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2022 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 271109 / 321  •  View Catalog  •   • 

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Richard Greeves (1935 – 2022)
Bird Woman (2001)
bronze
70 inches high
inscribed on base: Bird Woman Shoshone R. Greeves 7/10 2001

Sacagawea, or Bird Woman as her Lemhi Shoshone name translates, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition succeed in their mission of exploring the Louisiana Territory. In the early 1900s, the National American Woman Suffrage Association adopted Sacagawea as a symbol of women’s worth and independence by creating statutes and plaques in her memory.

EXHIBITED
Masters of the American West, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, California, 2002

LITERATURE
Western Art & Architecture, June / July 2022, p. 124, illustrated

271

Richard Greeves

1935 – 2022

Bird Woman (2001)
bronze
70 inches high
inscribed on base: Bird Woman Shoshone R. Greeves 7/10 2001
Sold at Auction: $45,375
Condition ReportBronze is in good condition.

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