"Childhood Friends" Bronze 16" H x 19" L x 13" W $4,200	"Passing Times" Bronze 18" H x 22" L x 15" W $6,200	"Spring and Sprite" Bronze Spring: 8' H x 10' L x 28" W Sprite: 5'6" H x 5'6" L x 24" W Spring: $78,000 Sprite: $24,000
"Privileged Lady" Bronze 25" H x 22" L x 12" W $4,600	"Running The Chapparal" Bronze, 27" H x 27" L x 17" W Edition: 25 $10,000

Veryl Goodnight has been sculpting since 1973. She is one of today's best known sculptors of Western and animal subjects in bronze. Descended from Charles Goodnight, the legendary Texas cattle baron, Veryl's work reflects the American West and highlights the pioneer ideal.

Raised near Denver, Veryl's formal artistic training was greatly influenced by the beauty and freedom of Colorado's Rocky Mountain wildlife and her keen interest in horses. As a child, she was only able to dream of having a horse of her own. This yearning became the impetus for her art, filling her with a passion to draw horses and even sculpt them in snow.

Many of Veryl's monuments are in museums and public collections throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. Paint Mare and Filly, commissioned by the American Paint Horse Association, was dedicated at the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City in 1988. It was awarded Best of Show by the American Acacemy of Equine Art in 1986. The Lely Resort in Naples, Florida commissioned The Freedom Horses, which depicts five over life size running horses.

Her largest work to date, The Day The Wall Came Down, a monument to freedom, portrays five over life size horses jumping over the rubble of the collapsed Berlin Wall. There are two castings of this monument, one located at the George Bush Presidential Library and the "sister" casting is on display at the Allied Museum in Berlin, Germany. Each sculpture is 30 feet long, 18 feet wide and 12 feet high and weighs approximately 7 tons.

Veryl has been featured in all major American art magazines, and exhibits in prestigious shows, such as Artists of America, Great American Artists, Masters of the American West, Cheyenne Governor's Invitational and the Northwest Rendezvous. She maintains membership in the National Sculpture Society, Society of Animal Artists, Artists of America, Northwest Rendezvous and the American Academy of Equine Art.

She is a sought after instructor of equine sculpture, and teaches once a year at the Scottsdale Artists' School and the Fechin Institute in Taos, New Mexico.

She lives just north of Santa Fe, New Mexico with her husband Roger Brooks and their menagerie of animals. Their favorite pastime is riding their horses through the surrounding mountains and arroyos.