A few of the portraits in this section are commissioned pieces, some of which are historic, while others are contemporary. The piece called “Buffalo Soldier-Sgt. Grover Hanks,” is a contemporary in historic outfit. Grover is a Houston lawyer. The Service Memorials are all contemporary figures. One is Allen’s self-portrait “Marking the LZ”. There are a number Civil War Generals from …
Description:This poster is to memorialize the “Wolf Dancer” in the 1/4 life-size “Prairie Edge Powwow”, a 7.5’ x 5” x 20“ relief piece Allen and Patty created. The piece has become a part of the permanent collection at the Booth Western Art Museum, in Cartersville, Georgia. Print Size: 11.5″ x 17″ Open Signed Edition
Description: This poster is to memorialize the “Traditional Dancer” in the 1/4 life-size “Prairie Edge Powwow”, a 7.5’ x 5” x 20“ relief piece Allen and Patty created. The piece has become a part of the permanent collection at the Booth Western Art Museum, in Cartersville, Georgia. Print Size: 11.5″ x 17″ Open Signed Edition
Description: This poster is to memorialize the “Dog Soldier Dancer” in the 1/4 life-size “Prairie Edge Powwow”, a 7.5’ x 5” x 20“ relief piece Allen and Patty created that made it into the permanent collection of the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. Print Size: 11.5″ x 17″ Open Signed Edition
Description: This poster memorializes the “Buffalo Dancer. The “Prairie Edge Powwow” (7.5’ x 5” x 20“, 1/4 life-size) is a relief piece Allen and Patty created. The piece has become a part of the permanent collection at the Booth Western Art Museum, in Cartersville, Georgia. Print Size: 11.5″ x 17″ Open Signed Edition
Description: Now you can get all of the dance posters and the “Prairie Edge Powwow” print in a single collection, at a special collection price. Allen Eckman signs each print and poster personally. Print and Poster Sizes: 17″ x 11.5″ Open Signed Edition
Description: At the time of this posting, “Wife and Child of Medicine Bull” is one of Patty’s latest large commissioned pieces. This one-half life-size piece is a freestanding sculpture on a relief base ground platform. It is a companion to the piece Allen did (in the same scale) for the same commissioner: “Medicine Bull”. This pair of pieces comes in a …
Description: At the time of this posting, “Medicine Bull” is one of Allen’s latest large commissioned pieces. This one-half life-size piece is a freestanding sculpture on a relief base ground platform. It is a companion to the piece Patty did (in the same scale) for the same commissioner: “Wife and Child of Medicine Bull”. This pair of pieces comes in …
Description: A mother is handed a baby doll from her young daughter. It will be tied tightly into in the toy cradleboard the mother is holding. On her back is the mother’s youngest child, in her real cradleboard. “A Mother’s Legacy” is a one-third life-size Patty created for the Heart of the West Show, at the Cowgirl Hall of Fame Museum, …
Description: Allen won the Gold Medal for the Digital Art Category at the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival in 2009 for his “Teton Booty” (digital oil on canvas giclee). It is another one of his combination sculpture and landscape (composite) paintings like “Standing Elks Vision” and “The Prayer Warrior,” only much larger in presentation. Allen took the landscape photo of …
Description: This beautiful digital watercolor print of the boulders in Arizona was created by Allen Eckman (from a photo he took at sunset). It is printed as a giclee on archival watercolor paper (with archival inks). The print is available in two sizes. Both are large horizontal prints, signed and numbered by this gold medal winning digital artist. It is …
Description: A very popular subject with both Allen and Patty for many years, the “Fancy Dancer” is created with dazzling detail. This one-quarter life-size cast paper sculpture was used as a model for a one-half life-size piece commissioned by Ripley’s Entertainment. It was installed in the Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum in Jackson, Wyoming, called “Northern Plaines-Fancy Dancer” (see it …
Description: This print displays a very popular subject with both Allen and Patty for many years, the Shawl Dancer. Patty created this cast paper sculpture as a commissioned, one-third life-size piece for the corporate collection of the Raymond James Corporation. This dance is often called the women’s fancy dance or butterfly dance, in Native American dance and competitive categories. It was …
