Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2008 Ensuring a Lasting Finish for the Future: Conserving Outdoor Sculptures By Mindy A. Besaw Thanks to a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, ten sculptures in the Center’s collection were conserved in August 2007. Three crew members from Russell-Marti Conservation Services, Inc. (California, Missouri) spent three weeks carefully […]
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875 – 1942). Buffalo Bill – The Scout, 1924. Bronze. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming, USA. Gift of the artist. 3.58 Sometime around 1959, Cody, Wyoming’s, iconic statue sustained a mishap due to vandals. Evidently, some nefarious ne’er-do-wells nabbed the spurs off Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s (1875 – 1942) monumental sculpture […]
Originally published in Points West in Winter 2009 By Christine C. Brindza Controversy is difficult to avoid in most large undertakings, and the creation of a Buffalo Bill memorial was no exception. When Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney accepted the commission to create a monumental tribute to Buffalo Bill, she prepared herself to take on the complicated […]