Wildlife Bronze Statues titled "Sharing the Land"
“Sharing the Land” – Life-size figurative wildlife bronze sculptures. Featuring a buck and doe pronghorn antelope, a century plant and a javelina eating a cactus. This sculpture scene was commissioned by and for the Town of Prescott Valley to represent the native flora and fauna of the area. Tom White, sculptor, lives in Prescott Valley and is an outdoorsman. With a love of wildlife and of the area, it was a pleasure to create these statues. Typically, he sees these critters around his property daily!
Prescott Valley, Arizona, Town Sculptures - Flora & Fauna Scene
The Call:
The Town of Prescott Valley, Arizona, put out a public call to artists. They wanted a public, monumental bronze sculpture scene of the flora and fauna of the area. In a blind competition, they accepted concepts from artists across the United States.
Tom is a man of the land and an artist. He chose animals and plants from the area that he sees daily for his concept. He has property that backs up to state land and national forest. Exploring the area and seeing the abundant wildlife is one of his hobbies. And as Tom says, “It’s the best backyard in the whole world.”
The Arts Commission was delighted to find out that they had selected a local artist whose studio is in Prescott Valley. They could tell from the concept Tom created, that he had an intimate knowledge of the animals and plants native to the territory.
The Concept:
Tom’s original concept includes a water feature. The animals are gathered at and sharing the water of the land. It conveys the respect and camaraderie that animals give each other in sharing water holes. Water s vital to their survival. As an artist, he hopes it will be an encouragement to folks to learn to “share the land”. Hopefully, it prompts others to show respect and dignity to those they share their hometown with.
Elements in the Sculpture Scene:
It was important to incorporate the unique and beautiful century plant into the scene, as well. Because Tom sees those plants all around the countryside in Arizona. And there were plenty of good examples to use as a model of the sculpture of the century plant.
The pronghorn antelope sculptures and the javelina eating a cactus round out the scene. These magnificent creatures represent the unique flora and fauna of this part of Arizona.
…Tom & Marcey White
Tom, a hunter, has many friends who enjoy hunting to provide meat for their families as well and when one of them recently tagged out with a buck antelope, they called Tom to come take measurements for us sculpture.
It was important to Tom that the foundry we used in Wyoming to cast this into bronze, Eagle Bronze Foundry, do the patina in real life colors and shades. He wanted the wildlife bronze of the antelope to look like they had just stepped up to the waterhole.
It is a true pleasure to finally have one of Tom’s many public monumental bronze sculptures in his hometown. The sculpture is located in front of the government offices complex of the Town of Prescott Valley in front of the Police Department at the corner of Skoog and Lake Shore. It is along a favorite walking and running path and, thus, is able to be enjoyed by many folks in Prescott Valley.
The sculpture scene is available for recast in life-size and in the tabletop versions. Small wildlife desktop bronzes of the javelina eating cactus are available at Ian Russell Gallery downtown in Prescott Valley and are named “Snack Time” by Tom White. Call for information or to have your own custom wildlife scene for your ranch, farm, town or park designed by Tom.