Description: This print is a photograph of a subject matter the Eckmans have considered to be a personal favorite for many years, the Traditional Dancer. Allen created this cast paper sculpture as a one-quarter life-size piece. With this piece he won the prestigious gold medal in the sculpture category, at the 2008 National Veterans Creative Arts Festival. The traditional dancer is …
Description: This print is a photograph of a subject matter the Eckmans have considered to be a personal favorite for many years, the Hoop Dancer. Allen created this cast paper sculpture as a commissioned, one-half life-size piece. The hoop dancer is a relatively new Native American Dance category. It was developed, we are told, by a creative native in Taos …
Description: This mystical scene depicts the spirits of three medicine men holding up the buffalo medicine pipe, skull and horn with rattle. Suddenly, at sunset, the white buffalo spirit appears. Allen first photographed the sculpture of the three medicine men and the buffalo from another Eckman sculpted piece. Then, he did a digital composite from photos of his sculpture, together …
Description: This is a mystical scene where two Plaines Indian warrior spirits in the Black Hills of South Dakota visit a white buffalo. Allen photographed a “Warrior in the Wind” called “Blackfoot Bow and the Buffalo, the mounted figure from “Prairie Edge Powwow”, and the white buffalo which was taken from another sculpture called “In the Rut”. A herd of …
Description: This captivating scene depicts a Plains Indian Warrior with bow and arrow and elk horn headdress. He hunts as a golden eagle soars above. This elk hunter is experiencing a vision of a bull elk and cow together. Actually, the Indian figure is a “Warrior in the Wind” called “The Elk Hunter”. The elk is another piece called “A …
Description: This is a convincing image resembling a watercolor (on watercolor paper). This Plains Indian Warrior has a bow and arrow and elk horn headdress. He hunts as a golden eagle soars above. The elk hunter has a vision of a bull elk and cow together. Actually the Indian figure is a “Warrior in the Wind” called “The Elk Hunter”. The …
Description: This is a convincing image resembling an oil painting on canvas. This Plains Indian Warrior has a bow and arrow and elk horn headdress. He hunts as a golden eagle soars above. The elk hunter has a vision of a bull elk and cow together. Actually, the Indian figure is a “Warrior in the Wind” called “The Elk Hunter”. …
Description: This is a scene from one of Standing Bull’s dreams. In it, he sees himself standing near a rock with a buffalo skull on it, as four buffalo spirits appear in the background. The cast paper sculpture of Standing Bull (created by artist Allen Eckman) is a “Warrior in the Wind”. After photographing the sculptures of each individual piece, …
Description: This mystical scene depicts the spirits of three mounted Sioux Warriors looking toward the west at sunset. One is a Great War Chief, perhaps, Sitting Bull or Crazy Horse. Allen did a digital composite from photos of his sculpture, and the photos he took of a beautiful sunset, near his home in Rapid City, South Dakota. He then applied …
Description: In this buffalo hunt scene, a mounted Plains Indian hunter named Running Elk is wearing an elk horn headdress and hunting with a bow. At full gallop on the prairie, the hunter is fitting an arrow to his bow while holding another in his mouth. Overhead, an eagle soars. In the foreground lays a buffalo skull near a prickly …
Description: This is a scene where four warriors, led by a Great War Chief, ride into a village at full gallop carrying shields and lances, while an eagle passes overhead. Allen first photographed “Lancers on Rocky Ground II,”Prairie Edge Encampment” and “Prairie Edge Powwow “Little Bear Dancing. The images include rocks, grass, eagle and a buffalo skull. He then applied …
Description: This is a mystical scene where the spirits of four Sioux mothers hold their infants up in a cradle board, while the image of a great Sioux Warrior appears in the sky during a majestic sunset. The piece was accomplished by Allen first photographing the sculpture of the mothers (all “Warriors in the Wind” sculptures) created by Allen and …
