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Remington turned sculpture 1895 to sculpture in 1895. By natural talent, he modeled The Bronco Buster, the most famous of American Western art bronzes. Along with an ever-increasing volume of painting and drawing, he produced 25 notable works of sculpture during the following 14 years. He was also an accomplished vriter of fact and fiction. From the beginning, his illustrations for magazines were accompanied with text of his own writing, and signed articles began appearing by 1888.

These significant pti poses have generally been served by sculpture ( considerable size, and there is no doubt that largi ness promotes an effect of impressiveness i sculpture as it does in architecture. This i borne out by the observation that most sculptur which has been made merely to embellish or t delight is definitely under life-size or even of th statuette category. A notable exception to thi rule is found in fountain sculpture from the 16t! century on, where the architectural or arborea setting often requires commensurate scale in tb sculpture.

Sculpture, unlike painting, may be appreciated by touch as well as by seeing. Even if one does not actually touch it when contemplating a particular work of sculpture, the appreciation of the smoothness of surface and the modulation of one mass into another may be so strong that the mind receives the sensation of touching. This is commonly referred to as tactile quality, and oftentimes the kind of sculpture which produces a strong tactile expression is called plastic. Small works of sculpture, such as some of the Chinese jade carvings, invite one to take them in the hand.