Liza Todd-Tivey (American, b. 1957), Northern Dancer

1981, patinated bronze, edition numbered "39/75," signed and dated "L. TODD '81" to the inner left hind leg, mounted atop a walnut oval base with engraved copper title plaque.

16 5/8 x 15 1/2 x 6 in.

From the Estate of the late Peggy Augustus, Old Keswick, Virginia

Sculptor Miss Todd-Tivey is the daughter of the well-known American actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2001), and has become known among horse enthusiasts and art connoisseurs as one of the foremost horse sculptors in America today. Her much-admired bronzes of Northern Dancer, Raise A Native, Seattle Slew, Nashua & Clem Brooks, and Secretariat as a foal have established her in the collections of the most knowledgeable art experts in the world of horse racing! (Northern Dancer, Seattle Slew, and Secretariat were executed as private commissions for the owners and have been widely acclaimed as the most important bronze racehorse sculptures since John Skeaping died in 1978).

The embodiment in bronze of the very soul of a thoroughbred horse is an accomplishment of which few living artists are capable. This high intellectual grasp of a mood, a gesture, a character, a quirk is the stock-in-trade of Liza Todd-Tivey, unquestionably one of the finest, if not the finest, equine sculptors in the U.S.A.

Mrs. Penny Chenery for whom she modeled Somethingroyal and her foal, Secretariat, Spendthrift Farm, Mrs. Jacqueline Getty, Windfields, Farm, and Claiborne Farm amongst many others have commissioned Liza.

Artist bio courtesy of Chisholm Gallery.

Good estate condition; some light spotting to the crevices with a few area of greening; base with tight age check.