Sculptor
André Harvey (1941 - 2018) created small and large scale realistic bronze sculptures. In a career spanning over four decades, Harvey produced an extensive volume of work which was purchased by numerous public and private collections, and featured in exhibitions both nationally and internationally. He also created intricate 18K and 22K gold sculptural jewelry, along with collages and work in granite.
Daddy Long Legs
Bronze walnut base
Length: 13.5" (34.3 cm)
Width: 10" (25.4 cm)
Height: 8.5" (21.6 cm)
Weight: 10 lbs (4.5 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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“Early daddy long leg encounters stick in our brain and remain so embedded that, as adults, we can time-travel the long dusty, road back to our childhood.”
André Harvey
Carolyn with Cattle Egrets
(cow with egrets)
Bronze walnut base
Polychrome Patina
Length: 18.5" (47 cm)
Width: 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Height: 13.75" (34.9 cm)
Weight: 43 lbs (19.5 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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Represented in the collection of the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
“As a child, my first view of cattle egrets with cows was in a meadow near the Brandywine River in southeastern Pennsylvania. In my child’s mind, I thought of them as birds taking rides on cows.”
André Harvey
Ginkgo Leaf
Bronze granite base
Length: 24" (60.9 cm)
Width: 6.5" (16.5 cm)
Height: 22" (55.8 cm)
Weight: 23.5 lbs (10.6 kg) approx.
From an edition of twenty
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“Dating back some 270 million years, during the time of the dinosaurs, the ginkgo leaf connects the present and the distant past.”
André Harvey
Samara Turning in the Wind
Bronze rock base
Height: 13.5' (4 m)
Weight: 1200 lbs (544.3 kg) approx.
Location: Mt. Cuba Center, Hockessin, Delaware
A Gathering of Emperors
(emperor penguins)
Bronze walnut base
Polychrome Patina
Length: 26" (66 cm)
Width: 11" (27.9 cm)
Height: 12.25" (31.1 cm)
Weight: 55 lbs (25 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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Represented in the collection of the Mystic Seaport, the Museum of America and the Sea, Mystic, CT, the McDonough Museum, Youngstown, OH, and the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
“‘A Gathering of Emperors’ evolved out of my fascination with Antarctica, that mystical, unremitting, last continent sculpted by wind, ice, snow, and and time into different shades of blue.
In March or April the emperors, fat with fish, shrimp, and squid, head south, forming long, majestic lines across the polar ice.”
André Harvey
Scent of Honeysuckle
(life-size)
Bronze walnut base
Height: 24.25" (62.3 cm)
Weight: 26 lbs (11.7 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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“What is this sculpture about? Many things—the freshness of vision, the struggle for existence, the feeling of being close to nature, remembrances of childhood out of the mist of vanished years, hidden beauty revealed, self-preservation, the law of the wild, eat or be eaten, the hunter and the hunted.”
André Harvey
Samuel
(life-size box turtle)
Bronze
Length: 10.75" (26.9 cm)
Width: 6" (15 cm)
Height: 5" (12.5 cm)
Weight: 15 lbs (6.8 kg) approx.
From an edition of twenty
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“Samuel arrived at our house in the fall and hibernated in our home. Slowly he became friendly. I ended up sculpting him in the spring, after which we returned him to the nearby woods. We never saw him again.”
André Harvey
Beech Leaf
Bronze granite base
Height: 28" (71.1 cm)
Weight: 23.5 lbs (10.6 kg) approx.
From an edition of twenty
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“As Autumn arrives, the saw-toothed beech leaf turns from green to a subtle brown, clinging to its branches through winter as others fall.”
André Harvey
Bertha
(life-size cow)
Bronze
Length: 98.25" (246.3 cm)
Width: 31" (77.5 cm)
Height: 54.75" (136.9 cm)
Weight: 1150 lbs (517.5 kg) approx.
From an edition of twenty-five
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Represented in the collection of the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
American Reminiscence
(three men and truck)
Bronze walnut base
Length: 28.375" (70.9 cm)
Width: 13" (32.5 cm)
Height: 13.5" (33.8 cm)
Weight: 86 lbs (38.7 kg) approx.
