Kent Ullberg (Texas / Colorado, b .1945), "White Tail Alert", artist-cast bronze sculpture on wooden base, with incised signature and edition number 15/20

height 20 in. x width 13 in. x depth 5 in. (including base)

Provenance: Property from a home in Corpus Christi, Texas

Born in Sweden, Kent Ullberg moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, with his wife and sons in 1978, and quickly became one of the most recognized wildlife sculptors in America. He has completed numerous public commissions, and 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.