• Parade Location Address: 33 Scenic loop Rd.
• Hm: 830-257-6997
• Cell: 830-285-5001
• E-mail: lenelldeane@yahoo.com
• Web site: www.lenelldeane.com
• Media: Bronze Sculpture
• Subjects: Western images, horses, cattle, wildlife, people. Award winning bronze sculptures of western scenes. She has exhibited in prestigious shows around the nation. Her artwork was recently featured in embassies in Mongolia.

Lenell Deane's sculptures convey the quiet and forgotten moments of life in the West; a young boy with his pups, a motherís moment of refleection with her daughter, a womanís face in the Wyoming wind, a lone Indian dancer. As an artist, Deaneís interest in such subjects is a natural outgrowth of her past. She was raised as a native South Texan, and her familyís ranching interests came part-and-parcel with her upbringing.

Lenell DeaneDeane's work has been recognized by peer review on numerous occasions. She has won Best of Show from the Coppini Academy of fine Arts in San Antonio; she was named Artist of the Year in Kerrville, Texas, and has won First Place honors from the Texas Hill Countruy Arts Foundation. Most recently, she received the Miller-Johnson Award for three-dimensional work at the Bosque County Conservatory of Art, the Leonard J. Meiseiman Memorial Award, and the Helen G. Oehler at the Salmagundi Club in New York City. She also took 1st Place in sculpture at the 24th Annual Phipppen Western Art Show, in Prescott, Arizona.

Her bronzes have been exhibited in prestigious shows around the nation including:

• American Artists Professional League, Salmagundi Club, Fifth Avenue New York
• San Antonio Western Invitational Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas
• Loveland Sculpture Group, Loveland Colorado
• Women Artists for the West Show, Tucson Museum of Art
• Western Academy of Women Artists International Exhibition, Biloxi, Mississippi
• Signature Memebers Show at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg AZ
• Mountain Oyster Club, Tucson, AZ
• National Sculpture Society, Park Avenue, New York
• Museum of Western Art, Kerrville, Texas
• Art in the Embassies, Embassy in Mongolia

Lenell has studied with and gained inspiration from some of the finist sculptors in the Western art Community including; Fritz White, Mehl Lawson, Herb Mignery, Grant Speed, Bruce Greene, Garland Weeks, Jay Hester, and Roy Grinnell.

ART IN THE EMBASSIES

ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA

There are many ways to conduct diplomacy. The Art in the Embassies Program is a special way. Works of American art, on display around the world, share out beloved country, our values, our history, our culture,our deep belief in freedon of expression and in the creative power of the individual. Each work of art becomes a diplomatic instrument, each artist an ambassador. It is an outstanding program.

Coln L. Powell,
U.S. Secretary of State

The Art of the Embassies program, was sponsored through the The Museum of Western Art in Kerrville, Texas. I feel very fortunate to be one of the twelve artists selected to send apiece to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. My sculpture The gift, portrays a Crow Indian women on horseback in full Crow regalia , a papoose hangs on the saddle horn and another women stands on the ground. The women are admiring the workmanship on the beaded turtle, and lizard, hanging from the cradle board.

The quilled or beaded sand turtle and lizard were made by the mother or one of the grandmothers. Both animals were revered because they ìlived foreverî and were difficult to kill. Their protective power was enlisted early as a guardian . The lizard served as a decoy to lure away malevolent forces the turtle was to remind the bearer that his life was a precious gift from his parents.

Lenell Deane