Bronze Inside and Out: A Biographical Memoir of Bob Scriver (Legacies Shared)

Title Page......Page 4
Bibliographic Information......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 16
Acknowledgments......Page 18
PART ONE: Prelude......Page 20
1. Why we learned to cast bronze and what it was like......Page 22
2. How I got to the Blackfeet Reservation and what it was like
Browning, Montana, 1961
......Page 25
3. History of the Blackfeet and how artists joined them
High northern prairie, 1600s forward
......Page 27
4. “Indian Days”
Browning, Montana, in the Sixties
......Page 29
5. The roots of American equestrian bronzes
Washington, D.C., 1780s to the 1800s......Page 32
1. The importance of story: the quick-draw guy  Browning, 1968
......Page 38
2. Bob’s genealogical roots and how his parents got to Browning
The Palatine to England to Quebec to Montana,
1600s to early 1900s
......Page 39
3. Bob’s childhood
Browning, World War I and after
......Page 45
4. The white community and how Bob acquired an Indian “mother”
Milk River Ridge, the Twenties
......Page 46
5. Artists on the scene
Glacier Park, the Twenties......Page 51
6. Earl Heikka, “crazy artist feller”
Great Falls, Twenties and Thirties......Page 56
1. First career: leading prize-winning high school bands
1934–1950......Page 60
2. Second career: successful taxidermist
Browning, 1950–1964......Page 62
3. The Scriver Museum of Montana Wildlife
Browning, 1953–1999......Page 67
4. The earliest sculptures and the C.M. Russell Contest
Browning, the Fifties......Page 76
5. Beginning to sell
Browning, late Fifties......Page 81
1. About the material and what it demands
Greenwich Village, the Forties......Page 86
2. Malvina Hoffman’s plastilene
Greenwich Village, the Forties......Page 90
3. Plastilene sculptures shelved
Browning, 1962......Page 92
4. The miniature wildlife dioramas: a team effort
Browning, Spring 1962......Page 93
5. Bob nearly goes blind
Browning, Summer 1962......Page 97
6. Evelyn Cole
Chinook, Montana, 1967......Page 104
7. My first hunting trips
The Rocky Mountain front, Fall 1962......Page 105
1. About armatures......Page 108
2. The armature of Bob’s inner world
Browning, the Sixties......Page 110
3. The Buffalo Roundup. We both ride
Moiese, 1963......Page 115
4. Organic armatures: skeletons
Bynum, Sun River, Moiese, Starr School, mid-Sixties......Page 121
5. Broken ribcage
Browning, 1965......Page 126
1. Waste molds, made for destruction......Page 128
2. Dick Flood
The northern prairie, Fifties and Sixties......Page 132
3. Ace Powell
Hungry Horse and Browning, 1928 to 1976......Page 134
4. John Clarke
East Glacier, 1881–1970......Page 137
5. The last full-mount: a moose
Browning, 1968......Page 138
6. Eegie
Browning, 1962–1975......Page 140
7. Electric cowboys
Cut Bank Creek, 1965......Page 145
8. Life in Browning
The Sixties......Page 146
9. Drifters
Browning, mid-Sixties......Page 148
10. Downhill
Hudson’s Bay Divide, late Sixties......Page 149
1. About plaster originals: the key......Page 152
2. George Gray
Browning, 1968......Page 153
3. American Artist and Paul Juley
Browning, 1964......Page 156
4. True magazine
Browning, 1965......Page 158
5. New York Shows
Manhattan, 1963......Page 159
6. Glenbow Foundation
Calgary, 1967......Page 160
7. Christmas
Browning, 1964......Page 164
8. Hunting in the snow
East front of the Rockies, 1968......Page 165
1. About flexible molds
Browning, Fifties and forward......Page 168
2. The Big Flood
Blackfeet Reservation, 1964......Page 171
3. Animals drive a wedge......Page 173
4. Bob the conservative, Mary the activist
