Public & Private Commissions


INDIVIDUALS

“ROBERT BURNS”

Edmonton Burns Club: in Edmonton, Alberta

 

 “WAYNE GRETZKY”

City of Edmonton: at Rexall Place, Edmonton, Alberta

 

“DEERFOOT”

Mr. Lorne Braithwaite/ Cambridge Leaseholds: at Deerfoot Mall, Calgary, Alberta

 

“WALTER GRANT NOTLEY”

Citizen’s Committee for a Grant Notley Monument (Alberta),  portrait bust

 

“ARTHUR HENRY GRIESBACH”

Rotary Club of Edmonton on behalf of RCMP,

and Alberta Historical Resources Foundation: statue at Rexall Place, Edmonton, Alberta.

 

 “THE TRADER”

Mr. Edmund Howard McDougall at Edmonton Library, Edmonton, Alberta.

 

"RED CROW" (CHIEF MEKASTO)

Standoff Blood Tribe: Cardston, Alberta

 

Alexander Graham Bell

W. Jackson
F. J. Blake Leclanche
Thomas Alva Edison H, J. Roosevelt
E. T. Gilliland

J. Walker

Alberta Government Telephones, 8 portrait busts of communications founders

 

“OLD SUN” (CHIEF NATOSAPI)

Devonian Group of Charitable Foundations (Alberta)

 

"CHIEF RED CROW" & "ORA CARD"

"RUNNING INDIAN" & "MAN WITH PLOW"

Cardston Elementary School, and Cardston Library, in Cardston, Alberta:

 

"JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH"

Dr. Gerde Asche: relief plaque, in Hope, B. C.

 

"LT. COL. COULSON NORMAN MITCHELL"

Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers: portrait bust at the Royal Engineers Museum, Gagetown, New Brunswick.

 

"JAMES CLELLAND RICHARDSON, V.C."

Royal Canadian Legion, Chilliwack, B.C:. (Piper, 16th Canadian Scots Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force)

 

"Sir WILFRED LAURIER"

Ukrainian Heritage Village (Alberta): portrait bust

 

"JAKE MACULLA"

 portrait bust (private commission) (Alberta)

 

 "DR. WALTER STERLING ANDERSON"

Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, of University Hospital, Edmonton: portrait bust

 

"JOANNE ONOFRYCHUK"

 portrait bust (private commission) (Alberta)

 

"KAREN BEGG"

 portrait bust (private commission) (Alberta)

 

“SOAPY SMITH”

Klondike Days Association, Edmonton: relief 

 

Chief Justice William Alexander McGillivray

Chief Justice Laycraft
Chief Justice Henry Gratton Nolan Justice Stevenson

Justice Major.

Legal Archives Society of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta: portrait busts of

 

"TERRY FOX"

Terry Fox Secondary School, in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia: a bronze relief

 

"SAM LIVINGSTON"

Department Of Lands And Forests and Provincial Museum And Archives Of Alberta:

portrait bust  at the Livingston Fish Hatchery, Calgary, Alberta

 

 “SHARON and KATHLEEN”, “THREE CHILDREN”

Dr. Glen Zenith: (his family) (Alberta)

 

 “JOHN and TEXAS”

Simpson Ranching Ltd.: equestrian depiction, (Alberta)

 

 “DR. GRANT MACEWAN”

City of Edmonton: portrait bust

 

“JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH”

German-Canadian Association of Alberta: portrait bust at Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton, Alberta

 

 “RICHARD WAGNER”

German-Canadian Association of Alberta, and the German Consulate,

Ottawa: portrait bust at Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton, Alberta.

 

 “LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN”

German-Canadian Association of Alberta, and the German Consulate of Edmonton: portrait bust at Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton, Alberta.

 

 “JOHANN STRAUS”

Johann Strauss Memorial Fund: portrait bust, Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton Alberta

 

“ASTOKIMAKI”

Government of Alberta (presentation to Governor-General Jules Leger): portrait bust at Rideaux Hall,

Ottawa Ontario. (Thelma King, wife of Lawrence Murphy; a Blood Indian; the first of her tribe to graduate from Lethbridge Community College)

 

“JOHN” and “RUTH” 

Mr. John Gregors:  portrait busts (Alberta)

 

 USS NORTH CAROLINA Battleship: portrait busts of:

Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

President Harry S. Truman

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

USS North Carolina Battle Ship Commission.

 

"SENATOR ERNEST GRUENING"

Alaska State Council on the Arts: portrait bust

 

"DR. LESTER DRAGSTEDT"

(Mrs.) Charlotte D. Jeffrey: portrait bust, to the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

 

“CHIEF PLENTY COUPS AWARD”

Crow Tribal Council (Montana) relief of Chief Plenty Coup

 

"JOHN J. WHITE"

Museum of the Rockies (Montana) relief, who founded it (White Memorial).

 

“MRS. ABRAHAM LINCOLN”

Illinois State Historical Library (museum):

 

“SAM MITCHELL”

Sam W. Mitchell Memorial Fund: portrait bust (Secretary of State, Montana)

 

“JOSEPH M. DIXON”

Joseph M. Dixon Memorial Fund, portrait bust (Governor, Montana)

 

“FRANCIS SHAW” and “LOTTIE SHAW”

Graceland College, Iowa: portrait busts.


