Joe Beeler: Life Of A Cowboy Artist

DON HEDGPETH

Publication: Diamond Tail Press, 2004, Vail, Colorado

First edition. 4to. Inscribed by author Hedgpeth and artist Joe Beeler on two different pages Tan cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine and Joe Beeler's name on front cover, color pictorial front and rear endpapers, 296 pp., preface, foreword, numerous color illustrations and some in black and white, index.

This is a book about Joe Beeler by his longtime friend, Don Hedgpeth. It tells of Joe’s Borderland heritage, early determination as an artist, and his fabled invention with other like artists in the creation of the Cowboy Artists of America. With one hundred and twenty-five lavishly reproduced photographs of Beeler's sculpture, painting, and drawings. all in 296 pages. Publisher's announcement flyer laid in. As new in dust jacket. An exceptional copy.