Joe Neil Beeler (1931-2006)


Little or No Chance signed, dated and inscribed 'JOE BEELER / 1980 © CA' (lower left)oil on canvas24 x 40inPainted in 1980.
|ProvenanceThe artist.Overland Trail Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1984.Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1984.ExhibitedWashington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, and elsewhere, America's Star: The U.S. Marshals (1789-1989), December 9, 1988-May 5, 1991.LiteratureS.H. McGarry, Honoring The Western Tradition: The L.D. "Brink" Brinkman Collection, Kerrville, Texas, 2003, p. 99, illustrated.The traveling exhibition, America's Star, hosted by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., was a traveling exhibit organized by the U.S. Marshals Service of the U.S. Department of Justice. It was held to commemorate their 200 year history, traveling to thirteen different cities in the United States over a period of two and a half years. The present work was included in this show.