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| Keywords: What an Unbranded Cow Has Cost by Frederic Remington 1895.jpeg Artwork Creator Frederic Remington 1895 oil canvas cm 71 3 89 2 Yale University Art Gallery object history credit line Gift of Thomas M Evans B A 1931 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 <ref>http //ecatalogue art yale edu/detail htm objectId 24069 Yale University Art Gallery</ref> reflist accession number 1977 114 http //ecatalogue art yale edu/detail htm objectId 24069 Yale University Art Gallery PD-old-100-1923 1909 Paintings by Frederic Remington Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery 1895 oil on canvas paintings in the United States Cowboys in art Males with horses in art | ||||