Description: This is a scene of a Plains Indian Chief wearing a war bonnet with tails, holding up a buffalo skull in prayer, as a Golden Eagle soars above. Actually, the chief, horse and eagle, as well as the buffalo skulls, rocks and grass, were first created as separate white cast paper sculptures. These elements were used in several different …
Description: This is a convincing image—resembling a watercolor on watercolor paper —of a Plains Indian Chief holding up a buffalo skull in prayer, as a Golden Eagle soars above. Allen did a digital composite from the photos of his sculptures to create this scene. The composited image of the Chief was done from many different pieces to create the image. The …
Description: This is a convincing image—resembling an oil painting on canvas—of a Plains Indian Chief holding up a buffalo skull in prayer, as a Golden Eagle soars above. Allen did a digital composite from the photos of his sculptures to create this scene. The composited image of the Chief was done from many different pieces to create the image. The eagle …
Description: This is a Powwow scene complete with traditional Indian dancers. It features 18 Plains Indians from four different tribes: Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow and Blackfoot. They are meeting to discuss many things, but are also interested in whom the new Cheyenne chief may be (evidenced by the war bonnet display while the majestic eagle soars above). Allen first photographed the …
Description: This is a mystical scene showing the spirit of a mounted Lakota Medicine Man crossing the North Platte River. He wears a buffalo headdress, as he raises his lance in recognition of two buffalo spirits in the sky at sunset. The piece was accomplished by Allen first photographing the sculpture of a mounted medicine man used in another large …
Description: This is a Powwow scene (expanded and altered from another print called “Powwow- Picking the new Chief”) showing 23 Plains Indians from four different tribes: Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow and Blackfoot. They are meeting to discuss many things, but notice the piles of rocks set up with a buffalo, to attract the bison to this location for a future hunt. …
Description: This is a mystical scene where two Plains Indians are trying to bring down a large and angry buffalo bull. An ancestor spirit watches over the hunters as the eagle covers him. Buffalo ghosts are in the background, and a buffalo pipe is tied to a large buffalo bull’s skull. Allen first photographed the sculptures of each individual cast …
Description: In this mystical scene, the spirit of Chief Crazy Horse—on his gallant mount— is pointing eastward in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The title conjures up the chief’s own words. Allen first photographed the sculpture of a mounted chief used in a large Eckman piece called “Prairie Edge Powwow”, to accomplish this piece. He did a digital composite …
Description: This is one of Allen’s most popular fine art prints. It is a mystical scene where the spirits of three medicine men hold up the buffalo medicine pipe, buffalo medicine skull and buffalo medicine horn with rattle. Suddenly, at sunset, the white buffalo spirit appears. Allen first photographed the sculpture of the three medicine men, as well as the …
Description: Allen liked this “Warrior in the Wind”™ one-of-a-kind sculpture so much he took 3 photos and made a fine art print of it. This portrait of a Crow warrior is called “Dedication”. As do most of his “Warriors in the Wind”™ it sold right away. This print is 24″ wide by 12” high and is a limited edition of …
Allen and Patty’s Range of Work Patty and Allen Eckman have been creating wonderful, high-detail works in their handmade, acid-free cast paper sculpture since 1988. They have become internationally recognized as not only masters in the medium, but at this time, the sole masters. The Eckmans have shared their work with millions of art enthusiasts over the years, and …
Description: This poster memorializes the “Warrior in the Wind”™, “Wife and Daughter of Sitting Bull” Patty created as a 1/3 life-size piece. The large poster is actually about the same size as this stunning piece was sculpted. The “Warriors in the Wind” series is ongoing, and all are one-of-a-kind. Many more can be seen on the “Works of Allen and …
