VERYL GOODNIGHT
Exhibits and Professional Organizations:
Veryl Goodnight has been sculpting since 1973. She has been featured
in all major American art magazines and her work has been profiled
in the books Leading The West (Northland Press 1997) and An Encyclopedia
of Women Artists of the American West (University of Texas Press,
1998). Veryl exhibits in prestigious shows, such as Artists of America,
Denver, Colorado, Great American Artists, Cincinnati, Ohio, Masters
of the American West, Los Angeles, California and the Cheyenne Governor's
Invitational, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Professional organizations include
membership in the National Sculpture Society, Society of Animal
Artists, Northwest Rendezvous, American Academy of Equine Art and
Master of Artists of America.
Public Collections and Monuments:
During Veryl's sculpting career, she has placed work in private
and corporate collections throughout the United States, Europe,
and Japan. Her seven ton bronze monument to freedom, The Day The
Wall Came Down, is located at the George Bush Presidential Library.
In 1998, a second or sister casting of this monument was delivered
to Germany by the U. S. Air Force and unveiled at the Allied Museum
in Berlin by former President George Bush. Other monuments are on
display at The Cowboy Hall of Fame Museum in Oklahoma City; the
Houston Astrodome; Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina;
Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Miyama
Building, Tokyo, Japan; Lely Resort in Naples, Florida; The Old
West Museum in Cheyenne, Wyoming and other locations.
Art Instructor:
Veryl is a sought after instructor of Equine sculpture. She teaches
once a year at the Fechin Institute in Taos, New Mexico and the
Scottsdale Artist's School in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Lifestyle:
Veryl and her husband, Roger Brooks, live just north of Santa Fe,
New Mexico with a menagerie of animals. Their favorite pastime is
riding their horses through the surrounding mountains and arroyos.
Roger, a retired commercial airline captain, manages the studio
business and flies his own airplane.
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