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1975 Tom Knapp Bronze Bandido Sculpture

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1975 Tom Knapp Bronze Bandido Sculpture
1975 Tom Knapp (1925-2016) Bronze ''Bandido'' Sculpture, #46/100, measures 5'' x 1.25'' x 1.75'' and is markedTom Knapp was a bronze sculptor recording the modern Western scene. He was born in Gillette, Wyoming in 1925 and lived in Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico after 1971. Knapp casts his own bronzes in the backyard of his studio, as part of a neighborhood ''Pour In'' that has been described in New Mexico Magazine. His series of contemporary American Indian ceremonial dancers was featured in Art West, which quotes Knapp as claiming that 'vitality, movement, is the most important thing in sculpture, not the detail.' He had been a full-time sculptor since 1969. Bronze sculptor and printmaker Tom Knapp, who spent many years in Lincoln County with his wife and fellow artist, Dorothy Bell, passed away in his home in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico on July 8, 2016. He was 90 years old.''