This coming weekend marks the 10th anniversary of "Quest for the West" art show and sale
 held at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art located in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The exhibition features 50 of American's top painters and sculptors and I am delighted to be an invited artist.

For more information about the Eiteljorg and "Quest for the West, go to the links below.

http://www.eiteljorg.org
http://www.post#633


Below, are images of the 4 new works I am exhibiting in this year's "Quest for the West".
Next Sunday's blog will focus on the exhibition with comments and images.

Ancient Passage

Ancient Passage

The Taker

 King of the Coop

18"H 18"W 7"D

Ed. 65

4,200

King of the Coop

18"H 18"W 7"D

Ed. 65

4,200

Stealth

Stealth

For information about my upcoming retrospective go to links below:

http://www.post #651
http://www.post#675

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#641 Prix de West, 2015

By this time next Sunday, Prix de West in Oklahoma City will be over and I'll post and update.

For more information about the exhibition, go to the museum and catalogue links and the blog links below:

http://pdw.nationalcowboymuseum.org

#254,  June 19, 2012

#313,  September 17, 2012

#538,  June 11, 2014

#539  June 14, 2014

This year is my 27th year to be invited to participate in the Prix de West Exhibition at the National Cowboy Museum and Western Heritage Center in Oklahoma City.  Like most artists, it's important for me to introduce new work at the prestigious event and no one wants to drop the ball!  The collector and museum expects new work and my studio method and working challenges demand it. The Prix de West, like the Autry, Eiteljorg, Briscoe, Jackson, Cody, and others gives the artist an opportunity to engage in a catalogued museum gala venue and sale that is as good as the artist chooses to make it . . . 

I can't imagine not giving it my best and respond with new work and over the years, I've attempted to do just that.

Below, are images of one of the new works for the exhibition entitled, "Jake".

The sculpture is a quiet study of a young male Wild Turkey and is shown cast in bronze and during patina.

The patina is achieved by applying liver of sulfur to cold metal then scrubbing back, revealing darks in the negatives
and lights on the high points.  Next the sculpture is heated and cupric nitrate is sizzled on to the hot metal.
Then, ferric nitrate is applied while the bronze is still hot.  The sculpture is waxed with Johnson's Paste Wax
after cool-down, and "Jake" is placed on a walnut base.

The close-ups reveal the "woodsy" feel and coloration I was attempting to convey with the patina.

For more information about see post
#635 May 17, 2015

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#633 "Quest for the West" at the Eiteljorg Museum

I have been invited to exhibit in this year's 10th anniversary of
"Quest for the West" held at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, Indiana
on September 11 and 12.  The show and sale features 50 of
America's top painters and sculptors.

Typically, when invited to important juried museum shows,
I introduce new work and have created "Ancient Passage" 

for the show.  The #1 casting of the new bronze sculpture
will be exhibited as well as three additional works.

www.quest.eiteljorg.org

Shown below, is an ad in the current issue of "Art of the West" for "Quest for the West" featuring "Ancient Passage".

Shown below, are two views of "Ancient Passage"

The Eiteljorg Museum for American Indians and Western Art houses an extensive collection of Native American art as well as Western American paintings and sculpture collected by businessman and philanthropist, Harrison Eiteljorg.

The Gund Gallery in the museum has a collection of paintings and bronzes by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell.  

It also has paintings by:  Thomas Hill, Albert Bierstadt, and Olaf Seltzer.  There is a large collection of paintings by 

Joseph Sharp, Victor Higgens, Ernest Blumenshein, John Sloan, and Georgia O'Keefe.

https://www.eiteljorg.org

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#630 Horse sculpture at Brookgreen . . . con't

Please start this series of blogs about the horse with post #616.

