When you hear the words western American sculpture, what comes to mind? Do you think of Remington’s Bronco Buster? Or maybe your interest begins and ends with the blue Mustang outside of Denver International Airport. No matter what kind of art you admire most, Forged and Founded: Western American Sculpture, a symposium sponsored by the […]
The ancient technique of casting sculpture in bronze took a fresh turn in 1849, when Henry Kirke Brown created Choosing of the Arrow, one of the first bronze sculptures cast in the United States. The trajectory of bronze casting in America can be traced from statuettes, like Brown’s classical nude, manufactured for an emerging class […]