Stalking Panther

Alexander Phimister Proctor American
 Cast by Roman Bronze Works

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 765

Proctor based an early version of "Stalking Panther" on childhood observations in Colorado, studies of panthers in New York's Central Park Zoo, and dissections of cats and cougars. Exhibited at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, the statuette was shown the following year at the Society of American Artists in New York. In 1894, Proctor went to Paris and brought along a plaster cast of "Stalking Panther" in order to continue refining the composition. Using a shaved cat for anatomical reference, he completed the second version and had it cast in bronze. The Metropolitan's statuette is presumed to be from this second version. The work is more than an anatomical assessment of an elongated cat in mid-stride; the piece is a psychologically engaging study of predatory motion toward an unseen prey, reflecting the artist's interest in depicting animals as forces of uncivilized nature.

Stalking Panther, Alexander Phimister Proctor (American, Bosanquet, Ontario 1860–1950 Palo Alto, California), Bronze, American

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Stalking Panther, Alexander Phimister Proctor (American, Bosanquet, Ontario 1860–1950 Palo Alto, California), Bronze, American
Stalking Panther, Alexander Phimister Proctor (American, Bosanquet, Ontario 1860–1950 Palo Alto, California), Bronze, American
Stalking Panther, Alexander Phimister Proctor (American, Bosanquet, Ontario 1860–1950 Palo Alto, California), Bronze, American
Stalking Panther, Alexander Phimister Proctor (American, Bosanquet, Ontario 1860–1950 Palo Alto, California), Bronze, American
Stalking Panther, Alexander Phimister Proctor (American, Bosanquet, Ontario 1860–1950 Palo Alto, California), Bronze, American

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