Writer Robert Mark Kamen had just sold his first screenplay when he found himself visiting a 300-acre property for sale in the California Wine Country. It was 1979, a time when Sonoma was an off-the-beaten-track agricultural area rather than the world-renowned wine destination it is...
Ian van Coller’s extensive body of work examines the art of seeing, not merely observing but looking deeply at nature in regard to humanity’s time and impact on the planet. His large-scale photography books cover scoured glaciers in Antarctica, bristlecone pines in Nevada’s Great Basin...
One minute you can pretend to be a fictional Hopalong Cassidy on horseback trailblazing across terrain straight out of a Hollywood Western, and the next, you can trade in your spurs for spikes to reenact Roy “Tin Cup” McAvoy traversing fairways in a golf cart....
In 1993, a headline in The New York Times described Bozeman, Montana, as a “Cow Town With Charm.” It made sense, considering the city was built around agriculture, starting with its namesake, pioneer John Bozeman. After beginning an agricultural colony in the valley, growing food...
Jewelry by Melanie Yazzie Colorado-based artist Melanie A. Yazzie (Navajo-Diné) has made a name for herself in a variety of mediums, including printmaking, painting, and sculpture. More recently, she has partnered with Glenn Green Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to create a jewelry line that...
You don’t come across too many architecture firms named after a flower, but Seattle-based Heliotrope Architects chose a flower named for the Greek god of the sun, a flower that constantly turns its face to the light. In 1999, founders Joe Herrin and Mike Mora...
To the contemporary art lover and collector in the realm of Western American art, Alfred Jacob Miller is often lesser known but is nonetheless a major artist and explorer. When it comes to artists traveling the great American West, few equal Miller’s breathtaking adventures when...
John Wayne stood looking at a painting by Olaf Wieghorst, an artist he knew and admired and whose work he collected. The painting, Spring Rain, is a night scene depicting a mounted cowboy in the rain, water running off his hat, coat, and his drenched...
Many years ago, when David A Leffel moved into a studio on Union Square in New York City, the walls were white and the landlord refused to let him repaint them. But white studio walls don’t work for artists who paint from life. Reflected light...
Amanda Markel’s bronze works portray their subjects by what she leaves out just as much as by what she includes. Aria, for example, melds a fluid Eastern yin-yang symbol with the natural grace of a horse’s foreleg and head. As viewers rotate the sculpture, they...