Upon accepting the commission to design a residence in Martis Camp, California, architect Clare Walton simultaneously decided to defy and embrace natu...

A lifelong New Mexican, designer-builder Seth Anderson knows instinctively when he’s found a spot with unique resonance. When he first visited the p...

Thom Ross may be best known for his bold, stylistic artwork. At his core, however, he is a historian — a storyteller driven not by myth but by a dee...

Kim Lordier, a celebrated pastel artist in the American West, captures not just the fleeting colors of dawn or the hush of ocean mist rolling in — s...

Urban renewal often equates demolition with progress, causing the old to disappear in favor of the new. This is why, in the rapidly changing heart and...

Midway between the shores of Puget Sound and the Great Cascade Mountains in Washington lies a precipice where the meandering Snoqualmie River drops a ...

Deco Vessel Sink by Indikoi A nod to timeless design with a bold twist, this artful porcelain sink is hand-thrown in Bozeman, Montana, at Indikoi. Fou...

While it’s hardly an anomaly, it’s a bit unusual for siblings to cofound an architectural firm. However, Daniel Kaven and Trevor William Lewis, fo...

Linda Infante Lyons celebrates her homeland and Native Alaskan heritage through landscapes that may bring to mind Magic Realism, a meticulously detail...

In recent years, Peggi Kroll Roberts has boldly and joyously veered away from the people-filled beach and parkland scenes that had secured her reputat...

Paintings by Rich Bowman hover in a liminal space between imagination and reality. Though his work is inspired by many landscapes he has seen and phot...

Reen Axtell aims to “explore the Old West in a new, contemporary way” through vibrantly toned mixed-media pieces that combine transfers of archiva...

Andy Taylor’s abstracted landscapes distill and impart the emotions the artist feels upon first encountering those scenes. He imbues them with a sur...

In each issue of WA&A, we journey into the vast landscapes, enduring myths, and ideological frontiers that shape American Western art, a genre as ...

The young vaquero sits on a ramshackle wooden stool, his back against a fencepost, his eyes shaded by the brim of his sombrero, his head and shoulders...

The clay Casey Zablocki works with carries half a billion years of geological memory. He reimagines its compressed layers, once part of Montana’s la...

Tucked amid a lush oasis in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this adobe residence was just the hidden gem the homeowners — frequent visitors to the city for 40...

It’s important to note that the Dallas, Texas-based interior designer Ann Schooler is, as she says, “not afraid of snakes.” Neither does she fea...

Located at an elevation of 5,280 feet and framed by the majestic Rocky Mountains to the west, Denver, Colorado, is packed full of interesting attracti...

Tabei Lounge Chair by Crump & Kwash Striking a balance between comfort and clean design — with a low, sculptural frame and plush cushioning — ...

Jamie Farmer and Scott Payne began their professional lives on the same late spring day in 2007, assigned to side-by-side desks at CLB Architects in J...

For Comanche artist Nocona Burgess, the studio is not only a creative workspace but also a container of memory, identity, tradition, and community. ...

Kim Casebeer depicts landscapes that seem to go on forever, in which the sun, hovering near the horizon, imbues fields, hills, mountains, and clouds a...

Melissa Dickenson’s large-scale, sensuously abstracted canvases take landscape painting far beyond plein air into a realm that could be called “pl...

Kevin Courter’s landscape paintings of the greater San Francisco Bay Area where he grew up and raised a family — and of the mountains surrounding ...

Del Curfman’s joyously colorful figurative paintings deliver pointed messages about the present-day societal issues Indigenous peoples face. Take, f...

One afternoon last December, as Julie Oriet drove across a bridge near her home in Cody, Wyoming, she spied a brilliant blue stream clogged with ice f...

Recently, a musician shared a story from the stage about the quiet courage it takes to be an artist — and the uncertainty that often comes along wit...

Joe McGuire and Matthew Tenzin of Joe McGuire Design consider themselves design nomads. Although their business is based in Aspen and Boulder, Colorad...

Step into the Frederick, Colorado, home of sculptor Tony Hochstetler and his wife, Shannon, and you’ll discover a world shaped by the same careful p...

Late spring auction results demonstrate the enduring appeal of Western and American art in its many forms. Institutions and auction houses reported im...

There have been moments in artist Francis Livingston’s life where something suddenly shifted inside him, with consequences lasting throughout his ca...

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 meanderin...

ARCHITECT | Massey Associates Architects INTERIOR DESIGN | Morrissey Saypol Interiors CONSTRUCTION | Noordik Construction Inc. When he’s traveling f...

I am always looking for the unseen in nature,” says artist Jared Sanders, whose serene, dreamlike paintings capture facets of the West that feel bot...

Seattle’s artistry is inspired by the outdoors. Nearly every view is a panorama of water and mountains, often with flighty cloud cover obscuring pea...

Lilia Borealis Light Fixtures by Trueing An homage to nature, science, and craftsmanship, the Lilia Collection by New York-based lighting and design s...

The landscape around George Ranch in Sonoma is quintessentially Californian. Its rolling hills are studded with sculptural live oaks and teeming with ...

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