SUSAN KLIEWER "PROUD TRADITIONS" BRONZE SCULPTURE

Susan Osterman Kliewer (Born 1940) "Proud Traditions" Bronze Sculpture. Susan Kliewer is a native of Southern California, but has made Arizona her home for forty years. She spent five of those years at Marble Canyon Trading Post in a remote area of Northern Arizona, adjacent to the Navajo Reservation. A painter since the age of ten, Susan turned to sculpting in 1987, after working in an art casting foundry for ten years. In 1993 Susan won a competition to create a monument of Sedona Schnebly for the City of Sedona, Arizona. The ten-foot high sculpture of her town’s namesake was installed in front of the Sedona Library in 1994. Since then, many more monuments have been commissioned and installed in the United States and Europe. Susan is currently working on fourteen, two thirds life sized sculptures for the Na Aina Kai Botanical Gardens and Sculpture Park on Kauai, Hawaii depicting a Navajo family settlement. She often uses her Navajo friends and grandchildren as models to capture that special intimacy which is the hallmark of her work. Her depiction of the ways of Native Americans in everyday life, from the past as well as the present, has attracted major collectors from all over the world. Artist: Susan Kliewer Title: "Proud Traditions" Medium: Bronze Signature Type: Signed | Signature Location: base | Edition: 39/45 | Weight: 42 lbs. | Ref: BD8122

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