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Lot 23

Bob Scriver
(1914-1999)
An Honest Try 28 1/2in high

8 February 2019, 12:00 PST
Los Angeles

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Bob Scriver (1914-1999)

An Honest Try
inscribed 'Bob Scriver / 1968' and '"An Honest Try"' (on the base) and stamped twice 'Bighorn Foundry' (along the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
28 1/2in high
Modeled in 1968.

Footnotes

Provenance
Collection of Robert "Bobby" Hillin, Sr., Midland, Texas.
Sale, Texas Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas, September 17, 1983, lot 65.
Acquired by the late owner from the above.

Exhibited
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Cowboy Artists of America: Fifth Annual Exhibition, 1970.

Literature
D. Hedgpeth, New Western Images: The Hillin Collection of the Cowboy Artists of America, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1978, pp. 4, 10, 12, 58-59, illustrated.
S.H. McGarry, Honoring The Western Tradition: The L.D. "Brink" Brinkman Collection, Kerrville, Texas, 2003, p. 150, illustrated.

The present work is cast number 25 from this edition.

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