Who would have thought that trading a Shar-Pei puppy for a piece of art would be the beginning of a lifetime pursuit? Howard Chambers, a breeder of the Chinese dogs, met a creative buyer who offered to trade a set of art prints for the...
Collectors of Western artworks showed signs of selectivity at auctions staged in the waning weeks of 2019. A battle of wills among bidders saw a gem by Georgia O’Keeffe, My Backyard, a small painting of the cliffs that framed her New Mexico ranch, go for...
Custom furniture maker Scott E. Armstrong may live and work in the town of Powell, Wyoming, but don’t necessarily expect him to craft you an item that shouts “Western.” Sure, his creations may bear regional touches, like subtle inlays inspired by barbed wire or the...
Debra Box enjoys a reputation as a museum-quality artist in beadwork and parfleche — painted rawhide containers, so named by French traders because the material was tough enough to parry (parer) an arrow (flèche). So it may come as a surprise to learn that, although...
Woodcuts and linocuts by Tom Killion miraculously bridge the 5,000 miles and two centuries separating present-day California and late-Edo-period Japan. Inspired and influenced by the works of master woodblock print artists Hokusai [1760–1849] and Hiroshige [1797–1858], yet undeniably American in their expansive energy, Killion’s handmade...
Jared Brady doesn’t have to travel far from home to find subjects for his plein-air and studio landscapes. “Usually,” he says, “I’m out painting on our property.” His family’s 30 or so acres, complete with an aspen grove and pine trees, is in Woodland Park,...
American aristocracy stayed at Castle Hot Springs first: the Vanderbilts, Pews, Rockefellers, and then the Wrigleys. Former President Teddy Roosevelt stayed here before dedicating the nearby reclamation dam that was named for him. His cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also visited. A future president, John F....
Things were going great in the nascent days of Aspen, Colorado. Silver mining in 1879 created a boomtown out of sleepy “Ute City,” as it’s often referred to. The population swelled to an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 residents, and schools, homes, and new roads proliferated....
Martin OOL Fly Fishing Guitar featuring William Matthews For the angler who loves to play guitar, or the musician who loves to fly fish, we’ve found you quite a gem! Painted by the artiste extraordinaire William Matthews (who loves to fly fish and play guitar himself,...
“I always wanted to have them design a house for me,” says Candy Spitzer of her friends, Juan Miró and Miguel Rivera of Miró Rivera Architects. “But as they were getting more famous, I realized that probably wasn’t going to happen.” [caption id="attachment_19478" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The...