Description:
Harry Jackson (American, 1924-2011)
The Seeker
Signed, dated, and numbered "© Harry Jackson 1978/S24" and impressed with the artist's thumbprint and the Wyoming Foundry Studios stamp along the back edge of the base, titled on a presentation plaque.
Bronze with a green/brown patina, height 11 1/2 in. (29.0 cm),on a black metal plinth
Condition: Dust and dirt to interstices, minor wear to patina at bottom of headdress.
Provenance: The collection of Joseph Thomas Alvarez III, California.
N.B. This standing figure of a chief with a trailing warbonnet probably represented Washakie. In 1978 Harry Jackson was at work on a major outdoor equestrian sculpture of chief Washakie and did several standing versions as studies which became finished works in their own right.
Estimate $1,200-1,800
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