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Fritz White(1930-2010) Native American holding Buffalo Bronze. 17"h, 8"w,<br>6.75"d, 10.5 lbs signed in cast Fritz White (American, 1930-2010), numbered 22/<br>225, C/A Cowboy Artists of America stamp.Fritz White was best known throughout<br>the world for his distinctive style of bronze sculpture, and for being a key<br>player in turning Loveland into the well-known sculpture community it is<br>today.He was born January 14, 1930 in Milford, Ohio to Denver and Geneva<br>(Hatfield) White. By the time he was 12, his father had enrolled him in an adult<br>art class in a college in Cincinnati. “The war was going on and those small<br>colleges needed all the students they could get, so they agreed to take me. I<br>got a lot of special attention from the teachers. It was great,” he<br>recalled.After graduating from Terrace Park High School in Cincinnati in 1948,<br>Fritz played semi-pro football. Carrying those lessons forward, he later coached<br>junior high football and was fondly known as Coach Whitey.Fritz proudly served<br>in the U.S. Marine Corp. from 1948 to 1953 as Sergeant of a rifle platoon and<br>later as a Gunny. Following his service, Fritz launched Fancy Lettering, a<br>design studio for sales publications, and subsequently took a position with<br>National Underwriter Company. On a whim in 1961, he loaded up his car with large<br>chunks of marble from Marble, Colorado and thus began his long career in<br>sculpture. Thanks to the support of his dear friend John J. McGraw, Fritz was<br>soon working in clay and bronze.A decade later, in the spring of 1972, Fritz was<br>elected to the prestigious Cowboy Artists of America and became widely accepted<br>as one of the finest sculptors of this century. In addition to winning several<br>CAA awards for excellence (including the only sculptor to win the Colt Award),<br>he served as board member, vice president and president. He was also a Fellow of<br>the National Sculpture Society.
