SELECTED EXHIBITIONS and awards of all sizes and coats of “A Good Life”
Finalist, 15th International ARC Salon, “A Good Life” MW. Art Renewal Center, ARC, writes, ‘This year we have 1006 finalist works by 640 artists, representing 32% of 4941 works submitted from 83 countries. 2021
Pietro Montana Memorial Award & $800, “A Good Life” SS, Hudson Valley Art Association, Inc. 88th Annual Exhibition, Old Lyme, CT. 2021
Mary Kay & Paul Jeynes Memorial Award for an Animal Bronze Sculpture & $500 Allied Artists of America 108th Annual Exhibition, “A Good Life” SS, Online, 2021
National Sculpture Society Exhibition “Fellows Invitational” NYC. 2020
Award of Second Place Sculpture, “A Good Life” SS, American Artists Professional League, “Your Favorite Thing” Exhibition Online. 2020
National Geographic Society, Encore exhibition of the Society of Animal Artists’ 2000-2001 National Tour, Washington, DC.
Ella Carothers Dunnegan Gallery of Art, Art of the Animal Kingdom V National Tour, Bolivar, MO, $ Permanent Collection
The Associated Artists of Southport, 21st Annual National July Exhibition, Southport, NC, Award
Society of Animal Artists, Inc., 40th Annual Members Exhibition, Award
The Library of Hattiesburg, MS • National Small Sculpture Exhibition 2000, Hattiesburg, MS, $ Permanent Collection
American Women Artists, Second National Competition, Taos, NM, Best in Show
National Sculpture Society, 66th Annual Exhibition, Silver Medal & John Cavanaugh Prize, New York, NY
Fine Arts Institute at the San Bernardino County Museum, 34th Annual Open International Exhibition, Redlands, CA, Award
National Academy Museum, 173rd Annual Exhibition, Ellin P. Speyer Prize, New York, NY
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Inc., 102nd Annual Open Exhibition, New York, NY, Award
National League of American Pen Women, 16th Annual Women’s National Juried Art Exhibition, Springdale, AK, Award
Hill Country Arts Foundation, Confluence 1998, 26th Annual National Juried Painting & Sculpture Exhibition, Ingram, TX, Award
Seaside Art Gallery, 6th International Miniature Show, Nags Head, NC, Award
The Pen & Brush, 51st Annual Sculpture Exhibition, New York, NY, Award
Art Show at the Dog Show, 11th Annual Exhibition, Wichita, KS, “A Good Life” SS,Best in Show, Three Awards, $ Purchased for the AKC Museum of the Dog. 1997
Dog Fanciers Club, Inc., 10th Annual Dog Art Competition, New York, NY, Best in Show
Chambersburg Council for the Arts, 13th Annual Exhibition of Miniature Art, Chambersburg, PA, Award
Arts Center of the Ozarks, 3rd Annual Artists of Northwest Arkansas Fall Regional Exhibition, Springdale, AK, Award
St. Louis Artists’ Guild, 84th Annual Sculpture Exhibition, Clayton, MO, Award
Artists’ Atelier of Atlanta, National Miniature Show, Atlanta, GA, Award
What they said about “A Good Life” SS
“Top dog! ‘A Good Life,’ a bronze by Joy Krœger Beckner of Chesterfield, MO, earned Best-in-Show and the first-place award for sculpture at the Art Show at the Dog Show. Nearly 300 artists entered 653 works in the eleventh annual show, the nation’s premier, juried, fine-arts competition devoted to canine art.” Wichita Eagle, April 1997
“Joy Krœger Beckner’s ‘Best-in-Show’ bronze dachshund (exemplifies) compositional vivacity.” Dr. Novalene Ross, Chief Curator, Wichita Art Museum. [Regarding the Art Show at the Dog Show purchase for the AKC Museum of the Dog.]
“I was especially taken with the magnificent bronze sculpture of a dachshund. Titled ‘A Good Life,’ this Best-in-Show winner will have a prominent place at the American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog, St. Louis, MO.” Ronald H. Menaker, Director of The American Kennel Club, 1997. $ Permanent Collection of the AKC Museum of the Dog!
Each “A Good Life” MW is signed, numbered, and made by hand, one at a time in Colorado, USA. Each includes my mark, Enjoy!
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