Summer auctions and events saw enthusiastic participation from attendees and absentee bidders, proving that the interest in Western American culture remains rooted in its iconic imagery, be it traditional realism or more modern interpretations. The Coeur d’Alene Art Auction sold more than $17.6 million during...
Principal Denise Taylor and Lead Designer Geneva Podolak Knox of Aspen Design House say they don’t have a trademark look. Instead, their interior design firm near Aspen, Colorado, delves deep into clients’ lifestyles to discover their dreams for their homes. Taylor says that those who...
Victoria Veedell paints the world around her to capture its enduring emotional impact. Rather than faithful physical representations, she says, “I create atmospheric landscapes that are memories of places or the emotions I was feeling when I was there.” Consider, for example, Nightfall San Francisco. The...
“You never know where you’re going to get that first job,” says architect Chris Gray with a laugh. When he and Steven Perce co-founded the Boulder, Colorado-based bldg.collective in 2009, the firm was just the two of them working from their homes. That first job arrived...
Among Leslie Lambert’s most vivid childhood memories are trips with her mother from their home in Ashton, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C., to the National Gallery of Art. She especially loved looking at the bold, fluidly abstract canvases of America’s Color Field painters of...
If a city could hold its stories in four walls — memorializing its glory days, bridging its hard knocks with promises for the future — San Antonio could live within the Hotel Emma. Once a brewery but always a landmark, Texas’ only AAA five-diamond hotel...
Occasionally, the phone rings, and it’s a call you’ll never forget. For artist Kim Douglas Wiggins, that call came one day in 1998. On the other end of the line was John Geraghty, a trustee of the Autry National Center for the American West, who...
In medieval times across Europe, the goal of the court-appointed alchemist was to transform base metals into gold, that rarest of elements, deemed to exalt the wearer. Who could imagine that today, an artist originally trained as a master patineur, devoted to altering the surfaces...
After 53 years as a professional fine artist, Len Chmiel hopes he can paint until he can’t hold a brush. Curiosity is a constant companion for the 82 year old, which allows him to see every landscape as if for the first time. Living atop...
Among the most common reactions to Josh Tobey’s sculpture, aside from smiles, is the question: What is this made of? Is it stone? Ceramic? The surface is so smooth — with rich, delicately gradated hues and often marble-like patterns — that bronze is not what...