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AWARDS AND HONORS
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
1999 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters
STATE OF NEBRASKA
1995 "Distinguished Nebraskan" by proclamation of the Governor of Nebraska
LEGISLATURE OF NEBRASKA AND THE NEBRASKALAND FOUNDATION
1995 Pioneer Award
NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY
1983 National Sculpture Society's Prizewinner Exhibition, Bronze Medal: "Departure"
1982 National Sculpture Silver Medal: "Old Friends"
1981 National Sculpture Bronze Medal: "Departure"
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF AMERICA
1982 Elizabeth N. Watrous Gold Medal: "Michelle"
ALLIED ARTISTS OF AMERICA
1991 Associate Members Award: "Joy of Music-Bass Player"
1990 Helen Gapen Oehler Memorial Award: "Hearts on a Swing"
1987 Allied Artists Members & Associates Award: "Ben Franklin"
1981 Pietro and Alfrieda Montana Memorial Award: "Michelle"
CHINA EXHIBITION AGENCY
1981 Special Citation from the China Exhibition Agency, Beijing (Peking), China
NORTH AMERICAN SCULPTURE EXHIBITION
1986 John Cavenaugh Memorial Award: "Flatlander"
1983 Art Castings of Colorado Award: "Lovers"
1981 Rocky Mountain Sculpture Award: "Last Laugh"
1980 North American Sculpture Award (Best of Show): "Il Barbone"
1979 North American Sculpture Award (Best of Show): "Departure"
AMERICAN INDIAN AND COWBOY ARTIST WESTERN ARTS EXHIBITION
1982 Artist of the West
EDUCATION
1973-1974 Fulbright-Hayes Scholar: Post graduate work at the Academia de Belle Arte in Florence, Italy
1971-1973 Master of Fine Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
1966-1971 Bachelor of Arts, Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
1978-1979 Texas A&M Artist in Residence
ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP
Allied Artists of America
National Sculpture Society; Fellow
National Academy of Design
COMMISSIONS
2005 "The Player" monument to "Branch Rickey", Coors Field, Denver, Colorado
2004 "On the Trail of Discovery" Great Plains Art Musuem, Lincoln, Nebraska
2002 "Harvest Dreams" for the Marketplace, Brighton, CO
2002 "Mari Sandoz" for the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center, Chadron State College, Chadron, NE
2001 "End of an Era" commissioned for the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, Colorado
2001 "Mari Sandoz" commissioned for Chadron State College, Chadron, Nebraska
2000 "Holly Coors" commissioned for the Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado
1999 Portrait busts of former Nebraska state senators, Jerome Warner, and his father Charles Warner
for the Nebraska Capitol in Lincoln
1997 "Jack Swigert" commissioned for Statuary Hall, the Capitol Building, Washington D.C.
1997 "Portrait of Nathan Gold" for the Nebraska State Capitol Building, Lincoln, Nebraska
1996 "Dolphins" commissioned for the Marketplace Mall, Westminster, Colorado
1996 "Robert Frost" commissioned by Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
1995 "Mary Lanning" commissioned for the Mary Lanning Hospital, Hastings, Nebraska
1994 "Portrait of Dwight Griswold" for Nebraska State Capitol Building, Lincoln, Nebraska
1993 "George W. Hopper" commissioned for the University of Wyoming Law Library, Laramie, Wyoming
1993 "Cliff Hillegass" (Cliff's Notes) commissioned for Cliff Hillegass Sculpture Garden at
the Museum of Nebraska Art, University of Nebraska at Kearney
1993 "George W. Norris" commissioned by Nebraska Rural Electric Association for the
National Cooperative Headquarters, Dallas, Texas
1993 1 1/2 life-size portrait of pioneer aviator, Elrey B. Jeppesen, for the Jeppesen Terminal Building
of the new Denver International Airport, Denver, Colorado
1992 "Branch Rickey" Baseball Man of the Year" Award, Inaugural year presented to Dan Winfield
1992 "Portrait of Art Thompson" for Nebraska State Capitol Building, Lincoln, Nebraska
1992 "Players" for the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
1990 Life-size "Runner" and Couple on Bench" for NIKE Inc., Corporate Headquarters, Beaverton, Oregon
1989 "Joy of Music" commissioned for the Civic Center of Loveland, Colorado
1988 "Gene Sarazen" commissioned for the Atlanta National Golf Club
1987 "Ben Franklin" commissioned for the University of Pennsylvania
1986 "Gilbert Hitchcock" commissioned by the Nebraska Historical Foundation
1983 "Promise of the Prairie" (10' tall) bronze of prairie family for Holdrege, Nebraska
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