While it’s hardly an anomaly, it’s a bit unusual for siblings to cofound an architectural firm. However, Daniel Kaven and Trevor William Lewis, founders and principals of the award-winning Portland, Oregon-based William /Kaven Architecture, regard their brotherhood as one of their chief assets. They share...
Effie Anderson Smith [1869–1955] had a theory about the lovely hues of atmospheric haze in the Arizona desert, a landscape she loved and painted for more than 50 years. She believed that microscopic particles of mineralized dust were suspended in the dry desert air, changing...
With Jeff Legg’s still-life Divine Balance, you cannot avert your eyes because the longer one looks, the more mesmerizing the subjects become. They don’t defy reason, but they do defy gravity — the same as the composition dares to challenge what the mind expects to...
Linda Infante Lyons celebrates her homeland and Native Alaskan heritage through landscapes that may bring to mind Magic Realism, a meticulously detailed yet dreamlike spiritual style also favored by artists as diverse as Rockwell Kent, Frida Kahlo, Grant Wood, and — a particular favorite of...
In recent years, Peggi Kroll Roberts has boldly and joyously veered away from the people-filled beach and parkland scenes that had secured her reputation as a sought-after plein-air artist depicting life along the sun-kissed West Coast. “I just totally burned out on the beach thing,...
Paintings by Rich Bowman hover in a liminal space between imagination and reality. Though his work is inspired by many landscapes he has seen and photographed, it aims to capture and convey deeply felt emotions, executed in a style that, when pressed for a label,...
Reen Axtell aims to “explore the Old West in a new, contemporary way” through vibrantly toned mixed-media pieces that combine transfers of archival photos and other images; patterns and shapes she applies with the aid of tools and objects as diverse as drafting compasses and...
Andy Taylor’s abstracted landscapes distill and impart the emotions the artist feels upon first encountering those scenes. He imbues them with a surprising intensity that results in part from a close and longstanding familiarity with his subjects. In fact, most of his works have found...
In each issue of WA&A, we journey into the vast landscapes, enduring myths, and ideological frontiers that shape American Western art, a genre as expansive and complex as the region it portrays. From its early, romanticized visions that helped define the West of our collective...
Garret Cord Werner Architecture | Interiors in Seattle, Washington, is a full-service design firm. Their 15-member team guides clients through every step of the process, defining the architecture, interiors, and landscape of each project. Founded in 1996 by Garret Werner, the firm initially specialized in highly...