Bill Nebeker is honored to show his bronze sculptures at the 2023 Prix de West for the 20th year.
Nebeker has been commissioned to sculpt an 8-ft. bronze of Prescott, Arizona WWI fighter pilot, First Lieutenant Ernest A. Love, for the Prescott Regional Airport’s new terminal. The sculpture will be unveiled in summer 2023.
On March 19, 2022, the Phippen Museum of Western Art in Prescott opened a 50-year retrospective exhibition, If Horses Could Talk—The Art of Bill Nebeker CA. It displayed more than 100 bronze sculptures created from 1967–2021, as well as historic documents, photos, memorabilia, videos and collectables and ran through July 24, 2022.
In May 2021, Nebeker unveiled his larger-than-life bronze sculpture, LEST WE FORGET, on Prescott’s Courthouse Plaza at the Yavapai County Fallen Officers Memorial. It honors those law-enforcement officers who, from the historic days of the Arizona Territory to those serving today and those who will serve in the future and sacrifice their lives in the line of duty. Western Art Collector’s December 2021 issue featured Nebeker’s two larger-than-life-sized bronze statues unveiled in Prescott: If Horses Could Talk and LEST WE FORGET.
Nebeker also has bronze sculptures in the permanent collections of the Booth Western Art Museum, Briscoe Western Art Museum, Cheyenne Old West Museum, Desert Caballeros Museum, Eiteljorg Museum, Museum of Western Art, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Palm Springs Art Museum, Pearce Museum, Phippen Western Art Museum and the Phoenix Art Museum.
