Harry Jackson (1924-2011) Algonquin Chief and Warrior inscribed in paint 'Harry Jackson 1980' (on the base), inscribed and with the artist's thumbprint '© Harry Jackson / ACWP18P' and stamped with foundry mark 'WFS ITALY' (on the edge of the base) bronze with polychrome 31 5/8in high Cast in 1980. Footnotes: Provenance Private collection, Vail, Colorado. Literature J. Walker et al, Harry Jackson: Forty Years of His Work 1941-81, Cody, Wyoming, 1981, p. 98, another example illustrated. L. Pointer and D. Goddard, Harry Jackson, New York, New York, 1981, pp. 113, 125, 219, 290-291, other examples illustrated. Harry Jackson Studios, Sales Catalogue, Cody, Wyoming, 1986, p. 28, another example illustrated. In 1964, Harry Jackson was commissioned by Pittsburg's Fort Pitt to create a life size mural composition River, Road and Point that would illustrate the birth of the city in relation to the French and Indian Wars, and to celebrate William Pitt's triumph over the French. Because of the danger of the Ohio River flooding the museum, however, Jackson never completed the mural and pivoted instead to creating eight large scale panel paintings. As he often did since his earliest 1950s explorations with the bronze medium, Jackson selected certain figures and figural groups featured in the painted scenes and reimagined them in three dimensional bronze. Jackson wrote, 'I had the sculptures of the major figures specifically act out in detail what they would be within the illusionary three-dimensional space of the mural...[Figural groups like Algonquin Chief and Warrior] should evoke the entire mural.' 1 Algonquin Chief and Warrior depicts a moment shortly after the British forces were ambushed while approaching Fort Duquesne in July 1755. An Algonquin warrior's prominent spear displays a British Grenadier's miter cap with the queue still attached. To his left, the Chief holds a trade musket, a rifle built specifically for trade with the Indians. Although the sculptural group presents a moment of Algonquin/French success, two years later, under William Pitt's hawkish leadership, the British forces would ultimately prevail. First conceived and cast in 1971 with a patinaed surface, Harry Jackson returned to Algonquin Chief and Warrior in 1979 and cast an edition of 20 with polychrome, including the present work. 1 L. Pointer and D. Goddard, Harry Jackson, New York, New York, 1981, p. 235.