The Sergeant

Frederic Remington

1904, cast before 1939 · Bronze · The American Wing

"The Sergeant" is Remington’s smallest sculpture and one of his most commercially successful. The bust of a weathered, mustachioed Rough Rider commends the cowboys who volunteered for service in the First United States Volunteer Cavalry during the Spanish-American War of 1898. It came to have a pendant in "The Savage" (39.65.51a, b) four years later. Both, miniaturized in scale, represent early-twentieth-century stereotypes rather than specific individuals.

Artist

Frederic Remington

Date

1904, cast before 1939

Medium

Bronze

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Bequest of Jacob Ruppert, 1939