Daniel Parker

Quick Facts

Full Name	Daniel Parker
Occupation	Sculptor
Date Of Birth	Nov 18, 1959(1959-11-18)
Age	65
Birthplace	Portland
Country	United States
Horoscope	Scorpio

Daniel Parker Biography

Daniel Parker is one of the most popular and richest Sculptor who was born on November 18, 1959 in Portland, United States. Parker was born the 18th of November 1959, in Portland, Oregon. He is the son of Donald Edward “Don” Parker (1938-2015) and Joan Arlue Sievers (born 1939). The Parkers had relocated to Portland in the beginning of 1959 after leaving Kalispell, Montana, to find work , but after just a few months in Oregon they returned to Kalispell where they resided for the last time. Parker’s great-grandfather was originally born in Norridgewock, Maine, had relocated into the Flathead Valley in 1905 from Parker, Minnesota, to house on a farm along the Flathead River, near Demersville located about five miles to the from Kalispell as well as two miles to the north to Flathead Lake.

In 1975, during the school summer break, he landed on the role of apprentice carpenter, building garages in the name of Bill Williams, a Columbia Falls construction contractor. Carpenter work during the summer months was consistent until Parker completed his graduation of Flathead High School in 1978. The following year, he took the position of carpenter at the power station close to mines on the coal strip facilities located in Colstrip, Montana. He worked at the power plant until the year 1980, when he moved back to Kalispell.

In the winter of 1981 Parker met his future wife, Jeanne Drollinger, at the Blue Moon nightclub in Columbia Falls. They were married on June 2, 1982 and three children were born to the couple, son Joshua and daughters Shannon and Lindsey. As a couple, the Parkers are engaged as a hobby in riding, and to a lesser extent raising, horses and mules. Daniel, when he finds time in the fall, enjoys elk hunting with bow and arrow and is an ardent supporter of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Parker and his wife, the daughter of a preacher, attend church on a regular basis.

In 1983, Parker began to sculpt his first series of sculptures for public sale. The edition, which he called the “North American Collection”, included sculptures of twelve different North American big game animals. At first he hired the Kalispell Art Casting Foundry to cast his work in bronze. By 1989, however, Parker had set up his own foundry so that the casting and patina process could be more carefully monitored. His bronze sculptures have all been cast using the lost wax method and the foundry is still in operation today.

Parker’s mother would marry three times. The first was an unremarkable 1967 marriage to Harold Schiele, a Ronan, Montana, carpenter–and then, following that unsatisfactory union, marrying in 1969 to Leo Arbuckle, a logger from Coram, Montana. Her final wedding took place in the year 1975 with Herbert “Sonny” Strong, an used car salesman and son of famous golf course designer Herbert B. Strong, who had relocated into Kalispell after a move following his move to Fort Pierce, Florida. Strong was a hunter and a keen hunter, taught Daniel the basics of hunting deer and elk which that he was able to continue enjoying.

Daniel Parker Net Worth

Daniel Parker is one of the richest Sculptor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Daniel Parker 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Daniel Ray Parker (born November 18th 1959) is an American wildlife artist and sculptor. Parker has been awarded numerous times for his wildlife sculptures at major art exhibitions in the United States. He lives in Kalispell, Montana.

His father who in 1963 was a aspiring country western musician and singer and songwriter, met a woman two times his age in the Kalispell nightclub. He took the decision to abandon his marriage and parental obligations by leaving the town with her, abandoning his family members–and heading for California where he believed the possibility of becoming a well-known musician , but instead he took on to construction and creating tunnels. After the move in Hendersonville, Tennessee, in 1966, Don did have some moderate success during his tour along with Tommy Cash and later recorded one of his singles as a duo “Don & Carla” with 50 States Records, but his long-term success was not to be found due to his inclination for alcohol. The 45 single he recorded was not a success with only selling a few hundred copies. However, he did achieve success as a nightclub performer and headlined several state fairs in the 1960s, with one of them taking place located in Missoula, Montana, at the Western Montana Fair, that was cancelled due to rain. The mother of Daniel, Joan, held out the hope that Don returned to Kalispell to assist in the raising of his children. He never did. Additionally, he did not pay any kind of child support or alimony. As a result, in October 1962, she was granted divorce based on “extreme cruelty”. Daniel as well as his brothers were poor as they were raised by a single mom and a family who were abandoned. Daniel’s older brother Mike said that in 2015, following the passing of their fatherthat “unfortunately, he was only a sperm donor and nothing more”. In the early twenty years that they lived The Parker children would meet their father twice on every occasion, for only an hour.

Parker was an average student in school, generally receiving “C” grades, but he always excelled in art, his favorite subject. While attending an art class in 1977 at Flathead High School taught by Frank DiVita, an Italian-American who in his spare time from teaching was an accomplished bird sculptor, Parker received encouragement from DiVita who suggested that he try his hand at sculpture. The suggestion was taken up by Parker who produced his first sculpture, a fired clay bighorn sheep. It was a miniature statue cast in pewter, only about three inches long and an inch high, but the nascent start would later blossom into a successful career as a wildlife sculptor.

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In 2007, Parker entered into a contract with the City of Kalispell to produce and deliver a monumental bronze grizzly bear sculpture, called Something’s Coming, to be placed at the intersection of Highway 93 and Highway 2. The contract was for $101,000 of which an initial payment of $10,000 was made. In addition to the main sculpture, Parker was to deliver 30 smaller maquette sculptures. He created the bear statue in clay, but it was never cast in bronze and delivered to the City of Kalispell due to a contract dispute.

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Daniel Ranked on the list of most popular Sculptor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Daniel Parker celebrates birthday on November 18 of every year.

Parker has created a number of monumental sculptures, the most notable being Yellowstone Legacy and Black Mesa Mulies. The Yellowstone Legacy sculpture was purchased by The Hibernation Station motel in West Yellowstone, Montana. Black Mesa Mulies—purchased by NatureWorks, Inc., a Tulsa organization which promotes wildlife conservation and education—is displayed in River Parks, adjacent the Arkansas River in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where a number of other bronze wildlife sculptures are also on display along the River Parks trail, including one by fellow Montana sculptor Sherry Sander.