243 Earle Heikka -Bringing Home the Bacon

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This item SOLD at 2018 Apr 07 @ 14:21UTC-7 : PDT/MST
Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price NA
Estimated at 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD
Bringing Home the Bacon
Artist: Earle Heikka
Date of Birth: 1910-1941
Medium: Bronze, cast number 20/24
Dimensions: 14 inches high, 51 inches wide
Signed: Signed and dated 36
Verso: MBC
Frame/Outer Dim: 16 x 54 x 6
Earle Heikka, like Charlie Russell, was a Great Falls native and was directly influenced by the Western master’s work. Largely self-taught, the Depression found Heikka in desperate financial straits, though his realistic and dramatic clay models had attracted the attention of important collectors like Gary Cooper. Tragically, Heikka took his own life before most of his highly detailed pack trains, stagecoaches, and cowboys ever saw the light of day in bronze.