Pika Pullz by Tim Cherry - #55

Tim Cherry resides in Branson, Missouri, yet his creative journey started much farther north of the Ozarks. Canadian born, Cherry worked as a fishing and hunting guide before the age of 20. He explored many miles on horseback in the remote northern areas of British Columbia, Yukon and the Northwest Territories. His experiences and interactions with wildlife as an outdoor enthusiast and taxidermist will influence his work for a lifetime.

For over 30 years, Cherry has continued to show and appear in nationally recognized art shows, museums and galleries. His work is currently in the Society of Animal Artists 63rd annual exhibition and tour and the National Sculpture Society’s 2024 awards exhibition. Cherry has also been featured in Best of the Best — Woolaroc Museum in Bartlesville, Oklahoma; Masters of the American West — Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, California; Night of Artists — Briscoe Museum in San Antonio, Texas; Quest for the West — Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Western Visions — National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming.

Cherry has received several prestigious national awards including the Major General and Mrs. Don D. Pittman Wildlife Award at the 2023 Prix de West as well as the James Earle Fraser Sculpture Award at Prix de West in 2001; in 2010, Cherry designed the Prix de West collectors’ bolo. Recent articles about Cherry have appeared in Art of the West and Fine Art Connoisseur.

Cherry has numerous public installations placed throughout the nation, most recently: three pieces added to the Garvan Woodland Gardens — bringing the total number of Cherry’s pieces there to eight; three pieces added to the Joplin Rotary Sculpture Garden in Mercy Park, Joplin, Missouri — bringing the total number of Cherry sculptures there to five; plus the addition of a hippopotamus sculpture to the Benson Sculpture Park in Loveland, Colorado — bringing to three the Cherry sculptures there.