Veryl GoodnightVeryl Goodnight has dedicated her life to exploring the relationships between humans and animals through bronze sculptures and oil paintings. As a wildlife rehabilitator, horse owner, and dog lover, Goodnight shares her life with animals that often bcome models. Veryl's extensive body of work includes over 200 unique sculptures, 20 monuments and countless paintings. Her award-winning art has been displayed throughout the country at museums, zoos, universities, presidential libraries, and in places as far-reaching as Beijing and Botswana. A large format hardcover book titled "NoTurning Back - The Art of Veryl Goodnight," was published in 2011 to correspond with a forty-year retrospective at the Gilcrease Museum inTulsa, Oklahoma. She was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 2016 for a lifetime of representing the American West in her art. Her best known monument, "The Day the Wall Came Down," is a larger-than-life bronze depicting five horses leaping over the crumbled Berlin Wall. There are two "sister castings" of this 7-ton monument - one outside the Allied Museum in Berlin, Germany and one at the Presidential Library in College Station, Texas. A Colorado native, Veryl's career started as a wildlife painter in the early 1970's. She began sculpting to educate herself about anatomy. Sculpture then dominated her career throughout the late 1900's while she and her husband, Roger Brooks, lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Their 2006 move back to Colorado fulfilled a lifetime desire to live in the mountains. Their property is situated between 11,900' Helmet Peak and Mesa Verde National Park. The Middle Mancos River, complete with intermittent resident beaver, creates a natural wildlife preserve and constant inspiration. The spectacular surroundings expedited Veryl's return to oil painting. Sled Dog races in the surrounding San Juan National Forest opened a new chapter in Veryl Goodnight's five decades long career. Read More Read Less