Portfolio of Works

This rakish edged piece is my first venture into more contemporary sculpture.  I did the varying patina with a single chemical in ascending strengths. 

The 18.5 inch tall Spearfisher stands on a reflective glass and walnut base.  During patination I used additional heat and a stronger concentration of the chemical that turns bronze light brown, to get a black/brown effect. 

Yoga is popular with people of all ages here in the southwest.  This position is called the Cobra.  The sculpture is finished with a striking granite-like patina.  The piece is mounted on a layered base of marble and black walnut.

The fox was sculpted on the same armature I used to do Sly, and is 13.5 inches tall. 

After several visits to Kodiak Island, watching the magnificent beasts in varying moods, it followed naturally that I felt compelled to do this piece.

My wife and I dropped in on a skate board competition one day, and were charmed by a young girl with a pink skate board who plunged bravely off the tallest ramps.  This sculpture was done from several photos made of her that day.  Normally I won't use paint on my sculpture, but I liked the "toy soldier" effect on this young lady. 

Harriet Quimby was the first woman licensed as a pilot in the United States.  The stylish, attractive lady was also the first to fly across the English Channel, quite a feat in the underpowered and unreliable aircraft of the day.  Harriet got very little recognition for the flight, however, due to the sinking of the Titanic that same day.  She was only thirty-seven years old when she died in the most tragic of accidents.  While participating in an aviation meet near Boston, at an altitude of 1500 feet she fell from her plane.

My childhood was spent in a small railroad town during the great depression.  Near our house there was a shaded copse we called the bum camp.  During my unauthorized visits to the place I learned perhaps more than a kid should know about the American hobo.  These characters inspired my hobo trilogy, the first piece of which is the Migrant Vagrant.  It's twelve inches tall and set on a black walnut base.

My favorite of the hobo series is the King of the Road.  Unfortunately the mold was accidentally destroyed so there will not be another.

My mother, like all the women in our neighborhood, and the woman on the bench in my third hobo piece, feared the bums.  She dreaded the sight of one coming up the path to our door, looking for a potato or a slice of bread or a handful of coffee.  My pals and I found them to be not only harmless but friendly and playful when we visited their encampment.  The Bus Stop is twelve inches high and fifteen inches wide.  The base and the bench are made of Arizona walnut and maple wood. 

I've done very little native American or cowboy sculpture, probably because there's already so much of it out there.  Some of it is very well done, but I'm not comfortable with the decorative costuming on most of the figures.  What I understand of American history leads me to believe that our southwest natives made and wore rather primitive, simple clothing and little jewelry.  This very limited edition bronze of a Mimbreno maiden at the spring is seventeen inches tall.  There are two casts remaining.

Critics tell writers and artists to work with what's familiar to them.  Having spent a lot of time shoeing horses, I'm familiar with the enterprise and sympathetic with those who toil "under horses".  The eighteen inch tall Farrier is done in brown patina and mounted on a black walnut base.

Arguably, the most beautiful of the equine breeds, the Arabian is at its most elegant when running free.  This is a garden piece in high relief, with brown patina, set on flagstone.  It is eighteen inches high and thirty inches in length.

A half life-size bronze modeled after the only existing photograph of the outlaw Billy the Kid.  The sculpture is on display at the Silver City Museum.

The saying goes, "Every man deserves one good horse, one good woman and ..."  Of the dozens I've owned, my good horse was the champion Arabian stallion that posed for my sculpture, The Herd Sire.  The small, simple bronze is ten inches tall on a walnut base.  A few of the ten casts are still available.

Bronze sculpture of a 1950s era game warden on snow shoes. The piece is on display at The International Game Warden Museum. 

Like many artists, I have a fascination with the horse.  This is the fifth equine sculpture I've done.  I usually work in oil base clay and then, through a system of molds, convert the work to a wax replica for the "lost wax" process.  The Egyptian was an experiment in sculpting directly in wax.  It is nine inches tall and is mounted on a flagstone base.

An old English legend has it that Godiva, wife of the Earl of Leafric, struck a deal with her husband.  She would ride her horse through the streets of Coventry naked if he would reduce the heavy tax burden he had imposed on the citizens there.  The sculpture is finished in silver nitrate patina and measures seventeen by twenty inches.