Editor’s Note: Windows to the West
In the West, art and architecture serve not only to convey beauty but also to establish connections — to the land, history, culture, and others. Thi...
Things We Love
Blue Sky Red Rocks Bracelet by Diana Ferguson A perfect example of wearable art, Diana Ferguson’s work blends traditional peyote stitching with arch...
Hill Country Harmony
Jim Vangilder always drives slowly to the front door of his house. Even though he could easily course the mile-long route from the state highway turno...
Lavender Shadows
Howard Post’s sense of Tucson is steeped in his bones. As the often-cloudless, solid sky clears a space for contemplation, shadows slide across the ...
The Reprieve of Beauty
In a world that can often be overwhelming, Colorado artist Jane Hunt finds solace and inspiration in the quiet beauty of the landscape. Her paintings,...
Worlds Above and Within
Scott Christensen and Quang Ho both have close, personal relationships with the West, which is what the two artists have in common — this and the si...
Rendering: Impact-Positive Architecture
Equiterra Regenerative Design’s title is a play onequilibrium (balance) and terra (earth). It’s a rebranding of an Albuquerque, New Mexico, firm f...
Wanderings: Hidden Gems
There’s nothing so full of promise as a road trip, especially when visiting both well-known and little-known locales. For many, Montana’s beauty i...
Western Landmark: Hotel Paso del Norte
High in the western tip of Texas sits El Paso, a city founded more than 400 years ago, bordering New Mexico and Chihuahua, Mexico. It’s known for se...
Collector’s Eye: Finding Venues for Valuable Voices
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 Muse...
Trilogy
ARCHITECTURE | Signum Architecture CONSTRUCTION | Knittel Construction LANDSCAPE DESIGN | Roche + Roche Landscape Architecture INTERIOR DESIGN | Shawb...
Perspective: Etahdleuh Doanmoe [1856 – 1888]
Of all the interactions between Native Americans and the U.S. government in the late 1800s, the experience of 71 Southern Plains warriors at Fort Mari...
In The Studio: The Gift of Space
Half a century ago, when he was a member of the Minico High School basketball team, Robert Moore would drive harvested dried pinto beans or Great Nort...
Artist Spotlights: Whitney Brooks Abbott
Whitney Brooks Abbott celebrates quotidian moments of life along California’s Central Coast. From cloud-swept beaches to rural landscapes, abandoned...
Artist Spotlights: GL Richardson
GL Richardson’s recent Bless Our Plans and Guide Our Hands delivers the powerful yet subtle impact of a painter possessing creative talent, from its...
Artist Spotlights: James Corwin
James Corwin paints wildlife from across the Rocky Mountain West and worldwide in boldly close-up compositions and a vividly ultra-realistic style tha...
Artist Spotlights: Jacqueline Jones
Jacqueline Jones brings a fresh perspective to her paintings of the West. Raised and trained as an artist in New England, which she still calls home, ...
Artist Spotlight: Kathryn Stedham
When Kathryn Stedham heads out of the barn just south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the horse she rides each morning, she acknowledges and takes in the ...
Designing the West: Family Friendly
For Ashley Macuga, becoming an interior designer is rooted in her past and has deep meaning in her present. She founded Collected Interiors in the San...
Collector’s Notebook: A Quest for Understanding
An astute art collector once told me that whenever he’s in Manhattan, he visits the Whitney Museum of American Art to sit on the bench in front of a...
Auction Block: Leading the Charge
Auction houses and museums offered an exciting array of artworks for sale, and buyers proved interested, turning up for online and in-person events th...
Publisher’s Note: The Father of the Taos Art Colony
Joseph Henry Sharp [1859 – 1953] was one of the most accomplished artists of the 1900s. As a painter, he was an adventurer and storyteller who helpe...
Declarations of the Palette Knife
Landscape painter Brad Teare draws his visual inspiration from the intimate valleys and snowy mountain peaks around his home in Northern Utah’s glor...
Collector’s Eye: An Expressive Odyssey
To William P. Healey, art is the manifestation of American Western history, a subject he’s been interested in since childhood. His older brother, a ...
Auction Block: Quintessential American Style
Works by contemporary and historical Western artists prompted robust responses from collectors during the dawn of 2024. Auction houses and events that...
Collector’s Notebook: Artistic Etiquette
Artists spend their lives creating a type of non-verbal, visual communication. They often work alone, occasionally collaborating with fellow artists, ...
