Alexander Phimister Proctor (1860-1950)

'Indian Warrior'

细节

Alexander Phimister Proctor (1860-1950)
'Indian Warrior'
inscribed with conjoined initials 'APHIMISTER PROCTOR/1898/GOLD MEDAL/PARIS EXPOSITION/1900' and 'Copy Rt 1899' (on the base)--stamped 'GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS/© QRM' and inscribed 'Paris' (along the base)
bronze with brown patina
40 in. (101.6 cm.) high

出版

L. Taft, "A. Phimister Proctor," Brush and Pencil 2, no. 6, September 1898, pp. 240-48, another example referenced.
L. Taft, The History of American Sculpture, New York, 1969 ed., pp. 477-78, another example illustrated.
A.P. Proctor, H.E. Proctor, eds., Sculptor in Buckskin: An Autobiography by Alexander Phimister Proctor, Norman, Oklahoma, 1971, pp. 134, 137-38, 141, another example referenced.
W.H. Truettner, ed., The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1991, p. 313, another example illustrated.
P.H. Hassrick, Wildlife and Western Heroes: Alexander Phimister Proctor, Sculptor, Fort Worth, Texas, 2003, pp. 44-45, 47, 51, 67, 68-69, 71, 79, 122-23, 129, 164, 179, 181, pl. 12, another example illustrated.

拍品专文

A powerful depiction of a dignified Indian chief prepared for battle, 'Indian Warrior' is one of Alexander Phimister Proctor's most celebrated works. According to Proctor's autobiography, a small version of 'Indian Warrior' was originally modeled during his trip to the Blackfoot Sioux tribe reservation in Montana in 1895. In 1896, after Proctor was awarded the Rinehart Scholarship to study abroad, he decided to create the larger size and by 1898 castings of both the large and small versions were available in bronze. 'Indian Warrior' was exhibited at the 1898 Paris Salon and was awarded the gold medal for sculpture that year.