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Aims Back / Alexander Phimister Proctor

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Proctor made studies for this work on a hunting trip to Montana Territory in 1895. Although Gorham’s optimistic assignment of the code QUD on January 28, 1914, indicated plans for a series, only two bronzes are known to exist of this work, both in the Gilcrease collection (0826.77, 0826.78). Gorham records show the title as “Aims Backward.”

From the exhibition:Frontier to Foundry: the Making of Small Bronze Sculpture in the Gilcrease Collection, December 2014 - March 2015.
Ann Boulton Young, Associate Conservator for the Gilcrease Museum, 2014.

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Title(s): 
Aims Back; Indian Head
Creator(s): 
Alexander Phimister Proctor (Artist)
Gorham Manufacturing Company (Foundry)
Culture: 
American
Date: 
modeled 1897; plaster-mold cast 1914
Materials/Techniques: 
plaster-mold cast in bronze
Classification: 
Object Type: 
Accession No: 
08.77
Previous Number(s): 
0826.77; 35723
Department: 
Not On View

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