Collection: Public Bronzes

  • The Great Blue

    The Great Blue

    Located on the Greenway, off of Dell Range and Ridge Rd.

    Dedicated To Those Who Lost Their Lives In The August 1st, 1885 Flood:

    Alice Paulsen (18yrs), Quintin ‘Bill’ Moore (59yrs), Deputy Sheriff Robert Van Alyne (33), James Rae Jenkins (18yrs), Joelie Renee Pando (16yrs), Kristy Hernandez (6yrs), Rose Scott (17yrs), Kumi Mostert (7yrs), Don Shanor (67yrs), Alanja White (3yrs), Lynn Williams (27yrs), John Williams (5yrs)

    In The Hope That These Are The Last To Perish From Flooding In Our Community.

  • The Drill

    The Drill

    Located on the corner of Snyder and W. 3rd Ave.
    Funded by the City of Cheyenne Art in Public Places Project

  • For the Love of the Game

    For the Love of the Game

    Bronze located on the corner of Dell Ragne and Converse Blvd. – Best viewed on the Cheyenne Greenway.
    Funded by the City of Cheyenne Art in Public Places Project with significant donations by the following:
    Joe and Ann Dougherty, Appy and Connie Atwell, Ron and Linda Flack and others

  • Buffalo Solider

    Buffalo Solider

    Donated by:
    Howard & Peggy Hutchings, Dr. & Mrs. Rudolph Gomez, Larry Jackson, P. J. Ross®, Taylor & Elisabeth Haynes, Trisha Taveor, Colonel Oswaldo Y. Mullins, Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs Committee, Civilian Advisory Council F. E. Warren AFB, John & Patty Tresco, Carol Jennings, Mayor & Mrs. Jack Spiker, Wyoming Governor’s Residence, Mr. & Mrs. Lee Courtney, Louise Raimondi, Cheyenne City Council, Art in Public Places Committee, Brig. Gen. & Mrs. Robert R. Scott

  • Rabbit Reach

    Rabbit Reach

    *Located near hole 1 at the Mylar Park Disc Golf Course off of Mylar Park Dr.
    Funded by the City of Cheyenne Art in Public Places Project

  • Royal Red

    Royal Red

    *Located near hole 1 at the Mylar Park Disc Golf Course off of Mylar Park Dr.
    Funded by the City of Cheyenne Art in Public Places Project

  • The Wind Dancer

    The Wind Dancer

    *Located outside of the former Lennox Auto Body – Now Crash Champions Collision Repair

    Donated by the Lennox Family – 2024

    Transformed into a human eagle dancer, he danced down the mountain.
    “..As he danced, wheeling and turning, dipping his shoulder until his banked wing tip touched the dirt, it seemed that the world whirled with him and his moccasins scarcely touched the ground.”

  • Storybooks

    Storybooks

    *Located near the entrance of the Laramie County Library

  • Puppy Dog Tales

    Puppy Dog Tales

    *Located in the parking lot of the Laramie County Library.

  • Out Of the Best Books

    Out Of the Best Books

    *Located near the entrance of the Laramie County Library.

    Donated by the Dr. and Mrs. Gerala Smith Family.

  • Here’s Your Paper

    Here’s Your Paper

    *Located in the parking lot of the Laramie County Library

  • How Bout’ Them Cowgirls

    How Bout’ Them Cowgirls

    *Located on the W. Side of the CFD Park off of Hynds/8th Ave.

  • Just Ledoux It

    Just Ledoux It

    *Located on the W. Side of the CFD Park off of Hynds/8th Ave.

    Wyoming musician and world-champion bareback rider Chris Ledoux was a veteran of the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo Arena by day, and of our main stage at night. His statue depicts his two great loves – rodeo and music – and pays tribute to the career he built around celebrating the Western way of life.

    This project along with the Marietta Dinneen Carriage Barn, was supported by the CFD Foundations “365 to 125” campaign which – thanks to the generous generosity of numerous donors – raise over 300,000 over the course of just one year.


    Chris LeDoux was very much at home here in Chevenne. He was a celebrated football player for Cheyenne Central High School and first rode here at the “Daddy of ‘Em All” in 1968. Chris’s first time as a headline performer at Cheyenne Frontier Days was in 1993 when he famously said:
    “Whoa Cheyenne, well that is like the Grand Ole Opry to me!”

  • Mountain Monarch

    Mountain Monarch

    *Located on the corner of Yellowstone and Dell Range Blvd.

    Funded by the City of Cheyenne Art in Public Places Project.

  • Tooter

    Tooter

    From the Artist’s Proposal: The concept of the sculpture will be an allegory where animals play the part of students and a professor. The “professor” will be an adolescent bear standing upright on a foundation or stack of books as if lecturing or reaching for something. The “students” around him will be three jackrabbits: one looking at an open book one sniffing a closed book and one ignoring it all. The title would be a word play on tutor or tutoring someone. You will also notice that my “animals” are made from cast bronze shoes belts gloves extension cords and other human items. This gives them a surreal reference to what is the natural world of wild animals and a connection to the civilized world where we use these animals as our food their skins as our clothing and so forth. The sculpture was commissioned by LCCC. Here’s a short documentary on how the sculpture was created. https://youtu.be/1dzncg2AGfw

  • Truth

    Truth

    Truth is wise and the oldest of the four sister statues. Truth calls us to follow her to walk by her side for she illuminates our way. In her absence there is darkness strife and suffer In her presence life is clear and meaningful.

