Sculptor Herb Mignery was raised on a working cattle ranch near Bartlett, Nebraska. Rather than follow his family’s 110 year tradition of ranching, Herb turned his childhood interest in drawing into a successful career in the commercial art world before devoting himself full time to fine art. An award-winning member of the Cowboy Artists of America, his elegant and classically rendered sculptures chronicle the lives of men and women as they wrestled the land and elements of the early American West. Each of Herb’s sculptures completes a piece of the story of life in the West.
His commissions number in the double digits and vary in size from the ten-inch “Pioneer Award,” presented by the Academy of Country Music, to a twenty-foot sculpture for the Hashknife Pony Express in Scottsdale, Arizona. Other monuments are located in Nebraska, Missouri, Hawaii, Colorado, New York, California, Wyoming, New Mexico, Texas and South Dakota. Herb has won numerous awards in shows across the United States, but considers acceptance by the general public the ultimate honor one could receive.
Drawing, though, was never forgotten. Over the years Herb’s light-hearted work has appeared in books, calendars, greeting cards, magazines and now children’s books that boldly illustrate his love of nature on every page.