Designing the West: Design Harmony in Music City
When Kathy Anderson started her interior design firm in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1988, she never would have guessed that one day she’d work for musi...
Artist Spotlight: David Dibble
David Dibble spent his early years on the land his parents and grandparents worked in northern Utah near the Great Salt Lake, surrounded by the fields...
Artist Spotlight: Geoffrey Gersten
Geoffrey Gersten’s Hollywood Summer uncannily feels like a portal into idyllic post-World War II America. Rendered large-scale in near-photorealisti...
Artist Spotlight: Lisa Bennett
Lisa Bennett’s growing list of collectors may find it challenging, at times, to come up with a general term to describe the artworks she composes fr...
Artist Spotlight: Barbara Berry
Barbara Berry seemed destined to create art. She grew up in an art-filled home in rural Pennsylvania near Philadelphia, and her talented mom earned mo...
Artist Spotlight: Susan Eddings Pérez
Susan Eddings Pérez arrived at the realization that she was, in fact, an abstract artist when the interior design clients for whom she’d been creat...
In the Studio: Tracks and Traces
When international sculptor and octogenarian David Marshall announces that he’s considering retiring and opts to open his private studio in rural Co...
Publisher’s Note: In Memoriam
We bid farewell to one of our greats. Ed Mell is to contemporary Western art what C.M. Russell and Frederic Remington are to its origins. The archetyp...
Rendering: The Cadence of a Neighborhood
Andy Johnson, the founder and principal architect of DAJ Design in Louisville, Colorado, doesn’t believe there should be such a thing as an “envir...
Things We Love
Camel Speedy 35 Bag by Leatherandvodka Metropolitan style meets the Wild West in this authentic Louis Vuitton handbag infused with rustic charm. After...
Wanderings: Roaring Twenties Elegance in an Unexpected Place
Travelers expect to see Art Deco in Miami, L.A., and Chicago. Not in Oklahoma. But the sky-high pylons of marble, vertical chevrons, and abstract mosa...
Western Landmark: El Monte Sagrado
Visitors choose Taos, New Mexico, for a combination of reasons. Some come for the mountains and to ski at one of North America’s steepest resorts. O...
Editors Note: Into the Soul of the West
Throughout history, we’ve celebrated explorers for their courage, resilience, and curiosity. They venture into the unknown, seeking to expand our un...
A Sense of Harmony
ARCHITECTURE | Neumann Mendro Andrulaitis Architects CONSTRUCTION | J. Weston Custom Construction Kevon Zehner’s hunt for a buildable lot in Santa B...
ShineMaker
ARCHITECTURE | CLB Architects CONSTRUCTION | KWC INTERIOR DESIGN | HSH Interiors Although homeowners Tiffanie DeBartolo and her husband, Scott Schumak...
The Complexity of Life
“Before I start painting,” says Esteban Cabeza de Baca, “it’s usually a very euphoric moment of ideation.” The artist’s dynamic, brightl...
The Western Nocturne
What happens when the lights are turned off? “When you’re a little kid, that’s when the monsters come out,” says Western painter Grant Redden....
Infinity and Divinity
“Our little planet floats like a mote of dust in the morning sky,” wrote the late, revered American astronomer Carl Sagan. “All that you see, al...
Modern Homestead
ARCHITECTURE: Shepherd Resources Inc. CONSTRUCTION: Beck Building Company INTERIOR DESIGN: Kelly Carlisle Design LLC Though he didn’t know it at the...
The Art of Simplicity
If there were one word to define Tom Browning’s life and artistic career, it would be simplicity. Simplicity in the rural Eastern Oregon lifestyle h...
Artist Spotlight: Rudi Broschofsky
Images by Rudi Broschofsky may strike viewers as delightfully intriguing optical conundrums. Are they paintings or photographs? Two-dimensional surfac...
Artist Spotlight: Kristine Poole
Kristine Poole’s fired-clay sculpture Duende offers an eloquent, poetic manifestation of the artist’s life and career. A reclining woman holds her...
In the Studio: Clay and Cameras
Sculptor Amy Laugesen and visual artist Stephen Hume met, appropriately enough, in a Denver art gallery. They started dating in 1999 and married three...
Things We Love
Chloe Convertible Bag by Sapahn Known for its artisan-made leather bags and wallets, Sapahn has also built a reputation as a company that advocates fo...