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| | Leanin' Tree Museum of Western Art -- Museum Gift Shop |
 | | Leanin’ Tree’s good friend, Joe Beeler, passed away this spring, just as a cowboy would wish to go: in his saddle, roping cattle for branding, with friends, on a ranch in Arizona. |
 | | The first founders, Charlie Dye, John Hampton, George Phippen, and Joe, rode together, painted together and started the first organization of artists working in the representational realist genre of art that told the story and captured the beauty, history, and wild majesty of the American West. |
 | | Joe has always combined a talent for painting with the three-dimensional skill of a sculptor. |
| www.leanintreemuseum.com /artists.asp (337 words) |
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