In her career as a museum director, Sandra Harris recalls the time from 2002 to 2005 when she served as the first director of the non-profit Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her office was in a donated space because the museum was just a...
Of all the interactions between Native Americans and the U.S. government in the late 1800s, the experience of 71 Southern Plains warriors at Fort Marion in Saint Augustine, Florida, was among the most unusual. The men were prisoners of war, but their three years of...
Half a century ago, when he was a member of the Minico High School basketball team, Robert Moore would drive harvested dried pinto beans or Great Northerns from his family’s farm to the local Hazelton, Idaho, warehouse of wholesalers Morgan-Lindsay. He had no inkling then...
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...