Two days after the Maui fires on August 8, 2023, Dale Zarrella had a vision. In his mind’s eye, he saw Hawaiian creatures, gods, and goddesses in the wood of the charred trees. Four months later, the sculptor entered the Lahaina burn zone, escorted by...
Jeff Ware started collecting Western art years before he met, by chance, artist Karmel Timmons. It didn’t take them long to realize a shared passion for art, which was just the start of a beautiful relationship. We caught up with the busy couple who, when not...
Happy birthday, America! You don’t look a day older than 250. At the dawn of the nation’s birthday year, shows and sales put on their best red, white, and blue and trotted out some of the finest work to come to market in recent years. International...
True design, according to Tanner Morgan of Morgan Madison Design, relies heavily on building a relationship with the client. “It’s not a dictatorship, but I’m not going to be your shopping buddy either,” he says. “I’m giving the client what they want, but I’m also...
There were not 10 divine laws for depicting the spirit of the Southwest, but instead nine men and one woman who created a unique set of approaches to painting the places and the peoples of that land in the early 20th century. They were based...
It was very wild, very brushy,” Don Stinson says of the land in Austin, Texas, where he and his wife Barbara built their home and his studio in 2025. “You almost had to crawl into it — on your hands and knees. But we could...
Twenty-five years ago, a biotech executive and his wife sought a weekend escape from their San Francisco-area house. The Napa Valley town of St. Helena sounded like a good idea, even though they weren’t into wine. All they wanted was a simple turn-key house. But...
Celebrated Native American potter Diego Romero wants to set things straight, for the sake of historical and popular records. Asked to provide reasons the multitalented artist chose clay, Romero said it was the other way around. “Clay chose me,” said Romero, whose ceramics have been accorded...
In his second senior year at Texas A&M, Bentley Tibbs went home to the Mississippi Delta to break the news that he’d decided to add a B.A. in architecture to his B.A. in history. His father didn’t say a word. “All he did was point...
Something has shifted in Colorado artist Jay Moore’s landscape paintings. It’s subtle, this intensity of feeling, and it’s hard to put a finger on just what it is, but it’s there. When asked what’s changed, Moore is surprised anyone has noticed. “Well, I’m always trying to...