Reyne Hirsch could be called an accidental collector, and she wouldn’t be alone. After all, how many people have unknowingly built a collection only to discover its value and face the fact that they are, indeed, a collector? Hirsch, co-owner of the Dallas Auction Gallery...
Collecting art is fun! Selling … not as much. And even more so, figuring out what to do with someone else’s art collection can be incredibly frustrating. Think about it: If you didn’t collect it, you probably don’t have the same attachment. More importantly, the...
Collectors continued to show a strong appreciation for the iconography of the American West. Wildlife works and art by historic and contemporary Western and Indigenous artists stirred buyers to action during annual sales in late summer and autumn. In September, the 18th annual Jackson Hole Art...
Summer auctions and events saw enthusiastic participation from attendees and absentee bidders, proving that the interest in Western American culture remains rooted in its iconic imagery, be it traditional realism or more modern interpretations. The Coeur d’Alene Art Auction sold more than $17.6 million during...
Principal Denise Taylor and Lead Designer Geneva Podolak Knox of Aspen Design House say they don’t have a trademark look. Instead, their interior design firm near Aspen, Colorado, delves deep into clients’ lifestyles to discover their dreams for their homes. Taylor says that those who...
Victoria Veedell paints the world around her to capture its enduring emotional impact. Rather than faithful physical representations, she says, “I create atmospheric landscapes that are memories of places or the emotions I was feeling when I was there.” Consider, for example, Nightfall San Francisco. The...
“You never know where you’re going to get that first job,” says architect Chris Gray with a laugh. When he and Steven Perce co-founded the Boulder, Colorado-based bldg.collective in 2009, the firm was just the two of them working from their homes. That first job arrived...
Among Leslie Lambert’s most vivid childhood memories are trips with her mother from their home in Ashton, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C., to the National Gallery of Art. She especially loved looking at the bold, fluidly abstract canvases of America’s Color Field painters of...
If a city could hold its stories in four walls — memorializing its glory days, bridging its hard knocks with promises for the future — San Antonio could live within the Hotel Emma. Once a brewery but always a landmark, Texas’ only AAA five-diamond hotel...
Marfa, Texas, is a long way from anywhere, and therein lies its attraction. When minimalist artist Donald Judd first visited in the 1970s, he was struck by the remoteness, the pace of life, the desert air, and, of course, the quality of light. It was...