"Old Sykes" - bronze in three sizes by Veryl Goodnight

Old Sykes was Charles Goodnight's lead breeding bison bull for many years.  Neither stories nor pictures are numerous .... other than Sykes was never "tame" and chose to go where he pleased.  Fences and gates were temporary obstacles.  But to Goodnight, this was merely a bison being a bison ... which he wanted in his captive herd.

Now Veryl Goodnight, the renown sculptress and artist has been commissioned by the Texas Historical Commission to do a seven (7) foot tall bronze statue of Sykes to add to the Goodnight Historical Site in Goodnight, Texas.

In the process, Veryl is going to make available 3 sizes of bronze once the original has been cast and finished.  There can be two more identical castings to the seven foot bronze.

There will also be a very limited (35) edition of an 1/8 size bronze - approximately 11 inches tall and 22" long.  This is called the "working edition" as it was the size of her initial working model for the bronze.

There will also be a very small edition of a "miniature" size - roughly half the size of the Working Model.

Veryl has allotted me 3 of the Working model and 5 of the miniature;  The black and white pictures are of the real size clay "working model".  The full size bison sculpture is not digitality created in foam from the smaller clay model.  That is not the way it use to be done when Veryl did "The Day the Wall Came Down" - 

All of these pieces are cast only after ordering (thought there may be one or two Gallery castings as well.

Finished pricing won't be final until the actual cost of the foundry and finishing work is known .... and that will probably be around September of this year.

HERE IS HOW THIS WILL WORK.  YOU "ORDER" THE PIECE YOU WANT TO RESERVE ... NO MONEY/NO DEPOSIT.  WHEN VERYL LET'S ME KNOW FINISHED PRICE AND TIMING - I WILL LET YOU KNOW AND WE WILL FINALIZE THE DETAILS.  BUT FOR NOW, YOUR 'ORDER' IS JUST YOUR RESERVING THE RIGHT TO BUY.  IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO FINALIZE THE PURCHASE, THAT IS OK - NO PENALTY OR FEES.  THAT WORK FOR YOU ALL, I HOPE?

The Working Model is expected to be less than $5400 and the miniature less than $1500.  The larger than life size .... we will need to "chat" about that one, ok?