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R Scott Nickell Indian Crow Pipe Bag Bronze

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,200.00 USD
R Scott Nickell Indian Crow Pipe Bag Bronze
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Title is Crow Pipe Bag. 7 1/4" by 27" by 2". R. Scott Nickell (Born 1958) is active/lives in Wyoming. R Nickell is known for Sculptor-Indian figure. Creating bronze sculptures of western figures of a past era, Nickell has achieved much success in the West and Southwest. Of Nickell's work in a Jackson Hole Gallery among highly recognized artists, Danny Medina wrote in the August, 1994 issue of Art Talk that "the shining star of this stable might be a young artist named R. Scott Nickell. I was told he is so hot he can't create sculptures fast enough to meet the demand." Having earned a degree in geophysics, Nickell is a former Texas oil executive who, in his mid 30s, traded the corporate life to follow his creative instincts. He had earned a degree in geophysics from Texas A & M and had never had an art course. With a minimum of formal training, his new job takes him all over the West and Southwest where he generates markets for his sculptures. He was first inspired to sculpt when he and his wife were enroute to visit family in Texas, and they took a side trip to see sculptures in a gallery in front of a foundry in Fort Worth. Because he was so obviously appreciative, Scott's wife gave him a two-day workshop at the foundry for his birthday. This experience cinched his connection to the world of art, and he still uses that same foundry in Texas. He spent a number of summers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming as a gallery artist-in-residence, and then he and his family moved there. He views his art as a transformation from his two-dimensional fact orientation of his geophysics career to three dimensions relating to the roundness of planet Earth. His realistic figures, horse soldiers to cowgirls, are historically accurate and imbued with a sense of pride and self-possession. He strives for a lot of detail and spends hours refining clothing, often working with a magnifying glass. Doing a series of cowgirls, he tends to focus more on women than men because he thinks it's a subject that has been neglected. He and his wife are also avid collectors of old chaps, beadwork, and other trappings of the old west.
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