W. STANLEY PROCTOR
(1939
- )
Native
Floridian W. Stanley “Sandy” Proctor has a national
reputation as a professional sculptor of the highest
caliber. In recent years, he has been the Featured Master
Sculptor at the Easton Waterfowl Festival in Maryland; at
the Southeastern Art Exposition in South Carolina; and at
the Wildlife Arts Festival in Georgia.
In the past several years, Proctor has installed numerous
public and private commissioned monumental bronzes,
including works at the Florida Governor’s Mansion Children’s
Park; the National Jewish Center Hospital in Colorado; Boyds
Bears Collection Inc.; Hackensack University Medical Center;
the Living Desert Museum in California; Fairhope High School
in Alabama; the Arts Foundation of Farmers Branch in Texas;
Maymount Gardens in Virginia; Hillside Galleria in Arizona;
the University of South Alabama, and two public libraries.
Other significant pieces are located at the corporate
headquarters of Bank of America; the Leigh Yawkey Woodson
Museum in Wisconsin; the Polk Museum of Art in Florida; and
the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. In 1995, the Governor of
Florida presented the President of the United States with a
gift of Proctor’s work entitled Bandanna, which was placed
in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
Proctor is equally comfortable modeling animals or people in
any size, and he has completed many public and private
commissions. He recently installed a six-person life-size
monument for the Florida Sheriffs Fallen Officer Memorial; a
five-person monument for the University of South Alabama; a
six-person Tug-of-War for Raymond James Financial Art
Collection; a three-person monument for the Florida State
Highway Patrol Memorial and a two-person monument honoring
the Florida Sheriffs Boys Ranch. Proctor is currently
finishing three 10 foot tall figures celebrating integration
at Florida State University. In addition to his commissioned
pieces, Proctor regularly participates in regional and
national exhibitions, including the Sculpture Invitational
in Loveland, Colorado.
Prior to concentrating in bronze sculpture, Proctor was an
accomplished painter and stone carver whose works have been
displayed at the British Museum of Natural History, the
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian, and
other museums of national and international recognition.
Many art collectors value his figurative and commissioned
works as among the finest examples of life-size sculpture
available today.
