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Peggy Detmers, Wildlife Bronzes
Peggy is always busy creating new sculptures and fresh ideas to involve art into your living space. Her newest is furniture - over sized wood pieces, featuring bronze works. We have a wonderful distressed Hickory plank coffee table titled South Loop Elk (named for an area in the Black Hills where the elk like to hang out) showing a bronzed elk herd on the front of the table, sliding doors in the back for storage of extra books, magazines, couch throws or anything that needs to be tucked away. 58 L x 35 D x 21 H. This piece is designed and built by hand locally, and will last a life time. Inquire for more information and prices as well as other options - perhaps you had a Bison herd in mind?
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Peggy is a very serious and dedicated artist, always striving to show the animals and people in her art as accurately as possible down to the smallest details. She is well known for her monumental sized sculptures such as the Tatonka exhibit near Deadwood, South Dakota and Peaceful Prairie Patriarch in Hill City, South Dakota. Peggy also creates more traditional maquette sized works for home and office. The Best Defense, showing a bull bison defending an early season calf fending off their nemesis the wolf, is her newest bronze, and will be available in Maquette and monumental size. Special orders and welcome - if you have ideas we are glad to assist in helping you create your own Detmers originals. Dakota Nature and Art carries all of Peggy's available works and we are the only gallery in Western South Dakota to show her sculpture.
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Peggy grew
up among the expansive grasslands and
productive marshes of the eastern half of South Dakota.
Awestruck by massive waterfowl
migrations and bountiful wildlife, Peggy was inspired to become a
student of nature. From
horseback or afoot she would watch and draw domestic and wild
animals alike. She continued
her natural studies at South Dakota State University at
Brookings where she earned a
Bachelor of Science in wildlife & fisheries and general
biology.
Even though her degree was in the sciences, she
never lost interest in
the arts. She took a sabbatical from her biology career to study
with professional
sculptors and painters in the southwestern United States. She
believes that an
apprenticeship under a master was then and still is the best
learning experience for a
fledgling artist. She also studied bronze casting by working at
foundries in California
and Arizona.
Though
Peggy specializes in
sculpture, she is also known for her paintings and drawings.
