A Randy Puckett (American 1946,) painted bronze and wooden sculpture depicting a pair of dolphins swimming through a wave. The dolphin’s are depicted swimming through a bronze and wooden wave. The sculpture is signed to the underside of the bronze wave, “Randy Puckett, 3/50 1993”. H 12.5 W 14 D 11 Weight 7 LBS Since his childhood in Southern California, Randy Puckett has loved animals and the sea. In 1976, he carved a toy whale for his son, Justin, and his interests in sculpture and whales merged. Since then, Randy has sustained a passion for creating whales through sculpture. He eats, drinks, sleeps, and lives whales.He has found ways to be part of their world: dived with research biologists and Humpback Whales, been within 50 feet of a Blue whale, observed River Dolphins in the Orinoco and Sperm whales in the North Pacific and Sea of Cortez, Orcas off Puget Sound and Bottlenose Dolphins off Florida. If there is a chance to observe whales or dolphins, Randy finds a way, not least of which is studying the abundantly rich coastal waters off Monterey, California, where Randy makes his home.Randy collects and studies photographs, motion picture film and video tape, and current scientific literature on whales. With countless hours of personal observation, he knows whales inside and out, to include necropsies. Because of his devotion to craftsmanship and anatomical accuracy in his works, Randy may study pictures of a Beluga's blowhole, or grooves in the "armpit" of a Humpback Whale. Bio courtesy of AskArt