Panther or (Stalking Panther) [also Fate; Panther—Fate; Charging Panther; Prowling panther; Panther Charging; Stalking Cat; Large Stalking Panther]

modeled 1891-1893; copyright 1897

Alexander Phimister Proctor

Born Arkona, Ontario, Canada, 1860; died Palo Alto, California, 1950

Sand cast by Jno. Williams

Bronze, brown patina, sand cast by Jno. Williams Foundry, New York, 1897 or later

37 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (94.6 x 16.5 x 24.8 cm)

Gift of Phimister Proctor (Sandy) and Sally Church

2015.15

Provenance: Purchased by the donors from a collector who had acquired it years earlier from an undisclosed estate sale; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2015

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, American Art: The Stories We Carry, Oct. 20, 2022 - ongoing.

Published Referencescf. “Noted Sculptor Exhibiting in Seattle.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 21, 1915
[mentions Charging Panther on loan to Washington State Art Association Gallery, Seattle].

cf. Proctor, Alexander Phimister. Sculptor in Buckskin: The Autobiography of Alexander Phimister Proctor. 1971; second edition ed. Katharine C. Ebner, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009; pp. 88-91, 119-120, 196 n. 1, reproduced [plaster model], p. 90.

cf. Pyne, Kathleen, ed. The Quest for Unity: American Art Between the World Fairs, 1876-1893. Exh. Cat. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1993. Cat. no. 165, pp. 257-258.

cf. Tolles, Thayer, ed. American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. I. A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. Cat. no. 185, pp. 414-415.

cf. Hassrick, Peter. Wildlife and Western Heroes: Alexander Phimister Proctor, Sculptor. Exh. Cat. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum in association with Third Millennium Publishing, London, 2003; pp. 34-35; 102-103, reproduced plate 5.

cf. Tolles, Thayer and Thomas Brent Smith. The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925. Exh. Cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2013; pp. 66-67, figs. 83, 84.

Seattle Art Museum respectfully acknowledges that we are on Indigenous land, the traditional territories of the Coast Salish people. We honor our ongoing connection to these communities past, present, and future.

Learn more about Equity at SAM