Description: This poster memorializes the “Warrior in the Wind”™, “Standing Bull” Allen created as a 1/3 life-size piece. The large poster is actually about the same size as this stunning piece was sculpted. The “Warriors in the Wind” series is ongoing, and all are one-of-a-kind. Many more can be seen on the “Works of Allen and Patty page”. Posters are …
Description: This poster memorializes the “Pronghorn Warrior in the Wind” Allen created as a one-third life-size piece. The large poster is actually about the same size as this stunning sculpted piece. The “Warriors in the Wind” series is ongoing, and all are one-of-a-kind. Many more can be seen on the “Works of Allen and Patty page”. Posters are all signed …
Description: This poster memorializes the “Elkhorn Warrior in the Wind” Allen created as a one-third life-size piece. The large poster is actually about the same size as this stunning sculpted piece. The “Warriors in the Wind” series is ongoing, and all are one-of-a-kind. Many more can be seen on the “Works of Allen and Patty” page. Posters are all signed …
Description: Own the entire collection. Many more can be seen on the “Allen and Patty Eckman’s Work page”. Posters are all signed by the artist and are produced in large and small sizes. Other “Warriors in the Wind” posters can be requested and produced on demand (see Warriors in the Wind page). These posters are printed on high-quality archival photo paper with archival …
Dancers Patty and Allen really enjoy creating Native American Dance subjects. It shows in the elaborate detail and gestures of the dancers and their outfits. Native American Indian Powwows are scheduled events in most of the United States. Dancers compete in various dance categories, each having certain unique requirements for their individual dance regalia. Most of these are one-of-a-kind, but …
These delightful one-of-a-kind sculptures created by Patty Eckman are all done one at a time in a one-third, life-size format. Each cradleboard is different, as are the infants that occupy them. Taken from the “Warriors in the Wind” Women and Children series, they are a wonderful collector’s item. Each comes in an acrylic box wall hanging (8″x14″x4″) relief. …
“Warriors in the Wind” are one-of-a-kind original sculptures by Allen and Patty Eckman using, their trademarked process. The Eckman Method® of Fine Art Cast Paper Sculpture is museum quality (acid-free). These works are created in scales ranging from 1/6, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2 to life-size. All are relief wall hangings, the majority of which are one-third life-size, sold in an acrylic box …
Turning Paper into Bronze Allen and Patty Eckman have developed a revolutionary process that allows the artists to turn their museum quality paper creations into bronze, while retaining the archival paper (in its original state). This process is only available through Eckman Fine Art. No other artists or foundry in the world knows how to do it. There are numerous …
Description: This is a typical Sharps Carbine breach-loading rifle used by the cavalry, buffalo hunters and Plains Indians. This one is decorated with several brass tacks and has two eagle feathers attached, indicating an Indian owned it. Allen Eckman Size: 9″x 3″x 1″ relief Edition of 100 signed and numbered
Description: This is a spiritual piece presenting a sacred buffalo skull (1/6 life-size) on a rock with four prayer sticks (four winds) around it. Each stick is stuck in the ground, but has four rocks around the sticks. The altar sets on the prairie, as depicted by the grass all around it. Allen Eckman Size: 6″x 6″x 4″ high …
Description: This is a special piece presenting a sacred buffalo skull (1/4 life-size) mounted on a background. The skull has four eagle feathers hanging; two each under the eye sockets. Allen Eckman Size: 6″x 6″x 4″ high Edition of 100 signed and numbered Mounted in an Acrylic Box
Description: This is a spiritual piece presenting a sacred buffalo skull (1/3 life-size) mounted on a background with four feathered medicine wheels, two underneath and one on each side. The buffalo symbolized all forms of sustenance to the Plains Indians. The medicine wheel and the number four were also very important symbols. That combination makes this is a very good …
Description: The medicine wheel is a strong and familiar symbol of the Native American culture. The one represented here, adorned with eagle feathers and cloth twists, is a hoop with a cross in the middle—all wrapped in porcupine quills. Allen Eckman Size: 5″x 2″ x .5″ relief Edition of 100 signed and numbered