This summer’s premier Western and Native American art events showcased a vibrant blend of tradition, innovation, and record-breaking sales. From the historic Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the auction floor in Reno, Nevada, and the prestigious art museum in Oklahoma City, artists, collectors,...
Sedona, Arizona, has long been known for its dramatic landscapes of towering, red sandstone formations, its energy vortices that seem to affect the human spirit (as well as cell phones), and its rich cultural life as a hub for the arts. The almost surreal scenery,...
Located at an elevation of 5,280 feet and framed by the majestic Rocky Mountains to the west, Denver, Colorado, is packed full of interesting attractions for art and architecture aficionados. With museums crafted by world-famous “starchitects” and public art installations scattered throughout the city, from...
Tabei Lounge Chair by Crump & Kwash Striking a balance between comfort and clean design — with a low, sculptural frame and plush cushioning — the Tabei Lounge Chair hits that sweet spot between laid-back and sharp. Crump & Kwash custom-makes the chair to suit a...
Jamie Farmer and Scott Payne began their professional lives on the same late spring day in 2007, assigned to side-by-side desks at CLB Architects in Jackson, Wyoming. They’d both just graduated from architecture school: Farmer from Montana State University and Payne from Louisiana State University. [caption...
On the surface, Oscar Howe [1915–1983] was a thoughtful, quiet, patient man, dedicated to his work as an artist and teacher and to his people, the Yanktonai band of the Dakota tribe in South Dakota, where he grew up and spent most of his adult...
For Comanche artist Nocona Burgess, the studio is not only a creative workspace but also a container of memory, identity, tradition, and community. “It’s full of stuff,” Burgess says. “Just kind of off-the-wall stuff that I’ve collected. It’s art and objects from friends and former...
Kim Casebeer depicts landscapes that seem to go on forever, in which the sun, hovering near the horizon, imbues fields, hills, mountains, and clouds alike with a radiance that seems to emanate from within. Depicted in expressive, textured brushwork, her Western and Midwestern subjects also...
Melissa Dickenson’s large-scale, sensuously abstracted canvases take landscape painting far beyond plein air into a realm that could be called “plein terre.” The artist doesn’t merely survey and take visual notes on the scenes she’ll portray. She returns to her studio in San Francisco’s Mission...
Kevin Courter’s landscape paintings of the greater San Francisco Bay Area where he grew up and raised a family — and of the mountains surrounding Redding, California, where he and his wife have lived for almost six years now — possess an enthralling, almost spiritual...