As businessman and philanthropist Steve Lynn has matured as an art collector, one thing has become abundantly clear: Sharing one’s collection enhances the experience of it. “Why do it if you aren’t going to let others enjoy it?” Lynn asks. “It’s not fun to drink a...
While Russ Hoover was growing up in the early 1960s in what was then the small town of Scottsdale, Arizona, his mother took the then 7 year old to the Heard Museum in Phoenix. There, he fell in love with the museum’s Katsina doll collection....
When American Cheyenne politician Ben Nighthorse Campbell reported for duty to the 100th U.S. Congress in 1987, he confesses that he rode into Washington, D.C., on a Harley Davidson, his long hair gathered into a braid trailing down his back. This illustrious entrance was an appropriate...
For Jack Morris, the story of his life in the arts has had many twists and turns, eventually leading to his status as Emeritus Auctioneer with the Scottsdale Art Auction, which he co-founded with partners Michael Frost and Brad Richardson in 2005. After a case of...
For more than 50 years, Perry Null has been trading artwork and jewelry with American Indians from different tribal nations. He began learning the business in 1970 when he started buying and selling jewelry from Navajo, Zuni, Hopi, and other Indigenous silversmiths. He worked along the...
Eighteenth-century Irish poet Oliver Goldsmith never knew Naoma Tate. But one of his most famous lines nonetheless perfectly describes her: “And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, / That one small head could carry all [she] knew.” Following college at the University of Utah,...
Edwina Hawley Milner’s life is a story that’s come full circle, from artist to philanthropist and, at age 84, a practicing artist once more. Milner was born in Oklahoma and was to be named for her grandfather Edwin when Milner’s parents thought their baby would...
“I can’t imagine living without art; it enhances our lives,” says William Winn of Denver, Colorado. He and his wife, Kathryn, caught the collecting bug in a big way on their 25th anniversary in 1981. While visiting the Pam Driscoll Gallery, and just before their...
Over the course of his life, Dan Corazzi has played many different roles. His varied experiences have included working as a French teacher, high school principal, school district superintendent, software company CFO, and, now, a board member at a prestigious Western art museum. In 2002, Corazzi...
If you want to meet a modern day Renaissance man, say hello to Mark Sublette. Formerly a practicing physician specializing in preventative, occupational, and sports medicine, today he’s the founder and owner of Tucson, Arizona’s well-known Medicine Man Gallery. Sublette is also considered an authority...