Brookgreen Gardens, located in Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina is home to the largest
and most important collection of American sculpture in existence.  Founded by
Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington in 1931, the accredited museum, zoo,
and horticulture masterpiece continues to grow in  collections, prestige,
and popularity . . . it is a mecca for sculptors and art lovers the world over.

brookgreen.org

Anna Hyatt Huntington's horse sculpture has been spotlighted in the previous
three blogs and the focus of this post is the equine work of four additional
sculptors whose work is in the Brookgreen collection, 

Because of her profession, Anna Hyatt Huntington knew many sculptors well.  During Brookgreen's first ten years of existence,  there was a steady stream of sculptors flowing into the gardens and Archer and Anna searched for the best works suitable for their purpose of placing American sculpture in a magnificent setting while.preserving natural beauty.

Two of the most famous sculptors known for their native Western and Indian subjects were
James Earle Fraser [1876 - 1953] and Frederic Remington [1861 - 1909].  Both sculptors are represented
in the collection by examples of their most famous works with the horse depicted as a main element of their creation.

Shown below, is James Earle Fraser's "End of the Trail" which symbolizes the passing of the Indian's way of life.

Remington's training was not that of a sculptor but of a New York illustrator.  Discouraged by the poor reception
his first exhibition of paintings received, he turned to sculpture and his first work, "The Bronco Buster",
was a tremendous success.  Shown below, is Frederic Remington's "Bronco Buster" at Brookgreen Gardens.

Laura Gardin Fraser [1889 - 1966] was a pupil of James Earle Fraser and later married her teacher.
She became known for designing coins and medals and also created the equestrian monument at Baltimore of
Lee and Jackson.  The commission for the "Peagasus" at Brookgreen was another chance to execute a major work.
The granite blocks which it is composed were set up in the Gardens after they had been roughed out,
and the carving was finished in place.   The Mount Airy granite was carved by a stone carver
under the supervision of the artist and took nine years from inception to completion.

Below, are images of Laura Gardin Fraser's "Pegasus" at Brookgreen.

Gutzon Borglum [1867 - 1941] is  known for carving Mount Rushmore in South Dakota and is represented in the collection with "Mares of Diomedes".  The bronze at Bookgreen is the middle section of a larger group that was modeled in his studio in New York in 1904.  The sculpture is a successful attempt by the artist to convey the sensation of rapid motion
by a group of horses at full gallop.  Show below, is a photo of "Mares of Diomedes".

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#629 Anna Hyatt Huntington and Brookgreen . . . horses, con't.

Please start this series of blogs about the horse with post # 616 -  March 11, 2015.

The focus of this post is American sculptor, Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876 - 1973) and her favorite subject: The horse.  Spotlighted are two of her horse sculptures located at Brookgreen Gardens in Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina entitled:  "Don Quixote" and "Fillies Playing".  Additional information about Huntington can be found on the previous two blogs.

http://www.brookgreen.org

Below, is an image of Huntington's "Fillies Playing". . . Bronze, 1956, this example cast in 2010.

Anna Hyatt Huntington created two sizes of "Fillies Playing" in her studio at Stanerigg Farm near Redding, Connecticut.  The small version (1955) is believed to have never been cast; the large version (1956) apparently was cast only once during the artist's lifetime.  It was cast in aluminum by Roman Bronze Works in New York City, shown at the National Academy of Design, and Awarded the Elizabeth N. Watrous Gold Medal in 1958.  It was then donated by the sculptor 

to the University of South Carolina in 1960.  The sculpture shown above and below is a posthumous casting 

of the large version made in 2010 by Rome Bronze Studio with new molds from the original plaster model.

Below, is an image of Huntington's "Don Quixote" . . . Aluminum, cast in 1947.

Huntington envisioned Cervantes' famous subject as a pitiful character, rather than a comic one.  

She depicted him dazed and confused at the moment after he has lost his joust with windmills.

His dispirited horse, Rocinante, was first modeled in 1937 from local horses at the studio in Atalaya, the Huntington's winter home at Brookgreen . . . (see blog #218, posted April 23, 2012 for more information about Atalaya). 

 After becoming the first sculptor to use aluminum in 1932, it was often her medium of choice.

Below, are more images of the powerful monument, "Don Quixote".

