Dan Bates
A third generation Tucsonan, Dan Bates spent much of his early childhood on his grandparent’s “El Coronado Ranch” in the Chiracahua Mountains of Southeastern Arizona. His involvement in art has been since childhood and his passion for the American West is deep.
Bates is a traditional sculptor of ‘lost wax’ bronzes with a Western theme. Renowned for his accurate, equestrian sculptures, Dan’s work captures the working cowboy, the United States Cavalry, and desert wildlife in all scales – from affordable to monumental. Most of his works come from the time when the West was young and all are historically correct – a hallmark of Bates’ work.
Source: Ask Art
Hat & Chaps and Hat & Slicker
Artist: Dan Bates
Description: Hat & Chaps (Left) and Hat & Slicker (Right)
Bronze | Left: 19”h x 10”w x 4”d (Edition #29 of 50); Right: 20”h x 7”w x 4”d (Edition #4 of 25)
Surrounded by the Chiracahua Mountains on his grandparent’s ranch during his youth, Dan Bates (b.1951) developed a passion for the west and his bronzes are a direct reflection. Sculpting in the lost wax casting tradition, his subject matter preferences are the southwest, desert wildlife, the cavalry and the working cowboy. Dan is an accomplished equestrian and a founding member of the Arizona 1st Company Governor’s Horse Guards, a mounted cavalry regiment.
Necessary cowboy accoutrements, but what a relief it must be to just hang ‘em up at the end of the day!