Sioux Warrior

Against a clear autumn sky, this is a close-up view of the massive bronze sculpture, Sioux Warrior, which I featured on a post (below) several years ago. It stands at the entrance to Omaha's Joslyn Art Museum. 

Sioux Warrior (2008) by Serbian-born sculptor John David Brcin  (1899– 1983) and Omaha sculptor Matthew Placzek  (American, born 1964). 

John David Brcin was a 30-year-old, award-winning sculptor working in Chicago when architects John and Alan McDonald chose him to create the ambitious sculptural program for the exterior of the Joslyn Art Museum building. While the sculpture on the Joslyn building is Brcin’s masterpiece, one element of his vision was, for various reasons, dropped from the final plan. The artist had proposed that two life-size bronze equestrian statues stand at either side of the main east steps: a Sioux warrior and a Pony Express rider. Of the two, Brcin ultimately completed only a plaster model of the Sioux warrior. 
Fifteen feet high, the 5,000-pound bronze sculpture sits atop a six-foot base of concrete encased in Lake Superior Green granite. The Art Decostyle rearing horse and Indian rider face north.

Using Brcin’s plaster prototype as a model, Omaha sculptor Matthew Placzek recreated the sculpture point by point in clay. The sculpture took its final format in a foundry in Colorado, where about 100 individual bronze pieces were welded together over a stainless-steel infrastructure.

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Hidatsa Chief
American artist, John Coleman's bronze work, after Karl Bodner (Swiss, 1809-1893) 
Joslyn Art Museum Sculpture Garden

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Chihuly

As if the new spring season has given rise to Dale Chihuly's art installation, Chihuly: Inside and Out, spirals of colorful glass forms reach for the heavens in the atrium of the Joslyn Art Museum.

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Over the Edge

At first glance, it might appear that a stream of water in this garden fountain is gushing up toward the sky, but it is actually water spilling over the edge of an eighty-foot long wall erected in the Joslyn Sculpture Garden. The fountain wall on the right half of the image also provides a good reflective surface for a different perspective.

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Chihuly

This close-up reflection image in the atrium of the Joslyn Art Museum is part of a larger glass installation seen below by artist Dale Chihuly.

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Sioux Warrior

This is the third in a series of winter images from the sculpture garden at the Joslyn Art Museum.

Sioux Warrior (2008) by Serbian-born sculptor John David Brcin (1899– 1983) and Omaha sculptor Matthew Placzek (American, born 1964) John David Brcin was a 30-year-old, award-winning sculptor working in Chicago when architects John and Alan McDonald chose him to create the ambitious sculptural program for the exterior of the Joslyn Art Museum building. While the sculpture on the Joslyn building is Brcin’s masterpiece, one element of his vision was, for various reasons, dropped from the final plan. The artist had proposed that two life-size bronze equestrian statues stand at either side of the main east steps: a Sioux warrior and a Pony Express rider. Of the two, Brcin ultimately completed only a plaster model of the Sioux warrior. Fifteen feet high, the 5,000-pound bronze sculpture sits atop a six-foot base of concrete encased in Lake Superior Green granite. The Art Decostyle rearing horse and Indian rider face north.

Using Brcin’s plaster prototype as a model, Omaha sculptor Matthew Placzek recreated the sculpture point by point in clay. The sculpture took its final format a foundry in Colorado, where about 100 individual bronze pieces were welded together over a stainless-steel infrastructure.

Museum purchase, 2008

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Spirit of the Dance

Another winter image in my series of bronze sculptures taken at the Joslyn Art Museum's sculpture garden.

Willis A. Strauss Family Garden Gallery
Spirit of the Dance (1932) by painter and sculptor William Zorach (American, born Lithuania, 1887–1996) Zorach’s first large-scale composition, Spirit of the Dance for Radio City MusicHall, also represents his first work in cast aluminum. The work is based on an important concept in his oeuvre: rhythm. In addition to the aluminum work, Zorach had several bronze casts made, including this one. Lent by the University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1974

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Dineh

On a visit yesterday to the Joslyn Art Museum, this sculpture of a noble-looking Indian couple in the new sculpture garden appeared especially striking surrounded by a white winter mantle. This piece by Allan Houser is called Dineh which is a Navajo term for themselves.

W is for Wondrous

More today with the bright, joyous colors of the Christmas season. This image is but a small cropped section of a large glass sculpture. With some two thousand handblown pieces in a thirty foot high installation, this massive work of art by Dale Chihuly was commissioned by the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha. Chihuly: Inside and Out is installed in the museum's atrium where it continually changes with the natural light by day and inside lighting by night. A wondrous sight to behold anytime, in any season. Click here to view more images.

There are many more views and interpretations of the letter W today at Mrs. Nesbitt's ABC Wednesday.