Shelburne Museum`s exhibition, Playing Cowboy, explores an American myth
(Artdaily.org)

Playing Cowboy, this summer’s major exhibition at Shelburne Museum, is on view in the Pizzagalli Center for Arts and Education’s Colgate Gallery from June 23 until October 21, 2018. Before movie legends like John Wayne galloped across the silver screen, real live cowboys and Indians entertained audiences in dramatic performances that traveled the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. William “Buffalo Bill” Cody (1846-1917) helped generate the growing public interest in the vanishing Wild West by acting out the exploits of his life as a scout and Indian fighter in this uniquely American form of entertainment. At the same time, painters and sculptors such as Frederic Remington (1861-1909), N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), and Carl Rungius (1869-1959) ventured west in search of artistic inspiration, translating their experiences into romantic