For as far back as he can remember, Ken Williams Jr. has loved collecting artwork made by Native peoples, including those of his and his mother’s tribe, the Arapaho of Wyoming, as well as his father’s Seneca tribe, on whose reservation he grew up near...
A stunning estate with views in every direction serves as a private family retreat. Located on 3.7 acres in the high desert of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the original home was constructed in 1949, with subsequent owners adding to the property over time, including one...
Tom Uttech was alone one evening on a lakeshore in Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, doing what he says he does best these days: sitting still and looking for a long time. The brilliant sunset glow magnified the shapes of fallen pines along the...
An exhibition at the Steamboat Art Museum in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, traces the beginnings of “New Western Art” to Lloyd Kiva New and the early instructors at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Fairland, Oklahoma, was a small railroad town where one could watch trains from...
Paul Rochford, who grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was one of those unusual kids whose parents never had to ask him to clean his room. He always kept it “just so,” he says. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Michael Violante’s parents allowed their young, art-enamored...
The art world is famously opaque. Let’s face it, obfuscation is, well, arty. And fun. Really fun. This is why I love writing “Collector’s Notebook”: the art world provides an endless well of secrets from which to draw. And the price of art is one...
Auctions in the closing weeks of 2022 saw sales of contemporary paintings by Western and Native American artists achieve handsome sums in a market that’s generally shaped by traditional themes and Realism. The expansiveness across late-fall sales suggests that artists, auction houses, and collectors are finding...
Levi Wilson founded the respected decorative lighting company Hammerton in Salt Lake City, Utah, back in 1995. Today, as its vice president of design, he’s spearheading the effort to rebrand its high-end Hammerton Signature series as “a true couture line” of home lighting products. The...
When artist Mark Maggiori attended Académie Julian in Paris, he’d never heard of the Taos Society of Artists. The venerable art organization, founded in 1915, was where Joseph Henry Sharp, Bert G. Phillips, Ernest Blumenschein, Herbert Dunton, Oscar E. Berninghaus, and Eanger Irving Couse, the...
Here in my publisher’s note, I always write about a painting and its creator. And almost always, that painting is a dramatic landscape. It’s time to mix it up. Chances are when you come across Clark Hulings’ name, you think of his sweeping scenes portraying poignant...