Sandy Scott was trained at the Kansas City Art Institute and worked as an animation background artist for the motion picture industry before turning her attention to etching and printmaking in the 1970s and to sculpture in the 1980s. Born in Iowa and raised in Oklahoma, she now maintains studios surrounded by mountains, lakes, and streams in Lander, Wyoming; Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada; and Larimer County, Colorado. Scott is a licensed pilot, an avid outdoorswoman, and loves to hunt and fish.

She has received numerous awards for her sculptures and her work is included in numerous museums across the country. She is a member of the National Arts Club, the Society of Animal Artists, and a fellow in the American Artists Professional League. Her monumental Presidential Eagle was recently installed at the entrance to the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas.

-excerpted from the Masters of the American West, Sale & Exhibition Catalog 2009