Dan Garrett

Dan Garrett biography

Weaving myth and history, Dan Garrett depicts a world full of mystery and adventure and takes us to a place in which primal instincts and unseen forces ruled the earth.  Dan’s interest is in representing in bronze, mythology and archaeology, especially historic and prehistoric civilization from the High Plains area.

Dan says, “It amazes me and gives me deep respect for these people, the Paleo- Indians, that they could survive year round out on the open prairie with only primitive technology and the small support groups that they had to work with”.

Garret began his fine arts career as a painter and then, intrigued by the challenges of three dimensions, tackled clay, wood and bronze to depict his favorite subject, Native Americans.  He individualizes each bronze by choosing the color of the patina and oils and waxes each base.

Dan Garrett was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1949. His education includes majoring in Fine Art at the University of Wyoming, and self taught study in sculpture and patinas. He attended various sculpture workshops taught by the renowned sculptor Ed Fraughton, and also studied anatomy at the Zahourek Institute’s Anatomkin classes. The more he studied his subject, the more involved he became in the deep, unrecorded past.

His sculpture The Raider was selected for the Museum Purchase Award at the 1999 Cheyenne Frontier Days Western Art Show. This sculpture joins the permanent collection of The Old West Museum in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

He has been selected to jury several regional and national art shows, having several times served as a juror for the Loveland High Plains Art Council’s Sculpture in the Park in Loveland, Colorado, as well as the Western Spirit Art Show, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Dan has been invited to participate in invitation only shows, among them the Cheyenne Frontier Days Governor’s Invitational Art Show; the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition Western Art Show, Charleston, South Carolina; Bob and Inna Eubanks’ Peppertree Ranch Art Show, Santa Ynez, California; the Royal American Art Show, Kansas City, Missouri; the Loveland High Plains Art Council’s Sculpture in the Park Invitational, Loveland, Colorado; the Albuquerque Art Museum Miniatures Show, Albuquerque, New Mexico; the Nicolaysen Museum Art Auction, Casper, Wyoming; the Sedona Sculpture Walk, Sedona Arizona and the Cantigny Gardens Sculpture in the Gardens show in Chicago, Illinois.

Available sculpture:

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“Chief”
Dan Garrett
bronze #20/50
23″ H x 20″ W x 6 1/2″ D
$3,500

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“The Primal Prayer”
Dan Garrett
bronze #47/50
28″ H x 18″ W x 14″ D
$5,500

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“Shoshone”
Dan Garrett
bronze #41/50
12″ H x 9″ W x 10″ D
SOLD

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Biography courtesy of AskART.com.