Joe Beeler
1931-2006
Sagebrush Serenade
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 30 x 48 inches
Signed/CA lower right
SOLD FOR: $27,000.00
Including Buyers Premium
2026 - APRIL,
LOT 100
Additional Information
Provenance:
Property from the Collection of a Missouri Company
Private collection, Minnesota
Literature:
Joe Beeler: Life of a Cowboy Artist, Don Hedgpeth, Diamond Tail Press and Claggett-Rey Gallery, Vail, Colorado, 2004, p. 92.
Although this painting does not depict the four founders of the Cowboy Artists of America—Joe Beeler, Charlie Dye, George Phippen and John Hampton—it does correlate to a passage in Joe Beeler: Life of a Cowboy Artist in which three of the founders, including Beeler, went on a trail ride in Mexico. “On cold, starry nights, they huddled around the campfire dining on beef and beans and swapping stories with the vaqueros about bad horses and wild times,” writes Don Hedgpeth. “The experience strengthened the bond between the three and the idea began to take shape of gathering others like themselves, artists with cowboy inclinations, whose lives and art might be enriched by such a hands-on encounter with rawhide reality. It was the genesis of a concept that became the Cowboy Artists of America.”