Deborah and Warren Wadsworth like a good art-inspired rabbithole. Over the decades that they’ve been collecting art, they have also been gathering provenance and meeting artists and their families. While it may border on obsessive, they and the small group of collectors committed to the...
The Western, American, and other art markets are not pushing against the tide; they are part of it. Officials overseeing spring art sales in the secondary market reported generally strong prices and evident favorites, including Ed Mell in the Western genre and Norman Rockwell in...
Sage Lodge in Montana’s Paradise Valley is one of those rare destinations where place is everything. Set between the craggy Absaroka peaks and the free-flowing Yellowstone River that cuts through the valley, this 50-room lodge on 1,200 idyllic acres is a stone’s throw in either...
Set on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean, Seabrookfeels so magical people say it resembles a Hollywood movie set. The Washington beach town brims with cottages awash in robin’s egg blue, minty green, and butter yellow hues. Retreats dubbed “Whim-Sea” and “Tide Together” greet guests...
Black River Buckle by Vogt Silversmiths From one of the West’s most distinguished silversmiths comes this stylish solution for securing your jeans. Founded in California in 1970, Chet Vogt has been creating handsome belt buckles, handmade sterling silver women’s jewelry, and men’s accessories ever since. Each...
For the vast majority of architecture firms, landscape architecture is considered a complementary but separate practice, even in the event they have a landscape designer on staff. It’s the building that’s primary, and landscape is secondary, providing a view, color, or perhaps warmth to orthogonal,...
In 1944, Frank Mechau’s painting, Tom Kenney Comes Home, was part of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago and included in a catalogue for the show. When Mechau received the catalogue, he got on his horse and carried it six miles down the...
Livingston, Montana, is a place of contrasts. It’s a railroad town with a hint of grit, a crossroads where the road from Yellowstone meets the interstate, and the closest sizable town from Bozeman on the other side of a pass just high enough to cause...
Jennifer Ghormley found printmaking by chance. She wanted to take a class in fine art photography at a local college, to expand her commercial photography skills, but those classes filled quickly and she never could get in. Printmaking, however, had some openings, so, why not?...
When Cynthia Downs was 45, she had an epiphany that changed the course of her life. Just days before she was scheduled to take the GMAT and apply to MBA programs, a sensation electrified her body like she was a passenger in a speeding, out-of-control...