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        Sun Dancer                                                  Blackfoot Hunter                                              Rattlers Den         
  32.5" High-Bronze                                             32" High-Bronze                                          34" High-Bronze     

           
          Jeremiah Johnson                           Hunters Prize                          Waiting His Turn                              Twister                 
           32" High-Bronze                         32" High-Bronze                         30" High-Bronze                      45" High-Bronze        

"Elie Hazak is an unlikely looking western artist.  When you see his bronze sculptures you might envision the artist to be a Gary Cooper type, a figure whose long lean frame fits into a saddle as if he were born on it.  But Hazak, who works in a studio in his home, doesn't look like an Old West character.  He prefers to wear shorts and a T-shirt rather than denims.  After a serious riding accident, he prefers to sculpt horses, not sit on them.  With his round jovial face and short stocky frame, he doesn't wear a cowboy hat as much as it wears him.  Elie feels his biggest gift is his imagination.  "when you think of bronze, you may think of coldness and heaviness," he says.  "I like to bring in motion, and put emotion into the faces of both men and animals.  I kike to give human feelings to animals."  Hazak succeeds with his goal.  His bronzes, some of which weigh up to 200 pounds, practically surge with life, capturing moments of dramatic intensity."

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