Sub-photo page of 2007 National Sports Collectors Convention coverage
- click photos to enlarge - "COWBOY" Frederic Remington sculptor Cast 1908 by Roman Bronze Works, New York City Located in Philadelphia's Fairmont Park
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highlight was seeing Frederic Remington’s c1908 heroic bronze
statue titled “Cowboy”, of a cowboy on a horse on the edge of
a cliff. It’s the only outdoor public work Remington ever
produced. I remembered reading how Remington had insisted on it’s
location, which added meaning to seeing it in person. By the way,
Remington played “rusher” on the 1879 Yale football team, and
I have an 1879 Harvard vs. Yale football program which he’s
listed in, along with Walter Camp, the father of American
football. I
knew the “Cowboy” statue was in Fairmont Park, somewhere in
the strip next to the river. I must have spent half an hour
driving around looking for it. In desperation I ended up driving
deeper into the park away from the river. Finally I found a park
maintenance worker who tried to explain where it was. He ended up
leading me to it in his city maintenance truck full of tree
trimmings. Now that’s the City of Brotherly Love! Turned out it
was on the opposite side of Kelly Drive from the strip, facing the
river. Essentially you’re suppose to view it from across Kelly
Drive; a distance of about 30 feet. Being a bronze statue
aficionado, no way would that suffice. I dodged traffic, made it
across, and climbed the embankment to where it was. Unavoidably I
ravaged the flower bed that surrounds it while soiling my spotless
white brand new K-Swiss. As is typical viewing outdoor sculpture,
it was interesting to see the foundry
marks, and the nuances of
their work, but after that it’s kind of anti-climatic. It’s
not like you get to take it home or anything, you look at it and
it stays there; collectors like to take stuff home! The whole
drawn out arduous history of the statue’s commission, from
conception to casting to erection is detailed in Harold and Peggy
Samuels' 1982 book “A Biography: Frederic Remington“. After
taking in the Remington and other statues I headed to the.....continued
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