From an edition of twenty
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Represented in the collection of the Louwman Museum, The Hague, Netherlands
“I wanted it to be a particularly American sculpture, one that said something about a passing scene that will soon be gone forever. In a way it’s about the American dream—that vision of Eden where when things got bad one could always go west and with a lot of guts and a little money, start anew. But now the farm gives way to the village, the village to the town, the town to the city. The megalopolis lurks in the future. I just wanted to record the change, the persistence of those memories.”
André Harvey
Sounding the Alarm
(life-size crow)
Bronze walnut base
Length: 15.5" (39.5 cm)
Height: 14" (35.6 cm)
Weight: 12 lbs (5.5 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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Represented in the collection of the Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA , the University of Virginia Law School, Charlottesville, VA, and the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
“Crows are mysterious, somehow retaining in the present a primeval knowledge which spans the centuries. They seem to know answers to questions not yet pondered.”
André Harvey
Spring Ballet
(large jumping frog)
Bronze
Height: 49" (122.5 cm)
Weight: 225 lbs (101.3 kg) approx.
From an edition of forty
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Represented in the collection of the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI and the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, Fort Worth, TX
Helen
(life-size sitting pig)
Bronze
Length: 5' 3" (157.5 cm)
Width: 23" (57.5 cm)
Height: 32" (80 cm)
Weight: 400 lbs (180 kg) approx.
From an edition of twenty-five
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Represented in the collection of the Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA and the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
Places in the Sun
(painted turtles)
Bronze
Length: 9' (274.3 cm)
Weight: 450 lbs (204.1 kg) approx.
From an edition of thirty
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Represented in the collection of the Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE
Samara
Bronze granite base
Height: 28" (71.1 cm)
Weight: 26.5 lbs (12 kg) approx.
From an edition of twenty
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“The samara’s winged shape allows the seed to spiral away from the parent tree, continuing the pattern of life.”
André Harvey
Mysterious Journey
(green sea turtle)
Bronze
Length: 45" (114.3 cm)
Width: 45" (114.3 cm)
Height: 35" (88.9 cm)
Weight: 234 lbs (106.1 kg) approx.
From an edition of six
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Represented in the collection of the Mystic Seaport, the Museum of America and the Sea, Mystic, CT
“Migrating over vast distances of open ocean to return to its native beach, this master mariner plies its age-old way against difficult odds.”
André Harvey
Morning Glory
(robin’s nest)
Bronze wall sculpture
Width: 18.5" (47 cm)
Height: 33.5" (85 cm)
Weight: 15 lbs (6.8 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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“Lying awake in the spring predawn darkness, bird song floods the soul with a silent inner joy. Robins steal spring from winter’s grasp and announce its arrival. The sight of robins is uplifting as it signals the regrowth of flowers and vegetation and the return of color to the land.”
André Harvey
The Relic
(life-size armadillo)
Bronze
Length: 26" (65 cm)
Width: 7.25" (18.1 cm)
Height: 7.75" (19.4 cm)
Weight: 25 lbs (11.3 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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Represented in the collection of the Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN and the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
“Armadillos fascinate me because of their unusual form—as if a committee got together and armored a ’possum. I called the bronze ‘The Relic,’ because the armadillo looks like a survivor from an earlier era.”
André Harvey
First Light
(life-size hornets’ nest)
Bronze wall sculpture
Length: 31" (77.5 cm)
Height: 15" (37.5 cm)
Depth: 8" (20 cm)
Weight: 19 lbs (8.6 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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Represented in the collection of the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
“The hornets’ nest is a poetry of opposites—order and chaos, fascination and fear—a natural symphony of fragile beauty.”
André Harvey
River Shadows
(life-size manatees)
Stainless steel base (fabricated)
Lowest manatee:
Length: 54" (135 cm)
Middle manatee:
Length: 78" (195 cm)
Upper manatee:
Length: 66" (165 cm)
Weight: 1800 lbs (810 kg) approx.
From an edition of twenty-five
Stella
(life-size standing pig)
Bronze
Length: 67" (170.1 cm)
Width: 25.5" (64.7 cm)
Height: 38.5" (97.8 cm)
Weight: 560 lbs (254 kg) approx.
From an edition of thirty
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Represented in the collection of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
The Apple Thief
(large snapping turtle)
Bronze
Length: 6' (180 cm)
Width: 39" (97.5 cm)
Height: 25" (62.5 cm)
Weight: 600 lbs (270 kg) approx.
From an edition of thirty
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Represented in the public collection of Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE
“It was as if my clay tool was being guided by someone else, I destroyed what I thought was my best texture, cutting and scraping back all these hard-fought lines and bumps. Looking back, I realized that this was the start of the process revealing itself to me.”
