Harry Andrew Jackson (Amer., 1924-2011), "The Marshall", artist-cast polychrome bronze sculpture on stone base, with incised signature, edition number 85P, and date, 1979 (and separate cold-painted signature and 1979 date)

height 11.5 in. x width 12 in. x depth 4 in. (including base)

Provenance: Property from a home in Frisco, Texas

Harry Jackson was a versatile American artist whose work ranged from Abstract Expressionism to Western Realism in both painting and sculpture. His early artistic education included scholarship-supported Saturday classes at the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by study at the Frederick Mizen Academy, Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and Chicago Art Institute; later, he studied at the Brooklyn Museum and with influential modernists Rufino Tamayo and Hans Hofmann. His artistic direction was also profoundly shaped by his years working on Wyoming ranches, his friendship with Jackson Pollock, who introduced him to Abstract Expressionism, and his subsequent exposure to European and Mexican art. After serving as the youngest Official Marine Corps Combat Artist in U.S. history, Jackson developed a highly individual style that ultimately moved beyond abstraction toward psychologically charged portraits and meticulously observed Western subjects, later incorporating sculpture and even painted bronze. In 1966, his Western work received the first one-man exhibition at the newly opened National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, and he was elected to the Cowboy Artists of America in 1970. His work is held in prominent collections including the Vatican, the Smithsonian, and those of Queen Elizabeth and John Wayne, and his major public commissions include a monumental 21-foot bronze statue of John Wayne in Beverly Hills.