Whitney Brooks Abbott celebrates quotidian moments of life along California’s Central Coast. From cloud-swept beaches to rural landscapes, abandoned greenhouses to the tranquil interior of her home south of Santa Barbara, her quietly expressive oil paintings are informed not only by devoted academic study but...
GL Richardson’s recent Bless Our Plans and Guide Our Hands delivers the powerful yet subtle impact of a painter possessing creative talent, from its scripture-inspired title to its moody palette and miasmic brushwork. It might come as a surprise, then, to learn that the artist...
James Corwin paints wildlife from across the Rocky Mountain West and worldwide in boldly close-up compositions and a vividly ultra-realistic style that forges intimate connections with viewers. In Unison, for instance, a mother gray wolf rests in a snowy forest clearing and raises her muzzle...
Jacqueline Jones brings a fresh perspective to her paintings of the West. Raised and trained as an artist in New England, which she still calls home, in recent years, she’s been paying regular visits to Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and the Desert Southwest, reveling in the...
When Kathryn Stedham heads out of the barn just south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the horse she rides each morning, she acknowledges and takes in the details of the land and sky. Rock formations, cloud cover, canyon walls, silent mesas, and distant peaks...
For Ashley Macuga, becoming an interior designer is rooted in her past and has deep meaning in her present. She founded Collected Interiors in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2017. Though she has lived in the Bay Area for the last 13 years, Macuga’s...
An astute art collector once told me that whenever he’s in Manhattan, he visits the Whitney Museum of American Art to sit on the bench in front of an immense Jackson Pollock drip painting. The collector doesn’t do this because he likes the painting. He...
Auction houses and museums offered an exciting array of artworks for sale, and buyers proved interested, turning up for online and in-person events this spring. In March, the 2024 Scottsdale Art Auction totaled more than $10.4 million, marking several world auction records for artists such...
To William P. Healey, art is the manifestation of American Western history, a subject he’s been interested in since childhood. His older brother, a bibliophile, shared countless volumes detailing Western events with him; but more important than books, Healey says, were the art prints of...
Works by contemporary and historical Western artists prompted robust responses from collectors during the dawn of 2024. Auction houses and events that offered masterpieces with historical significance or contemporary importance reached millions of dollars. Sotheby’s presented a collection of Western art and design from the Bar...