General John Logan Memorial (horse only)
Grant Park, Chicago, IL. 1894-97, dedicated July 22, 1897, bronze on granite base, 15'h x 6'w x 18'l, base 4.5'h x 10'w x 26'l.
Saint-Gaudens requested Proctor return from Paris where he was studying under the Rinehart scholarship to create the horse for this monumental sculpture.

William T. Sherman Memorial (horse only)
Grand Army Plaza, New York, NY. 1892-1903, bronze.
Saint-Gaudens was pleased with Proctor's horse for the Logan Statue and had him create the horse for Sherman.

Standing Pumas
Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY. 1898, bronze on granite pedestals.
Worked on in Paris in 1897 in Rousin Studio, Paris.

Louis Jolliet
1904, plaster, 5'h.
In Proctor's autobiography, he mentions that he had shipped his five-foot plaster model to St. Louis to be enlarged to heroic size.

Two Griffins
St. Louis Art Museum, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO. 1904, copper.
Dedicated at the opening of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, 1904.

Sentinal Lions
Frick Building, Pittsburgh, PA. 1904, bronze, life-size.
The A. Phimister Proctor Museum has four plasters of various sizes related to this statue.

McKinley Monument
Niagara Square, Buffalo, NY. Dedicated September 6, 1907. Vermont and Italian marble obelisk with surrounding Italian marble lions, 12' long and weighing 12 tons.
Commissioned by architectural firm Carrere and Hastings. Worked on by Proctor in barn at Indian Hill, Bedford, New York.

Tiger, Piney Branch Bridge (16th Street Bridge)
Washington, D.C. 1910, bronze, four tigers each approximately four feet high.
Commissioned by the District of Columbia. According to the IAS, the tigers were to be executed in concrete, but Proctor had them cast in bronze instead. He paid for the casting himself.

Princeton Tigers
Nassau Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. 1908-1912, bronze.
Donor: The class of 1879. Dedicated by Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton University.

Q Street Buffalo
Dumbarton Bridge (Q Street Bridge), Washington, D.C. 1914, bronze, four buffalo at seven feet high. Henry Bonnard Foundry, New York
These are largest bronzes ever cast in the United States in one piece. The total casting cost for the four buffalo was $30,000.

Pioneer
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. 1917-1918, bronze, Gorham Foundry.
Donor: Joseph Teal. Jess Craven was the model and was married in Proctor home.

Bronco Buster
Central Plaza, Denver Civic Center, Denver, CO. 1920, bronze on Colorado granite or sandstone pedestal, approximately 9'w x 5'w (including base), Gorham Foundry.
Slim Ridings was the model for Bronco Buster. He landed in jail for horse rustling and Proctor put up bail to complete the modeling job.

On the War Trail
Denver Civic Center, Denver, CO. 1920, dedicated 1922, bronze with Platte Canyon Colorado granite or Turkey Creek sandstone base, 12' x 10' x 3', 6"; base 6' x 9' x 3', 6", Gorham Foundry.
According to the IAS, models for the male figure were Jackson Sundown, a Nez Perce Indian, followed by Gray Eagle, a Blackfoot Indian, and finally Eddie Beaver of Browning, Montana. IAS files contain copy of an article from the Rocky Mountain News, Nov. 10, 1985, which names Eddie Big Beaver as the model for the Indian.

The Circuit Rider
Oregon State Capital, East Park, Salem, OR. 1922-1923, bronze on granite base, Gorham Foundry.
During this time Proctor's studio was a barn in Los Altos where he had several other commissions in addition to The Circuit Rider. Eventually he moved his studio to the engineering building at Stanford University.

Rough Rider (Theodore Roosevelt)
North Dakota State Historical Society, Bismark, ND. 1920, plaster, 12'.
This is the plaster that was used for the Rough Rider monument in Portland & Minot.

Rough Rider (Theodore Roosevelt)
Southwest Park Avenue at Madison, Portland, OR. Dedicated November 11, 1922, bronze on California light grey Raymond granite pedestal, 12'h, pedestal 8' x 15' x 6', Henry Bonnard Foundry, New York.
Donor: Dr. Waldo Coe. Dedicated by: Judge Wallace McCamant. This is the monumental sculpture that Coe originally commissioned for the City of Portland. Ground breaking ceremony by Vice President Calvin Coolidge on August 15, 1922. A movie, “The Making of a Bronze Statue” was filmed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art showing the process to create a monumental bronze statue.

Rough Rider (Theodore Roosevelt)
Minot, ND. Circa 1923, bronze on California light grey Raymond granite pedestal. 12'h, pedestal 8' x 15' x 6', Henry Bonnard Foundry, New York.
This is the same as the monumental sculpture that Coe originally commissioned for the City of Portland.

Rough Rider (Theodore Roosevelt)
Mandan, North Dakota. 1922, Dedicated September 11, 1924, bronze with stone base, 56" x 56" x 20", base 57" x 72" x 56", Roman Bronze Foundry, New York.
According to the IAS, this sculpture is a smaller version of the one commissioned by Dr. Coe for the City of Portland, Oregon in 1922. Dr. Coe later presented this smaller version of Proctor’s sculpture to the City of Mandan.

Indian Maiden and Fawn
Maytag family, Newton, IA. 1917-1924, bronze, A. Bruno Foundry, Rome.

Indian Maiden and Fawn
University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR. 1917-1924, bronze, A. Bruno Foundry, Rome.
Originally cast for Campbell Church Sr., sold to a neighbor in Eugene, Oregon and then donated to the University of Oregon. Arm broken off by vandals in fall of 1979; followed by a general rework and new patina. Refurbished in 1996 by Jonathan Taggart. Three others were cast and resided at Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, New York; Monalvo, Los Gatos, California; and the Maytag Family, Newton, Iowa.

Indian Maiden and Fawn
Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, Brooklyn, NY. 1917-1924, bronze, A. Bruno Foundry, Rome.

Indian Maiden and Fawn
“Montalvo,” Los Gatos, CA. 1917-1924, bronze.

Pioneer Mother
Penn Valley Park, Kansas City, MO. 1923-27, dedicated November 11, 1927, bronze with Minnesota pearl pink granite base, 9'h x 16'w, base 4' x 37' x 20', A. Bruno Foundry, Rome.
Donor: Howard Vanderslice. Dedicated by: Howard Vanderslice. The members of the group are Major Daniel Vanderslice, a veteran Indian fighter and appointed agent to tribes in Missouri; his son Thomas J Vanderslice and his wife; the baby in arms was Howard Vanderslice.1853. Refurbished in 1986, the iron rods in the horse-legs being replaced with bronze to prevent the statue from rusting out and falling down. $300,000 was spent with Jonathon Taggart heading the restoration.

Til Taylor
Pendleton, OR. 1929, bronze, 12'h, Founderie National des Bronzes, Brussels.
Donor: Fundraising from the community of Pendleton. Dedicated during 1929 Round-Up. Shipped in monumental size from Paris and trucked from Portland to Pendleton.

Pioneer Mother
Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA. Circa 1923, bronze, 5'h.
Purchased by: Alfred Ernest Clegg. Inherited by Douglas Clegg and donated to Santa Barbara Museum.

Pioneer Mother
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. 1934, bronze, A. Bruno Foundry, Rome.
Donor: Burt Brown Baker, an attorney in Portland, Oregon and Vice President of the University of Oregon. Dedicated by Burt Brown Baker.

Indian Fountain
Lake George, NY. 1927-1936, bronze.
Donor: George Pratt.

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