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Harry Jackson Bronze

“Iroquois Guide II“
“Iroquois Guide II“

“Iroquois Guide II“

By Harry Jackson

Located in Warren, NJ

Harry Andrew Jackson (1924-2011), "Iroquois Guide II," 1980 Bronze signed 1980.

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Harry Jackson Hand Painted Bronze Polychrome Sculpture Foreman Cowboy Signed
Harry Jackson Hand Painted Bronze Polychrome Sculpture Foreman Cowboy Signed

Harry Jackson Hand Painted Bronze Polychrome Sculpture Foreman Cowboy Signed

By Harry Jackson

Located in Bloomington, MN

Harry Jackson Authentic and Hand Painted Original Bronze Sculpture "Foreman - Polychrome", listed for Sale with the SUBMIT BEST OFFER Option Accepting Offers Now: With only 20 piece...

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Harry Jackson Original Bronze Sculpture Horse Signed Hazin The Leaders Antique
Harry Jackson Original Bronze Sculpture Horse Signed Hazin The Leaders Antique

Harry Jackson Original Bronze Sculpture Horse Signed Hazin The Leaders Antique

By Harry Jackson

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Harry Jackson Authentic and Original Vintage Bronze Sculpture "Hazin' The Leaders", listed for Sale with the SUBMIT BEST OFFER Option Accepting Offers Now: With only 12pieces in the...

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Harry Jackson Hand Painted Bronze Polychrome Sculpture Pony Express Signed Art
Harry Jackson Hand Painted Bronze Polychrome Sculpture Pony Express Signed Art

Harry Jackson Hand Painted Bronze Polychrome Sculpture Pony Express Signed Art

By Harry Jackson

Located in Bloomington, MN

Harry Jackson Authentic and Hand Painted Original Bronze Sculpture "Pony Express III - Polychrome", listed for Sale with the SUBMIT BEST OFFER Option Accepting Offers Now: With only...

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Harry Jackson Marshal John Wayne Bronze Polychrome Sculpture Western Signed Art
Harry Jackson Marshal John Wayne Bronze Polychrome Sculpture Western Signed Art

Harry Jackson Marshal John Wayne Bronze Polychrome Sculpture Western Signed Art

By Harry Jackson

Located in Bloomington, MN

Harry Jackson Authentic and Hand Painted Original Bronze Sculpture "The Marshal III - Polychrome", listed for Sale with the SUBMIT BEST OFFER Option Accepting Offers Now: With onl...

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The Marshal by Sculptor Harry Jackson
The Marshal by Sculptor Harry Jackson

Harry JacksonThe Marshal by Sculptor Harry Jackson, 1979

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H 18 in W 18.75 in D 6.75 in

The Marshal by Sculptor Harry Jackson

By Harry Jackson

Located in Salt Lake City, UT

A polychromed bronze sculpture, cast in Italy, by the sculptor Harry Jackson (American, 1924 - 2011) working from life while observing the Actor John Wayne (1907 - 1979), while on th...

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Bull Bronze Figure- Bull Study by Harry Jackson
Bull Bronze Figure- Bull Study by Harry Jackson

Bull Bronze Figure- Bull Study by Harry Jackson

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Located in CABA, AR

Harry Jackson (American, 1924-2011) - Dynamic Bronze Study of a Charging Bull with Unique Markings This powerful and expressive bronze sculpture by renowned American artist Harry Jac...

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The Foreman by, Harry Jackson
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H 18 in W 13 in D 12 in

The Foreman by, Harry Jackson

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"ROPIN THE WIND"  COWBOY WESTERN BRONZE.  1959
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"ROPIN THE WIND" COWBOY WESTERN BRONZE. 1959

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Located in San Antonio, TX

Harry Jackson (1924-2011) Wyoming / Illinois Artist Image Size: Length: 17.5 Base to top of Lasso: 17 Width: 4.5 Medium: Bronze Dated 1959 "Ropin The Wind" Biography Harry Jackson (1...

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Man with Guitar
Man with Guitar

Harry JacksonMan with Guitar, 1961

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Man with Guitar

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Harry Jackson (1924-2011). Man with Guitar, 1961.

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Born with the name Harry Shapiro on the South Side of Chicago, Harry Jackson became a well-known 20th-century artists whose wide-ranging work includes painting and sculpture and styles ranging from Abstract Expressionism to Realism. Jackson was often a truant from school and loved to wander around the Harding Museum looking at Frederic Remington bronzes or to hang out at his mother's cafe listening to stories from the cowboys who had brought their cattle by trains to the stockyards. A teacher noticed his art talent and got him a scholarship to the Chicago Art Institute's Saturday children's classes. At age 14, he ran away from home to Wyoming where he worked at a lumber company and on a ranch. He regarded these experiences as his spiritual awakening, and his art talents were reinforced by praise from his cowboy peers. In the late 1930s, he returned to Chicago and studied at the Frederick Mizen Academy, The Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and The Chicago Art Institute. In 1942, he entered the Marine Corps and became close to a man who introduced him to the classics of literature. In 1943, at Tarawa, he had shrapnel head wounds that caused him epileptic seizures for most of the remainder of his life, and he also took two bullets to the leg at Saipan. He was then, at age 20, ordered back to the U.S. where he was appointed an Official Marine Corps Combat Artist, the youngest in Marine history. Following discharge, he worked as a radio actor and went to New York with the idea of meeting his hero, Jackson Pollock. The two formed a lasting friendship, and Pollock introduced Jackson to Abstract Expressionism, which helped Jackson express his troubled background. Jackson married artist Grace Hartigan, his first of six wives, at Pollock's home with Pollock serving as best man. He also took classes at the Brooklyn Museum and studied with Rufino Tamayo and Hans Hofmann. The newlyweds went to Mexico and further explored abstraction, and a year later the couple divorced. Jackson did scenery painting for theatre and television, headed to Europe, and returned to New York where he did portrait painting and began to break away from Abstract Expressionism, something that met with disapproval from his peers. He had a Fulbright Travel Scholarship, did some heroic paintings in Denmark, and added sculpting to his repertoire, a medium inspired on March 4, 1958 when he arrived in Peitrasanta, Italy, where a new foundry gave him space. Jackson's work is widely held and includes collections of The Vatican, John Wayne, Queen Elizabeth, and the Smithsonian. He is criticized by some persons for applying paint to his sculpture, but he stays to his own course and asserts: "Don't categorize me . . . as a cowboy or Western artist or abstract expressionist artist. I'm an artist".

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