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Buffalo Rubbing Rock / Charles Marion Russell

Curatorial Remarks

This bronze is a bookend. The sheet metal has been removed from the bottom, which has made a possible cast number visible that either reads 6 or 8.

Ann Boulton Young, Associate Conservator for the Gilcrease Museum, 2018

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Title(s): 
Buffalo Rubbing Rock
Creator(s): 
Charles Marion Russell (Artist)
Roman Bronze Works (Foundry)
Dr. Philip G. Cole Collection (Collection)
Culture: 
American
Date: 
modeled 1921; lost-wax cast between 1922 and 1928
Materials/Techniques: 
lost-wax in bronze
Classification: 
Object Type: 
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, 1955
Accession No: 
08.13
Previous Number(s): 
0837.13; 12850
Department: 
Not On View

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