Sacagawea, First Working Model

Details

HARRY JACKSON (1924-2011)
Sacagawea, First Working Model
inscribed 'SACAGAWEA/FIRST WORKING MODEL/FOR A MONUMENT BY/HARRY JACKSON' (along the base)—signed in paint '© Harry Jackson 1980,' stamped with foundry mark 'WFS/ITALIA' and artist's thumbprint device and inscribed 'SAP 20P/©Harry Jackson 1977' (along the reverse of the figure)
polychromed bronze
26 ¼ in. (66.7 cm.) high
Modeled circa 1980.

Literature

L. Pointer, D. Goddard, Harry Jackson, New York, 1981, pp. 271, 277, 302, another example illustrated.
F. Pezzini, H. Jackson, F. Bolelli, Harry Jackson: 30 Years of Working in Versila, Camaiore, Italy, 1985, n.p.

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Lot Essay

The present work is related to Jackson's monumental Sacagawea painted bronze, a cast of which is now in the collection of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. According to Larry Pointer and Donald Goddard, Sacagawea was "the first dominant female figure in Jackson's work...[recalling] an image and form that encompasses the source of life and the history of all such images in Western Art—the Madonna and Child" (Harry Jackson, New York, 1981, p. 145) The present version was cast in an edition of 20.

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