Payne, Vic – American Sculptor – Old West Themes

Vic Payne (American, born 1960)

A realist sculptor of Old West themes, Vic Payne was born in Dallas and raised on a ranch in New Mexico. He attributes his career path to two primary influences: his father, the western artist Ken Payne, and his early exposure to cowboy life. Payne’s successful experimentation with sculpting at age nineteen prompted him to move three years later to Cloudcroft, New Mexico, where his mother, a foundry owner, [...] Click here to continue reading.

Lipsky, Pat – American Artist

Pat Lipsky (American, born 1941)

Pat Lipsky grew up in New York City. She graduated with a BFA from Cornell University in 1963, receiving an MFA from the Graduate Program in Painting at Manhattan’s Hunter College, where she studied with the painter and sculptor Tony Smith.

Raised by a painter mother and an engineer father 1, Lipsky had her first one-woman show in New York, at the Andre Emmerich Gallery2. Her work at the [...] Click here to continue reading.

Miller, Carol – American Sculptor

Carol Miller (American, born 1933)

Carol Miller has been producing her trademark sculptures in bronze for over 40 years. Moving to Mexico from her native Los Angeles in the early 1950′s, she enjoyed a career as a journalist when an interview with the late Mexican sculptress Charlotte Yazbek for Life magazine changed her life. At Yazbek’s encouragement, Miller launched herself into the sculpting world (with the use of Yazbek’s own tools) and has enjoyed [...] Click here to continue reading.

MacNeil, Hermon Atkins – American Sculptor

Hermon Atkins MacNeil (American, 1866 to 1947)

Hermon Atkins MacNeil was born in Massachusetts and educated at the Normal Art School in Boston. His studies in Paris and Rome brought him recognition in both European and American exhibitions, including the Paris Salons, the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago and the 1915 Pan Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, MacNeil taught and worked in Chicago where he began depicting his best known subjects, Native Americans, inspired [...] Click here to continue reading.

Anderson, Dennis P. – American Artist & Sculptor

Dennis P. Anderson (American, Missouri, 1940 to 2005)

Dennis P. Anderson grew up in Washington state and spent years exploring the rich wilderness of the region where he became fascinated with large animals. Over the years he developed skills as a wildlife artist and attended the Santa Barbara City College and the Art Center college of Design in Pasadena, California.

Anderson was most widely recognized as a sculptor, but was also an accomplished painter [...] Click here to continue reading.

Cargill, David – American Sculptor

David Cargill (American, born 1928)

David Cargill has been a fixture in the American sculpting community, particularly in Texas, for over five decades. His work can be seen at Lamar University in Beaumont in the bust of Mirabeau B. Lamar and large outdoor installations such as at the Beaumont Public Library.

Information courtesy of Heritage Auction Galleries, October 2007.

Dallin, Cyrus Edwin – American Sculptor

Cyrus Edwin Dallin (American, 1861 to 1944)

Cyrus Edwin Dallin was a Utah sculptor, born in a log cabin, the son of pioneers. He is known for his sympathetic portraits and equestrian figures of Native Americans, for his statue of Paul Revere in Boston and for the sculpture of the angel Moroni that crowns the Salt Lake city Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints.

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Farny, Henry Francois – American Artist & Sculptor

Henry Francois Farny (American, 1847 to 1916)

Of all of the artists who portrayed American Indians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Henry Farny holds a unique place. He chose to chronicle the quieter moments of life on the high plains and mountains of the American West. While other artists focused on the high drama and adventure of conflicts between Native Americans and encroaching settlers, Farny most often presented a counterpoint to [...] Click here to continue reading.

Warner, Olin Levi – American Sculptor & Artist

Olin Levi Warner (American, 1844 to 1896)

A notable medallist and one of the first sculptors to bring the Beaux-Arts style to the attention of the American public, Warner was born to a Methodist minister in 1844 in Suffield, Connecticut. He grew up in New York and Vermont, eventually making enough money as a telegraph operator to move to Paris in 1869 where he studied sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and worked as [...] Click here to continue reading.

Potter, Louis McClellan – American Sculptor & Artist

Louis McClellan Potter, (American, 1873 to 1912)

Louis McClellan Potter was born in New York. He studied in France, where he developed an interest in ethnography, traveling to North Africa. The Bey of Tunis chose Potter’s sculptures of Bedouin tribesmen to represent Tunisia at the Exposition Universelle de 1900 in Paris. In the United States he turned his talents to the portrayal of Native Americans. His sculpture received a posthumous exhibition at the New [...] Click here to continue reading.

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