Robert Macfie Scriver (1914–1999) was a Montana sculptor who was born on the Blackfeet reservation of Anglophone Quebec parents.
[1][2] He specialized in western subjects, but it is more accurate to associate him with the American Beaux Arts-educated sculptors who became prominent at the turn of the 19th century.
His first efforts were small inexpensive souvenir wildlife figurines cast in plaster and air-brushed in natural colors.
When the Cowboy Artists of America formed in Oklahoma, Scriver was invited to join them and then the National Academy of Western Art.
[citation needed] In the mid-Sixties the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association commissioned him to create a heroic-sized portrait of Bill Linderman, a famous champion.
Also, he embarked on a huge project: a large sculpture of each rodeo event plus portraits of representatives of participants, both animals and people.
Later, he found that David Cree Medicine could operate the foundry and that Gordon Monroe could create large fiberglass monumental sculpture.
The insurance valuation of the collections, a million dollars, was leaked to Blackfeet activists and caused a national uproar because ceremonial Bundles were included.
A heroic size piece of Charlie Russell done much later than the one he did as an amateur that he did not win the competition in, but rather being the top sculpture of the Cowboy Artists of America was due largely to the help he received on his errors that Tom Troy pointed out for him.