A local ceramist's work of art, valued at $2,000, is now on display at San Dimas City Hall, a product of last springs annual Festival of Western Art.
"Big Red," a head and hat bust, is the fruit of 30 minutes of work at the "quick draw" contest held in San Dimas last April during the festival. Sculpture Richard Myer of Glendora, shaped a hunk of wet clay from a sitting done by anonymous man, now named "Big Red," the quintessential cowboy.
Myer has sculpted professionally since 1970, and has received several Young University and later continued studies at the Sculpture Center in New York City.
The artist, who usually sells his work through galleries and art shows, allowed "Big Red" to be sold through the art auction at the festival last April to Tom Howard of Pomona.
Howard, a proud Westerner and enthusiast of the Festival of Western Art, said he donated the piece in order to raise money for the festival.
Howard said he enjoys Western art, his familiarity with it bred in Wyoming here he was born and reared.
So is his grandmother still in Wyoming, going strong at 101 years of age. "She was one of the first white women to settle there," he said, having come by covered wagon with her parents at the age of 6.
By Sharon Greengold