Yellowstone Valley chess set, BigHorn sheep are the Rooks. The Knights are the horses.
Tolley invited to exhibit in Rancho Mirage - November 2023
Where: Rancho Mirage Festival of the Arts
When: Nov 4th and 5th, 2023
Where: Rancho Mirage Community Park and Amphitheater, Rancho Mirage, California.
Visit twenty-eight invited artists at the Rancho Mirage, California, Festival of the Arts. Open air dining, dancing, stage performances and 28 artists round-out a weekend in the beautiful Coachella Valley desert.
Tolley exhibits his latest sculptures, including my first public debut of his “Yellowstone” chess set, 32 bronzes and handmade game table.
Yellowstone Animals Chess Set of 32 Bronze Sculptures by Tolley Marney
American Western Chess set by artist, Tolley Marney. He hammered each original chess piece sculpture on his blacksmith anvil. North American animals and the power of the female apex predator are unique to this chess set design.Tolley is inspired by his lifetime as a cowboy, farrier and blacksmith. His love of the outdoors, ranch life and visits to National Parks across the American West enrich his artistic vision.
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California Ornamental Steel Contractor and Artist
Artist, blacksmith and ornamental steel contractor, Tolley Marney is a self-taught cowboy artist continually refining his aesthetic and techniques to create unique indoor and outdoor sculptures, chess sets and more.
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Honeybee Sculptures to Install Indoor or Outdoor.
I made 6 bees for my wife’s front garden design. She is a landscape designer and during the past two years, we’ve been making the change from a plain grass front yard to a walled garden sanctuary. She was looking for a “room divider” to create a dining area in the garden. Together, we came up with this overhead raised garden bed that doubles as a shade sail pole and sculpture pedestal.
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"Awakening" steel horse sculpture by Tolley Marney
Draft Horse Art Sculpture by Tolley Marney
Clydesdale draft horses are among the largest and strongest horses in North America. Artist, Tolley Marney's, steel horse sculptures are imbued with that strength in every twist and turn of the steel under his blacksmith hammer.
Tolley has had much experience driving horses during his life as a horseman. Here's what he has to say about draft horses, "To watch draft horses work as a team is magical. In the old days, twenty draft horses pulling harrows would be working as one, pulling the tools across the farm fields of agricultural America. A driver would drive a team of horses down the wheat field. Another man would control the depth of the blades, another man had a task, the harvester was like a small factory being pulled across the earth by horses. The draft horses of the past broke the ground that fed us, took our children to school and church, saved and nurtured our lives."
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“Within the Steel is a Beautiful Horse,” Tolley Marney
Horse Head Sculptures with Reclaimed Steel and Antique Wood
Reclaimed steel and antique wood furniture transformed into soulful horse head contemporary western horse sculpture.
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Tolley Marney's horse sculpture, Devotion, is a passionate intertwining of wrought steel.
Horse Courtship Romantic Horse Art Metal Sculpture
Art, the owner of First Gallery in Rancho Mirage, California is a man with an eye for art and design. He has owned a custom frame shop for decades and recently moved to a beautifully spacious and light-filled location. He is featuring several of Tolley's steel sculptures this season in the atrium gallery.
Be sure to stop in and see Tolley's art. Art has quite the roster of exclusive collectors and you'll enjoy meeting him.
NOTE: First Gallery has closed. This sculpture has sold. You may commission Tolley to create a similar sculpture. Because he works without patterns, your sculpture will be unique to you.
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Transformation
Hand forged steel horse sculpture titled, Transformation, by cowboy artist Tolley Marney. Sculpture is exhibited at Bellatora Gallery in Truckee, California. Call 530.386.2960 to purchase. Price is $5,800.00 plus shipping (includes crating and insurance). www.bellatoratruckee.com
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Western Religious Art
Cowboy artist, Tolley Marney creates Western religious art with a hammer and forge, creating images of spiritual strength and beauty with red hot steel, molten glass and antique wood inlays.
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