Bob Scriver (1914-1999)


An Honest Try inscribed 'Bob Scriver / 1968' and '"An Honest Try"' (on the base) and stamped twice 'Bighorn Foundry' (along the base)bronze with dark brown patina28 1/2in highModeled in 1968.
|ProvenanceCollection of Robert "Bobby" Hillin, Sr., Midland, Texas.Sale, Texas Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas, September 17, 1983, lot 65.Acquired by the late owner from the above.ExhibitedOklahoma City, Oklahoma, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Cowboy Artists of America: Fifth Annual Exhibition, 1970.LiteratureD. Hedgpeth, New Western Images: The Hillin Collection of the Cowboy Artists of America, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1978, pp. 4, 10, 12, 58-59, illustrated.S.H. McGarry, Honoring The Western Tradition: The L.D. "Brink" Brinkman Collection, Kerrville, Texas, 2003, p. 150, illustrated.The present work is cast number 25 from this edition.