Lot #195: Ralph Crawford Bronze & Copper Bluenose Sculpture Ltd Ed 3/50 c/w Atlantic Canada book

Artist Signed Ralph Crawford and Dated 1986. This bronze sculpture is a limited edition of 3 out of 50. Stated from previous owner that only 4 out of the 50 were actually made as it involved painstakingly amount of time to create. This Bluenose bronze sculpture was made for Sherman Hines. The base's top has different wood grown from each of provinces and territories at time of making. Included with the Bluenose sculpture is Sherman Hines hardcover book Atlantic Canada Published by Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited Toronto/Vancouver 1979. Also included within the book is a signed black and white photograph of a rocky seashore by Sherman Hines. Artist Ralph Crawford was a sculptor known for his dramatic subjects including historic Indigenous American images, wildlife, and cowboy figures of the old west. Condition: great Measurements: wooden base 5 1/2” x 15” x 10” (h x w x d) Bluenose 9 1/2” x 11 1/2” (h x w) total height: 15” Pickup category timeslot {A}