One afternoon last December, as Julie Oriet drove across a bridge near her home in Cody, Wyoming, she spied a brilliant blue stream clogged with ice floes, backed by russet-hued grassy banks and birches aglow in the sunlight. “I had to paint it,” she recalls....
Recently, a musician shared a story from the stage about the quiet courage it takes to be an artist — and the uncertainty that often comes along with it. He introduced a song by revealing it was written in his bedroom when he was a young...
Joe McGuire and Matthew Tenzin of Joe McGuire Design consider themselves design nomads. Although their business is based in Aspen and Boulder, Colorado, they have designed projects in Chicago and New York City as well as Miami, Palm Beach, and beyond. [caption id="attachment_29978" align="aligncenter" width="250"] In...
In its most benign form, artificial intelligence (AI) is just another tool artists can use for advanced research. It’s not truly thinking up novel works of art; instead, AI quickly scours the internet’s data and images to generate answers to queries. It learns from data,...
Step into the Frederick, Colorado, home of sculptor Tony Hochstetler and his wife, Shannon, and you’ll discover a world shaped by the same careful precision that defines his bronze sculptures — thoughtful, finely crafted, and quite dazzling. Everything here reflects a deep appreciation for form,...
Late spring auction results demonstrate the enduring appeal of Western and American art in its many forms. Institutions and auction houses reported impressive sales, with collectors responding enthusiastically to both historic masterpieces and modern reinterpretations. In May, Heritage Auctions totaled a combined $12.18 million in sales...
The Blackfoot River wends its way through a small valley in Western Montana, dividing swaths of working ranchland that roll to the toes of the forested mountains. The valley is home to grizzly bears, elk, deer, and wolves, and has been a place of travel...
Seattle’s artistry is inspired by the outdoors. Nearly every view is a panorama of water and mountains, often with flighty cloud cover obscuring peaks. Sometimes the rising hump of Mount Rainier can be seen, sometimes not. Islands and peninsulas, many with snow-capped mountains of their...
Lilia Borealis Light Fixtures by Trueing An homage to nature, science, and craftsmanship, the Lilia Collection by New York-based lighting and design studio Trueing translates botanical forms into functional accents. Inspired by the 19th-century detailed glass botanical models used to study flora, these fixtures feature hand-blown...
The landscape around George Ranch in Sonoma is quintessentially Californian. Its rolling hills are studded with sculptural live oaks and teeming with birds and wildlife. Sun-drenched meadows contrast with fog-shrouded vineyards; intermittent glimpses of distant mountaintops appear as one travels curving country roads. In short,...