André Harvey
Rain Before Morning
(life-size tree frogs)
Bronze walnut base
Height: 15.25" (38.2 cm)
Weight: 3.5 lbs (1.6 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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“In springtime, usually at dusk, the bleating trill of tree frogs drifts out of the ponds and woodlands, affirming life, signaling a change in the weather. More than likely, it will rain before morning. Although their forecasting abilities may or may not be as reliable as our own, their spring chorus is nevertheless a welcome sign of the return of warm weather.”
André Harvey
The Encounter
(two Hawaiian monk seals)
Bronze walnut base
Length: 11" (27.9 cm)
Width: 6.25" (15.9 cm)
Height: 14" (35.6 cm)
Weight: 6 lbs (2.7 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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Flying Frog
Bronze automotive hood ornament
Length: 6" (15.3 cm)
Signature and Numbered
Kindred Spirits
(Nubian goats)
Bronze
Polychrome Patina
Length: 24.5" (62.3 cm)
Width: 8.5" (21.6 cm)
Height: 9.875" (24.8 cm)
Weight: 35 lbs (15.9 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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“The distinct personalities and peculiarities of goats along with their fickleness and delightful individualism give them character and makes us like them—they are ‘kindred spirits.’”
André Harvey
Racing to the Sea
(loggerhead hatchlings)
Bronze walnut base
Length: 25.5" (65.3 cm)
Width: 11" (28 cm)
Height: 4.75" (12.2 cm)
Weight: 21 lbs (9.5 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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Represented in the collection of the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
“The sculpture began with a trip to Little Cumberland Island, Georgia, to observe loggerhead hatchlings. When they are ready to exit their sandy nest, the crater undulates at a slow ‘boil’ until all at once—almost as if nature whispered ‘Run!’—the nest explodes to life like a turtle volcano. The hatchlings, with incredible energy, flippers flailing like so many revved-up mechanical toys, begin racing to the sea.”
André Harvey
Double Samara
Bronze
Length: 37" (93.9 cm)
Depth: 9.75" (24.7 cm)
Height: 24" (60.9 cm)
Weight: 42 lbs (19 kg) approx.
From an edition of twenty
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“Whirling samaras (helicopters) bring about reflections of childhood.”
André Harvey
Rusty’s Raccoon
Bronze optional walnut base
Length: 26" (65 cm)
Width: 10.5" (26.3 cm)
Height: 12" (30 cm)
Weight: 30 lbs (13.5 kg) approx.
From an edition of thirty
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“I caught the first model near our house beside the Brandywine River, but he was too wild to handle, so I let him go. My brother Rusty then lent me his pet raccoon which proved a much more willing model.”
André Harvey
The Wing Chair
(woman in chair)
Bronze
Length: 16" (40 cm)
Width: 12" (30 cm)
Height: 15" (37.5 cm)
Weight: 67 lbs (30.2 kg) approx.
From an edition of thirty
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Represented in the collection of the Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
“I wanted the woman to convey the feeling of quiet moments when we are alone and peaceful with ourselves. The chair, like the blue jeans, is timeworn and comfortable”
André Harvey
The Sunbathers
(life-size painted turtles)
Bronze walnut base
Length: 26.75" (67.9 cm)
Width: 6.5" (16.5 cm)
Height: 6.25" (15.9 cm)
Weight: 21.5 lbs (9.9 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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Represented in the collection of the Art & Embassies Program, Washington, DC (permanent collection)
“The image of turtles basking on a log came from childhood encounters with these wetland creatures, images burned into the back room walls of my mind by the sun of a hot, spring day long ago. It is the persistence of these memories, the feeling one gets while walking a deserted beach and listening to the sea, the lazy tranquility and awe of being close to nature.”
André Harvey
Morris
(life-size opossum)
Fiberglass
Length: 23" (57.5 cm)
Width: 10" (25 cm)
Height: 7" (17.5 cm)
Weight: 5 lbs (2.3 kg) approx.
From an edition of twenty
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Water’s Edge
Bronze
Length: 14.5" (36.25 cm)
Width: 17" (42.5 cm)
Height: 8" (20 cm)
Weight: 28.5 lbs (12.8 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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Represented in the collection of Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE
“The fragile balance of nature at the water’s edge reveals itself to those willing to leave the fast lane of concrete and tarmac and bask for stolen moments of solitude and tranquility at the edge of a pond. Things sometimes come to those who sit and wait.”
