Richard V. Greeves

Richard Greeves' inspiration to create sculptures of Native Americans comes from a life-long love for and connection to these people. As a young man, he moved from St. Louis to Wyoming to live on a reservation, where he became somewhat like an adopted son to a Shoshone family. Though he returned briefly to St. Louis to finish school, today he and his wife live among the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho people at Fort Washakie on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming. His friends and neighbors are also his models and he gets inspiration and ideas from them and from wildlife in the area as well.

In 2002 Southwest Art magazine wrote, “The heart of Greeves' work lies in the spiritual and emotional aspects of being human.” His kinship with his Native American neighbors creates an even stronger emotional meaning to his sculptures when he uses his friends as models. Greeves is actively involved in supervising the bronze casting of his work and he's been acknowledged for the special attention he pays to the textural surface of his sculptures. Greeves' work can be found nationwide, particularly in the west in such places as the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana; and the Autry National Center, Los Angeles, California.

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