“Gros Ventres – Winter 1804” by Richard Vernon Greeves is a towering, textural bronze that merges figure and landscape—evoking the quiet strength and survival instinct of the Gros Ventre people during the brutal frontier winter of 1804. Cloaked in a heavy buffalo robe, the figure seems to rise from the earth itself, with folds of bronze echoing snowdrifts and bark, blizzard and barkskin.

His posture is firm but not boastful. A weapon rests across his body—not raised, but ready. His expression, sculpted with subtlety, speaks of watchfulness, endurance, and ancestral calm amid exposure. The abstract base gives way to clear intent: this is a monument to presence, persistence, and protection.

By casting the subject in such a vertical, monolithic form, Greeves transcends portraiture—this is sculpture as weathered memory, as living monument. A statement piece for any serious collector or institution focused on Indigenous endurance, winter survival, and the raw beauty of traditional bronze.