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ALEXANDER PHIMISTER PROCTOR (1860-1950) Stalking Panther 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.4 cm.) long (Modeled circa 1891-94.) image 1
ALEXANDER PHIMISTER PROCTOR (1860-1950) Stalking Panther 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.4 cm.) long (Modeled circa 1891-94.) image 2
ALEXANDER PHIMISTER PROCTOR (1860-1950) Stalking Panther 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.4 cm.) long (Modeled circa 1891-94.) image 3
ALEXANDER PHIMISTER PROCTOR (1860-1950) Stalking Panther 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.4 cm.) long (Modeled circa 1891-94.) image 4
ALEXANDER PHIMISTER PROCTOR (1860-1950) Stalking Panther 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.4 cm.) long (Modeled circa 1891-94.) image 5
ALEXANDER PHIMISTER PROCTOR (1860-1950) Stalking Panther 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.4 cm.) long (Modeled circa 1891-94.) image 6
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Lot 81

ALEXANDER PHIMISTER PROCTOR
(1860-1950)
Stalking Panther 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.4 cm.) long 

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ALEXANDER PHIMISTER PROCTOR (1860-1950)

Stalking Panther
inscribed 'A PHIMISTER PROCTOR 1891•1892' (on the base) and inscribed 'COPYRIGHT' (on the base) and stamped with foundry mark 'GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS GHC / QSV' (on the base)/ QSV' (on the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.4 cm.) long 
Modeled circa 1891-94.

Footnotes

Provenance
Private collection, La Grange, North Carolina, 1950s.
Private collection, Green Pond, South Carolina, son of the above, by descent from the above, 2002.
By descent to the present owner from the above, son of the above, 2022.

Literature
Gorham Company, Bronze Division, Bronze Division Papers: 4. Casting records of statuary and small bronzes owned by sculptors, Identification Assigned to Statuary and Bronzes, 1906-1930, New York, 1913, p. 169, no. QSV, another example listed. (as Panther Bronze)
Gorham Company, Bronze Division, Bronze Division Papers: 7. Photograph files of statuary and small bronzes, New York, n.d., n.p., no. QSV, another example illustrated. (as Panther)
W. Craven, Sculpture in America, New York, 1968, pp. xix, 521-22, 550, 695, fig. 14.5, another example illustrated. (as Charging Panther)
A.P. Proctor, Alexander Phimister Proctor: Sculptor in Buckskin, Norman, Oklahoma, 1971, pp. 188, 209, another example illustrated.
T. Tolles, American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1999, vol. I, pp. 414-15, another example illustrated.
P.H. Hassrick, Wildlife and Western Heroes: Alexander Phimister Proctor, Sculptor, Fort Worth, 2003, pp. 102-03, another example illustrated.
T. Tolles, T.B. Smith, The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2013, pp. 66-67, another example illustrated.

Other examples of Stalking Panther can be found in the collections of the Denver Art Museum, Colorado (accession no. 2018.4), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (object no. 1996.561), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Québec, Canada (inv. 1945.960), the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (accession no. 2015.19.3686), the Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey (object no. PP663), the Portland Art Museum, Oregon (accession no. 94.56.1), the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. (object no. 2015.23), and the Whitney Western Art Museum, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming (object id. 4.08.10).

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