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Buffalo
Artist: Leigh, William R.Date of Birth: 1866-1955
Medium: Bronze, Bedi-Makky Foundry
Dimensions: 16 inches high
Signed: Signed
Verso:
Buffalo was cast in 1956 by the famous Bedi-Makky Foundry in Brooklyn (they cast the Raising of the Flag at Iwo Jima, and countless other historic monumental bronzes) at the behest of Ethel Traphagen, Leigh’s widow, just prior to the “90th Anniversary Roundup” listed above. Leigh made the original clay model as a three-dimensional preliminary study for his 1947 masterpiece, Buffalo Hunt, which was the color cover of the “Roundup” brochure and now hangs in the permanent collection of The Rockwell Museum in Corning, New York. Many artists, particularly those, like Leigh, Thomas Hart Benton, and others who worked in museums and murals, made three- dimensional models of the figures and animals they wanted to incorporate into larger works. Doing so allowed them to understand mass, point of view, and shadow, to give those elements weight and movement and a sense of proportion and correct perspective. In both two and three dimensions, Leigh’s Buffalo, charging with his head down, presents challenges to the artist. We have to see under, over, and around the animal, though there is little air to accommodate this. In the painting, Leigh lights the buffalo from below and from the back, and this gives him just enough outline to mitigate against the dust raised in the chase. It’s an elegant solution to a potentially difficult problem, solved in part by the model that became, in itself, a work of art.
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7176 E Main Street, Scottsdale, Arizona, 85251, United States
Taxes:
| Tax | Rate | Desc. |
| CS |
1.65% |
City of Scottsdale |
| SA |
6.3% |
State of Arizona |
Buyer's Premiums:
| From (Incl.) | To (Excl.) | Premium |
| 0.00 |
500,000.00 |
17% |
| 500,000.00 |
Infinite |
12% |
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