Coeur d'Alene Art Auction - July 2021

– 261 – 334 Harry Jackson (1924–2011) Steer Roper – Hard and Fast (1959) bronze 16.25 inches high inscribed on base: Bustin’ One 17. ©Harry Jackson 59 PROVENANCE The Collection of the California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles, California $3,000–5,000 335 Harry Jackson (1924–2011) Pony Express II (1980) bronze 12 inches high inscribed on base: ©Harry Jackson 1980 PEII 25 [WFS Italia stamp] [artist’s thumbprint] The artist wrote, “There is a wonderful cowboy expression that you hear to this day – ‘packing the mail.’ … It certainly comes from the Pony Express rider, who rode between St. Joe, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, along the North Platte and the Sweetwater rivers and across South Pass, right through the heart of Wyoming, with outlaws and Indians trying to stop him from doing what he set out to do and no law to protect him. He wasn’t interested in wiping them out, he was just interested in defending himself and standing them off, doing his job of packing the mail.” PROVENANCE The Collection of the California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles, California $6,000–9,000 336 Harry Jackson (1924–2011) Long Horn (1966) bronze 6.25 inches high inscribed: ©H Jackson 29.P. 66 Old Timer (1970) bronze 5.25 inches high inscribed: 32.P ©H Jackson 1970 PROVENANCE The Collection of the California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles, California $1,000–1,500 for the pair