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...
When Gladys Roldán-de-Moras tells her story of becoming a painter, it’s hard to believe fate was not involved. The San Antonio, Texas-based artist has made a name for herself in the Western art world, capturing her Hispanic heritage with a striking color palette and deft...
Mid-century Modern architect Kenneth Birkemeier built approximately 700 houses and apartments in the Portland, Oregon, area during his long career. The architect’s thoughtfully sited, thoroughly modern, post-and-beam-style ranch homes were custom-designed, with careful consideration given to light, flow, and sense of place. When an empty-nester couple...
A stunning estate with views in every direction serves as a private family retreat. Located on 3.7 acres in the high desert of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the original home was constructed in 1949, with subsequent owners adding to the property over time, including one...
Tom Uttech was alone one evening on a lakeshore in Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, doing what he says he does best these days: sitting still and looking for a long time. The brilliant sunset glow magnified the shapes of fallen pines along the...
An exhibition at the Steamboat Art Museum in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, traces the beginnings of “New Western Art” to Lloyd Kiva New and the early instructors at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Fairland, Oklahoma, was a small railroad town where one could watch trains from...