IN THE PANTHEON OF COLLECTIBLE ITEMS ON DISPLAY at Indian Market in Santa Fe every August, pueblo pottery is perhaps the most coveted. Ranging in technique and design, pots, jars, urns, and plates tell a story of traditional craftsmanship, often brought into the 21st century...
IN A GRASSY EXPANSE PEPPERED WITH SCULPTURES and clusters of 100-year-old trees, there are three small, traditional log cabins, a vintage barn, and their newest neighbor, a contemporary log home with a split Corten-steel roof, angled to sit agreeably among the other structures. [caption id="attachment_16638" align="alignleft"...
Bill (Billy to his friends) Schenck is one of the leading contemporary Western artists. As a protégé of Andy Warhol during New York’s Pop Art movement in the 1970s, his work is a mix of Photo-realism, Minimalism, and cowboy kitsch that has landed his paintings...
ARCHITECTURE HAS BEEN DESCRIBED in a multitude of different ways throughout the years. Writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe famously called it “frozen music.” It is “the reaching out for the truth,” according to architect Louis Kahn. Architect I.M. Pei likened it to “the mirror of...
ON A BRIGHT SUMMER MORNING in his Ohio studio, Mark Eberhard sits at his drawing board, working on an idea for a new painting. Birds flit to and from the feeders in his yard and the day beckons him, as the outdoors often does. Around...
ONE OF THE MORE IMPORTANT AND IMPRESSIVE ENTRIES on wildlife artist Luke Frazier’s resume is his age. At only 48 years old, Frazier has produced a body of work with a breadth and maturity that would be the envy of an artist much further along...
JOSH TOBEY'S HOME AND STUDIO are situated at the edge of Estes and Rocky Mountain national parks, tucked in amid pine and scrub oak on the rolling, arid foothills of Colorado. Wild turkeys wander into his studio when the doors are open. Hummingbirds dart like...
THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS HAVE LONG HAD A TANGIBLE PULL, in their scenic allure, woodsy character, proximity to popular L.A. hotspots, and, of course, their views. Though just moments from bustling Sunset Boulevard and the pastoral reaches of Griffin Park, the neighborhood’s winding roads lead up...
THE NAVAJO MAN STANDS BEHIND THE OPEN DOOR of an old, white pickup, eyes closed, head bowed, his forearms rest atop the doorframe. Ancient lands stretch wide, windswept and dusty and dissipate into a blank white sky. Behind the wheel, his friend sits wearily, brow...
ONE EVENING LAST WINTER, Jivan Lee set up his easel outside his house near Taos, New Mexico, intending to paint the long field in front of him, patches of winter trees and layers of mountains beyond. As he stood there taking in the sunset glow,...