Most art collectors remember their first purchase with the same clarity and emotion that they remember their first date with their spouse, or first kiss. Plunking down a wad of cash, which for many young professionals is their first disposable income, for a piece of...
Singular pieces from high-profile, private collections sold swiftly and well at a series of auctions of American art by Sotheby’s and Christie’s. The latter auction house generated buzz with a beautifully rendered painting by Thomas Hart Benton of the U.S. Southwest and its peoples. Navajo Sand...
It is doubtful the U.S. could boast a national center for Dale William Nichols, the 20th-century artist whose acclaim rested on depicting red barns and realistic representations of rural life in the American Midwest, without the single-minded and whole-hearted efforts of Anna Nolan and her...
Casual comfort was the everyday standard at designer Scott Corridan’s childhood home in Riverside, California. “I was raised in a house where it was perfectly acceptable to kick off your shoes and put your feet on the sofa,” Corridan says. “My mom would say to...
In 1853, after an arduous journey from Independence, Missouri, to the territory now known as Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Sisters of Loretto founded the Academy of Our Lady of Light, a Catholic school that grew from small beginnings to cover a square-block near the...
Grant Kirkpatrick, Founder of KAA Design, describes his architectural style as “warm contemporary,” and when questioned about the firm’s philosophy, he returns again and again to the idea of timelessness. Think of that term not just as a desire to design houses that can’t be...
With 50 years of modern American art in the rearview mirror since the 1960s, it may be difficult to grasp how radically the work of one young Native American painter at the time diverged from what had come before, and the impact his vision would...
Lucky is the glass art world for Pearl Jam. It was in the 1990s heyday of the grunge music scene in Seattle, Washington, that a young man named Preston Singletary was trying to make his way playing music. He was blowing glass by day, “as...
In this issue of WA&A, when collector Jerre Lynn Vanier was asked what inspires her to collect art, she answered, “There’s nothing I like to collect more than associations with artists; I love being a part of history with them.” Vanier, who is profiled alongside her...
It could be that the spirits of Gertrude Stein and Mabel Dodge Luhan live today in the personas of Betty Barber-Hughes and Jerre Lynn Vanier. As mother and daughter, these two have built their lives around the arts. In Paradise Valley, Arizona, they collaborate to...