About the Artwork
Fighting Bulls
1900
Solon Hannibal Borglum
1868-1922
American
Unknown
Bronze
Overall: 4 1/8 × 20 3/4 × 3 inches (10.5 × 52.7 × 7.6 cm) Including base: 5 1/8 × 4 × 22 1/2 inches (13 × 10.2 × 57.2 cm)
Sculpture
American Art before 1950
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Booth
68.140
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Markings
Signed, under bull: Solo H. Borglum
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Provenance
Mrs. John Lord Booth
1968-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Proske, Beatrice Gilman. Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture. Murrells Inlet, SC, 1943, pp. 75, 77 (ill. of another example in Brookgreen Gardens).
Tolles, Thayer. American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 2: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Between 1865 and 1885. New York, 1999, p. 511, no. 228 (ill. of another example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.)
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Solon Hannibal Borglum, Fighting Bulls, 1900, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Booth, 68.140.
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