Browning, 1969......Page 178
5. Keith Seele, James Willard Schultz, Lone Wolf and Paul Dyck
The Reservation, 1966......Page 179
6. Overwork and blow-ups Browning, 1969......Page 181
7. Into the Wind, Bucky, and breaking points
The reservation, late Sixties......Page 183
8. Hunting again, Sweetgrass Hills......Page 189
1. About mother molds......Page 192
2. Ellison Westgarth Macfie Scriver......Page 193
3. Alice the high school kid
Browning and Malta 1937–1943......Page 196
4. Jeanette the firebrand
Edmonton and Browning, 1946–1959......Page 198
5. Arlene the ideal
Browning, 1959–1962......Page 205
6. Mary the English teacher
Browning, 1966–1970......Page 206
7. Lorraine the widow
Browning and Vancouver Island, 1972–2002......Page 210
1. Making a wax duplicate......Page 214
2. Portrait of a polo player
Santa Rosa, Anacortes, 1967......Page 217
3. Bob’s daughter dies
Anacortes, 1967 and 1968......Page 221
4. Maurice poses for Jesus
Browning, 1967 and 1968......Page 226
5. Lost in grizzly country
St. Mary’s, 1969......Page 233
PART TWO: Crescendo......Page 236
1. Old-fashioned plaster investment......Page 238
2. To Tell the Truth! and Malvina Hoffman
New York City, 1965......Page 241
3. A Moose hunt
Swan Hills, Alberta 1969......Page 246
1. Casting bronze: a review
Browning, Montana, 1962–1999......Page 248
2. One hundred bronzes
Browning and Cody, 1969......Page 251
3. Harry Jackson
Cody and Browning, 1969......Page 261
4. A jubilant hunting trip
East Front of the Rockies, 1969......Page 263
1. Moment of truth......Page 264
2. The Western art boom......Page 266
3. C.M. Russell Museum Benefit Auction
Great Falls, Montana, 1970 to the present......Page 267
4. Dean Krakel, cowboys and Indians
Oklahoma City, 1965 to the end......Page 268
5. Bill Linderman
Denver and Browning, 1967–1970......Page 271
6. The National Rodeo Finals
Oklahoma City, 1970......Page 279
7. Asger Mikkelson
Browning, 1970–1975......Page 282
8. Meltdown of a marriage......Page 283
PART THREE: Diminuendo......Page 290
1. How to “chase” a bronze......Page 292
2. Blackfeet religious ceremonies
Browning, 1963 to 1999......Page 294
3. Blackfeet ceremonial objects......Page 296
5. Cree healing ceremony, Blackfeet bundle opening
Browning, 1967 to 1999......Page 299
6. The Thunder Pipe Bundle transfer
Browning, 1969......Page 305
7. Counting coup
Browning and Edmonton, 1976–1990......Page 307
8. The million-dollar artifact collection
Browning and Edmonton, 1990 to present......Page 308
9. The Badger Lodge
Browning and Two Medicine, 1971......Page 312
1. Welding bronze
Browning, 1963 forward......Page 318
2. Losing family members
1976 forward......Page 319
3. The Prince of Peace
1982 forward......Page 321
4. Trying to rekindle the flame
Browning, 1985 forward......Page 326
1. The journey slows
Fort Benton and Great Falls, 1974 forward......Page 330
2. Lewis and Clark begin
Fort Benton, 1974 forward......Page 331
3. Distinguished Achievement
Great Falls, 1990......Page 336
4. Long quiet days in the shop
Browning, 1988 forward......Page 338
5. Facing death
Browning, late Nineties......Page 340
6. Death on Bob’s terms
Browning, 1999......Page 342
7. “The Man in Buckskin”
Valier, 2002......Page 345
1. How patinas are formed......Page 348
2. What is a “great artist?”......Page 350
3. The artist as customer......Page 352
4. The Flatiron Ranch
Browning, 1980......Page 353
5. The last visit and goodbye
Browning, 1998......Page 355
6. Four sculptors, four destinies
Browning, 1929......Page 358
Bibliography......Page 382
Legacies Shared Series......Page 392