The Hunters
(for Oban)
(Harris
Hawk)
Medium:
Bronze
Base: Cambrian Black Granite
Size: 40" x 18" x 25"
(H)
Price:
$17,500
This
Elaine Franz Witten Bronze sculpture limited to an edition of twelve.
Size
of sculpture may vary slightly due to different bases.
The
Hunters (for Oban - Harris Hawk) Visits to a falconry school in
Manchester, VT, inspired this sculpture of a Harris hawk named Oban.
The handler's gauntlet from which the hunting bird takes off and lands
seemed like an appropriate perch for this bird in the heads up take
off position. Her head is turned in the direction of her impending flight.
This sculpture is life-size. The Harris hawk has a 40" wing span.
In
designing "The Hunters" I used an triangular motif which gets repeated
throughout the work. The entire sculpture is a triangle formed by the
bottom of the gauntlet and traveling up to the two wing tips. At the
rear of the sculpture the tail also forms a triangle in it's fanned
out position.
