Alexander Phimister Proctor
The Indian Warrior
Auction Closed
April 20, 09:25 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Alexander Phimister Proctor
1862 - 1950
The Indian Warrior
inscribed APHIMISTER PROCTOR / 1898 / GOLD MEDAL / PARIS EXPOSITION / 1900 and COPY RT 1899 (on the base); inscribed Paris, GORHAM Co. Founders. and stamped with the foundry mark G*C (along the base); numbered 13 (along the horse's proper back left leg)
bronze
39 in. (99.1 cm.) high
Conceived in 1898; this example cast in 1913-16.
F.A. Lawlor
Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, Giralda Farms, Madison, New Jersey
Sotheby Parke-Bernet New York, October 31, 1975, lot 102 (consigned by the Estate of the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 0038 (acquired from the above)
New York, The Winter Show, Special Exhibition Winter Antiques Show for the Benefit of the East Side House Settlement: Great Private Collections, 1978
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American West in Bronze 1850-1928, 2013-14, cat. 38, fig. 58, pp. 46-48, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Paris, Exposition of 1900, Replica Handbags s Exhibit, United States of America, 1900, no. 43, p. 96
Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture, London, 1903, fig. 86, pp. 477-79, illustration of another cast
Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America, New York, 1968, p. 522
Alexander Phimister Proctor & Hester Elizabeth Proctor, Alexander Phimister Proctor: Sculptor in Buckskin, Norman, Oklahoma, 1971, pp. 137-38, 141, 257
Patricia J. Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, pl. 103, p. 113, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Kalispell, Montana, Ace Powell Art Galleries, Inc., Studies in Bronze by A. Phimister Proctor, 1975, p. 17, illustration of another cast
Patricia Janis Broder, “The Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Collection of American Western Bronzes,” American Art Review, vol. 3, 1976, no. 2, pp. 114, 119, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Jackson, Mississippi Museum of Art, The American West: Out of Myth, Into Reality, 2000, no. 57, pp. 86-87, illustration of another cast
Peter H. Hassrick, Wildlife and Western Heroes: Alexander Phimister Proctor, Sculptor, Fort Worth, Texas, 2003, pl. 12, pp. 44, 45, 47, 51, 67, 68, 71, 79, 122-25, 129, 164, 179, 181, illustration of another cast
The present sculpture is one of twelve known casts in the larger size of The Indian Warrior. Other examples reside in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, the Wilton Public Library, Connecticut, the R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana, the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma.