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You can imagine how chagrined I was to discover very cheap, poor but obvious copies of several of my sculptures (Running Cheetah, Seated Cheetah, Cougar Bench, The Leap, Vigilance and Panther) selling on eBay, attributed to “world famous sculptor Milo.” EBay does have a mechanism by which you can have an item removed from the site if it infringes your copyright, but if the lister contests it, they will put it back on unless you show evidence of filing a court action.
CHEETAH and "Milo" copy from Think Bronze
The seller, a Mr. Parviz Noghrey, contested all of the removals and re-listed the items (under several of his company names: Think Bronze, European Bronze, Landmark One Gallery, etc.) My lawyer had informed him of the copyright infringements and he was well aware of my work and that he was selling unauthorized copies, so I enlisted the services of copyright specialist Kay Collins, in Fort Collins CO, to file suit in Federal Court in Denver and serve Mr. Noghrey in New York.
The violations of my copyright were so obvious that Mr. Noghrey decided to settle out of court and a Stipulated Injunction was filed under which he agrees not to sell (or cause anyone else to sell) any more copies of any of my work. Along with part of my lawyer’s fees, he sent us his remaining inventory of infringing items and gave us the information about the shop in China where he purchased them. Of course, there is no “Milo” world famous sculptor - just a copy shop that will reproduce anything (probably from photos on the internet) that they think they can sell.
VIGILANCE and "Milo" copy from Europeon Bronze
I had the metal in the Chinese copies analyzed and it is basically brass (copper & zinc with traces of other metals thrown in.) Yellower than the slightly reddish silicon bronze we use here in the US, some of the practical differences are that it is more brittle, the zinc can leach out and leave the metal spongy and susceptible to disintegrating, and it doesn't take patinas well so they appear dead compared to the ones we can achieve on our silicon bronze.
If anyone sees an obvious copy of one of my sculptures (not just someone copying my style) I would really appreciate hearing about it!
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THE LEAP and "Milo" copy from Europeon Bronze |
PANTHER and "Milo" copy, eBay |
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COUGAR and "Milo" copy, eBay |
Some photo memories from a fantastic two weeks (September 2010) in Africa, in Selous, Ruaha and Katavi in southern Tanzania, with no phones, computers or TV, among good friends and many magnificent animals. View Slideshow.
Kudo
Two Lionesses
Two Zebras
Elephant Mom and Baby
Elephants
Leopard
Mating Lions
Ruaha Sunset
Selous Giraffe
Wild Dog
Young Vervet
I am adding another mask to my series of wallhung American Animal Masks, starting with this small maquette size, 5½”x 4¾”x 1½”. The patina will be graduated from a dark brown at the top to lighter near the bottom of the face. Edition of 50.
Both the Maquette (12½” long) and the Life-sized (35” long, shown here) Red Fox editions have sold out and I am now creating one in between the two sizes (24” long), since it has been such a popular sculpture (both sizes won “People’s Choice” for sculpture at the Western Rendezvous of Art.)
One of the things I missed the most when we moved from our California house in a
Redwood forest to an old bungalow in town in Colorado was having wildlife in my yard.
Deer, raccoon, skunk and possum were regular visitors then. Now we're pretty much
relegated to squirrels, but I'm happy to report that we do regularly see beautiful Red
Foxes moving through, taking temporary shelter under our huge Blue Spruce on their
rounds of the neighborhood. And this is one animal we didn't see in the Redwoods!
Edition of 24, 15½”x 24”x 8½”
Most of last year was consumed with the planning and contract negotiations for an exciting new commission, my largest to date, which is finished in clay and heading through the casting process. More on this once it is completed and installed.
Larry Newman
CHARGING PANTHER is the fifth Black Panther mascot sculpture commissioned by Chapman University in Orange, California. The life-sized version (8 feet long) now resides in the Athletic Complex lobby and is rolled out onto the field for games. Named "Jamie" after it's donor, it made its debut at the 2011 Homecoming game where it was enthusiastically received as a good-luck icon.
The maquette, with a black granite patina like all of Chapman's other Panthers, is 23" long in an edition of 18.
“Who Goes There”, my newest completed sculpture, was the “Quick Draw” piece for the
2010 Western Rendezvous of Art in Helena, MT. It is small, 6”x 5”x 4.5”, but has a lot of
presence and attitude for such a little guy!
Chapman University in Orange, CA (purchaser of five different over-life-sized Rosetta
Panther’s) has published a beautiful book, The Chapman University Collections,
showcasing their extensive, world class art collection and there is a double-page spread
featuring the first four of my Panthers they have paced on campus.
The Society of Animal Artists compiled a list in July of 43 Distinguished Signature
Members who have been included in at least 15 of their Annual Exhibitions and I am on
that list, along with such renowned artists as Robert Bateman, John Banovich, Nancy
Howe, Sherry Salari Sander and Carel Pieter Brest van Kempen. (I believe I have been
juried into 22 Annuals since becoming a member in 1989.) With over five hundred of
the world’s best animal artists from six continents as members, it is truly an honor to
have been accepted into so many of these tightly juried exhibitions.
“Who Goes There” has received an Honorable Mention in the Laumeister Fine Art
Competition at the Bennington Center for the Arts. The juror was painter Huihan Liu.
Quick Draw 2011 |
As always, we had a great time at the WESTERN RENDEZVOUS OF ART In Helena, MT, August 18 - 21. We always enjoy the trip there and back, the drive being quite relaxing after the hustle and bustle of the Sculpture in the Park weekend in Loveland. The seminars were great, the Quick Draw fun, the Awards Banquet exciting and the exhibition once again excellent (and it’s always nice when I sell well, as I did again this year.) We took a different route home, through Yellowstone and Cody, and discovered the spectacular drive through the Big Horn Mountains - well worth the few extra hours it took us to get home. 
Rosetta and Mel at Western Rendezvous of Art |
We were a couple of weeks too early for the fall colors extravaganza in upstate New York when we attended the reception for “Wild West: Beauty of the Beast” at the ROCKWELL MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART in Corning, NY, but it was still a beautiful area which we enjoyed exploring for the first time. The Rockwell is an impressive museum with an extensive permanent collection and excellent exhibitions. You can check their web site www.rockwellmuseum.org to see this exhibition and a lot more. The reception was a gala affair with the museum’s major patrons in attendance to present a painting to the museum and to hear the attending artists (Tim Cherry and me) answer questions about our creative process posed by curator Michael Duty and visit with us while viewing the show. The Museum staff treated us royally, the exhibition of outstanding paintings and sculptures was beautifully presented and the whole experience was just delightful.
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Questions by curator Michael Duty, answers by Tim Cherry and Rosetta |
Rosetta visiting with a patron by her Red Fox. Photography by Maria Strinni-Gill, Strinni-Studio |
Dowagiac’s The Daily News is now using “Cheetahs on the Run” on their newspaper masthead!
I was honored and quite moved when a new friend, an accomplished but private poet, composed this poem for me after seeing my work in person for the first time:
COUGAR...
THE HANDS THAT FORMED THE CLAY HAVE STOPPED...
THE TOOLS ARE LAID TO REST,
AND NOW BEFORE ME LIES A BRONZE...
FROM TALENT RICHLY BLESSED.
COUGAR...YOU HAVE COME TO LIFE...
AND NOW I STAND IN AWE,
AS WITH EACH SENSE YOU COME ALIVE...
I WATCH THE STILLNESS FALL.
I HEAR YOUR HEART...A RACING PULSE...
ATUNE WITH EVERY BEAT,
AND FEEL YOUR STRENGTH CONVEY TO ME...
YOU’VE NEVER KNOWN DEFEAT.
I SMELL THE SWEAT ESTABLISH FLESH...
YOUR MUSCLE TONE AT PEAK,
AND TASTE THE SENSE OF PRESENCE THAT,
YOUR VERY BEING SEEKS.
I SEE AT LAST...I UNDERSTAND...
YOUR WORLD IS NOT MY BOUND,
FOREVER LOCKED WITHIN THE BRONZE...
THAT OFFERS NOT A SOUND.
PEACE BE YOURS MY COUGAR FRIEND...
I LEAVE YOU TO YOUR PREY,
GLAD MY PATH HAS CROSSED WITH HER...
WHO GAVE YOU LIFE FROM CLAY
Written for Rosetta (Jan) in appreciation for her talent and her person.
by R.R. Rivers 6/24/10
It was certainly exciting for me when my home town purchased my large Heron Rising this April! The hope is to eventually move it from its present location on 4th street to a spot
where it can assume its intended role as a working fountain but if that proves impossible, it
is very happy and enjoyed as a planter.
