04 Aug Perspective: Bronze Visions of the West
As the bronze casting process advanced, American artists used the medium to both capture the myth of the West and reflect its continual transformation...
09 Jun Perspective: Bill Owen [1942-2013]
Just a year since his sudden passing, this cowboy artist’s legacy is coming into focus...
01 Feb Perspective: Alfredo Ramos Martinez [1871–1946]
With a major exhibition of his California work this year, the painter widely known as the father of Mexican Modernism is back in the spotlight...
01 Dec Perspective: Gene Kloss [1903–1996]
A printmaker with a pioneering spirit captured the essence of early New Mexico...
19 Oct Perspective: Frederick Remington
Haunted by mortality — both his own and that of the soldiers he watched perish in the Spanish-American War — late in his career the artist turned his focus to painting startling nocturnes...
04 Aug Perspective: Ahead of their time
More than 100 years after an exhibition brought them together, the works of painter Eanger Irving Couse and photographer Edward Sherriff Curtis continue to shape our views of Native Americans...
09 Jun Perspective: Marsden Hartley (1877-1943)
Known as “the painter of Maine,” the artist discovered a “sturdier kind of realism” in his years out west...
01 Apr Perspective: Ernest "Darcy" Chiriack
Relatively unknown by name, thanks to years of work under pseudonyms, ernest Chiriacka made important contributions to the Western genre...
01 Feb Perspective: Bierstadt to Warhol — American Indians in the West
From 19th-century Romanticism to 20th-century Realism, a new exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine arts poses fascinating questions about representation and portraiture of Native Americans across time...
01 Dec Perspective: Carl Rungius [1869-1959]
Never wanting to be pigeonholed by genre, the master artist elevated wildlife art and influenced generations of artists...