesy of Yale University, New Ha |
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