Seventy-seven years is a long time betweenconcept and reality. Yet it took that long for one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s visions to make it from the drawing board to its ultimate foundation. In 1924, when the iconic architect was 56 years old, he was commissioned to...
When the sun rises and a pink and orange sky stretches over the pastures that surround artist Bruce Greene’s ranch in Bosque County, Texas, he’s almost always there to witness it, either on horseback or from the large windows in his studio. “I like to...
The West, with its associated myths, history, geography, and development, is an abundant source of creative inspiration. And the expressions and interpretations that come from this region are interesting and endless. Take, for example, the “Western Nouveau” style developed by artist Thomas Blackshear II. With a...
Terri Ford was attending an opening reception in January 2016 for the California Art Club at its gallery in San Marino’s 200-year-old El Molino Viejo, a historic grist mill originally built to serve San Gabriel Mission. In the late afternoon light, she spied a scene...
Brad Overton rs asked in early 2008 as if it were yesterday. “Are you sculpting, or are you wasting your talent?” That challenge came from Angelo Caravaglia, his former sculpture professor from the University of Utah, where Overton had graduated with a Bachelor of Fine...
Stephanie Hartshorn paints portraits of the built West: weathered barns, ranch houses, and grain silos; vintage tractors and railroad cars; and sun-bleached neon signs advertising small-town spots where hardworking people gather. “I feel more of a connection, a pull to them than I do to...
When Terri Loewenthal creates one of her photographic artworks, a bystander might wonder what on earth is happening — that is, should the rarest of chances lead an intrepid hiker to the ultra-remote locations she selects. On her Mamiya 645, a medium-format professional-quality camera that...
Dan Knepper lives contentedly amidst the gentle farmlands of western Ohio, in a town where, he wryly boasts, “we now have two stoplights.” But again and again, he revisits the tranquil grandeur of the Rocky Mountain West. “I find myself wanting to paint those big,...
Born in 1925 and raised on the Gulf Coast in the small oil town of Port Arthur, Texas, Robert Rauschenberg matured into an internationally influential artist and a citizen of the globe. Known to his friends as Bob, he may never have visited the Denver...
“Austin is like a Venus flytrap,” says Heather McKinney, founding principal of McKinney York Architects based in Austin, Texas. “Particularly if you’re a Texan. You think of it as a place to go, and then you never leave.” [caption id="attachment_21906" align="aligncenter" width="400"] The remnant of a...