{"id":70438,"date":"2017-03-28T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T23:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/veryl-goodnight-shares-stories-that-inspired-her-art\/"},"modified":"2017-03-28T23:15:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T23:15:13","slug":"veryl-goodnight-shares-stories-that-inspired-her-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/veryl-goodnight-shares-stories-that-inspired-her-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Veryl Goodnight shares stories that inspired her art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Veryl Goodnight poses with one of her sled dogs last fall at her new gallery in downtown Mancos. She gave a presentation last week at the Mancos Library about the inspiration for some of her works.<\/span>Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Goodnight shared stories of inspiration about her various works in the talk, titled \u201cTrail Visions: A Creative Journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the time when I work, it\u2019s something that\u2019s really in my heart,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Her monument \u201cThe Day The Wall Came Down\u201d depicts five horses jumping over the destroyed Berlin Wall. After the wall fell in Berlin in November 1989, she said she had a dream about horses jumping over the wall. It took her nine years to see that dream realized and create the 7-ton monument, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t do something like this without a lot of angels looking at you,\u201d she said of the piece.<\/p>\n

Two bronze castings of the monument were created. One is at the Allied Museum in Berlin, and the other at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas.<\/p>\n

Former President George H.W. Bush, for whom the library is named, couldn\u2019t make the dedication of \u201cThe Day The Wall Came Down\u201d in College Station when it was placed there in 1997, Goodnight said. Instead, he flew to Berlin a year later when the second casting was placed at the Allied Museum, Goodnight said.<\/p>\n

In the 1980s, when Goodnight spent time in Denver and Santa Fe, she had a wildlife rehabilitation license. She kept animals on her property and created sculptures and paintings inspired by the wildlife, she said.<\/p>\n

Goodnight and her husband Roger Brooks raised a buffalo calf named Charlie at their home in Santa Fe. Veryl and Roger flew to Idaho to find Charlie, an orphan calf, and flew him back to Santa Fe. They invited Charlie into their home and bottle-raised him as a calf, Goodnight said.<\/p>\n

Veryl and Roger continued to spend time with Charlie as he grew into a massive adult buffalo. Health issues prevented Charlie from becoming part of a herd, so he stayed in Santa Fe and often went on hikes with Roger, Goodnight said.<\/p>\n

Charlie was the inspiration for Goodnight\u2019s 2000 sculpture \u201cBack From The Brink,\u201d which depicts a pioneer woman bottle-feeding a bison calf.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are stories here \u2014 tremendous stories,\u201d Goodnight said.<\/p>\n

Goodnight\u2019s sculpture of a bald eagle, \u201cOn The Crest of a Wave,\u201d was created in 1980. She studied the form and anatomy of the eagle, down to the differences between feathers on the bird\u2019s wings.<\/p>\n

The sculpture became one of the first American art pieces to tour China in the 1980s, Goodnight said. A casting of the piece also was located at the American embassy in Botswana, she said.<\/p>\n

Goodnight\u2019s oil painting \u201cOlga\u2019s Return\u201d depicts a woman traveling down a mountain hill with four burros in tow. The piece was inspired by the story of Olga Little, who lived in Southwest Colorado in the early 1900s. Little transported gold and silver ore on the backs of burros from the mines high in the La Plata Mountains to the railroad station south of Hesperus, Goodnight said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrail Visions\u201d also is the name Goodnight has given to the window displays at her new gallery, 106 Grand Ave. The windows will display information about history and her artwork and will rotate periodically, she said. She hopes to see people stop and take in the information, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe windows of the gallery are a gift to the town,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

jacobk@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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