Woolaroc Catalog Sculpture Test

MARGARET DRAKE WAOW ASSOCIATE

MARGARET DRAKE WAOW ASSOCIATE

Originally from Northwestern Colorado ranching country, Margaret strives for accuracy as well as aesthetics when creating realistic figures of animals and humans. Margaret does all of her own patina work on her bronzes, making them a little different from the traditional bronzes. She has been in multiple shows and won several awards, including “Best of Show,” and “Director’s Choice’. Her pieces have been permanently acquired by the Museum of Western Art, the Pearce Museum of Fine Art, and the City of Houston for permanent display at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

MARGARET DRAKE, WAOW Associate www.margaretdrakestudio.com

OHITIKA 9” X 8” X 9” Bronze $$$?

Ohitika, Prairie Chicken Dance For thousands of years before Euro-American settlement, people and lesser prairie-chickens lived together in the Southern Great Plains prairie community. One of the ceremonial dances of the Blackfoot and Plains Cree tribes — the Chicken Dance — celebrates the interconnection between native people and this grassland grouse. Dancers mimic the male prairie chicken’s display rituals, fluffing feathers, strutting, using a pecking motion of the head, and tapping the ground, all the while moving forward and spinning. The old style Chicken Dance is one of the oldest forms of dancing. The dancing outfit is very different than that of the modern Traditional, Grass and Fancy Feather dances. The Men’s Chicken Dance Style originates amongst the Blackfoot people. I created this piece after having observed and photographed a young man performing this dance at a pow-wow in Austin, Texas.

COMANCHE DANCE 10” X 19” X 7” Bronze $$$?

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MARGARET DRAKE WAOW ASSOCIATE

MARGARET DRAKE WAOW ASSOCIATE

DESCENT 32” X 23” X 18” Bronze $$$?

FIRST SADDLE 18” X 15” X 9” Bronze $$$?

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