Frank Entsminger
ALASKA WILDLIFE ARTIST
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"Ridge Rambler"
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This is my 8th large piece.  The sculpture depicts a robust ram traversing a spiny ridge top. This is my largest sculpture to date.  It measures 18" long, 15" high, and 10" wide. It weighs approximately 25 pounds.  Hunting trips in the Wrangells with its rugged terrain and spectacular scenery inspired me to do this splendid Dall sheep briskly stepping from rock to rock. The piece can be colored (a patina) to individual taste. Here are two examples: one depicts a Dall sheep with a polished finish with blonde horns. The other depicts a stone sheep with a rather dark patina and dark horns. The color is your choice, which can be mixed and matched to your personal preference. Also, Iım offering two choices for the base. A standard two inch thick walnut base or a super base which is two layers totaling 3" thick of walnut. Both bases have a built in lazy-susan to help display every detail of this art piece.

"SPOOKED"
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Frank's seventh large piece.  Frank Entsminger started this sculpture with the idea of two wolves chasing the moose. The moose was then cast as a bronze piece by itself. The two wolves are in the beginning stages. Once completed they will be sold as a separate piece that can be placed with the moose. "Spooked" was sculpted from an Alaskan bull moose taken by Mary Baker of Texas on a hunt with Master Guide, Bill Ellis, in the Northern Wrangell Mountains. Bill's hunting lodge is local at Devil's Mountain off the Nebesna Road. The bull measured over 60 inches. Cast in 1993.

"WHO' BOSS?"
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Frank's sixth large piece. This piece depicts two large rams in a dominance fight. The rearing ram is in what is known as a "threatening posture." The lower is exhibiting the "horn display" with a full lip curl.  Regardless of the season, if rank hasn't been established, a head butting battle for supremacy will follow. The horns on each ram are modeled from the two largest rams Frank Entsminger collected in three decades of sheep hunting. Cast in 1990.

"WHERE EAGLES FLY"
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Frank's fifth bronze.  The Mountain Goat actually lives where eagles fly. This goat is caught inching around a vertical rock wall of the craggy peaks in Southeast Alaska. Frank has hunted goats many years with friends in Southeast Alaska. This bronze is dedicated to one of those friends, Lynn Kritchen, who died in the goat mountains in 1983. Frank has fond memories of goat hunts with Lynn. Cast in 1986.

"HARD PRESSED"
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Frank's fourth piece.  The caribou sculpture challenged Frank the most. "Hard Pressed" was derived from a memory in the Brook Range in 1967. While on a four month filming adventure, Frank witnessed a bull caribou running in a very fast trot. It seemed his tongue was almost hanging on the ground. A short time later, a big black wolf came loping by at a steady pace. The chase had to have been long into pursuit. Cast in 1985.

"DINIIGI CHOOG"
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Frank's third piece.  In Athapascan, the name means big moose. "Diniigi Choog" is an impressive representative of the largest deer in the world, the Alaskan - Yukon moose. This particular bull in the prime of his life was captured as he stepped from a still lake into a patch of tundra tussocks ill mannered as the fall rut approaches. Cast in 1983.

"TOKLAT"
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Frank's second piece. The undisputed king of the northland is the grizzly bear. No other creature on this continent has inspired Northern folklore to the same extent as the grizzly. With a temper to suit his nearsighted vision, the grizzly's rule of the Alaskan wilderness is undisputed. Frank Entsminger lives among the great beasts. Frank has captured the strength and agility of the grizzly in "Toklat." Cast in 1981.

"WALKIN' TALL"
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Frank's first piece.  A true monarch of the majestic Eastern Alaska Range was cast in bronze as he surveyed his domain. This old ram with picturesque horns reigned for nearly a decade. He was known far and wide by many who priced his beauty. Frank Entsminger knew the old boy and watched him grow from a young ram to the monarch which he committed to bronze. Cast in 1979.

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Frank Entsminger
Alaska Wildlife Bronze Artist
HC 72 Box 800
Tok, Alaska 99780

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