Word: beeler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...position to ease off a bit. Fred Fellows doesn't have to rope in rodeos for a living any more, which is just as well, since roping is no living at all, unless you can eat the silver belt buckles they give away for prizes. Joe Beeler is pushing the outer limits of legal bliss, because he doesn't have to wear those damn black business shoes...
...streets?" asks a listener, because Beeler has been known to improve on the facts when he is telling a story. "Oh, absolutely," he says. "Skinny little suckers." Things got worse, and finally Beeler took an offer to move East and work as an illustrator. He doesn't bother to say what city. It's just "East," a sorry region, though no doubt there's a lot of nice folks there. That's when he bought the black shoes and suit to match. But then came a commission to do a Western scene for $350, and Beeler...
...Phoenix, installed in some luxury at the Hyatt Regency, wearing jeans, a belt buckle the size of a locomotive headlight and a fine-looking Stetson. He and the 23 other members of the Cowboy Artists of America are having a show and sale at the Phoenix Art Museum. Beeler and John Hampton, who was born in New York City-dropped down the wrong chimney by the stork, he says-and two other men founded the group back in 1965 to tip the odds on Western art in the direction of survival. Last year the 14th annual sale brought in over...