bronze plaques
Bronze artist Dawn Senior, of Moonhorse Art Studio, has worked in a wide
variety of media including charcoal, oil paintings,
woodcuts,
gouaches, claybords™ and
scratchboards. But it is through the medium of
bronze that Dawn’s talent has been most spectacularly realized.
Her skill with bronze vividly captures the spirit and movement of her subjects,
especially wildlife sculpture, and only is surpassed by her sensitive attention
to detail and her anatomical accuracy. Dawn is justly celebrated for the
compelling realism of her bronze artwork.
bronze plaques featuring Native American, Western life and wildlife sculpture
 Snowy
Range Life
bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
This mounted and framed collection of 21 bronze plaques is a unique expression
of Wyoming, from the diversity of its people, its vast landscapes and amazing
wild animal life, down to the most exquisite details of its wildflowers and
insects.
Read more about this bronze plaque.
Price Mounted & Framed: $5630
 Small
plaque
bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
The small Snowy Range Life panel offers a diverse and harmonious selection of 8
bronze plaques. From the swirling energy of the Arapaho Dancer, the
majesty of the bald eagle and the tenderness of the mother beaver, to the
intimate dance of chickadees and the delicate markings of a silk moth resting
among leaves and flowers, the Snowy Range Life small panel has it all.
Read more about this bronze plaque.
Price Mounted & Framed: $2,235
 The
Arapaho Dancer
Native-American inspired bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
One summer, artist Dawn Senior-Trask went with friends, her brother and
9-year-old nephew to the Arapaho Language Camp. Here, in the shade of
cottonwoods on the banks of the Little Wind River, everyone camped in teepees
for a week, and the elders of the tribe worked with children of all ages,
teaching them the Arapaho language and many traditional stories, songs, crafts
and skills.
Read more about this Native
American-inspired bronze plaque.
Price Unmounted: $628
Price Mounted: $660
Price Mounted & Framed: $695
Bald Eagle Family at
Nest
Wildlife sculpture bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
Bird-lovers say that Wyoming’s Platte River Valley, where artist Dawn
Senior-Trask has lived all her life, should instead be called “Raptor Valley“,
for its amazing abundance and variety of birds of prey. Dawn and her husband
Juel make a yearly float trip downriver in a rubber raft, and are always
thrilled to see a pair of bald eagles at a huge nest high in an old cottonwood.
Read more about this wildlife sculpture bronze
plaque.
Price Unmounted: $230
Price Mounted: $273
Price Mounted & Framed: $295
 Beaver
Family with Aspen
Wildlife sculpture bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
On a summer evening, among quaking aspens, ponderosa and lodge-pole pine, and
mountain grasses fragrant with spring beauty and marsh marigolds, the beavers
emerge from their lodge to swim their pond. With their dam of sticks and mud
they have created a haven for many creatures -- dragonflies flitting through
sunset reflections, black bears grubbing for succulent roots of water plants,
moose browsing willow shrubs along the shore, woodpeckers drilling aspen trunks
for sap.
Read more about this wildlife sculpture in
bronze.
Price Unmounted: $230
Price Mounted: $273
Price Mounted & Framed: $295
 Brook
Trout
Wildlife sculpture bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
Since early childhood, artist Dawn Senior-Trask has loved to explore the draw
near her family's log home, where a little creek flows, fed by mountain snowmelt
and a series of springs. Small waterfalls babble over mossy granite outcrops,
and in the deeper pools beneath, the colorful brook trout dwell. They feed on
the populous larvae of caddis flies, stoneflies, mayflies, dragonflies and other
water creatures.
Read more about this wildlife sculpture in
bronze.
Price Unmounted: $245
Price Mounted: $288
Price Mounted & Framed: $303
 Buffalo-Bur
Flower
Wildlife sculpture bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
When she first saw this spiny, yellow-blossomed plant growing in the middle of
the two-track leading to her family’s log cabin, artist Dawn Senior-Trask
thought it so rare and intriguing that she immediately ran for her sketchbook.
Later, when she found it in a field guide, it surprised her to learn that the
buffalo-bur (Solanum rostratum) is considered a common weed.
Read more about this wildlife sculpture bronze
plaque.
Price Unmounted: $230
Price Mounted: $273
Price Mounted & Framed: $295
 Cattledrive
Western life bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
This bronze plaque is based loosely on a pencil sketch, one of Dawn
Senior-Trask's favorite pieces done by her late father, Willoughby Senior. Both
Willoughby's sketch and Dawn's bronze capture the movement of cowboys driving a
herd of cattle down a steep hill near the Senior family’s cabin. Growing up in
ranch country, Dawn has experienced her share of roundups and cattle drives
while helping friends and neighbors.
Read more about this western life bronze
plaque.
Price Unmounted: $265
Price Mounted: $311
Price Mounted & Framed: $326
 Chickadees
on Juniper with Berries
Wyoming wildlife bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
Black-capped and Mountain chickadees abound in the mountains and foothills where
Dawn grew up. Most of the charming little gray, white and black birds live
higher in the mountains in summer, and migrate down to the sheltered draws of
the foothills in winter, Here they find insects among the crevices of the
cottonwood bark, and eat the berries and seeds of the junipers and cedars.
Read more about this Wyoming wildlife bronze
plaque.
Price Unmounted: $230
Price Mounted: $273
Price Mounted & Framed: $295
 Cinquefoil
Wildlife sculpture bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
As a girl, Dawn dubbed the cinquefoil “Hearts and Stars.” She
thought the yellow petals resembled hearts, with the gap between them outlining
the underlying
sepals in the shape of spring-green, five-pointed stars. She loves to sit beside
a rushing mountain creek among great bunches of cinquefoil which overhang the
banks.
