McCarthy, Kevin
This is just another amazingly detailed and finished bronze sculpture by Kevin McCarthy. This amazing indian brave is riding his horse as if they are both about to leave the earth. This wonderful piece measures 17-1/2" tall and is #11 of 20!
This amazingly detailed "Black Leg Dancer" was handcarved by Kevin McCarthy and then turned into a limited edition bronze. Kevin carefully chooses his own patinas to get just the effect he desires - and his patinas are among the best! This amazing sculpture is 61" tall.
This amazingly detailed and vibrant bronze by Kevin McCarthy is a sight to behold. The colored patinas on this piece, as well as the intricate detail make it a fine collectors piece - even among Kevin's usually brilliant works. This piece features a Native American on his horse poised to throw his spear as he tracks his target. This piece measures 30" in height and 27" long.
By the artist: "In modern dance there are no general rules. Each work of art creates it's own language.
"In the 1920's and 1930's, choreographers virtually reinvented dance. It is perhaps significant that the two nations in which modern dance took strongest, America and Germany, were two nations that had no celebrated ballet companies.
"In creating this sculpture, I am striving to capture the motion of a dancer that exists on an arc between absolute motionlessness, and complete collapse.
"It is a study of the dynamics of balance and imbalance.
"This composition is an exploration of the relationship between Extension, fall and recovery, which I find analogous to Awakening from a dream."
This piece is seventy inches tall, including the turntable base, and is number two of an edition of twenty.
Kevin McCarthy's image of a Sioux warrior is twenty-four inches tall, including the base. This piece is number eight of an edition of twenty.
This is a bronze portrait of the Native American, Lone Bear. This piece is fourteen inches tall, and is the nineteenth of an edition of twenty.
For Native Americans, prayer and careful religious observance was an important part of the preparations for war. With the knowledge they were risking their lives, they sought divine assistance. Native Americans usually regarded their warfare as defensive rather than as an exercise for personal glory. While some raids were motivated by revenge, most raids were seen as necessary to protect and preserve the tribe. The Crow warrior depicted in this sculpture is praying for the success, welfare and safe return of his war party from an engagement with the enemy.
Mato Wanahtaka or "Kicking Bear" was born about 1847, the son of the chief of a band of Ogalala Sioux. Kicking Bear became a famed warrior-prophet and medicine man and, in his early days, was an artist. In 1876, shortly after the battle of Little Bighorn, he painted a now famous pictograph of his role in the defeat of Custer. The pictograph shows Kicking Bear joining Crazy Horse, his first cousin, in an ambush of an oncoming cavalry battalion. Early in 1890 Kicking Bear received national notoriety for his role in spreading the Ghost Dance and preaching its virtues. Practitioners of the Ghost Dance predicted the revival of the old ways, restoration of the buffalo and the destruction of whites, which started the chain of events that led to Wounded Knee, the last major indian battle in the United States.
Old time mountain men wore much of the same gear that the Plains Indians would, sometimes due to the fact that they were trapping the same animals and because they traded with the indians for them. The inspiration for this sculpture occurred when I envisioned such an old time mountain man covered with a buffalo robe and wolf headdress as he turns to face a howling Norther.
White Antelope was a leader of the Southern Cheyenne before he and his people were killed in a massacre at Sand Creek in 1864. The Southern Cheyenne and white settlers coexisted peacably in the Denver area until treaty chiefs were pressured into signing an agreement with the Federal Government that allowed the encroachment of settlers and gold seekers onto their hunting lands without prior consultation with the entire tribe. After an altercation between Colorado Militia and the Southern Cheyenee which resulted in the death of many indian women and children as well as warriors, the Governor of Colorado persuaded the indians to settle at Sand Creek. On November 29, 1864, Revered J. M. Chivington, an officer of the Colorado volunteer militia, acting under his own volition, raised nearly 1,000 volunteers to drive the indians out of Sand Creek by mounting a surprise attack. Chivington and his men attacked the indians with sadistic enthusiasm even though Black Kettle, the ranking chief, raised a white flag alongside a U.S. flag. White Antelope stood in front of his lodge and sang his death song, which included the timeless passage, "nothing lives long except the earth and the mountains." He was shot down with at least 300 men, women and children of his tribe.