André Harvey
American Odyssey : The Hitchhiker
Bronze
Length: 8.75" (21.9 cm)
Width: 17" (42.5 cm)
Height: 25.25" (63.1 cm)
Weight: 48 lbs (21.6 kg) approx.
From an edition of twenty
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Represented in the collection of the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
“It’s more than just hitchhiking from place to place. It’s about freedom and the ‘trial by fire’ of youth.”
André Harvey
The Phoenix
Bronze bas relief
Width: 28" (70 cm)
Height: 41" (102.5 cm)
Depth: 2.5" (6.3 cm)
Weight: 48 lbs (21.6 kg) approx.
From an edition of six
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Represented in the City of Wilmington, Wilmington, DE
“In the Greek and Roman eras, the mythical phoenix symbolized immortality. It was believed to live for five hundred years, then dive into fire and rise from its own ashes in miraculous rebirth.”
André Harvey
Chloe and Lucinda
(life-size Nubian goats)
Bronze
Chloe (lying down)
Length: 48.5" (121.3 cm)
Width: 26" (65 cm)
Height: 26" (65 cm)
Weight: 168 lbs (75.6 kg) approx.
Lucinda (standing)
Length: 61" (152.5 cm)
Width: 19" (47.5 cm)
Height: 36.5" (91.3 cm)
Weight: 269 lbs (121.1 kg) approx.
From an edition of twenty-five
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Represented in the collection of the University of Delaware, Newark, DE
“Goats have a special capacity for friendship and companionship both to humans and each other. They form inseparable friendships while foraging during the heat of the sun, or snuggled close to each other at night.”
André Harvey
Gamecock : Floyd's Finest
Bronze walnut base
Length: 13" (32.5 cm)
Width: 6.5" (16.3 cm)
Height: 12.5" (31.3 cm)
Weight: 15 lbs (6.8 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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Represented in the collection of the State of Delaware, Governor’s Office and the University of Virginia Law School, Charlottesville, VA
“There are people that admire the gamecock for its fighting spirit and courage, and I'm one of them. Floyd, the owner of this one, fits the same description.”
André Harvey
The Confrontation
(life-size snapping turtle)
Bronze
Length: 23" (57.5 cm)
Width: 11.5" (29.2 cm)
Height: 8.5" (21.3 cm)
Weight: 40 lbs (18 kg) approx.
From an edition of thirty
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Represented in the collection of the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
“I was impressed with its prehistoric look, its rough beauty. It was hissing very loudly when I first confronted it, and not frightened of me at all. Somehow it is an essential symbol of nature—rough, beautiful, imposing, mysterious and persevering.”
André Harvey
Red Fox
Bronze walnut base
Length: 10.75" (26.9 cm)
Width: 7.75" (19.4 cm)
Height: 5.125" (12.8 cm)
Weight: 8 lbs (3.6 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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“She posed for me in my studio in the woods. On rainy days, long after she left, her musky odor would come back to remind me of her.”
André Harvey
The Decision
(man at pay phone)
Bronze walnut base
Length: 17.625" (44.1 cm)
Width: 12.875" (32.2 cm)
Height: 25.5" (63.8 cm)
Weight: 71 lbs (32 kg) approx.
From an edition of thirty
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“It’s about courage and wisdom, about confronting and solving a personal dilemma while gathering the courage to take charge of one’s life.”
André Harvey
The Interlude
(Hawaiian monk seal)
Bronze walnut base
Length: 19.375" (49.2 cm)
Width: 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Height: 9" (22.9 cm)
Weight: 20 lbs (9.1 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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“Walking Tern Island’s remote beaches in the Northwestern ‘Leeward’ Hawaiian Island chain, listening to the breaking waves, I felt a link with nature not experienced on a human beach. Time beats to the pulse of centuries and eons, not minutes and hours. I could almost feel my place in it as a fellow creature sharing the space and the danger.”
André Harvey
Pond Dancer
(jumping frog)
Bronze walnut base
Length: 9.5" (23.8 cm)
Width: 9.75" (24.4 cm)
Height: 10.75" (26.9 cm)
Weight: 10 lbs (4.5 kg) approx.
From an edition of twenty
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“One of my earliest works, ‘Pond Dancer’ gave way to what could be possible in sculpture.”
