Bob Scriver, Grandfather Tells of the Horse (Siksika Nation)
Bob Scriver
1914-1999
Date
1978
Medium Specific
Bronze cast sculpture
Classification
Sculpture: Metal
Dimensions
13 x 26 x 20 in. (33 x 66 x 50.8 cm)
Accession Number
2003.35.28.01
Memo / Artist Statement
A detailed story is published in No More Buffalo by Bob Scriver, 1982: p17-18. (The Lowell Press, Kansas City)
"A great warrior once had a dream about a place where many horses were to be had just for the taking. He announced that he was going to this place to make a surprise raid, and many young warriors wanted to join this man because his medicine was good and his luck strong. The old man at the left in the sculpture, now a grandfather, was among those young men who went..."
"A great warrior once had a dream about a place where many horses were to be had just for the taking. He announced that he was going to this place to make a surprise raid, and many young warriors wanted to join this man because his medicine was good and his luck strong. The old man at the left in the sculpture, now a grandfather, was among those young men who went..."
Biography
Robert "Bob" Macfie Scriver (1914–1999) was a Montana sculptor who was born on the Blackfeet reservation of Anglophone Quebec parents. Scriver was a scholar of Blackfoot Indian culture and history who knew and associated with Blackfoot historian James Willard Schultz in the earlier part of his life.
He specialized in western subjects, but it is more accurate to associate him with the American Beaux Arts-educated sculptors who became prominent at the turn of the 19th century. His first efforts were small inexpensive souvenir wildlife figurines cast in plaster and air-brushed in natural colors. A parallel career in taxidermy and a fondness for hunting supported the increasingly accurate portrayals of these animals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Scriver
He specialized in western subjects, but it is more accurate to associate him with the American Beaux Arts-educated sculptors who became prominent at the turn of the 19th century. His first efforts were small inexpensive souvenir wildlife figurines cast in plaster and air-brushed in natural colors. A parallel career in taxidermy and a fondness for hunting supported the increasingly accurate portrayals of these animals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Scriver
Date of Bio
Inscription
Bob Scriver 1978 (multiple locations)