Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Beil, Charles Alois
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Beil, Charles A.
Beil, Charles A
Beil, Charles
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Description area
Dates of existence
1894-1976
History
Charles A. Beil CM LL. D. (1894 – July 29, 1976) was a Canadian sculptor best known for his sculptures of cowboys and the plain Indians of the early West. He was a protégé and friend of artist Charles Marion Russell. He was born in Germany and left at the age of 11. He worked for some time in South America before making his way to North America, where he discovered his love of the Wild West and the Frontier. It was Russell who encouraged him to start creating art, and inspired him to start working with pencil and clay. Beil moved to Banff, Alberta in the 1930s, where he began to take an interest in casting clay into bronze.