When word got around that she needed a decrepit horse to model, offers poured in.  The specimen finally
chosen was so weak that it could not stand and had to be supported by a sling when work began.
The horse's health so mended as work progressed that it lived to an honorable old age.

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#628 Anna Hyatt Huntington and Brookgreen . . . horses, con't.

Please start this series of blogs about horses with post # 616

This post further examines the two Anna Hyatt Huntington [1876-1973] horse sculptures at Brookgreen Gardens 

that were spotlighted in the previous post, #627:  "Fighting Stallions" and "Youth Taming the Wild".  

In this post, I'll introduce another large horse monument at Brookgreen entitled "In Memory of the Work Horse"; 

created by Anna Hyatt Huntington, cast in bronze, and installed at Brookgreen in 1964. 

Anna Hyatt Huntington is recognized as one of the foremost American animaliers.  She was a pioneer in the use of aluminum as a sculpture medium which gave a life and brilliance of surface that showed fine modeling in poor light.  Below, are two images of "Fighting Stallions" located at the entrance to Brookgreen Gardens in Murrell's Inlet,

 South Carolina.  More images of this dramatic monument can be seen on the previous post.

Many sculptors in France and in America began to specialize in animal sculpture in the nineteenth century and "animaliers" became a favorite branch of the sculptural arts.  Huntington was fascinated by horses and came to know their anatomy so well that she could model them from memory.  The first sculpture to be carved expressly for Brookgreen was her "Youth Taming the Wild", 1933.  With the pioneer movement westward still a reality, themes that underscored the conquest of the New World were popular.  Shown below, are three images of the monument . . . additional images of 

Huntington's "Youth Taming the Wild" can be seen on the previous blog.

During Anna's youth, she often observed and worked with large draft horsed used for plowing 

and hauling hay at the family farm in Annisquam, Massachusettes.  The memory of this image provided 

inspiration for several sculptures throughout her career depicting the work horse.

The heroic-sized bronze sculpture,  "In Memory of the Work Horse" was installed at Brookgreen in 1964 and depicts the team of farmer and horse . . . she expertly presents a vignette from the past in a poignant yet unsentimental manner.  Shown below are images of one of my favorite Huntington sculptures, "In Memory of the Work Horse".

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#627 Anna Hyatt Huntington and Brookgreen: horses, con't . . .

Please start this series of blogs about the horse with post # 616

Brookgreen Gardens in Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina is home to the largest and most important collection of American figurative sculpture in existence.  Founded by Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington in 1931 this outdoor museum is a mecca for sculptors and a destination for lovers of sculpture, natural history, and the culture of the Carolina Lowcountry.

Brookgreen is an accredited museum and a National Historic Landmark.  Anna Hyatt Huntington's significance 

as a sculptor and patron of the arts and the importance of the museum's collection has given America a unique

 gift of sculpture in a beautiful natural setting.  Interestingly, there are number of women sculptors 

represented in the  collection which will be spotlighted in future posts. 

http://www.brookgreen.org,
www.google.com/AnnaHyattHuntington

The focus of this blog is part one of Anna Hyatt Huntington's favorite subject and model:  The horse.

Below, is Huntington's monumental sculpture, "Fighting Stallions".  This enormous work, created 

for Brookgreen's  entrance in 1950 and cast in aluminum, has become the iconic symbol of the museum.
Anna was a pioneer in the lightweight and light-catching qualities of casting in aluminum.

I was told by Robin Salmon, authority on Huntintingon's work and curator of sculpture at Brookgreen 

for over 35 years, that Anna and Archer wanted a dramatic, heroic image that would encourage travelers 

on the coastal highway to stop and enjoy the unprecedented beauty of outdoor sculpture in a natural setting. 

Below, are details of "Fighting Sallions".

Another outstanding Huntington sculpture on the vast, 9,000 acre grounds
at Brookgreen is "Youth Taming the Wild", shown below.

This stunning monument is placed by a secluded reflecting pool dotted with water lilies and
visited by an occasional Egret or Great Blue Heron.  Shown below, are  details of the work.

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