Artwork produced between 1990 and 1999

Desert Tortoise

1999 3’ x 9 x 6 ½ cast concrete McCarrin International Airport, Las Vegas, NV

Black tailed Jackrabbit

1999 5” x 18 x 8 bronze edition of 49

Hornytoad

1998 3’x12 1/2 x9 ½ 1999 cast concrete McCarrin International Airport, Las Vegas, NV

Mojave Rattlesnake

1998 2.5’ x 28 x13 cast concrete McCarrin International Airport, Las Vegas, NV

Scorpion

1999 6 1/4’ x 14 x 8 ½ cast concrete McCarrin International Airport, Las Vegas, NV

Desert Tortoise

1998 6” x 18 x 13 bronze edition of 49

Hornytoad

1998 6” x 25 x 19 bronze edition of 49

Desert Rabbit (maquette)

1998 2” x 6 ½ x 2 ¾ bronze

Hornytoad (maquette)

1998 1 ¾” x 6 ½ x 3 ¼ bronze

Nancy

1999 35” x 123 x 73 bronze edition of 6 Lake Tahoe

Glide (maquette)

1999 34” x 55 x 8 bronze edition of 35

Bather

1997 9” x 31 x19 bronze edition of 30

Trust Man

1994 73” x 63” x 44 mixed media

Girl Buoy

1997 22” x 14 x 14 bronze edition of 30

Scholarship

1997 9” x 18 x 17 bronze edition of 35

Dive

1997 11” x 8 x 7 bronze edition of 75

Desert Dreamer

1997 9” x 28 x 11 bronze edition of 30

Desert Dreamer (cast concrete)

1996 4’ x 14 x 8 cast concrete

Desert Dreamer

1996 4’ x 14 x 8 bronze edition of 6 DMB Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ

Voyagers

1994 9” x 49” x 9” bronze edition of 20

Trust Man

1994 73” x 63” x 44 mixed media

Worker

1992 17” x12 x 9 bronze edition of 30

Girl Buoy (2X life-size)

1990 73” x 48 x 38 mixed media

In the early 1990’s David Phelps decided to move back to the family farm in California with the idea of converting an unused barn into a studio. About a year into that plan he realized that Oklahoma was more conducive to sculpting than the Central Valley, so he moved back. In 1992 Phelps began teaching sculpture at the University of Central Oklahoma as an Adjunct Professor. In 1994, friends Liz Hahn and Tom Ross told Phelps that they were opening a gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Phelps joined the Hahn Ross Gallery which then proceeded to sell his work to collectors from all over the world.

Significant pieces that Phelps created during this period were Voyagers in 1994, Desert Dreamer in ’96, the Desert Wildlife installation in the McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada and the large scale bronze Nancy in 1999.