CAA member John Coleman was honored with the James Earle Fraser Sculpture Award and the Nona Jean Hulsey Rumsey Buyers' Choice Award at Prix de West 2009 for his sculpture, 1876, Gall-Sitting Bull-Crazy Horse.

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum® 36th anniversary Prix de West® Invitational Art Exhibition and Sale hosted 108 artists and more than 1,100 guests during opening weekend June 12 and 13, 2009. The exhibit includes a record 343 Western paintings and sculptures by the finest contemporary Western artists in the nation.

The James Earle Fraser Sculpture Award is an award given to an artist for exceptional achievement in sculpture. Coleman's winning sculpture, 1876, Gall—Sitting Bull—Crazy Horse, depicts those considered to be some of the most important principals involved in the battle of the Little Bighorn.

Coleman also won the Nona Jean Hulsey Rumsey Buyers' Choice Award for the same sculpture. Named for longtime Museum patron Nona Jean Hulsey Rumsey in honor of her many years of dedication to the Museum, the award is voted on by buyers throughout the weekend. It is for the work they best admire and the piece they feel exemplifies the mission of the Museum.

CAA members Harley Brown, John Coleman, Tim Cox, Loren Entz, Bruce Greene, Martin Grelle, Oreland Joe, Mehl Lawson, Herb Mignery, John Moyers, Bill Nebeker, Jim Norton, Bill Owen, R. S. Riddick, and Grant Speed (Emeritus member) also participated in Prix de West.

The Prix de West exhibition will remain on display at the Oklahoma City, Okla., museum through Sept. 7, 2009.

Learn more: http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/events/pdw/.

1876, Gall -- Sitting Bull -- Crazy Horse, Bronze, 33" H x 59" W x 22" D