Veryl goodnight biography examples

Colorado sculptor and painter

Veryl Goodnight (born January 26, 1947) is a sculptor and painter who since 2006 has been living in Mancos, Colorado.^[1] She is known for her equine sculpture - in particular a realistic depiction of horses, often in an American West context.^[2] She was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2016.^[3]

Goodnight is best known for her 1996 and 1998 statues The Day the Wall Came Down.

Early life

Veryl was born in Ashland, Ohio, on January 26, 1947, but her family moved to Lakewood, Colorado when she was only a few weeks old. As a young child living in the West, she fell in love with horses.

Her parents could not afford to buy her one of her own, but Veryl continued to think and dream about horses. When she was very little she would sculpt horses out of snow.^[4] She received from her parents her first set of professional paints when she