André Harvey
The Pilgrimage
(green sea turtle)
Bronze walnut base
Length: 13.5" (33.8 cm)
Width: 12" (30 cm)
Height: 11.5" (28.8 cm)
Weight: 15 lbs (6.8 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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Represented in the collection of the Nature in Art Gallery and Museum, Gloucester, England and the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
“What intrigued me about the green sea turtle is that it can migrate over vast distances of open sea—from its feeding grounds to its native beach—with uncanny accuracy. Adding the sea scallop—long a symbol of marine travel—to the base was a way of conveying the feeling of this master mariner plying its age-old way against difficult odds.”
André Harvey
The Portrait Sitter
(sitting pig)
Bronze walnut base
Length: 13.75" (34.4 cm)
Width: 7.5" (18.8 cm)
Height: 8" (20 cm)
Weight: 15 lbs (6.8 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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Represented in the collection of the Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN and the Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA
“During the summer months I spent doing the clay, this sow became the friendliest of the six pigs in the pen. I would jump the fence, set up my portable sculpting table, and give her a call. Of all the pigs, she was the only one that would come to me without being bribed by a fistful of corn. She would amble up to within a few feet of me, and then assume a sitting position—almost as if she had planned to sit for a portrait.”
André Harvey
Concert
(life-size two frogs in pond)
Bronze
Length: 16.5" (41.3 cm)
Width: 8.5" (21.3 cm)
Height: 3" (7.5 cm)
Weight: 15 lbs (6.8 kg) approx.
From an edition of twenty
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“During the day, I’d sit quietly in the tall grass by the edge of the pond and look and listen. At night, my flashlight scanned the water like a searchlight, catching them mesmerized in its beam.”
André Harvey
The Collector
(woman on beach)
Bronze
Length: 25" (62.5 cm)
Width: 8.5" (21.3 cm)
Height: 11" (27.5 cm)
Weight: 40 lbs (18 kg) approx.
From an edition of twenty
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Represented in the collection of the Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
“There’s something humbling about being alone with nature. The woman has gathered sea shells and, now, resting, is collecting her thoughts, those private moments when, surrounded by nature, we think of our own destinies.”
André Harvey
Pigasus
(the flying pig)
Bronze antique verde marble base
Height: 12" (30.5 cm)
Weight: 5 lbs (11 kg) approx.
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The Eavesdropper
(Labrador retriever)
Bronze walnut base
Length: 12" (30 cm)
Width: 6" (15 cm)
Height: 8.5" (21.3 cm)
Weight: 12 lbs (5.4 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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Represented in the collection of the Dog Museum, New York, NY
“I chose the pose as if he just heard something and was curious about what the noise was.”
André Harvey
Pigs!
(three pigs in a mud hole)
Bronze walnut base
Length: 22.25" (55.6 cm)
Width: 15" (37.5 cm)
Height: 8.5" (21.3 cm)
Weight: 40 lbs (18 kg) approx.
From an edition of forty
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Represented in the collection of the Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA
“I was struck with the uninhibited happiness of the pigs as they wallowed in the crater-like mud holes they had dug to keep cool from the summer’s heat.”
André Harvey
The Survivor
(manatee)
Bronze walnut base
Length: 20" (50.8 cm)
Width: 7.5" (19.1 cm)
Height: 11.5" (29.3 cm)
Weight: 18 lbs (8.2 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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“Observing manatees in their underwater environment took me to Crystal River, Florida. I was nervous on my first dive because these underwater vegetarians can grow up to 15 feet and weigh nearly a ton. Suppressing my apprehension, I drew a deep breath and went beneath the surface, trying to think of manatees as sea cows in a watery pasture.”
André Harvey
River Shadows
(three manatees)
Bronze walnut base
Length: 22" (55.9 cm)
Width: 7.5" (19.1 cm)
Height: 13.25" (33.7 cm)
Weight: 15 lbs (6.8 kg) approx.
From an edition of sixty
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“I felt a presence outside the vision of my face mask. Turning cautiously, I was startled, yet fascinated, to see three manatees, like little submarines, staring at me out of wrinkled, kind eyes. The largest approached me face to face mask. Disconcerted, I involuntarily gave her a gentle scratch under her chin, as I do my cat. Like a slowly rotating cement mixer, she rolled over and offered up her belly for a rub.”
André Harvey
