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Sculptor Robert W. Cooke, right, discusses work with Maiden Bronze Foundry employee Mark Chlmlen-
tl. Sculpture at left, entitled The Prospector, is being shipped to a shopping mall In Canada.
Sandy foundry workers east
sculpture for Canadian mall
by CHRISTINE BIERMAN
lor The Post
When a bronze statue is erected
this week at a huge shopping m all
in Canada, some of Sandy's c ra ft
smanship also w ill go on display
The sculpture rolled out of the
Maiden Bronze Foundry, 16600 S E
362nd Drive, on Saturday to start a
1,000-mile trip to the Edmonton,
Alberta, mall.
Workers at the Sandy bronze
foundry spent the last eight weeks
fran tically completing “ The Pro
spector" sculpture in time for the
m a il’s grand opening in mid-
August, foundry spokesman Bob
Walker said.
The sculpture, by Robert W
Cooke of Issaquah, Wash., w ill be
displayed on the firs t floor of the
seven -sto ry E aton C entre in
downtown Edmonton, the provin
cia l capital.
The piece depicts a Klondike-era
m iner with his donkey who, upon
returning to civilization to trade his
gold fpr. supplies, " . . walks into
the store and gets blown away,”
said Cooke as he observed his
sculpture undergoing its fin al
coating Friday.
The m iner's wide-eyed, open-
mouthed expression seems to say,
“ Well, it shore ain 't the town it use
ta be," Cooke said.
The larger-than-life m iner is sup
posedly shocked by the size and
glamour of the m all, w ith its pink
m arble floors and seven-story
atrium surrounded by four levels of
stores and theaters. The three up
permost levels are a hotel.
A century earlier, Edmonton was
a crossroads for miners traveling
by land to the Klondike gold rush in
Alaska, said Cooke, an Edmonton
native.
Cooke is being paid $35,000 to
$45,000 for the piece by the Gherme-
zian fam ily, which developed both
the Eaton Centre and the larger
West Edmonton Mall nearby.
Given just five months to do the
job, Cooke said he and the foundry
worked at a record pace Maiden
Bronze converted Cooke's original
into bronze in half the usual time,
Walker said.
Cooke relies on Maiden Bronze's
expertise, professionalism and
speed after doing business with the
foundry for four years, he said.
“ They do a lot of monument
stu ff." said Cooke, who does not. He
sp e c ia liz e s in lim ite d - e d itio n
w ildlife bronzes, and this project is
his most sizeable bronze so far
In choosing the Sandy firm for
the job, Cooke said, “I might have
been pickier than a lot of people
because I do my own casting. I
understand the processes."
Without time to have Cooke's
original enlarged firs t, Maiden
Bronze employees transformed the
wood and clay study directly into
the bronze work. Walker said
Once the master arrived at the
foundry, workers there put in long
hours on the molding, the assembly
of 100 bronze pieces, and the
finishing work, or patina
"T h a t’s damn fast,” Cooke said
of the timeline. " I ’m not doing that
again."
Cooke trucked his 550-pound work
to Edmonton, where he was super
vising its installation near the
m ail's ground-level main entrance.
The artist purposely left off a
base, reasoning that it w ill appear
as if, "H e ithe miner» has come in
just like everyone else has come
in ."
Cooke described his subjects as
"a friendly sort of guy and a
lovable sort of donkey.
My intention is to have people
really relate to it. I hope there are
people climbing all over it." It is
the first, and perhaps only, artwork
in the mall.
The bronze mountain man could
have walked out of a history book,
with one exception. "H e has made
an effort to dress up," Cooke noted,
“ and the only thing he's got is his
top hat."
In his effort to recreate a miner
of the 1890s, Cooke did heavy
research on the Klondike days
before spending 24 months on the
prototype His study included inter
views with high-country packers.
As a result of his research, the
knots in the sculpture are actual
diamond hitches.
Racing a tight deadline, Cooke
said he used the “ assemblage"
technique for some of the miner's
gear strapped on the donkey.
Assemblage means that the pack,
water jug and shovel are actual
to o ls in c o rp o ra te d in to the
sculpture.
Both the pack and water jug are
antiques that traveled across the
Canadian Rockies with the Cana
dian Railroad; the shovel has a
hand-carved handle.
Once the original arrived in San
dy, molds were made, followed by
the casting of almost 100 pieces in
four days.
Those pieces were joined using
chains, binders, hydraulic jacks
and pneumatic presses, and then
welded.
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