HARRY JACKSON (American, 1924-2011) Sunset Washakie, or Washakie II (height 18 1/4 in (46.4 cm) ...

HARRY JACKSON (American, 1924-2011) Sunset Washakie, or Washakie II signed and dated '© H. Jackson 1986' (in paint on the side of the bronze base); signed, dated, and inscribed '© Harry Jackson 1981 / WAII-II SP50' and with the artist's thumb print and a Wyoming Foundry Studios mark (all incised or stamped on the bronze base); titled on a presentation plaque; with a label from Altermann Galleries, Texas (affixed to the underside of the plinth) painted bronze (stand-oil on lost wax bronze) height 18 1/4 in (46.4 cm) on a wood plinthbase length 11 1/2 in (29.2 cm)base width 8 1/4 in (21.0 cm) Footnotes: Provenance The collection of Joseph Thomas Alvarez III, California. N.B. Harry Jackson began his career as a painter, experimenting with Abstract Expressionism in the early 1950s before becoming dissatisfied with painting's strict focus on two dimensions. Jackson began instead to dream of creating polychrome bronzes that were, in essence, three-dimensional paintings. Despite his move from painting to sculpture, Jackson remained a colorist at heart, saying 'I can't imagine the world without color' (1). Indeed, color would emerge - at first conservatively - as an important aspect of his sculpture, beginning with Cowboy's Meditation in 1963. In the present example, Jackson has presented Shoshone chief Washakie on horseback, turned towards the sunset, bathed in rich warm colors on the front and in softened shades of blue and lavender shadows on the reverse. 1. Harry Jackson, Forty Years of His Work 1941-1981 (Cody, Wyoming: A WFS Publication, Bootstrap Fine Art Productions, 1981), p. 53. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing