Participating Artists

    • Richard V. Greeves
    • Richard V. Greeves

    Richard V. Greeves

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    Richard V. Greeves has lived among the Indians and wildlife of Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation for more than 40 years. Naturally, these subjects are the focus of his sculpture. A native of St. Louis, Greeves is a self-taught artist whose work can be found in museums and prominent collections both nationally and internationally.

    Pingree: bronze, 24 x 12 x 12 in. ($7,500 each, 2 available)
    Nez Perce Boys, Wild and Free: bronze, 22 x 19 x 8 in. ($8,500 each, 4 available)
    Tree of Life: bronze, 24 x 11 x 9 in. ($6,500 each, 2 available)
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    Greeves is the recipient of the Prix de West Purchase Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City and is a regular instructor at the Scottsdale Artists’ School. He has been honored with solo exhibitions at the Missoula Museum of Arts, the Nicolaysen Art Museum, the Washakie County Museum, and the Wyoming State Capitol. His monument The Unknown was commissioned by the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, where it is on permanent display. His studios are located in Fort Washakie, Wyoming, and Scottsdale, Arizona.

    The Autry National Center of the American West acquired his sculpture The Sheepeaters of Yellowstone in 2000. In the same year, Greeves won the James Earle Fraser Sculpture Award at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum for his larger-than-life statue of Chief Washakie. He also had two monuments unveiled at the Whitney Museum in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming. In 2006, he had a one-man exhibition of 29 sculptures, titled Lewis and Clark Among the Indians: Sculptures by Richard V. Greeves, at the Autry National Center, where he was also honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2008 he was featured in Southwest Art and Western Art Collector, and in 2009 the Autry National Center’s Trustees acquired Greeves’s Crazy Horse monument for its permanent collection.

    He continues to add to his body of work depicting the Indians encountered on the Lewis and Clark Expedition as they made their historic journey.

    Richard V. Greeves is represented by Borsini-Burr Gallery, Montara, California; Legacy Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, and Jackson, Wyoming; and Settlers West Galleries Inc., Tucson, Arizona.