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Lot 5

Harry Jackson
(1924-2011)
Where the Trail Forks 19 1/2in high

26 February 2021, 13:00 PST
Los Angeles

US$4,000 - US$6,000

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Harry Jackson (1924-2011)

Where the Trail Forks
inscribed '© Harry Jackson 64' and numbered '12' (on the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
19 1/2in high
Conceived in 1962; Executed in 1964.

Footnotes

Provenance
The artist.
The collection of Joseph Thomas Alvarez III, Rancho Santa Fe, California.

Literature
L. Pointer, D. Goddard, Harry Jackson, New York, New York, 1981, p. 184, nos. 241-242, another example illustrated.

The standing cowboy, shoulders slumped and hat in hand, featured in Harry Jackson's bronze Where the Trail Forks (as well as Gunsil) relates directly to a figure in the artist's monumental painting Range Burial (in the collection of the Buffalo Bill Historic Center, Cody, Wyoming), rather than the sculpture of the same name. 1 Jackson writes that the cowboy is a 'regular', "men who've lived and matured into manhood as cowboys. They're full of real pride and they can doff their hats in the presence of their dead companion without worrying about the impression they're making." 2 Where the Trail Forks was one of the first bronzes cast at Jackson's own foundry in Camaiore, Italy after he stopped working with the Pietrasanta foundry. 3

According to the Harry Jackson Studios List of Published Sculptures and Commissions, the present work was cast in an edition of 40 with 4 artist models.

1 L. Pointer, D. Goddard, Harry Jackson, New York, New York, 1981, p. 93.
2 Ibid, p. 185.
3 Ibid, p. 98.

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