By the 1970s, the cotillions and debutante balls that had graced Seattle’s Olympic Hotel since it opened in 1924 were things of the past. The hotel’s ornate Italian Renaissance Revival structure, with its crimson and gold interior, was suddenly considered garish and out of place...
At a time when certain U.S. markets — and markets within markets — are bouncing around like a pinball inside its machine, the demand and prices for Western and Native American paintings and sculptures show steadiness. Steadiness is a strength, especially in uneven economic times,...
Contemporary Western Art is having a moment, particularly the Modern West subgenre, a.k.a. New West. While there are many ways to tell the stories of the American West in art, New West artists share one common thread: they embrace the visual language of Modernism. Borrowing from...
Kevin Gray remembers the first time he visited historic parks in Canada and saw log homes with chinking. He was eight, and his family had just emigrated from Scotland to Alberta. “It was so unique,” he recalls. “In a little kid’s eyes, it felt like...
Welcome to the Fall issue. As art exhibitions and auctions heat up across the country, we’re keeping an eye on trends, artists, and sales. Like the incredible news from this past summer: The big three auction houses — Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips — beat total...
In Conversation: Caroline Douglas, Where the Magic Happens I would have to say, clay chose me. I took a pottery class in high school, and from day one I loved it; it is the medium that made me feel most alive. I started out on the...
Hunt Slonem’s New York City studio is an explosion of color, art, and objects, from antique furniture to top hats, harps, framed photographs, plants, and rugs. Though I can’t see his collection of 10 rescued exotic birds, their chatter periodically floats up through the breaks...
At an exhibition a few years before the end of his life, Denver-based artist Vance Kirkland was standing next to his painting Unknown Space Mysteries 9 Billion Years B.C. (1979), part of his Dot Paintings series, when a scientist walked up and stood beside him....
Patricia Benner, much-awarded landscape designer and founder of Benner Reibel Landscape Architects, began her professional life with an MBA. She worked in finance for several years before deciding it simply wasn’t for her. Then her mother, a landscape architect in New Jersey, created a plan...
Prime Angus Beef from Bootheel 7 Ranch Fourth-generation Bootheel 7 Ranch relies on family values, land stewardship, and a passion for livestock. The “ranch” half of the family works cattle in Lusk, Wyoming, while the “city” half runs business operations in Parker, Colorado. With a variety...