Lot 101: HENRY MERVIN SHRADY (1871-1922) 'Monarch of the Plains', A Bronze Figure of an Elk Buffalo

inscribed "Henry Mervin Shrady 1899" and "Copyright Theodore B. Starr 1899" 14 in. (35.5 cm.) high, brown patina LITERATURE L. Taft, "The History of American Sculpture," New York, 1924, 1969 reprint, pp. 483-484 P. J. Broder, "Bronzes of the American West," New York, 1974, pp. 241-243, pl. 260 When the sculptor Karl Bitter saw the models for "The Monarch of the Plains" and for a bull moose, both early works by Henry M. Shrady, waiting to be cast at the Gorham foundry, he was impressed. He asked the young sculptor to enlarge these models to eight feet and nine feet respectively in staff material for the bridges spanning the fairground of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo.