In mid-January 2020, while walking through the merchandise area of Denver’s National Western Stock Show on her way to seeing her paintings displayed for the first time in the prestigious Coors Western Art Show & Sale, a display rack stopped Dianne Massey Dunbar in her...
What happens when a community comes together and decides for themselves how they would like their histories and cultures represented in a museum setting? Well, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has the answer to this, and it’s titled...
It’s hard to imagine a structure, no matter how elegantly designed, that can rival the staggering beauty and majesty of the Grand Tetons. When building a home near one of North America’s most iconic mountain ranges, it’s best to defer to the landscape. This was...
Writer Robert Mark Kamen had just sold his first screenplay when he found himself visiting a 300-acre property for sale in the California Wine Country. It was 1979, a time when Sonoma was an off-the-beaten-track agricultural area rather than the world-renowned wine destination it is...
Ian van Coller’s extensive body of work examines the art of seeing, not merely observing but looking deeply at nature in regard to humanity’s time and impact on the planet. His large-scale photography books cover scoured glaciers in Antarctica, bristlecone pines in Nevada’s Great Basin...
In the coveted northwest corner of Wyoming, you find Teton County, a geographic region spanning some 3.8 million acres. Approximately 97 percent of the county is permanently preserved and home to the Teton Range, one of North America’s most iconic mountain ranges. Catching a glimpse...
Painter Thomas Aquinas Daly expresses the exquisite beauty of living through the lens of death. Echoing the work of 16th- and 17th-century Dutch vanitas still life painters, whose main concerns were mortality, the transience of human existence, and the futility of materialism, Daly also points...
Throughout her life, Abigail Gutting cannot remember a time when she was not drawing or painting. The Idaho-based artist has spent the last two decades as a professional painter, “living her dream career.” She shares a studio with her mother, Susan Gutting, a graduate of the...
Luminosity and radiance are two words that come to mind when describing D. Eleinne Basa’s paintings. The light in her work seems to live and breathe, to extend beyond the brushstrokes and reach a viewer’s mind and heart. The award-winning artist is modest and straightforward...
Situated on the banks of the Rio Grande, the Pueblo Revival home of gallerists Richard and Nedra Matteucci is a compendium of the modern adobe. It’s not only the construction — using traditional sun-baked bricks — but also the thoughtful curation of the furnishings and...