The Gallery The Horse   |   Working Equine   |   Colts In Bronze   |   Animals & Children   |   Commemoratives Race Ya Home 17 inches high, 32 inches long - Bronze. View larger image Spring Fever 14 inches high - Bronze. View larger image Bringing in the Cows 42 inches long - Bronze. View larger image Hi! Life size View larger image Ha! Ha! Life size View larger image Where Have I Been 10 inches high View larger image Long Legs Grazing 7.5 inches high View larger image Yippity Do 12.5 inches high View larger image Siesta 6 inches long View larger image Curiosity Colt: 4.5 feet tall, 6 feet long - Bas relief View larger image Miss Eclipse 13 inches high View larger image Steppin' Out 12.5 inches high View larger image Hot Stuff Approx. 9 inches high View larger image Frisky 10 inches. View larger image Free Enterprise 11 feet high - wood, steel, bronze, acrylic. Three arms represent the finance, management and labor of Free Enterprise. The center column is the growing enterprise at the top of which the flame is kept alive by harmonious relationship between the three arms in solving daily problems. If the enterprise matures, all three arms benefit abundantly and the cups run over. View larger image Money Sandwich - RECOGNIZING "THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL" 12.5 inches high, 32 inches long - Bronze. Tognoni: "Some people pray for it, some people get run over by it, some people fight for it, some people bend over backward for it and some people run with it" And [there is] my freeloader." Quoted in "The Phoenix Gazette," April 24, 1989. View larger image Columbus - COMMEMORATING THE SPIRIT OF EXPLORATION 8 feet tall bronze. 13 inch maquettes also available. DISPLAYED on 12th Street, Phoenix - Italian American Club, 7509 North. Commissioned by Arizona Columbus Day Committee for the 500th Anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the New World. View larger image 49er - COMMEMORATING WOMEN PIONEERS IN THE AMERICAN WEST 19 inches high View larger image Prairie Monarch 9.5 inches high View larger image The Stock Market 40 inches long, 16" high View larger image Suns Players - CELEBRATING THE GAME OF BASKETBALL 38 inches high - Bronze. Conceived for enlargement, as simulated, in the plaza of America West Arena, home of the Phoenix Suns. View larger image PEACE MONUMENT The center fountain with the dove of peace perched on top of the globe; the encircling steps; and participation by the world's children are at the heart of the artist's concept. Tognoni plans to modify the design pictured here with flag-carrying pairs of children stepping up toward the globe from all directions. View larger image Labor's Or View case study Maud 12 inch maquette View case study Louie Plowing 40 inches long - Bronze. Tognoni: "I did a piece of my father plowing a field years after his death. He was so much in my mind that I knew what he looked like without a photograph. It always amazes me when a picture in my mind comes out in a sculpture." View larger image To the Hills with Malapai 10 inches high, 23 inches long - Bronze. The name "Malapai" means lava rock and comes from the Spanish "mal pais" meaning "evil country" or "mischief ground." The artist traveled the West with her husband, a geological engineer, and developed a strong impression of the prospector and his burro: "They go their own way at their own pace. View larger image Eureka 13 inches high - Bronze. View larger image Silver Queen Supply Train 27 inches high, 58 inches long - Bronze. On display in the Museum of the Arizona State Department of Mines and Mineral Resources, 'Silver Queen Pack Train' is a memorial to the artist\'s husband, Hale C. Tognoni, and is taken from a photo of him as a teen. He and his brothers had plans to extend a tunnel into their family\'s silver discovery in a rugged range of mountains by using ore cars to carry the diggings out on rails. View larger image Changing Hitch 17 inches high, 32 inches long - Bronze. View larger image Jake! Jenny! Pull!! 43 inches long - Bronze. With the new computer enlargements possible from the artist\'s model, funding for a life size bronze of 'Jake! Jenny! Pull!' on the bank of the Arizona canal would be a valuable reminder of the hard labor it took to reopen and expand the ancient waterways that made Phoenix possible. View larger image Andalusian 8 inches high - Bronze During the Baroque period of Western history, the noble Andalusian was prized throughout Europe. The Andalusian breed entered southwest Europe with Islamic conquerors who had cross-bred Arabians with the elegant, fast-riding, desert mountain Barb of northwest Africa. View larger image Camarque Stallions 29 inches long x 15 inches high x 14 inches wide - Bronze on marble and mahogany. Native to the salt marshes of the Mediterranean, today a preserve exists for the Camarque breed of horses in Southern France. View larger image Dear Ole Bessie 17 inches high - Bronze. Represents the end of an era when man and horse worked shoulder to shoulder to till the soil and furnish food and transportation. Originally cast in plaster during the artist's student days, Bessie traveled the width and breadth of the United States in a crate built especially for her as the Tognoni family moved from job to job. View larger image Horse Show 3 feet high - Bronze. Patinas for the ribbons are the five traditional colors of ribbons awarded at horse shows. The flowers festooning the horse suggest the prize bouquet at the modern version of the oldest horse show known to man - the horse race. View larger image Free Spirit 1/2 life size - 28 inches at the withers - Bronze. Center horse in exclusive group created for client in Texas. View larger image Magnificent Beast 9 feet tall bronze - 20 inch high maquettes available View case study The Contest 36 inches long, 31 inches high - Bronze. View larger image Morning Run 22 inches long, 16 inches high. Darolyn Skorany ("Annie") and her filly, Liberty Ann ("Libby") were the models for this 1990 bronze. The Arabian mare came to roam the pasture behind the artist's studio and home in a trade for sculpture. View larger image Arabian Splendor 16.5 inches high - Silver and turquoise. View larger image Arab 42 inches high, 46 inches long - Bronze. View larger image Stream Crossing 6 inches tall, 5 feet long - Bronze.. Done as a proposal for a Florida resort, the string of horses was to cross over a stream at the resort's entrance. View larger image Hustler 10 inches tall. View larger image Free to Run 11 inches. View larger image Clear Shot 30 inches long - Bronze. View larger image The Hook 40 inches long - Bronze. View larger image Entrance into Jerusalem 18 inches high First in the series of five bronzes depicting the last days of Jesus Christ commissioned as a fundraising project in 1960, to start a college in Prescott, Arizona. View case study Sermon on the Mount 17 inches high Jesus is standing on top of the world with His right hand extended to the people. He holds his hand over the evil represented by the cluster of thorns. View case study Thy Will Be Done 18 inches high Displayed with the other four sculptures in this prize-winning group, Thy Will Be Done is the center piece. View case study Betrayal 21 inches high The thorn of evil encompasses Jesus. View case study Crucifixion and Ascension 21 inches high This powerful compression of the dual mysteries of Crucifixion and Ascension challenges our human understanding of eternity. At the base of the cross is a wave which alludes to the thought coming from the cross to overcome the thorns of the material world. View case study

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