"Juan Dell Wade, 1933-2019: Santa Fe sculptor captured spirit of West", Online obituary, Sanda Fe: New Mexican (newspaper), by Robert Nott, Nov 24, 2019.

For nearly 20 years, visitors passing by Alexandra Stevens’ gallery on Canyon Road could enjoy the a bronze sculpture of a Navajo girl cradling a lamb in her arms, a compliant dog sitting nearby.

The piece, Shepherd Girl, is gone, sold to a collector in Texas in mid-September.

So is the artist who made it, Juan Dell Wade, who died at age 86 of natural causes just a few days after Stevens sold the piece.

The Texas-born artist, who moved to Santa Fe in the late-1960s, was renowned for bronze renditions of the women, men and animals representing...