Below you can view more photos of the Eckmans’ incredible cast paper sculptures. Click on images to enlarge.
“Saved From the Flood”
This first version is molded from paper. From the original sculpture, a silicon rubber mold is made to form the soft paper material that will eventually harden. Then final details like fringe, grass, and hair are added.
“Saved From the Flood”
The same piece cast in bronze. Like the first process, this bronze can also be made from the original sculpture.
“A Way of Life”
Here is the cast paper sculpture.
“A Way of Life”
The same sculpture cast in bronze.
“Pride of the Lakota”
“Twins”
“Little Grass Dancer”
“Little Flower Dancing”
“Taking the Bull With the Bow”
“Little Buffalo Dreamer”
“Blackfoot Medicine Lance”
“Little Butterfly Bear”
“Dedication”
“Hopi Buffalo Dancer”
“Prairie Edge Hunt”
This is a large 90” x 60” x 20” piece featuring multiple individual animals and riders.
“Little Eagle Dancing”
“Little Hoop Dancer”
“Wife and Son of Sitting Bull”
“Little Bear Dancing II”
“Pronghorn Spirit”
“Medicine Bull”
“Family Powwow”
“Their Last Hunt”
“Indian Horse Roper”
“Apache Wilderness”
“Prairie Edge Powwow”
“Fancy Dancer, Northern Plains”
“Traditional Dancer”
“White Buffalo Man”
“Butterfly Sisters”
“Eagle Hoop Dancer”
“Shawl Dance”
“I Warned ‘im”
“Elk Horn Warrior in the Wind”
“Pronghorn Cliff”
“Medicine Crow”
“Traditional Dancer—Prairie Chicken Dance”
“Traditional Dancer—Eagle Stick and Fan”
“Fancy Dancer”
“Prairie Chicken Dance”
“The Game”
“Three Coups Lance and Shield”
“Blackfoot Medicine Shield”
“Battling Bulls of the Rockies”
Paintings and Prints
“Teton Cowgirl”
This special print is on stretched canvas, and is a (giclee) oil painting. It’s a reproduction of an original oil painting created from a picture Allen took of Patty on Chief, and from others he took of the Grand Teton Mountains (above Jackson Hole, Wyoming). Patty was an awarding-winning illustrator before she and Allen made a career change from advertising to fine art, in 1987.
“Taking a Big Bull”
This is a large and graphic giclee print on canvas. Allen digitally composed this scene from photos of his original sculptures, and painted it digitally. The sculptures were transformed into a contemporary giclee reduced to flat shapes of color, but the light and shadow from the photos he took remain in the image. It is certainly graphic in color, but is also graphic in content. The hunter is in pursuit of the large bull, which is seemingly looking at a buffalo skull in the grass—as if he sees his fate in it—while a golden eagle circles overhead.
“Goin’ Ridin’”
This special print is on watercolor paper, and is a giclee watercolor. It is a digital watercolor Allen created from a picture he took of Patty coming out of a barn, tack in hand. She was “goin’ ridin’” on Chief, the very same mount she is on in her oil painting above. (The Giclee process was created in 1991 as a way to produce fine art prints using modern inkjet print technology, rather than a printing press.)