There is more than meets the eye in the layered paintings, prints, and murals of celebrated Chicano artist Tony Ortega. Pieces by this artist reflect ...

The summer after high school, lifelong New Mexican Eric Romero and a few friends were backpacking in Spain. It was during what he calls his bohemian p...

George Phippen changed sculptor Bill Nebeker’s life. Twice. The first time came when Nebeker attended a Phippen art show in Prescott, Arizona, in 19...

Mitch Blake can’t remember what attracted the clients for the ChaChe Residence to the architecture firm he and Tom Ward founded in Jackson, Wyoming,...

From its inception, the renovation of a 3,200-square-foot condominium on the 22nd floor of a mid-century high-rise on San Francisco’s Russian Hill w...

When a couple moving from a Chicago high-rise to a Sacramento suburb asked Gary Orr, principal of Orr Design Office, to create a single-family home fo...

At a time when certain U.S. markets — and markets within markets — are bouncing around like a pinball inside its machine, the demand and prices fo...

In Conversation: Caroline Douglas, Where the Magic Happens I would have to say, clay chose me. I took a pottery class in high school, and from day one...

Hunt Slonem’s New York City studio is an explosion of color, art, and objects, from antique furniture to top hats, harps, framed photographs, plants...

Patricia Benner, much-awarded landscape designer and founder of Benner Reibel Landscape Architects, began her professional life with an MBA. She worke...

Prime Angus Beef from Bootheel 7 Ranch Fourth-generation Bootheel 7 Ranch relies on family values, land stewardship, and a passion for livestock. The ...

I’ve been wrestling for some time with what makes a home Mid-Century vs. Modern vs. Ranch-Style, other than the timeline,” says Craig McMahon, pri...

When you visualize the city of Los Angeles, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Gleaming skyscrapers, maybe. Gridlocked traffic on endless hi...

Adrienne Stein was under pressure. The atelier-trained painter had for years successfully put herself through every artistic rigor: studying and execu...

When Lynn Gray needs to place an object in her Santa Fe home, she makes use of her own internal Geiger counter, understanding intuitively where a thin...

Joan Benson and Stephen Kent created their first piece of shed antler decor for a client who’d hired them to renovate her three-story, 5,000-square-...

In the spring of 1998, a handful of the country’s finest Western craftsmen — a group that was, itself, not much larger than a handful — gathered...

On a warm day in San Francisco, September 22, 1959, Senator John F. Kennedy delivered a convincing campaign speech to some 1,500 supporters at the She...

Jemez Solid Wood Bench by Pfeifer Studio From Pfeifer Studio in New Mexico, this sleek, contemporary sculptural bench is built from a solid log of sus...

Michael Hennessey, the founder of San Francisco-based Hennessey Architecture, is known as a minimalist, but his aims are far from minimal. “Even tho...

In the 2002 film about Agnes Martin, produced by Mary Lance when the artist was 90, Martin looks mischievously at the camera and delivers this classic...

Donna Howell-Sickles is known throughout the Western world for her vibrant, joyful paintings of cowgirls. Bursting with color and life, they are also ...

On a recent visit to a museum in the Southwest, I toured their collections, which included a long-term loan of Western saddles, bridles, and spurs. Th...

Deborah and Warren Wadsworth like a good art-inspired rabbithole. Over the decades that they’ve been collecting art, they have also been gathering p...

The Western, American, and other art markets 
are not pushing against the tide; they are part of it. Officials overseeing spring art sales in the se...

There is a nine-foot-long parade of rabbits in Dan Ostermiller’s Loveland, Colorado, studio right now — 12 chubby, precocious characters, each wit...

Sage Lodge in Montana’s Paradise Valley is one of those rare destinations where place is everything. Set between the craggy Absaroka peaks and the f...

Architect Stephen Dynia is the person you want to sit next to on the plane. Or at a dinner party. He’s funny and humble and just the right amount se...

Set on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean, Seabrookfeels so magical people say it resembles a Hollywood movie set. The Washington beach town brims with c...

Black River Buckle by Vogt Silversmiths From one of the West’s most distinguished silversmiths comes this stylish solution for securing your jeans. ...

Jeremy Lipking keeps trying to wrap his head around the fact that he and more than 30 of his paintings are subjects of a retrospective at the Booth We...

Set at the foot of Mount Saint Helena, high in the Mayacamas Mountains, Knights Valley forms a bridge between the adjacent Napa and Sonoma valleys. Re...

For the vast majority of architecture firms, landscape architecture is considered a complementary but separate practice, even in the event they have a...

It’s rare that a homeowner buys a spectacular vineyard property in California’s Wine Country without hurrying to get a house sited, designed, and ...

In 1944, Frank Mechau’s painting, Tom Kenney Comes Home, was part of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago and included in a catalogue for t...

Livingston, Montana, is a place of contrasts. It’s a railroad town with a hint of grit, a crossroads where the road from Yellowstone meets the inter...

When thinking of important American photographers and their iconic images, names like LA Huffman, Dorothea Lange, and Ansel Adams come to mind. But di...

Jennifer Ghormley found printmaking by chance. She wanted to take a class in fine art photography at a local college, to expand her commercial photogr...

When Cynthia Downs was 45, she had an epiphany that changed the course of her life. Just days before she was scheduled to take the GMAT and apply to M...

In art, the term “negative space” refers to the area around the subject. In a still life featuring a bouquet of flowers, for example, the flowers ...