Veryl Goodnight
b. 1947
Spring and Sprite
MEDIUM: Bronze, cast number 7/21
DIMENSIONS: 96 inches high, 120 inches wide, 30 inches deep and 65 inches high, 72 inches wide, 24 inches deep
ESTIMATE: $ 60,000 - $ 90,000
Signed
2018,
LOT 340
Additional Information
A descendent of Charles Goodnight, for whom the legendary Goodnight Trail is named, Veryl Goodnight credits a horse named Gwalowa that she owned and rode for over twenty years with teaching her to ride and teaching her how to sculpt. At 14.3 hands tall, Gwalowa was Veryl’s constant companion during fifty mile endurance races, her partner in a sport called “Ride and Tie” and worked cattle on the Goodnight Trail. The model, however, for many of Goodnight’s life-size sculptures was Matt Dillon, a half Arabian and half Quarter Horse with near perfect conformation and generic good looks.