Veryl Goodnight began her career as a wildlife artist in the 1970s as a painter, but she found she enjoyed sculpting, and within five years, was sculpting exclusively. Later she took up painting... Read full biography
Veryl Goodnight began her career as a wildlife artist in the 1970s as a painter, but she found she enjoyed sculpting, and within five years, was sculpting exclusively. Later she took up painting again. Of her work she says: "The horse is my favorite subject. I live with them, ride them, feed them... Read full biography
Veryl Goodnight began her career as a wildlife artist in the 1970s as a painter, but she found she enjoyed sculpting, and within five years, was sculpting exclusively. Later she took up painting again. Of her work she says: "The horse is my favorite subject. I live with them, ride them, feed them and clean up after them." (McGarry, 23). She only works with live models in order to capture the true essence of the animal she is depicting. In 1998, Veryl Goodnight completed a monumental bronze... Read full biography
Veryl Goodnight began her career as a wildlife artist in the 1970s as a painter, but she found she enjoyed sculpting, and within five years, was sculpting exclusively. Later she took up painting again. Of her work she says: "The horse is my favorite subject. I live with them, ride them, feed them and clean up after them." (McGarry, 23). She only works with live models in order to capture the true essence of the animal she is depicting. In 1998, Veryl Goodnight completed a monumental bronze sculpture depicting five horses crashing through the rubble of the collapsed Berlin Wall. Titled The Day the Wall Came Down, the work includes pieces of the Wall, and weighs 14,000 pounds. It is located at the George Bush Presidential Library. The... Read full biography
Veryl Goodnight began her career as a wildlife artist in the 1970s as a painter, but she found she enjoyed sculpting, and within five years, was sculpting exclusively. Later she took up painting again. Of her work she says: "The horse is my favorite subject. I live with them, ride them, feed them and clean up after them." (McGarry, 23). She only works with live models in order to capture the true essence of the animal she is depicting. In 1998, Veryl Goodnight completed a monumental bronze sculpture depicting five horses crashing through the rubble of the collapsed Berlin Wall. Titled The Day the Wall Came Down, the work includes pieces of the Wall, and weighs 14,000 pounds. It is located at the George Bush Presidential Library. The artist's monumental works are found at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Heritage C... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (24)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Cowgirl Up! Art from the Other Half of the West Desert Caballeros Western Museum Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
2006
McGarry, Susan Hallsten (Essay)
68 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Western Rendezvous of Art 2003 (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Ed. Montana Historical Society
0 pages (color)
Great American Artists Exhibition Exhibition and Sale (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Editor
67 pages (color)
Great American Artists Exhibition and Sale (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Editor, Cincinnati Bell
79 pages (color)
Art of the West Guidebook of Western Artists 2001 Edition
2001
Editors, Art of the West
88 pages (color)
Art and the Animal: The Society of Animal Artists 41st Annual Members Exhibition 2001 (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Sweet, Francis; David Wagner
80 pages
Great American Artists Exhibition and Sale (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Editor, Cincinnati Bell
78 pages (color)
Artists of America (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Bacon, Todd, Message for Denver Rotary Club
108 pages (color)
An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West
1998
Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick
405 pages
Great American Artists Exhibition and Sale (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Cincinnati Museum Center
82 pages (color)
Artists of America Seventeenth Annual (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Denver Rotary Club
92 pages (color)
Leading the West One Hundred Contemporary Painters & Sculptors
1997
Hagerty, Donald J
213 pages (color)
Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art
1997
Southwest Art
128 pages
American Women Artists & the West Show and Sale Tucson Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Carman, Shari; Robert Yassin
32 pages (color)
Denver Rotary Club's Artists of America: Fourteenth Annual (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Denver Rotary Club
88 pages (color)
Artists of America Thirteenth Annual (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Denver Rotary Club
96 pages (color)
The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993
Southwest Art
126 pages
Artists of America Tenth Annual (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Denver Rotary Club
160 pages (color)
Artists of America Eighth Annual (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Denver Rotary Club
143 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present