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Harry Jackson (1924-2011)

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Harry Jackson (1924-2011)
"The Marshal III"
10" x 12" x 3"
Bronze
Signed in bronze, #316/1000
Marble Base

Harry Jackson (1924-2011)
Harry Aaron Shapiro Jr. was born on April 18, 1924, in Chicago. After his parents divorced, his m1, whose maiden name was Jackson, renamed him Harry Andrew Jackson. As a child Harry worked at his m1’s lunchroom in the Chicago stockyards and developed a fascination with the cowboys he met there. He took Saturday art classes at the Art Institute, and even after moving to Wyoming he returned to Chicago in the winter to resume his art education.

After rejecting Abstract Expressionism, he found his footing as a Western artist when he received a commission in 1958 to create two heroic-size paintings for the Whitney Gallery of Western Art in Cody. The resulting works, each 10 feet by 21 feet, were The Stampede and The Range Burial, which he later executed as bronzes and lithographs. He became good friends with John Wayne in the last decade of that actor’s life. In 1969, for the cover of Time magazine, he created The Marshal, a sculpture showing Wayne, as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit, on a galloping horse brandishing a rifle in his right hand.

Jackson's work is widely held and includes collections of The Vatican, Queen Elizabeth, and the Smithsonian.