Kent Ullberg (Sweden / Texas, b. 1945), "Flying Blue", bronze sculpture with applied patina, ed. 56/100

height 25 in. x width 15 in. x depth 8 in.

Provenance: Property from the collection of one of the leading businessmen in North Texas in the 1980s and 90s

Born in Sweden, Kent Ullberg became a resident of Corpus Christi, Texas from where he became one of the more recognized American wildlife sculptors in the late 20th century. He has done numerous public commissions. In 1998, he won the top award at the Prix de West show in Oklahoma City for his bronze Ocean's Cradle. The work depicts a mother otter cradling her pup and resulted from a three-day trip in the Pacific Ocean sketching and photographing sea otters and their pups cavorting in the waters off California's Monterey Peninsula. His twelve-foot high bronze of whooping cranes, Rites of Spring, is located near the entrance to the Margaret Woodson Fisher Sculpture Gallery at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin.

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