It took a journey to the Far East for Don Oelze to discover his deep love for the Old West. That passion ultimately led him to create richly atmospheric, authentically detailed oil paintings of medicine men, stalwart braves, tribal leaders, and vigilant scouts — works...
Tim Lozier adds his own creative spin to classic Western-style furniture in a range of club chairs and sofas, desks and dining sets, beds and dressers that he designs and builds — each one inspired by the collectible creations of Thomas Molesworth [1890–1977]. “It’s classic...
Beth Cavener’s ceramic sculptures defy easy explanation and gravity alike. Since her 2002 residency at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana, Cavener has sculpted animals — mostly goats, hares, and wolves, but also outliers like the life-sized snow leopard staring intently at a hornet’s...
With modest brevity, Mardie Rees describes herself as “a sculptor of the human figure and the portrait.” Yet, that summation embraces a breadth of subjects in the expressive artworks she produces in the studio beside the home she shares with her architect husband, Jeremy Broderick,...
When she was growing up in Indiana, Sheila Miles drew just about anything within her orbit: cows, horses, barns, even the calves her family raised in the backyard. In a household of six kids, making art was a way of finding some space for herself,...
Sarah Lamb first discovered the appeal of still life paintings more than three decades ago as a teenager in Atlanta, Georgia, while taking three-hour-long group classes two nights a week from local artist Sarah Brown. Early on, Lamb says she realized she “just loved depicting...
Were Obi Kaufmann simply a watercolorist producing subtly exquisite works of surpassing immediacy, that would be enough. Were he merely a writer of thought-provoking, poetic prose, that would also suffice. But the fact that the 47-year-old creative polymath combines those talents and focuses them on...
Elsa Sroka “never grew up around cows,” she says of her Fort Collins, Colorado, childhood. More and more these days, however, her rocketing reputation as a painter owes credit to what she calls her “unconventional series of cows,” which include bovines reclining serenely on a...
Jeremy Winborg eagerly anticipated the moment his entry came up for sale at the 50th annual Russell Live Auction at the C.M. Russell Museum back in March 2018. Originally entitled High Caliber, it portrayed a stern-faced teenaged American Indian girl — modeled by his part-Navajo...
Some of Ben Jordan’s earliest, fondest memories date back to childhood excursions with his dad to old Native American sites on the desert plateau near their family’s home in Kingman, Arizona. “We’d look for pottery shards, and that got me asking questions like, ‘Who made...