Set at the foot of Mount Saint Helena, high in the Mayacamas Mountains, Knights Valley forms a bridge between the adjacent Napa and Sonoma valleys. Remote and rural, graced by rolling hills and picturesque valley vistas, buffeted by weather and light, the beauty of this...
It’s rare that a homeowner buys a spectacular vineyard property in California’s Wine Country without hurrying to get a house sited, designed, and built as quickly as possible. But when Kim Jordan and Dick Cantwell purchased property in the Sonoma County town of Occidental, they...
When thinking of important American photographers and their iconic images, names like LA Huffman, Dorothea Lange, and Ansel Adams come to mind. But did you know that many Indigenous people were making photographs at the same time? In the new book, In Light and Shadow:...
From a distance, the River of Stars residence in Colorado’s Gunnison Valley rises like a barn from a field of wildflowers against the backdrop of the Elk Mountains. It doesn’t require much imagination to picture a handful of Red Angus cows ambling across the steep...
Trekking poles, camping gear, and hiking boots – essential tools for Terry Gardner’s painting practice – fill one corner of his studio, ready and accessible for sojourns into Colorado’s public lands where he frequently travels for inspiration. “Every summer, I map out hikes,” he says. “I...
In the fall of 2019, photographer Adam Jahiel got a call from Susan Wolfe, an art director he’d done some work for years ago. She had a project she wanted to run by him. The clients, she explained, were shy, sometimes difficult to read. They...
Texas Hill Country is remarkable for its quiet yet rugged beauty, where rolling limestone hills, aromatic evergreen brush, and wildflower meadows flank rivers that flow under vast blue skies. Quaint towns offer cinematic refinement without pretense. Here, an old-soul Texas ethos endures. On a stretch of...
No, you haven’t been there. But you think you have; in fact, you might commit perjury in an attempt to prove it. That is the mystery of the art of Francis DiFronzo, a Pew Fellow, whose paintings defy realism and entice the observer to sincerely believe...
It was very wild, very brushy,” Don Stinson says of the land in Austin, Texas, where he and his wife Barbara built their home and his studio in 2025. “You almost had to crawl into it — on your hands and knees. But we could...
Twenty-five years ago, a biotech executive and his wife sought a weekend escape from their San Francisco-area house. The Napa Valley town of St. Helena sounded like a good idea, even though they weren’t into wine. All they wanted was a simple turn-key house. But...