Harry Jackson (American, 1924-2011) A Lack of Slack

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Harry Jackson (American, 1924-2011)

A Lack of Slack
Signed, dated, and numbered "© Harry Jackson 1973/16" on the top of the base, titled on a presentation plaque affixed to the plinth.
Bronze with a brown/black patina, height 15 3/4 in. (40.0 cm),on a contoured stone base.
Condition: Dust and dirt to interstices.

Provenance: Purchased from the National Academy of Western Art Exhibition, June 1974, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; by family descent to the current owner.

N.B. In this well known bronze, Jackson captured the intense movement of the horses and rider at a dramatic moment with painstaking attention to every detail.

The lot is accompanied by a signed letter from Harry Jackson on Wyoming Foundry Studios stationery, dated September 19, 1974, certifying this cast, by other paperwork and ephemera about the purchase, and by several catalogs about Harry Jackson. The work comes in its original wood crate with mailing label from the Cowboy Hall of Fame.
Estimate $5,000-7,000


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