East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-12-16
A. PH|M|STER PROCTOR.
SCULPTOR OF BUCKAROO,
OPENS STUDIO IN N. Y.
With Famous Portrayer of Wild
. and Primitive Life Goes Red
Belt" Blackfoot Indian, Who
Will Pose for THE Scout"

, ~ fnllniSter PROCTOR, one of Amer
lca's foremost sculptors. who formerl,
lived in Pendleton while making ;
study Of Indians. has returned to New
York to reopen his studio there.
With the great portrayer OF tn,
virile wild animal and primitive mar
types went "Red Belt"-his tribesmer
call him E-mar-k -psa-chi, who will
act as a model for Mr. Proctor Red
, Belt Is member of the Black Foot
tribes OF Montana and was the model
for Proctor's new statue "The Scout
modelled by the sculptor for the city
Of Denver.
Wild life Portrayed
One of the kindest and most genial
OF gentlemen, Proctor excels particu-
larly in the portrayal OF things villa
and primitive. Among the best
known Of his works are the Princeton
Tigers and the lions of Mckinley
monument in Buffalo. While in PEN
d!eton Mr.. Proctor modelled The
Buckaroo," another well known work.
A statue of a panther made by him
was the. gift of the Tennis Cabinet"
TO the late Theodore Roosevelt. ana
was chosen by the great American as
the design for the frontispiece of his
autobiography. Lions, pumas. buffalo
and leopards are some of the animals
which he has modelled with remark
able fidelity to life. His work stands
In the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York and in the St. Louis Art
Gallery, and in the great parks of New
York, Buffalo, Pittsburg and Denver.
Among Proctor's studies of the
Indian type are a bust, "Sundown."
for which Jackson Sundown, local In
dian, was model, and a small piece,
Unusually vivid in its suggestion Of
motion. called "On the Warpath."
One of his other recent statues was
that of The Pioneer" erected on the
campus Of the University of Oregon. I
II has attracted Nationwide COM
ment as embodiment of the stalwart
sturdy pioneer type.
Proctor is a Canadian by birth and
received his early art training in
Paris. But his genius is typically
American, and he has found his full
est expression apparently in perpetual
ing the Virile life of the early days.
Type Finally Found.
Last summer Proctor spent in Mon
tana among the Blackfoot Indians,
searching for the one who seemed best
fitted to embody the type for THE
Scout" He made several studies from
different models. But none of them
suited him until he discovered Red
Belt the son of Big Beaver. In this
tall. 1.-THE young redman the sculptor
saw the type that he wanted to en-
body in his scout. He had won the
friendship of the Indian. who called
him O-muk "A -Tio or Big Panther, and
had little trouble in persuading the
young man to come out to California
with him.
In the studios of Los Altos and
Palo Alto the work on the handsome [,
statue was carried on. Red
Belt took as great an interest in it as
the sculptor himself. With the stoiiu I
patience of his race he would sit pos
ed for hours on the dummy horse. I
leaning forward in the position of
ieashed power which the sculptured (
figure shows.
AT other times he would talk wite
Proctor and his family or friends,
read the simple poetry of which he
was especially fond, or go about with
the Proctors in their automobile. The
sight Of the stiff oddlydressed Indian
riding about in the big car never
ceased to excite interest and curiosity.
I'lattercd by Attention
Although shy. Red Belt was naively
flattered by the attention. he received
and was particularly delighted by
newspaper publicity When reporters
called to ask about him. he con-
,tantly reminded his spokesman, Proc
.or. OF interesting bits of information
u produced his war bonnet and other
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