BRONZE STATUE ‘MR. CAVALRY MAN’ BY RICHARD V. GREEVES

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This bronze statue dating to 1970 was created by artist Richard V. Greeves.  It stands 19 ½” tall from the bronze base to the top of the hat. The base features Mr. Greeves’ signature, underscribed by his trademark of the outline of a turtle. Foundry mark: Phippen Bronze Works. Numbered 12 of 24.  Overall in excellent condition.  Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from Main Trail Galleries in Scottsdale, AZ, dated 1979.

Richard V. Greeves (1935-2022) was a self-taught artist whose work can be found in museums and prominent collections both nationally and internationally. His studios were located in Fort Washakie, Wyoming, and Scottsdale, Arizona. Greeves was a past winner of the Prix de West Purchase Award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, and he was a regular instructor at the Scottsdale Artists’ School.  At the 2016 Masters of the American West, Greeves won the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation Award for Sculpture. In 2009 the Autry Museum’s Trustees acquired Greeves’s Crazy Horse monument for its permanent collection, and in 2008 he was featured in Southwest Art and Western Art Collector magazines. In 2006 he had a one-man exhibition of twenty-nine sculptures, titled Lewis and Clark Among the Indians: Sculptures by Richard V. Greeves, at the Autry, where he was also honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. The Autry Museum acquired his sculpture The Sheepeaters of Yellowstone in 2000. In the same year, Greeves won the James Earle Fraser Sculpture Award at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Prix de West for his larger-than-life statue of Chief Washakie. A sculptor of monumental bronze Indian figures, Richard Greeves was born and grew up in an Italian neighborhood in St. Louis, where he lived in his words, a “Huck Finn childhood.” Many of his neighbors were handy with tools, and they influenced his love of building and creating. Greeves credited his Italian ancestry, which included many stonemasons and tile cutters, for his sculpting ability. At the age of 15, he met an Indian girl whom he visited on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, and he later moved there and purchased the local trading post which became his home and studio.   [LD][ph:L]

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