I am good friends with a prolific large bronze artist, even if you found an artist that didn't currently have a project in the works and wanted it fast, you are probably looking at close to a year before completion, when you take into account that the best artists would have to finish there current project and slide a priority project in, you are probably 1.5 years in a best case scenario.
Then you factor in that you have to find the funds, which are probably going to be 250-300K for a life size bronze, that may add some fundraising time to it.
I would have guessed we would have had one this season, but I also am not shocked that it is taking a few years to make it happen.