Indian Warrior

model 1898, cast 1913/1918

Alexander Phimister Proctor

Sculptor, American, born Canada, 1852 - 1950

Skip thumbnail navigation
Back to thumbnail navigation
This object’s media is not available for download. Contact us about image usage.
Not on view See artworks now on view

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

  • Dimensions

    overall: 101.6 × 80.01 × 36.83 cm (40 × 31 1/2 × 14 1/2 in.)
    gross weight: 158 lb. (71.668 kg)

  • Accession

    2014.136.237

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist; purchased May 1918 through (Gorham Company, New York) by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1918

  • Works in Bronze by A. Phimister Proctor, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 5-31 March 1918, no. 16.

1979

  • The American Renaissance 1876-1917, Brooklyn Museum; National Collection of Fine Arts (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Denver Art Museum, 13 October 1979 - 30 November 1980, no. 253, fig. 148.

1981

  • The American West: Selections from the Anschutz Collection and the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 25 March - 26 April 1981, no. 31, repro.

1999

  • Paris 1900: The "American" School at the Universal Exposition, Montclair Museum of Art, New Jersey; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Elvejem Museum, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Musee Carnavalet, Paris, 18 September 1999 - 29 April 2001 (shown only in Montclair).

2008

  • The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1 March - 27 July 2008, unpublished checklist.

2009

  • American Bronzes from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 29 April 2009 - 2013, no catalogue.

2013

  • American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 29 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

2014

  • The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Denver Art Museum; Nanjing Museum, China, 18 December 2013 - 18 January 2015, no. 39 (shown only in Denver).

Bibliography

1930

  • Taft, Lorado. The History of American Sculpture. New York, 1930: 477.

1971

  • Broder, Patricia Janis. Bronzes of the American West. New York, 1971: 113.

1994

  • Nemerov, Alexander. "Projecting the Future: Film and Rae in the Art of Charles Russell." American Art (Chicago, Winter 1994): 80.

2000

  • Cash, Sarah, with Terrie Sultan. American Treasures of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. New York, 2000: 134, repro.

2003

  • Hassrick, Peter H. Wildlife and Western Heroes: Alexander Phimister Proctor, Sculptor. Fort Worth, 2003: 123, 125.

2004

  • May, Stephen. "Wildlife and Western Heroes: Alexander Phimister Proctor." Antiques and the Arts Weekly(June 2004); 40.

Inscriptions

on the base beneath the horse's raised proper right front leg: APHIMISTER PROCTOR / 1898 / GOLD MEDAL / PARIS EXPOSITION / 1900; on the side of the base near the bottom edge on the horse's proper right side: PARIS [or] PAT47 [or] Ptd47; on the base below the horse's proper left rear leg: COPY RT. 1899; on the base beneath the horse's tail: QRM GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS [maker's mark of three boxes] G [figure of lion] C

Markings

FM: Gorham Co.

Wikidata ID

Q63863413

You may be interested in

Loading Results