315 Thanks for the Rain

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Category Art
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Start Price 10,000.00 USD
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Thanks for the Rain
Artist: Beeler, JoeDate of Birth: 1931-2006
Medium: Bronze, cast number 12/17
Dimensions: 11 inches high
Signed: Signed and dated 1971
Verso:

Monumental versions of Thanks for the Rain can be seen outside the Woolaroc and Desert Caballeros Museums.
Joe Beeler believed that “a really fine or great piece of western art will not only show care in the documentary aspects of the work, but it will also be a fine piece judged primarily on its merits alone.” (Broder, p. 338.) In Thanks for the Rain, horse and man bow their heads in gentle, congruent curves of reverence, linking man, animal, earth, and heaven.