Ted Rowland didn’t grow up with art. What he had was a neighbor who paid him to house-sit. That neighbor happened to own one of the best Western art collections in the state of Montana. “Before he’d pay me,” Rowland recalls, “he’d pull out a...
Deborah and Warren Wadsworth like a good art-inspired rabbithole. Over the decades that they’ve been collecting art, they have also been gathering provenance and meeting artists and their families. While it may border on obsessive, they and the small group of collectors committed to the...
If the love of art has a genetic component, Sue Simpson Gallagher’s penchant for collecting was surely passed down through many generations of hearty Westerners who helped cultivate art appreciation in the barren lands of Wyoming. My paternal great-grandparents were patrons and her maternal great-grandfather...
Jeff Ware started collecting Western art years before he met, by chance, artist Karmel Timmons. It didn’t take them long to realize a shared passion for art, which was just the start of a beautiful relationship. We caught up with the busy couple who, when not...
Susan and Jake Potje have a serious art addiction. To be fair, Susan’s parents, Tom and Ann Morrow, are to blame. They launched the Celebration of Fine Art in Scottsdale in 1991 and handed over the reins to Susan and Jake in 2008. With 100...
At age 94, Richard Hertz has stories to tell from his lifetime of collecting art. Growing up during the Depression and World War II, Hertz served in the U.S. Air Force right after the war. As for art, he says the Air Force offered nothing...
Step into the Frederick, Colorado, home of sculptor Tony Hochstetler and his wife, Shannon, and you’ll discover a world shaped by the same careful precision that defines his bronze sculptures — thoughtful, finely crafted, and quite dazzling. Everything here reflects a deep appreciation for form,...
While some galleries have come and gone, others have maintained their presence for a substantial time, and Settlers West Galleries in Tucson, Arizona, could be a record-setter. Equipped with master’s degrees in American history and business administration, Stuart Johnson founded the gallery 54 years ago...
Reyne Hirsch could be called an accidental collector, and she wouldn’t be alone. After all, how many people have unknowingly built a collection only to discover its value and face the fact that they are, indeed, a collector? Hirsch, co-owner of the Dallas Auction Gallery...
In her career as a museum director, Sandra Harris recalls the time from 2002 to 2005 when she served as the first director of the non-profit Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her office was in a donated space because the museum was just a...