LOT 54 John Wayne 33in high Grant Speed(1930-2011)
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Grant Speed (1930-2011)
John Wayne inscribed 'UG Speed © CA / 1983' (on the base) and '20/40' (along the base)bronze with dark brown patina33in highModeled in 1983.
|ProvenanceTexas Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas.Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1984.LiteratureS.H. McGarry, Honoring The Western Tradition: The L.D. "Brink" Brinkman Collection, Kerrville, Texas, 2003, p. 158, illustrated.The artist was a great admirer of the actor, John Wayne, pictured here as the subject of the present work. Grant Speed once told L.D. Brinkman in a letter, "John Wayne was more than an actor and a celebrity. To me he was an outstanding man. He seemed to bring out the best in people and to be a man who could inspire them to have more confidence in themselves, people around them, and this country. He is a person I've always wanted to do in bronze, and when I received the commission to do 'John Wayne' I was very pleased, because to me, he typified the real red-blooded American Hero on and off the screen."1 1 Grant Speed, unpublished letter, 29 January 1991.
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