364 Grant Speed -17 Bronze Busts

Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price NA
Estimated at 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD
17 Bronze Busts
Artist: Grant Speed
Date of Birth: 1930-2011
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 9 1/2 - 15 inches
Signed: Signed CA and Dated
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Texas artist Grant Speed started out wanting to be “the world’s best cowboy,” but Western art worked its way into his soul and he began to study sculpture while working as an elementary school teacher in Salt Lake City. After selling an edition of ten casts of a piece he modeled in a class at Brigham Young, Speed began to think seriously about art as a career. Eight years later, he made the leap permanent. Speed executed monumental works for public institutions, but his heart is in the bronzes viewers can take in at a glance then return to time and again. These 17 busts are Speed’s contribution to the genre of “Western types,” characters who made the West what it was, and is.
Speed depicts lawmen, pioneer women, cowboys and cowgirls, and natives. Each has a story, reflected in the title of the work. Some are simple, elegant heads but many have fascinating complementary scenes in bronze on their bases. Full sets of Speed’s busts are extremely rare, even in institutional collections. Few are ever for sale.