Collectors at autumn auctions and exhibits showed a strong appreciation for the iconography of the American West. Prices for paintings, sculptures, furniture, jewelry, and art tied to equine pursuits were generally solid, with the occasional outbreak of bidding fever driving the amounts of certain artworks...
For more than 15 years, Jeff Derebery worked on a design for his ideal home. As a builder for more than three decades, he’d experienced and constructed many different architectural designs and styles. One thing he knew without a doubt was that he wanted his...
Robert Townsend has spent his artistic career both fascinated and inspired by vintage Americana. His early large-scale watercolors focused on memories of Route 66 road trips with his family across the Desert Southwest. This early work eventually evolved into brightly colored Pop Art paintings depicting...
Adrian Aguirre grew up with a foot in two worlds. Born and raised in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, just south of El Paso, Texas, he crossed the border between the cities twice every day: to attend his American school in the morning, and to return home...
Legend has it that when William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was visiting Wyoming in 1894, his son-in-law brought him to the top of the Bighorn Mountains. Looking out over the Shoshone River and the sprawling Bighorn Basin, the entrepreneur and legendary showman clearly saw an...
Director Steven Spielberg once said his greatest fear was boring his audience. And that’s a fear artist David Yarrow takes to heart. “If his biggest fear is boring people, then we all better watch out,” Yarrow says, laughing. “But I think that’s a good starting premise...
An East Coast financial executive and art collector had a long-standing dream for a home in the Rocky Mountain West where she could ski, fish, hike, and replenish in the quiet of nature. The Yellowstone Club — a 15,200-acre private ski, golf, and adventure community...
Sonoma, California-based architect Amy A. Alper has an ever-growing list of award-winning residential designs that, while modern, engage seamlessly with their Wine Country surroundings, employing so-called rustic materials in innovative ways. Since the catastrophic fire of 2017, and the yearly fires that have followed, her...
If the walls of room 222 at the Strater Hotel in Durango, Colorado, could talk, overnight guests might hear tales of writer Louis L’Amour, who spent many days there, inspired by the gaiety and music emanating from the saloon directly beneath his room, fixated on...
The Newlywood Set by Earlywood Based in the mountain town of Red Lodge, Montana, Earlywood handcrafts heirloom-quality kitchen tools with an artisan twist. Founder Brad Bernhart — a former mechanical engineer — has always had a deep respect for “the oldest, most beat up, most worn,...