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Dark patinated cast bronze, numbered edition 3 of 15, dated 1982 with incised signature in the casting, depicting a mother carrying a child with head strap and basket.
12 3/4 x 13 x 8 1/4 in.
Estate of Dr. Dunworth, Huntington, West Virginia Lamphere’s dynamic sculpture explores a broad range of materials and subjects from monumental landscapes, to human forms, to the abstract. His work covers the full spectrum from classic figurative sculpture in cast bronze, as represented by the four allegorical works in the South Dakota State Capitol Rotunda, to monumental fabricated stainless steel sculpture involving design, fabrication and structural engineering disciplines. Lamphere has done commissioned portraits of Bob and Dolores Hope, Burl lves, Walter Annenberg, and George and Eleanor McGovern, and other distinguished individuals. Adept at various scales and media, one of his steel sculptures,
Dignity, is forty-five feet tall, representing the courage, perseverance and wisdom of the Lakota and Dakota culture in South Dakota. The artist continues make impressive works at his studio in South Dakota.
Good estate condition.