To be the most effective, the only light should be reflected light such as from its surroundings and/or windows. Direct light cuts down on the contrast between the chrome and the blackened, burned edges.
$36,000 (plus tax, if appropriate).
This sculpture was named by me, Bull-Mirror , because its environment is reflected in the chromed auto bumpers. There is nothing like it or can be made like it because the bumpers are from nineteen fifties and (maybe) early nineteen sixties cars, which still had rounded, voluminous form. I sold it in 1971 and recently got it back and am in the process of restoring it.
Please contact me for more information. I am thinking that it might be an appropriate purchase for a large Texas car dealer or rancher.
Cast/bronze with a walnut base (travertine is also possible).
11 ½” high, 13 ¼” long, 5 ¾” deep.
Limited edition of ten plus two “artist's proofs”.
$2,250
(also, state tax if appropriate).
A friend of mine who bought one of this edition called the horse a “two stepper”, but when I designed it I tried, mostly, to discover some logic of how a horse might run—and to be able to depict it as buoyant and as free as possible. The boy is also represented that way, riding bareback—no hands. The last person who bought this sculpture has given it his own subjective name, Brother of the Horse .
This sculpture was originally designed with the rider being bucked off the back of the bull; that is, placed lower and forward from the back. I then changed the relationship so that the rider is spinning off to “heaven”. I see this as his ultimate ride. Notice that there is an armadillo observing the spectacle.
Notice, also, that it (the sculpture) is designed in planes. This has the possibilities of being a model for the sculpture being made in a grand scale, welded out of sheets of “Cor-Ten” steel or bronze. (See the Lacrosse Players and Gambrinus, King of Beer on my website.)
Notice that it was redesigned in this form in 1985. This sculpture has not found a home because it doesn't have the style of “western art”, (for those that want that); and also, it seems that those who like a less traditional approach to their art are not so interested in rodeo subjects. (I taught in Texas when I made this.)
This sculpture, I believe, is very special; i.e., unusual, and a good likeness of the great architect. This is the only sculpture that I have planned in a larger edition than ten. In this case—twenty-six. The original (prototype) was made in 1990. I have sold fourteen. As with all of my sculptures, I seldom place them in galleries but contact people that I think might be interested.
It is a bronze casting with a wood-framed granite base.
12 3/8” high, 6 7/8” wide, 4 3/16” deep.
The edition is limited to ten plus two “artist's proofs”.
Free shipping.
$1,950
(plus tax if appropriate).
This is an immigrant couple who prospered in the “new world”……a doctor and his wife. They are pictured as they would be attired in the early nineteen-hundreds.