  • Ursus

    Ursus

    “Ursus” is Dan Ostermiller’s latest creation to grace the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens. It is located near the front entrance to the facility.

  • Robert Burns

    Robert Burns

    The Robert Burns Monument is a bronze image of Burns attired in the costume typical of his times. It stands 6-1/2 feet high on a pedestal of Georgia gray granite 12-1/2 feet high. The statue was prepared by noted Scottish sculptor Henry S. Gamely and was donated to the city by Mary Gilchrist in 1929 widow of one of Wyoming’s most colourful cattle-barons and a native of Ayrshire Scotland.

  • Say Cheese

    Say Cheese

    “Say Cheese” is located in Lincoln Park just east of Johnson Pool and the old Johnson Junior High School. It was installed in 2002 as part of the City of Cheyenne’s original Art in Public Places Program. The piece is in honor of those students that attended the former Johnson Junior High School.

  • Russ

    Russ

    Russ is a depiction of a seeing eye dog. It was a private commission by Mrs. John Ostlund and was donated and installed at the Children’s Village of the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens. This piece is installed at the Children’s Village of the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens

  • On the Road With Mother Goose

    On the Road With Mother Goose

    “On the Road With Mother Goose” is installed in the Paul Smith Children’s Village next to the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens in Lions Park.

  • Open Season

    Open Season

    This piece is installed at the Governor’s Residence in Cheyenne Wyoming. It is a public commission funded by the Wyoming State Legislature and the Wyoming State Building Commission.

  • Quiet Encounters

    Quiet Encounters

    “Quiet Encounter” is part of a bronze and copper series depicting couples. This Boris Kramer piece was donated to the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens by Rick and Toma Nisbet.

  • Moment of Glory

    Moment of Glory

    Moment of Glory depicts the winning catch in a baseball game. This piece is installed at Brimmer Park softball fields.

  • National Guard

    National Guard

    The “National Guard” sculpture is incorporated into a granite monument on the corner of Central Ave and E. 24th St just across the street from the Wyoming State Capitol Building and just north of the Wyoming State Museum. It honors and recognizes those Wyoming citizens that have served in the Air and Army National Guard.

  • Next Winter’s Bread

    Next Winter’s Bread

    “Next Winter’s Bread” is a small bronze monument installed in the 1800’s Garden just north of the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens. This piece was an early purchase by the Art in Public Places program with support from Louise Raimondi and the Friends of the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens.

  • No Turning Back

    No Turning Back

    “No Turning Back” is a life-size piece reflecting the commitment the settlers made when they decided to homestead in the American west. It was installed just outside the Old West Museum in 1997 and was made possible by gifts from local supporters of the Museum. From the sculptor: “No Turning Back is without a doubt one of my most significant works. It seems to be timeless in that it has been reproduced on the cover of a CD album in which a song was composed from the accompanying poem I wrote. Arizona Highways used an image of the sculpture on the cover of a book titled “Stalwart Women”. Every major western art magazine has used an image of “No Turning Back” and it was featured in “Sculptors of the Rockies” a book produced by Southwest Art magazine in 2009. The life-size version of “No Turning Back” is now on the cover of a book on my work of the same name.

  • Late Again

    Late Again

    This piece is installed at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens Children’s Village. This is a private commission as a memorial to AJ ‘Tony’ and EJ ‘Jib’ Allegretti from Dan and Leah Allegretti.

  • Legacy

    Legacy

    This piece is installed at the entrance of the Health Sciences Building at Laramie County Community College.

  • Justice

    Justice

    Justice is a warrior-like figure. She looks very smart and knowledgeable. She declares that under her gaze we are given the right to live a life without tyranny cruelty and perfidy. As well as the duty to live in peace and respect for one another.

  • I’ve Been to the Mountaintop

    I’ve Been to the Mountaintop

    This installation is a bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for civil rights. This piece is installed at Martin Luther King Park.

  • Hope

    Hope

    Hope announces the coming of the day when the yearnings of our soul shall be satisfied. Her message infuses us with the strength for the day and meaning to our tribulation.

  • Gene Howard

    Gene Howard

    The Gene Howard bronze is a depiction of Gene Howard a local horticulturist for the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens. This piece was commissioned by the Friends of the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens Foundation and is installed in the Rotary Century Gardens section.

  • A New Beginning

    A New Beginning

    “A New Beginning” honors the women who settled the area in the early pioneer days and is installed in front of the Old Cheyenne Depot Museum. The bronze depicts a “modern” woman in Victorian-era clothing carrying only a handbag and umbrella leaving the train station and heading into the West. Her eyes point toward the state Capitol is meant to portray the forward thinking and “can do” attitude of women during that time period. The statue also is meant as a reminder that Wyoming was the first territory and state to provide women the right to vote. To learn more about the Capitol Avenue Bronze Project visit this link . For more information about each artist sponsoring a bronze or becoming a donor/supporter at any level please contact Harvey Deselms at Deselms Fine Art located at 303 E. 17th Street Cheyenne. Email is deslemsart@aol.com or call at 307 432 0606

  • Ancient Icon of the Plains

    Ancient Icon of the Plains

    This piece is installed at the Game and Fish Headquarters in Cheyenne. It was commissioned by the Wyoming Arts Council for its Art in Public Buildings project.

  • Daddy of “Em All – A Cheyenne Tradition

    Daddy of “Em All – A Cheyenne Tradition

    *Located on the W. Side of the CFD Park off of Hynds/8th Ave.