At the World’s Fair at New Orleans in 1984 millions of visitors voted Mr. Bronson’s Woolly Mammoth “Testing the Arctic Wind” First Place People’s Choice. A genuine six foot long ivory mammoth tusk from the arctic permafrost was the backdrop for a bronze mammoth sculpted from cave drawings. Mr. Bronson visited the arctic to study the hair and articulation of mammoth bones to create the most accurate mammoth possible. Approximately ten million people viewed the exhibit. Critics and the public alike have made Mr. Bronson’s creative work the center of attention at the top juried exhibits in the world.

Billions of people worldwide have enjoyed Mr. Bronson’s bronze sculptures. During the Olympics and the world’s top juried shows in wildlife and western art where Mr. Bronson has represented the United States such as the prestigious Musee Universel De La Chase Et De La Nature exhibit honored the best wildlife artists of the last two hundred years. John James Audubon and Jonathan Bronson were juried in for the U.S. Jonathan is considered the master originator of the school of bronze sculpture starting in the early 1970’s in the U.S. with eagles, waterfowl in flight and suspended leaping wildlife in motion. Critics who have followed the progress of his original works of art copied worldwide in the last thirty years consider Bronson as the most influential wildlife sculptor of that period.

David M. Lank, the world’s top wildlife art expert and critic, said this of Bronson: “To a degree that is almost unheard of in contemporary wildlife sculpture, Jonathan Bronson captures not a fleeting moment, but rather a sense of timelessness. Bronson’s art is difficult to define because all the superlatives have been preempted to promote the outpouring of countless lesser craftsmen. Those who love the true wilderness will recognize in his work his profound sympathy with nature- And from those who have felt the essence of the creatures, this is surely the highest accolade. He has spent weeks scanning the Alaskan wilds; he has ridden alone across the true hidden wilderness; he has patiently “watched the wolf silently tracking the caribou. He has felt the same gusts that tilt the soaring wings of eagles. He has heard the winds that rustle prairie grasses, and has been stung by the sleet and snow that mat the grizzly’s fur. This first-hand, unhurried absorption of all those sights, sounds and smells of our outdoor heritage combines with the indefinable internal chemistry to flow through fingers shaping warm wax into models from which true art emerges. Technically, Bronson’s metallurgy shows a staggeringly maturity beyond his years. His ability to infuse the sculptures with the “sense of species” is the highest amalgam of the artist and the field naturalist.”

David M. Lank, Montreal investment counsel and corporate director, was educated at Lower Canada College, Princeton University and L”Universite de Grenobe in France. Author and illustrator of more the 300 articles and more than 40 books, radio commentator, frequent lecturer and tour leader, Mr. Lank was deputy head of operations for Expo ’67 and is President of the Atlantic Salmon Association. He is a past director of the Zoological Society of Montreal, a member of the American Antiquarian Society, the Royal Society of Arts in London, Director of the McCord museum in Montreal, Adjunct Curator of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, founding member of Canada’s largest private venture capital company and member of the Canada/U.S. committee of the Chamber of Commerce. He has been a visiting lecturer at more than 20 universities on a variety of subjects, and for four years taught the history of animal art at Concordia University while he was still the senior partner in Canada’s oldest investment management firm. His broad experience in cultural and conservation organizations led to his being named to the Order of Canada in 1996. He has juried many of the world’s top wildlife art exhibits in the last thirty years.

Since the age of six Jonathan Bronson began sculpting wildlife in wax. The first pieces were a rainbow trout and grizzly. He began selling commissions at age nine. Studying wildlife in the Rocky Mountains in Utah and later across the Canadian Northwest and many times into Alaska’s interior and Yukon Delta studying the grizzly, wolf, caribou, and arctic animals firsthand. Jonathan visited wilderness areas from South Africa to the Serengeti spending months in the bush such as Moto Ombo where Hemingway wrote “The Green Hills of Africa”. Jonathan studied and sculpted lion, rhino, elephant, plains game and birds making films and sculpting on site from beeswax in wild bees nests smoked out by locals.

“Sidewinder” sculpted at the Cowboy Artists of America Museum in Kerrville, Texas sculpture workshop. Jonathan Bronson has been close friends with many famous Cowboy Artists from the 1970’s who encouraged him to join their organizations. John Clymer and Jonathan Bronson did a painting-sculpture pair of a fawn curled up. Bronson has shown with most all the best western artists.

“Throw Down the Strongbox” A one-of-a-kind with a genuine 10 gauge sawed off Parker stage coach shotgun.

“Great White Fathers Broken Promises” Mr. Bronson was involved in the Indian Unity movement in the early 1970’s and has an in depth sympathy for their culture. At the age of eight Jonathan was best friends with the grandson of a famous Indian chief and over the years intensely studied marks and symbols on the clothing and moccasins of the various tribes and received praise from the Indians that his artwork was accurate relative to their tribal and spiritual viewpoint. Bronson has critiqued many western artists work in relation to authentic Indian cultural details.