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Mary Strachan Scriver
Mary Strachan Scriver grew up in Portland, OR, took a BS in Speech (truly) at Northwestern University (61) and an MA in Religious Studies at the University of Chicago (1981). Her M. Div degree was from Meadville/Lombard Theological School. She taught high school English for a total of ten years and was a Unitarian Universalist minister for ten years. Through the Sixties she was with Bob Scriver, the well-known Western sculptor, in Browning, Montana, which is the capital of the Blackfeet Reservation.
Mary self-publishes books on . Mostly they are historical references useful for studying the Blackfeet. Her biography of Bob Scriver was published by the University of Calgary Press.
Mary writes 1,000 words daily for on whatever comes to mind. However, is more focused on Western art and information about Bob Scriver.
Now she lives in the little village of Valier, Montana, at the edge of the Blackfeet Reservation.
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Bronze
Inside and Out
Bronze Inside and Out is a study of Bob Scriver and a meditation on the place of his bronzes withinthe Western art tradition. But it is much more than that. It is the best book we have on a working
Western artistat once intimate (Mary Scriver was married to the artist), objective, tough-minded and affectionate. It is ingeniously structured around a brilliant conceit, the stages of creating a bronze sculpture which are here made to correspond to the human life span. ...Here, Bob Scriver and his art become works in progress.
We follow his struggles to express his personal vision, the hard effort necessary to make art and a career of art in an isolated Western town, the frustrations and realities of the commerce of art, the ups and downs of achieving the celebrity status that sells art, and throughout, we see the linkages between character, values and a specific artistic achievement.
More than any other book that I can think of, Bronze Inside and Out puts a human face on Western artindeed, all art. It invites us to ponder the very nature of the creative process.
-- From the foreword by Brian Dippie
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