371 Buffalo Hunt Urn

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This item SOLD at 2016 Apr 02 @ 16:43UTC-7 : PDT/MST
Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 4,000.00 USD
Estimated at 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD
Buffalo Hunt Urn
Artist: Kemeys, EdwardDate of Birth: 1843-1907
Medium: Bronze, Winslow Bros Co Foundry
Dimensions: 13 1/2 inches high, 11 inch diameter
Signed: Signed and dated 1894
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Edward Kemeys was one of the first American artists to devote himself to rendering American animals in bronze. Kemeys made his home in New York, and—later—in Illinois, after serving as a Captain of Artillery in the Union Army. But the wilderness world of the American West called to him and he ventured out nearly every year, in search of subjects to sketch. Through he would study in Paris for a time, zoo animals seemed dull by comparison to him and he soon returned to the States, where he won medals for monumental bronzes exhibited at the World’s Fairs in Chicago in 1893 and St. Louis in 1904. Buffalo Hunt Urn is a subtle and amazing sculpture, imitating Native American pottery in the decorations at the neck and base while these, in turn, frame alternating reliefs of Indian faces and scenes from the hunt in a classical style reminiscent of vessels from Ancient Egypt and Greece.