George Wayne Lundeen is a native of Holdrege, Nebraska. He is one of six children. He has degrees in art from Hastings College, Nebraska and the University of Illinois, and was a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze in Italy. He lives and works in Loveland, Colorado, and is married to Cammie, also a sculptor, since 1988.
Lundeen founded a company, Lundeen Sculptures, in Loveland in 1976. He previously worked as a teacher and at foundries abroad and in the US. His younger brother Mark, also a sculptor, joined the company in 1981. As of 2022, it had around 30 employees. As of 2024, George and Mark own the company, and several employees are family members: Cammie, George's wife; Nelse, the company's accountant and brother of George and Mark; and Nelse's wife Bets, a sculptor. Four more family members are also employed. Along with traditional methods, the company also uses 3D scanning and 3D printing to create artworks.
Southwest Art said in 2011 that George Lundeen was "instrumental in turning Loveland into the sculpture capital of the West." According to the Denver Gazette, Lundeen Sculptures is one of the top bronze sculpture studios in the US. Many pieces by George, sometimes made together with Mark or the company's other sculptors, are displayed as public art or in museums, colleges, libraries and other places, for example at the John Deere World Headquarters. The pieces are often limited editions, and can be seen in several places. Two statues by George and Mark are included in the American National Statuary Hall Collection, representing Kansas and Colorado. Since the 2000s, the company has supplied bronzes to all the Scheels All Sports stores. Three busts by George are displayed in the Nebraska Hall of Fame.
"Well, you have to realize that [bronze sculptures] aren't necessarily permanent. For instance, years ago I made a Thomas Jefferson and it ended up in quite a number of public places and universities. Now, a number of those have been taken out because Thomas Jefferson has come to be not quite as respected, you might say, as he once was. ... We had a Thomas Jefferson and a Ben Franklin taken out of a school in Kansas, and we called up a school in North Dakota and they said, 'Sure, we'll take them.'"
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| The Aviator, 1970's |
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| A Little Lazy, 1980's |
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| Soccer Player, 1980's |
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| Michelle, 1981 |
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| Old Friends, 1981 |
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| Departure, 1985 |
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| Pops, 1985 |
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| Saturday Night, 1985 |
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| Maude and Lottie, 1986 |
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| Medal of Honor, 1986 |
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| Ben Franklin Bust, 1987 |
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| Monkey Business. 1988 |
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| Afternoon in the Park, 1990 |
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| Hearts on a Swing, 1990 |
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| Summer Showers, 1990 |
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| The Aviator, 1993 |
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| Robert Frost, 1996 |
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| Archer, 1997 |
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| Statue of Jack Swigert, 1998 |
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| Mother and Two Children, 1999 |
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| Native Girl, 2003 |
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| Musician Family, 2008 |
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| Bulldogs, 2011 |
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| Hometown, 2012 |
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| Station XIII: Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross, 2018 |
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| Dick Butkus, 2019 |
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| The Eagle Has Landed, 2019 |
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| Davy Crockett, 2020 |
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| On the Bit |
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