George Winslow Blodgett -Native American Indian Boy -Santa Fe, New Mexico 1930s

Description: George Winslow Blodgett Portrait of Indian boy, circa 1930s Offered here is an original life-size plaster bust of Native American head by Santa Fe, New Mexico sculptor George Winslow Blodgett, circa 1930s. Head alone measures 12 inches in height. With wooden base, the overall size is 15 x 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Sitter is identified only as 'Indian boy'. Bust is not signed but comes directly from the artist's family. Condition is good. Surface retains residue from molding process. After Blodgett's death in 1958, this and many other works were crated and shipped to the artist's sister's home in California. Most have remained packed and wrapped in straw until very recently. Few works by Blodgett have come to market. There is but one auction record for a single bronze head of a native American, which sold in 2015 for $5000. George Winslow Blodgett -Native American Indian Boy -Santa Fe, New Mexico 1930s Click image to enlarge Description George Winslow Blodgett Portrait of Indian boy, circa 1930s Offered here is an original life-size plaster bust of Native American head by Santa Fe, New Mexico sculptor George Winslow Blodgett, circa 1930s. Head alone measures 12 inches in height. With wooden base, the overall size is 15 x 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Sitter is identified only as 'Indian boy'. Bust is not signed but comes directly from the artist's family. Condition is good. Surface retains residue from molding process. After Blodgett's death in 1958, this and many other works were crated and shipped to the artist's sister's home in California. Most have remained packed and wrapped in straw until very recently. Few works by Blodgett have come to market. There is but one auction record for a single bronze head of a native American, which sold in 2015 for $5000. ------------------------------ George Winslow Blodgett (1888-1958) Born in Northfield, Minnesota George Blodgett became a sculptor of portrait heads of New Mexico Indians whose cultural differences was the focus of much of his career. Not intending to become an artist, Blodgett started his career as a sculptor after 19 years in the lumbering, heavy construction, and ranching businesses in the Cascade Mountains in Oregon. At the age of 38, he was told by a psychologist that he had creative ability and that he should try his hand at art. He went to New York and then to Paris to study at Academy Julian, but his brief encounter with art schools did not suit his temperament, so he remained in Paris and worked on his own for the next two and a half years. Then came a moment of revelation. While walking down his studio stairs one day he suddenly envisioned a great hall of sculpture of the American Indian. Overcome by this idea, he returned to America with a plan to complete one hundred or more life-sized studies of torsos, heads, and figures of the Indian people. He came to Santa Fe in 1929 to work with the pueblo people of the area, and lived there until his death from a heart attack in 1958. It is sad that his great dream was never realized, but before he died he had completed many of his fine and highly realistic portraits. He once said of American art that "it must root in this [the Indian culture] or it cannot be a true American culture. This will be it's basis, colored of course by later migrations from the old world, but this old world culture must be grafted upon the native, primitive arts to survive." It was this feeling which inspired his noble portraits of the Indian people. Exhibition venues included the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York. Blodgett's portraits are included in the New Mexico Museum of Art, the National Portrait Gallery, the Oklahoma City Cowboy Museum, and Seattle Art Museum. Sources: Glenn Opitz, "Dictionary of American Sculptors"; Donald Martin Reynolds, "Masters of American Sculpture"; Eda Robertson, Sarah Nestor, "Artists of the Canyons and Caminos, Santa Fe: Early Twentieth Century". Pictures sell! Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing.300+ Listing Templates! Auctiva gets you noticed! The complete eBay Selling Solution.

Price: 695 USD

Location: American Canyon, California

End Time: 2024-12-19T23:29:15.000Z

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