^Lot 459 Original Fine Art Bronze

By famous Arizona artist "Pat Mathiesen" signed and artist proof on side of base. This piece is entitled "Tao's Man" mounted on wood base. Measures 8x5.5. Bio- Pat Mathiesen, a painter and sculptor of Native Americans, wildlife and other Western subjects, was born on January 15, 1934, in North Hollywood, California, growing up there. Some of her sculptures include "Wyatt Earp at the O.K. Corral;" "Spirit of Crazy Horse;" "After the Battle at Wounded Knee;" "The Steer Buster;" and "Apache Mountain Spirit Dancer." Horses are the subjects of two major commissions in the early 1970s for the American Quarter Horse Association, in Amarillo, Texas. Mathiesen's twenty-four-foot-high Indian, "One With the Eagle," was sculpted in 1989 for the Scottsdale Airport in Arizona. Pat Mathiesen has exhibited at the Grand Central Galleries, New York City, Kennedy Galleries, New York City; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; Mountain Oyster Club, Tucson; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City; George Phippen Memorial Art Show, Prescott, Arizona; Montana Historical Society, Helena; and the Western Heritage Art Classic, Billings, Montana.