Another Herons casting, which resided at the Carmel City Library in Indiana last summer, is also used as a planter, so successfully that the Library has purchased it to remain in that very popular location permanently! A garden is currently being created around its base.
Chapman University in Orange, California, installed its fourth large Rosetta Panther
sculpture in the Spring of 2010 when “Panther’s Pride” took up permanent residence at
their new residential complex.
“Lynx” at Laurel Elementary School of Art and Technology in Fort Collins, CO. Installed February
2010.
“Cheetahs on the Run” in Dowagiac, MI, installed September 2009.
Photo courtesy of Peru State College
Department of Marketing and
Communications.
“Bobcat” at Peru State College in Peru, Nebraska, installed 2009.
“Reach For The Sky”, installed at Curtis Junior High School in Tacoma, WA, August 2009.
| Jan 29 - Apr 24 | “Out of the Wild: Animals in Sculpture”, Brookgreen Gardens SC |
| Feb 18 - 20 | “Southeastern Wildlife Expo” (Brookgreen Gardens booth), Charleston SC |
| Mar 13 - Apr 10 | “Art & the Animal” Society of Animal Artists 50th Annual Tour, Dunnegan Gallery, Bolivar MO |
| Apr 24 - June 5 | “Colorado Governor’s Invitational Art Show”, Loveland Museum Gallery, Loveland CO |
| Apr 30 - Sept 5 | “Art & the Animal” SAA Tour, Sam Noble OK Museum of Natural History, Norman, OK |
| May 10 | Robert Duvall’s “Conservation Council of Nations” Celebration, VA |
| May 27 - Dec 31 | “Wild West: Beauty of the Beast”, Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning NY |
| June 10, 17, 24 | “Art Lab”, Western Heritage Company courtyard, Loveland, CO |
| June 11 - Aug 28 | “Art of the Animal XVI”, Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington VT |
| Aug 11 - 14 | “Sculpted Dimensions”, Buckhorn Community Center, Ontario Canada |
| Aug 18 - 21 | “Western Rendezvous of Art”, Helena, MT |
| Aug 25 - 27 | “Weekend of the West 2011”, Evergreen Fine Art, Evergreen CO |
| Sept 2 - 25 | “Annual Fall Group Show”, InSight Gallery, Fredericksburg TX |
| Sept 2- Dec 18 | “Laumeister Fine Art Competition”, Bennington Center for the Arts, VT |
| Sept 8 - 25 | “Colorado Governor’s Tourism Conference”, Loveland, CO |
| Sept 17 - Dec 31 | “Art & the Animal”, Society of Animal Artists 51st Annual Exhibition, Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City MI |
| Sept 26 - Aug 20 '12 | “Visual Arts Project”, David a Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts, with the National Sculpture Society, Tampa, FL |
| Oct 3 - Sept 30 '12 | “LOVE”, A National Sculpture Society Online Juried Exhibition |
| Oct 14 - Nov 3 | “American Women Artists”, Huff Harrington Fine Art, Atlanta GA |
| Oct 15 - 25 | “Small Works Virtual Show”, InSight Gallery, Fredericksburg TX |
| Dec 2 - 31 | “Miniature Masterpiece Show”, Evergreen Fine Art, Evergreen, CO |
I'm very excited about my ongoing relationship with Felidae Conservation Fund, which raises money to support wild cat research around the world. I have and will continue to provide sculpture for Felidae's fundraisers, both for silent auctions, a gallery situation and commissioned pieces, whereby we both benefit from sales of my feline sculptures and my work can serve as reminders of these creatures' beauty and nobility for the wildlife supporters who purchase them. Felidae's executive director, Zara McDonald, is based in Belvedere, California, but travels worldwide to find research and education projects dealing with the world's 37 species of wild cats, to benefit from the funds she raises. I'm proud to be associated with Felidae and look forward to an exciting and productive, mutually beneficial relationship well into the future.
Visit their beautiful new office/gallery in Building 1062, Fort Cronkhite, Sausalito CA, where they have a nice collection of my work on display and for sale.
The French crystal company, Baccarat, has produced three of my existing small sculptures in crystal. The first, introduced for Christmas 2008, was “The Leap”, which they are calling “Panther,” and they have since released my “Misty” as “Misty the Cat” and my “Panther” as “Lying in Wait Panther.” They are available from Baccarat and Neiman Marcus.
ROSETTA
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