 

EVENTS, ANNIVERSARIES, TRADITIONS

 

“EDMONTON MERCHANT”

Edmonton Chamber of Commerce: Edmonton, Alberta

 

“YOUNG PIONEERS”

W. V. Dowhaniuk of Dow Holdings Ltd.:  for Two Hills, Alberta

 

“Lena” (“Yarmo”) (also “Water Carrier”)
“Ukrainian Oven” (also, “Kalach”)
“Frank and Mike” relief (Steel Plow)
Frank and Lena Lakusta private commissions: (Alberta)

   

“HERATAGE SERIES”

Carling Community Arts Foundation:(Carling O’Keefe Brewery) Edmonton

 

“FORT EDMONTON RELIEF”

Edmonton Historical Foundation: (Merrill E. Wolfe Memorial)

 

“DISCOVERY”

Alberta Engineering Centennial Committee and Amoco Canada Petroleum Company (“Leonardo’s Hand”)

 

 “CABLE TOOL RIG”

Alberta and Canadian Utilities Ltd.

 

“LEDUC NUMBER ONE”

Esso Resources Canada Ltd

 

“K-DIVISION”

City of Edmonton, and K-Division R.C.M.P.:  relief. Edmonton Alberta

 

"WORLD WAR II JUNGLE FIGHTER"

Butte High School of Butte Montana 1943 (Solders Memorial Restoration Committee 1996)

 

"WORLD WAR II NUTTER MEMORIAL 41'ST INFANTRY DIVISION"

Donald G. Nutter memorial Venetians Museum, Helena Montana

 

“A CALL to SERVE”

William Sherman, a teaching nun for St. Helena Cathedral, Helena, Montana

 

“BULLWHACKER”

City of Helena, Montana: for Last Chance Gulch, Helena, MT.

 

“STARTLED”, “INDIAN HUNTER”, “BUFFALO HUNTER”

The Franklin Mint of Franklin Center, Pennsylvania:

 

“KOOTENAI PREHISTORY”

State of Montana, Province of Alberta, Libby Dam Project:  mural relief.

 

“HUNTER”

(Mrs.) Virginia Moore: (of her prize stallion, “Treasury”)

 

“ARCHAIC INDIAN”

Grandfather Mountain Scenic Attraction (North Carolina): relief

 

“VIRGINIA CITY RELIEF”

Madison County History Association:

 


 

DECORATIVE WORK

 

“INDIAN ARCHER and GEESE”

Oxford Group, for the Canadian Commercial Bank Tower: aluminum relief

 

"BRONZE SYMBOLIC RELIEF"

Episcopal Church Youth Centre, Helena, Montana

 

“MUSIC and DANCE”

Hotel Sherman, Inc., Chicago, Illinois:  relief

 

“FOX BAY LAND” and “SEA”

Dome Realty Company of Milwaukee, reliefs

 

“VICTORIA PACIFICA”

Mr. Robert Evens of Pacific Nations Place:, fountain, Victoria B.C.


 

EDUCATIONAL WORK

 

"ARCHAIC INDIAN with ATLATL"

University of the State of New York, Albany (New York State Museum and Science Service):

 

 3 life-size Cliff Dweller Indian figures; 1 life-size Eskimo figure

National Geographic Society:


 

COMMUNITY SUPPORT WORK

 

 “OIL INDUSTRY SERIES”

Challenger International Services Ltd.  & Mr. Roy Allen with

Mr. Harvey Bliss, Vice President of University of Calgary

Dr. Charles Shepens of Retina Associates

Dr. W. K. Stell of the U. of C. Department of Anatomy

Director of Lions Sight Centre

Revenue from this series established the Allen Sight Research Fund,

 which was  matched dollar for dollar by the Provincial Government

 to provide support for all eye research and care facilities at the University.

 

“CRUCIFIX”

St. Cyril’s Perish of Geyser, Montana

 

“LACROSSE PLAYER”

Dominion Construction, trophy for the young players of this sport, Edmonton, Alberta.

 

 “CRECHE”

Rev. Thomas A. Canty of St. Luke Church, River Forest, Illinois

 

“UKRAINIAN DANCERS”, “NATALKA”

Ukrainian Women’s Association of Alberta: City of Edmonton

 

“MILL WOODS FARM FAMILY”

Cambridge Western Leaseholds Ltd., Mr. Lorne Braithwaite

 

“CROWFOOT”, and “COL. JAMES MACLEOD”

Fort Calgary Preservation Society: Fort Calgary figures also, portrait heads 4 inches high

 

“RED DEER PIONEER FAMILY”

  Man With Plow, Woman With Rake, Boy With Flail

Red Deer Rotary

 

"EXPO’86 SERIES"

B.C. Pavilion Corporation,1986

 

"CODA WINTER OLYMPIC SERIES"

Calgary Olympic Development Association

 

“UNIVERSIADE ’83 FLOOR GYMNAST AND JAVELIN THROWER"

"MEDAL RELIEF-PASSING THE TORCH"

World University Games 1983

 

"TROPHIES FOR THE BRAVE EAGLE CAPTURE"

"EQUESTRIAN TROPHY"

    Bank of Montreal "First Canadian" Nations Cup Spruce Meadows Calgary Alberta, 1977

 

 

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