There have been moments in artist Francis Livingston’s life where something suddenly shifted inside him, with consequences lasting throughout his career. One such moment occurred while he was a young illustration student at San Francisco’s Academy of Art College in the late 1970s. During his...
Rocky and Kat Hawkins give directions to Ghost Wolf Ranch not by street names but by landmarks and miles. The road to their home follows the meandering bends of Montana’s Jefferson River before it diverges on its path, and then you must watch the landscape...
ARCHITECT | Massey Associates Architects INTERIOR DESIGN | Morrissey Saypol Interiors CONSTRUCTION | Noordik Construction Inc. When he’s traveling for business, Marquis Sauvage often thinks longingly of his ranch house in southeastern Colorado’s Cuchara Valley. “Some days I think, ‘Oh God, I wish I were there,’” he says, reflecting...
I am always looking for the unseen in nature,” says artist Jared Sanders, whose serene, dreamlike paintings capture facets of the West that feel both familiar and fresh. “That’s true whether I’m at home or traveling in search of it. I feel like I’ve always...
The Blackfoot River wends its way through a small valley in Western Montana, dividing swaths of working ranchland that roll to the toes of the forested mountains. The valley is home to grizzly bears, elk, deer, and wolves, and has been a place of travel...
Seattle’s artistry is inspired by the outdoors. Nearly every view is a panorama of water and mountains, often with flighty cloud cover obscuring peaks. Sometimes the rising hump of Mount Rainier can be seen, sometimes not. Islands and peninsulas, many with snow-capped mountains of their...
Lilia Borealis Light Fixtures by Trueing An homage to nature, science, and craftsmanship, the Lilia Collection by New York-based lighting and design studio Trueing translates botanical forms into functional accents. Inspired by the 19th-century detailed glass botanical models used to study flora, these fixtures feature hand-blown...
The landscape around George Ranch in Sonoma is quintessentially Californian. Its rolling hills are studded with sculptural live oaks and teeming with birds and wildlife. Sun-drenched meadows contrast with fog-shrouded vineyards; intermittent glimpses of distant mountaintops appear as one travels curving country roads. In short,...
At 20 years old, Allan Houser, who had grown up on his parents’ farm near Apache, Oklahoma, noticed a poster at the Indian Affairs Office in nearby Anadarko. It invited artwork submissions to recruit students into a new art program at the Santa Fe Indian...
Jim Vogel was always known as the artist among his 11 sisters and brothers. As children, they’d be playing outside their home in Roswell, New Mexico, when an idea would pop into Jim’s head, and he’d run inside to craft his latest vision. Once, it...