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Lot 700
Description:
Bill Nebeker (American b. 1942)
Bound for Hudson Bay
Signed © Bill Nebeker with artist's cipher, dated 1912 and numbered 22/30 lower reverse
Bronze sculpture with dark-brown and green patina on a green and black marble base mounted on wood
Height: 6 in (15.2 cm)
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Notes:
Note:
Bill Nebeker descibes this work as follows: The rivers of the early frontier area were the highways of the time. Explorers, Indians, trappers, and traders traveled through the interior of the newly settled continent, out to the coast and back...This piece depicts a trappper, loaded down with his winter''s work, cutting through the swift and swirling water of an interior river in his birchbark canoe, heading for the famous Hudson''s Bay Trading Post.
Literature:
Vicki Stavig, Bill Nebeker: Wearing his Heart on his Sleeve, Art of the West, May/June 1994, pp. 40-45. -
Condition:
Length: 17-1/4 in. Overall with some surface soiling, most notably where the boat meets the water and inside the boat. Two small points of damage to the patina on the man''s hat.
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