Item Description: Vintage -1978 - Ken Payne (1938 - 2012) - Possibly a sculpture of Thomas Edward "Black Jack" Ketchum New Mexico Bank and Train Robber or Francisco "Pancho" Villa Famed Mexican Revolutionary and Guerilla Leader - Bronze Sculpture - 14/50.
"Born into the ranching heritage of the Southwest, Ken Payne began his artistic career as a painter, focusing on the landscapes, cowboys, and native peoples of the Southwest. While always pursuing his passion for art, Ken became an accomplished pilot, going from crop-dusting, to instructing, to flying smokejumpers, and then flying for a commercial airline.
As a lifelong student of history, Ken spent many hours researching stories about the West. In the late 1970’s he decided to turn his talents toward bronze sculpture and for more than four decades produced close to 150 sculptures, depicting the action, danger, and even the humor of many a frontier situation."
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