Vengeance (Venganza)

Joe Beeler, American, 1931 - 2006

1986

sculpture

bronze

Museum purchase with funds provided by Western Art Associates

1986.48

© Phoenix Art Museum. All rights reserved. Photo by Ken Howie.

© Estate of Joe Beeler

American and Western American

No

Founded in 1965 in a bar in Sedona by four artists—Joe Beeler, Charlie Dye, John Hampton and George Phippen—the Cowboy Artists of America proved a highly effective national brand for promoting the work of traditional Western artists. Its purpose was “To perpetuate the memory and culture of the Old West as typified by the late Frederic Remington, Charles Russell, and others,” as well as “To insure authentic representations of the life of the West, as it was and is.” Their first annual show was held in 1966 at what is now the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.