Declarations of the Palette Knife
Landscape painter Brad Teare draws his visual inspiration from the intimate valleys and snowy mountain peaks around his home in Northern Utah’s glor...
Landscape painter Brad Teare draws his visual inspiration from the intimate valleys and snowy mountain peaks around his home in Northern Utah’s glor...
To William P. Healey, art is the manifestation of American Western history, a subject he’s been interested in since childhood. His older brother, a ...
Works by contemporary and historical Western artists prompted robust responses from collectors during the dawn of 2024. Auction houses and events that...
Artists spend their lives creating a type of non-verbal, visual communication. They often work alone, occasionally collaborating with fellow artists, ...
When Kathy Anderson started her interior design firm in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1988, she never would have guessed that one day she’d work for musi...
David Dibble spent his early years on the land his parents and grandparents worked in northern Utah near the Great Salt Lake, surrounded by the fields...
Geoffrey Gersten’s Hollywood Summer uncannily feels like a portal into idyllic post-World War II America. Rendered large-scale in near-photorealisti...
Lisa Bennett’s growing list of collectors may find it challenging, at times, to come up with a general term to describe the artworks she composes fr...
Barbara Berry seemed destined to create art. She grew up in an art-filled home in rural Pennsylvania near Philadelphia, and her talented mom earned mo...
Susan Eddings Pérez arrived at the realization that she was, in fact, an abstract artist when the interior design clients for whom she’d been creat...
When international sculptor and octogenarian David Marshall announces that he’s considering retiring and opts to open his private studio in rural Co...
We bid farewell to one of our greats. Ed Mell is to contemporary Western art what C.M. Russell and Frederic Remington are to its origins. The archetyp...
Andy Johnson, the founder and principal architect of DAJ Design in Louisville, Colorado, doesn’t believe there should be such a thing as an “envir...
Camel Speedy 35 Bag by Leatherandvodka Metropolitan style meets the Wild West in this authentic Louis Vuitton handbag infused with rustic charm. After...
Travelers expect to see Art Deco in Miami, L.A., and Chicago. Not in Oklahoma. But the sky-high pylons of marble, vertical chevrons, and abstract mosa...
Visitors choose Taos, New Mexico, for a combination of reasons. Some come for the mountains and to ski at one of North America’s steepest resorts. O...
Throughout history, we’ve celebrated explorers for their courage, resilience, and curiosity. They venture into the unknown, seeking to expand our un...
ARCHITECTURE | Neumann Mendro Andrulaitis Architects CONSTRUCTION | J. Weston Custom Construction Kevon Zehner’s hunt for a buildable lot in Santa B...
ARCHITECTURE | CLB Architects CONSTRUCTION | KWC INTERIOR DESIGN | HSH Interiors Although homeowners Tiffanie DeBartolo and her husband, Scott Schumak...
“Before I start painting,” says Esteban Cabeza de Baca, “it’s usually a very euphoric moment of ideation.” The artist’s dynamic, brightl...
What happens when the lights are turned off? “When you’re a little kid, that’s when the monsters come out,” says Western painter Grant Redden....
“Our little planet floats like a mote of dust in the morning sky,” wrote the late, revered American astronomer Carl Sagan. “All that you see, al...
ARCHITECTURE: Shepherd Resources Inc. CONSTRUCTION: Beck Building Company INTERIOR DESIGN: Kelly Carlisle Design LLC Though he didn’t know it at the...
If there were one word to define Tom Browning’s life and artistic career, it would be simplicity. Simplicity in the rural Eastern Oregon lifestyle h...
Images by Rudi Broschofsky may strike viewers as delightfully intriguing optical conundrums. Are they paintings or photographs? Two-dimensional surfac...
Kristine Poole’s fired-clay sculpture Duende offers an eloquent, poetic manifestation of the artist’s life and career. A reclining woman holds her...
Sculptor Amy Laugesen and visual artist Stephen Hume met, appropriately enough, in a Denver art gallery. They started dating in 1999 and married three...
Chloe Convertible Bag by Sapahn Known for its artisan-made leather bags and wallets, Sapahn has also built a reputation as a company that advocates fo...
Works available for purchase during recent Western art auctions presented a dazzling array of masterpieces that captivated art enthusiasts and collect...
The well-known photographer Edward S. Curtis [1868–1952] was prolific during the early 20th century when cameras and film development were still in ...
We love juicy art forgery stories. Those tales of deception and greed, peppered with dubious criminal figures, add a sense of adventure to a sometimes...
Elevated Living — a full-service residential and commercial design firm specializing in mountain modern, lodge, and transitional Western styles — ...
When the term “Western art” appears, what do you think of first? Do paintings by explorer artists George Catlin and Albert Bierstadt come to mind?...
Marz Doerflinger eloquently communicates through two mediums — sometimes pastels, sometimes acrylics — the quiet glories of the austere desert Sou...
David Knowlton’s latest oil paintings harmoniously and dramatically juxtapose the human-made and natural worlds by placing majestic red-and-gold loc...
Decades before the term “New Age” achieved popularity in American culture and long before a fascination with Eastern philosophies brought yoga and...
Gustave Baumann [1881 – 1971] was the consummate artist. A skilled craftsman, his meticulous woodblock prints have delighted collectors for more tha...
A guesthouse can transform extended visits from family and friends from tedious to enjoyable. They can also serve as studios, pool houses, home gyms, ...
It’s the first week of October in Oaxaca de Juárez. Día de los Muertos is three weeks off, but the city is already in its grip. Fireworks punctuat...
On September 17, 1910, the Hermitage Hotel opened in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, hosting a celebration and feast for hundreds of distinguished gues...
Architecture: Appleton Partners LLP Construction: Tom Nelson Custom Builders Inc. Interior Design: Patti Skouras et Fille Landscape Architecture: SWA ...
When people encounter Angela Babby’s work from a distance, they often think they’re viewing oil paintings. But, as they draw closer, they discover...
There was a moment this past August at the 101st annual Santa Fe Indian Market when textile artist Melissa Cody, who served as the textile classificat...
In today’s modern world, as technology moves us along at an accelerated pace, the effort to stay present has become increasingly challenging. Our li...
William Hook’s recent Heads Up captures the discerning appeal of a realist painter at the top of his game. Against a distant Southwestern mountainsc...
The unreality of the American West feels more real to Nicholas Ward. When the 28-year-old artist, who lives and paints in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, ...
Cora Sexton Wheeler has never stopped trying to capture something she considers forever elusive. “You can never recreate what nature creates,” she...
Destiny Bowman devotes her artistic talents to two primary genres: portraits and still lifes. Those dual callings may at first seem antithetical; afte...
Russ Fry designs furniture, lighting, and architectural installations that make traditional Western materials and forms feel new. Using items as diver...
Some called it a grizzly miracle. In the newsletter Grizzly Times, Louisa Willcox celebrated the miraculous birth of quadruplets to the matriarchal ma...