Read more about this wildlife sculpture bronze
plaque.
Price Unmounted: $150
Price Mounted: $189
Price Mounted & Framed: $212
 Evening
Primrose with Blue Grama and Bug
Wildlife sculpture bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
In the first weeks of June the artist rises at daybreak to walk the rocky hills
in search of the large, white blossoms of the stemless primrose, which have
opened during the night. She kneels, crouching low to the ground-hugging plants
to breathe deep the sweet fragrance of their heart-shaped petals.
Read more about this wildlife sculpture
bronze plaque.
Price Unmounted: $230
Price Mounted: $273
Price Mounted & Framed: $295
 Horses
Wyoming wildlife bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
Horses have always been one of the artist’s greatest loves. Dawn grew up riding,
having been taught by her father at so young an age that she can’t remember
learning. The horse has been the favorite subject for her art since she first
picked up a pencil.
Read more about this Wyoming wildlife bronze
plaque.
Price Unmounted: $230
Price Mounted: $273
Price Mounted & Framed: $295
 Lizard
Wyoming wildlife bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
This bronze plaque is not a plaque -- it’s actually a small
sculpture-in-the-round. It portrays, slightly larger than life-size, the
Sagebrush Lizard (Sceloporus gracious) that scampers across the rocks and lives
in the crevices of boulders. It loves the light of the open ground where
scattered, low sagebrush grow.
Read more about this Wyoming wildlife bronze
plaque.
Price Unmounted: $230
Price Mounted: $273
Price Mounted & Framed: $295
 Mountain
Lions
Wyoming wildlife bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
One morning when Dawn was nine years old, she looked out the cabin window at
sunrise. A movement among the cedars across the draw caught her eye. A mountain
lion! Excited, she called to her mother and father to come see. The lion moved
stealthily, the tip of his long tail swishing back and forth as he stalked along
the draw’s rim, looking down into its depths as if looking for some unwary deer
to pounce on.
Read more about this Wyoming wildlife
bronze plaque.
Price Unmounted: $345
Price Mounted: $386
Price Mounted & Framed: $402
 Petroglyphs
Native American-inspired bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
Many of the spectacular rock art sites in Wyoming are attributed to the ancient
Shoshone, especially the Mountain Shoshones, or Tukadika -- the Sheep
Eaters. The Tukadika lived in the greater Yellowstone area and the mountain
ranges of western Wyoming since the end of the last ice age, at least 9,000
years ago. Supremely adapted to their rugged homeland, the Tukadika migrated
with the herds of deer, elk, and bighorn sheep, living at high elevations in
summer and in the sheltered foothills in winter.
Read more about this Native American-inspired
bronze plaque.
Price Unmounted: $205
Price Mounted: $242
Price Mounted & Framed: $265
 Pronghorn
Newborn with Bitterroot Blooms
Wyoming wildlife bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
In June when pink bitterroot flowers open along the rocky ridges, the pronghorn
doe gives birth to an alien-looking creature, all legs and head. For many days
the fawn spends most of his time curled on the ground, where he blends so well
that a coyote (or an artist) may pass within a few feet and not see him. His
mother enjoys the summer browse nearby, keeping an eye out for danger. If a
coyote wanders close to her youngster, she first tries to distract it, and if
that fails, she boldly charges the little ”prairie wolf” and chases it.
Read more about this Wyoming wildlife
bronze plaque.
Price Unmounted: $205
Price Mounted: $242
Price Mounted & Framed: $265
Moss Phlox Name plate
Wildlife sculpture bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
Each spring in late April or early May, the first flowers to appear in the
sagebrush hills are the tiny white or pale lavender moss phlox. They keep
themselves tucked close the ground, out of the fierce Wyoming wind.
Read more about this wildlife sculpture bronze
plaque.
Price Unmounted: $205
Price Mounted: $242
Price Mounted & Framed: $265
Sagebrush with Chipmonk
Wyoming wildlife bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
Seventeen species of sagebrush grow in Wyoming, from the lowlands to the alpine
zone above tree line. Artist Dawn Senior-Trask grew up loving the fresh, spicy
scent of sagebrush after rain, and the bluish-green tinge it gives to the open
landscape.
Read more about this Wyoming wildlife bronze
plaque.
Price Unmounted: $205
Price Mounted: $242
Price Mounted & Framed: $265
Silk Moth on Squaw Current with Blooms
Wyoming wildlife bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
As a teenager, artist Dawn Senior-Trask ventured out in a Wyoming spring
snowstorm, when wet heavy flakes piled more than two feet deep upon the land,
and weighed down the leafing cottonwood branches.
Read more about this Wyoming wildlife bronze plaque.
Price Unmounted: $205
Price Mounted: $242
Price Mounted & Framed: $265
Tumblebugs
Wyoming wildlife bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
Few sights are so amusing as that of a pair of tumblebugs rolling a ball of dung
over the ground, struggling to push it to a good spot to dig a hole, bury it,
and lay their eggs in it.
Read more about this Wyoming wildlife bronze
plaque.
Price Unmounted: $205
Price Mounted: $242
Price Mounted & Framed: $265
View from Sheeprock
Western life bronze plaque by Dawn Senior-Trask
Several miles downriver from Saratoga, Wyoming, the artist stands atop the
sandstone cliffs overlooking her homeland the broad valley with its cottonwoods
and hay meadows, the cedar foothills where she grew up, the Snowy Range
mountains defining the horizon.
Read more about this Western life bronze
plaque.
Price Unmounted: $205
Price Mounted: $242
Price Mounted & Framed: $265
If you would like more information on our artwork or
would like to place an order, email Moonhorse Art Studio or
call us 307.327.5381. We look forward to hearing from you!
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