Mehl is the only member of both the Cowboy Artists of America and the Traditional Cowboy Arts Association exhibiting in the 2011 Cowboy Crossings show. He was named Braider of the Year in 2008 by the Academy of Western Artists. In 2001, Mehl became a member of the Traditional Cowboy Arts Association as a braider of rawhide gear. Mehl was honored with the Thomas Moran Gold Medal in 1998 at the Masters of the American West show at the Autry National Center. He has been presented the Remington Award and the Express Ranches Great American Cowboy Award at the Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Mehl has been a member of the Cowboy Artists of America since 1982 and has received numerous Gold and Silver Medals and Best of Show Awards at theĬowboy Artists of America show. He is happy to combine the world of horses with that of fine art, and his rawhide braiding artistry. Mehl excels at depicting the devotion between man and his horse, and his sculptures capture the spirit of the Western buckaroo-the working men of the great California and Nevada ranches. Mehl is accomplished in both venues and brings to each a concentrated focus that produces horseback memories and sculptural images of pure grace and beauty. There is the same kind of magic in the hands that shape the sculptor’s clay as there is in the hands that hold the reins of a spade-bit horse. He is an heir to the proud vaquero tradition of Old California, a dedicated disciple of the refined, subtle elegance of the Santa Barbara style that inspired the creative spirits of such men as Ed Borein and Luis Ortega. Mehl Lawson is an artist in three mediums: sculpture, braiding and horses. Exquisitely modeled, each bookend subtly different from the other. The company used 5 different finishes for its cast metal pieces, but their trademark high-gloss bronze finish with two-tone highlights of rich red-golden copper from the Southwest’s great copper mines, earned Dodge the tag line, “ The Best of the West.”Ĭlick on a photo below to view more detail about the item.Really superb. Their bookends on onyx bases are less common. Brown, selling for $10 to $40 a pair.Īll Dodge bookends are made of heavy cast gray metal. of Los Angeles, Newark and Miami, advertised “ the master-line of gifts for the discriminating buyer ,” listing more than 20 different pairs of bookends, including pieces designed by McClelland Barclay and Gladys E. In 1930 he moved the company to Los Angeles to begin making “Oscars” for Hollywood’s Academy Awards, and in 1949, began producing Hollywood’s “Emmys”. Dodge, a former track star in the 1924 Olympics. began in Chicago in the mid 1920s by Ray E. He was a Miami resident since 1950.ĭodge, Inc. He moved the company to Los Angeles and began making the Oscars in 1930 and the Emmys in 1949. He began the company in Chicago after competing in the 1924 Olympics and the Pan American Games the following year. Dodge was the founder of Dodge, Inc., one of the worlds largest manufacturers of trophys. Dodge, a former Olympic runner and founder of the company that makes the Oscar and Emmy statuettes for movie and television awards, died of congestive heart failure on Sept.
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