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...
Erin Hanson portrays the Western landscape with bold, gemlike colors and bravura brushstrokes that fully immerse viewers in her large-scale paintings. So expansive are the scope and spirit of her works that the 38-year-old artist — who lives in San Diego’s northern suburbs — has...
Through his vividly realistic watercolors, Mark Kohler distills the very essence of the West and its people. Whether his subject is a cowboy astride a bucking blue roan, a young Latina aswirl in floral skirts as she rides in the traditional Mexican rodeo called a...
Sally Maxwell’s images of animals in the wild seem almost aglow with inner light, thanks in part to the less-than-usual medium in which she creates them: scratchboard. She’s a true master of the medium, one of only 12 people officially acknowledged as such by the...
JC Spock first fell in love with the West almost three decades ago as a teenager on a six-week cross-country family vacation. “I was so amazed by the magic of the landscapes, which were entirely different from my upbringing in deciduous New England,” she recalls....
Elizabeth Devereaux is playing a major role in redefining the concept of stained-glass windows as most people think they know them today. In fact, she refers to her creations — which can be found in both spiritual and secular settings — not by that old-fashioned...
Visitors to solo art exhibitions by James F. Jackson have been so enthralled by the varied styles on display that they’ve asked questions like, “Who are the seven artists in this show?” Possibly even more confounding, some of the paintings may include intricately carved leather,...