For your consideration is an Original Signed Limited Edition Bronze, "North Fork Wolves" by Bob Scriver, 1998, 12/200. Menacing and imposing, the wolves are stunning in their detail and their colouring. Robert "Bob" Macfie Scriver (1914–1999) was a Montana sculptor who was born on the Montana Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Scriver was a scholar of Blackfoot Indian culture and history who knew and associated with Blackfoot historian James Willard Schultz in the earlier part of his life. He specialized in western subjects, but it is more accurate to associate him with the American Beaux Arts-educated sculptors who became prominent at the turn of the 19th century. His first efforts were small inexpensive souvenir wildlife figurines cast in plaster and air-brushed in natural colors. A parallel career in taxidermy and a fondness for hunting supported the increasingly accurate portrayals of these animals. Bob Scriver was an elected member in both the Cowboy Artists of America organization and the National Academy of Western Art. Scriver created heroic sculptures in Montana of the expedition of Lewis and Clark, and in Wyoming of the legendary Buffalo Bill. His Cowboy works include a heroic work of Bill Linderman at the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma and his "Rodeo In Bronze" series, one of four belonging to the Devonian Institute in Canada. Scriver's art depicts a sense of freedom that has been lost by the Indian and is seemingly being lost by the cowboy. The Late Dr. Harold McCracken, Director Emeritus of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art, was quoted in the forward of Scriver's book NO MORE BUFFALO as calling Scriver, "America's foremost sculptor today-bar none". This bronze is in very nice condition, the rounded rectangle walnut base is in very nice condition, no marring noted to this magnificent art piece. Signed along the bottom edge of the bronze, ©1998 BOB SCRIVER 12/200" NORTH FORK WOLVES". Titled and signed brass plaque is affixed to the side of the walnut base. Measures 6.5"W x 10.5"L x 8.75"H