Eagles flight unveiled in Bronze the boy scouts of america

About 'Eagles Flight' 

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'Eagles Flight' was sculpted in microcrystalline wax over a wood and burlap armature. Each of the hundreds or thousands of feather pellets were hand formed and pressed into the model. The sculpture was the first I was able to commit to bronze. Up until then I cast all my sculptures in a cement material called hydrocal or hydrostone.

The Bicentennial was the following year and I exhibited the wax model at Burrows to some enthusiastic clients, who looked forward to seeing the sculpture in bronze. Tallix Foundry, in Peekskill, NY was the foundry I chose.

After  completing the 'Eagles Flight', I created 'The Flight of the Terns', sculpting that work in wax, as well, at my gallery space at Burrows in Englewood, NJ.. 40 magazine, which was published nearby ran a feature on the bronzing process at Tallix Foundry,  in Peekskill, NY. You may find that article of interest, as it follows a sculpture through the fascinating Lost Wax or CirePerde., bronze casting process. Both sculpture works were exhibited in my 1975 exhibition at Burrows.

In 1986 I  opened a one-man exhibit at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Stamford CT. My one-man showing ran into 1990.  During that exhibition the Lipton Tea Company purchased my bronze 'Shamrock-a Lipton tribute' as a retirement gift for the CEO and President of Lipton Tea Co., Hubert M. Tibbetts, in 1988.  Shamrock introduced Hubert and his wife, Gunhild Tibbetts to my exhibit at the Sheraton. After a meeting at the Sheraton, Hubert purchased 'Eagles Flight' for his new business and office in Palm Beach. FL. 

Mr. Tibbetts had me install the sculpture in his Palm Beach office and about six years later retired from that business.  Hubert called me saying he was back up in Greenwich CT. and would like me to build him a Black Granite outdoor pedestal so he could exhibit the Eagle on his property in Greenwich.

.In 2002, Hubert M. Tibbetts, passed away leaving Mrs Tibbetts and their six acre estate, which she found too large to keep alone. Gunhild called and requested that she find a suitable location for the 'Eagles Flight'

Hubert had been an Eagle Scout and we were all delighted The Boy Scout Headquarters in Greenwich would accept the Eagle as a dedication to Mr. Hubert M. Tibbetts.