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...
In the art world, there is a recognized divide between fine art and fine craft. One isn’t better than the other; there are many highly collectible subgenres and artists in both camps. One could even argue that collectors and museums specializing in fine craft are...
Sam Kennedy grew up meeting famous cowboys including Rex Allen, Roy Rogers, and Gene Autry; he was introduced to each by his grandfather, a writer “who knew everyone in Hollywood,” according to Kennedy. That grandfather was Irving Wallace, a freelance writer, who once wrote every...
Tyler Crow brings the deep heritage of present-day cowboy culture to vibrant life in his richly rendered oils, watercolors, and charcoal drawings. No wonder the venerable Cowboy Artists of America (CAA) welcomed him in 2016 at the astonishing age of just 27, making Crow the...
Kyle Ma was determined to view the Grand Canyon’s Powell Point under just the right conditions while gathering references during a stormy early springtime last year. “It took me four tries returning to that location to get the kind of lighting I was looking for,”...
Robert Rivera was struck by artistic inspiration one foggy autumn day in the early 1970s while he and his wife, Linda, drove from their home in New Mexico to their native California to visit her parents north of San Diego. “We passed this farmhouse with...
For more than a decade now, Logan Maxwell Hagege has been riding high as one of the most esteemed portrayers of the American West. His cleanly contemporary, elegantly stylized, vibrantly toned scenes of vast landscapes, soaring cumulus-crowned skies, perfectly rendered cacti and flowers, and serenely...
Working on a commissioned portrait in his newlyopened New Orleans studio in early 1837, Alfred Jacob Miller looked up to see a handsome, well-dressed man enter the shop and watch quietly for a few moments as he painted. Miller may not have thought much of...