In the Studio: Contemporary Cowboy
When the sun rises and a pink and orange sky stretches over the pastures that surround artist Bruce Greene’s ranch in Bosque County, Texas, he’s a...
Editor’s Note: A Sense of Wonder
The West, with its associated myths, history, geography, and development, is an abundant source of creative inspiration. And the expressions and inter...
Artist Spotlight: Terri Ford
Terri Ford was attending an opening reception in January 2016 for the California Art Club at its gallery in San Marino’s 200-year-old El Molino Viej...
Artist Spotlight: Brad Overton
Brad Overton rs asked in early 2008 as if it were yesterday. “Are you sculpting, or are you wasting your talent?” That challenge came from Angelo ...
Artist Spotlight: Stephanie Hartshorn
Stephanie Hartshorn paints portraits of the built West: weathered barns, ranch houses, and grain silos; vintage tractors and railroad cars; and sun-bl...
Artist Spotlight: Terri Loewenthal
When Terri Loewenthal creates one of her photographic artworks, a bystander might wonder what on earth is happening — that is, should the rarest of ...
Artist Spotlight: Dan Knepper
Dan Knepper lives contentedly amidst the gentle farmlands of western Ohio, in a town where, he wryly boasts, “we now have two stoplights.” But aga...
Perspective: Western Revelry
Born in 1925 and raised on the Gulf Coast in the small oil town of Port Arthur, Texas, Robert Rauschenberg matured into an internationally influential...
Publisher’s Note: Notes on a Nocturne
Just a few miles west of Cody, Wyoming, Frank Tenney Johnson [1874 – 1939] built his studio at Rimrock Ranch in 1932. As a true cowboy-artist, few o...
Rendering: Designing Buildings of Sustenance
“Austin is like a Venus flytrap,” says Heather McKinney, founding principal of McKinney York Architects based in Austin, Texas. “Particularly if...
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Western Landmark: The Halekulani Resort in Honolulu, Hawaii
Quietly, softly, humbly. The beloved kiawe tree at Halekulani resort in Honolulu, Hawaii, toppled over on August 21, 2016. The culprit? There was none...
Designing the West: Think Outside the Box
Growing up, Max Humphrey didn’t know that interior design was a thing. “My hometown in New Hampshire was preppy adjacent,” he explains. “In my...
Collector’s Notebook: The Fine Art of Framing
A waggish art dealer once remarked, “A good painting needs a good frame, but a bad painting really needs a good frame.” Serious art collectors and...
Collector’s Eye: A Realized Dream
Bartlesville, Oklahoma, with a population of around 37,000, is a city of surprises. In a rural area, where buffalo roam in the tall prairie grasslands...
Auction Block: Of Past and Present
Sales that wrapped up during the last quarter of 2020 demonstrated that buyers maintain their affinities for established artists whose reputations —...
A Shared Passion
At rare moments in the art world, the planets seem to align, bringing together a theme, a setting, a celebration-worthy occasion, and an artist or ben...
Finding A Niche
One day a few years ago, Thomas Blackshear II got an email out of the blue from a friend — painter Morgan Weistling — whom he hadn’t seen for qu...
Imagined Wests
Paul Pletka is drawn to the mysterious. Filled with masked figures and enigmatic rituals, his work is characterized by an obsessive attention to textu...
The Bridge House
When I first met and interviewed Dan Brunn, founder of Dan Brunn Architecture in Los Angeles, for an article I was writing in 2016, he was happily ens...
Dancing light
Dancing Light is an arresting sculptural home at the base of Camelback Mountain in Arizona’s Paradise Valley community. Rammed earth, metal, and gla...
An American Icon
On a sticky, hot afternoon in July 2016, painter Dean Mitchell arrived at the White House at the appointed time, made his way through security, and in...
Fine Art Among Friends
A group of top-tier American wildlife and landscape artists finds connection through their creativity. They travel, paint, hike, and discuss art toget...
The World Stage
When JoAnne Northrup, the curatorial director and curator of contemporary art for the Nevada Museum of Art, was inspired to put an exhibition together...
Built to Last
The homeowners were part-time residents of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and were already familiar with 3 Creek Ranch, a golfing community south of town, whe...
Western Landmark: An Artistic Escape
What museum can you spend the night in? And what building is more than a century old, yet brand-new? Those riddles find delightfully inviting answers ...
Wanderings: St. Louis, Missouri
Forget the arch. St. Louis is a city that builds a floodwall along the Mississippi River and invites graffiti artists to leave their mark. The Mural M...
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Inlay Buck Knife by Stewart Yellowhorse Malouf on the Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is proud to represent Stewart Yellowhorse, an artist who grew up ...
Rendering: Sketch and Imagine
Not many creative professions are easily passed from one generation to another, but at Field Architecture in Los Altos, at the northern end of Califor...
Perspective: Innovation and Tradition
As one of her first jobs after college, Shan Goshorn was hired by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Indian Arts and Crafts Board to visually doc...
Artist Spotlight: Mike Wise
Mike Wise vividly remembers his 9-year-old self being mesmerized by the half-hour PBS series “The Joy of Painting,” which debuted in early 1983. ...
Artist Spotlight: David Kammerzell
David Kammerzell brings images of the Old West to vibrant new life by combining carefully researched photos, diligently studied classic illustration s...
Artist Spotlight: Erik Gonzales
Erik Gonzales’ large-scale creations might at first appear to be paintings. After all, they hang on the wall and possess a boldly abstracted pictori...
Artist Spotlight: LaQuincey Reed
LaQuincey Reed is building his reputation as a figurative sculptor of bronzes that, though mostly sized to fit on a tabletop or pedestal, possess impr...
Artist Spotlight: Susan McKinney
Susan McKinney’s creations in clay, and now sometimes glass, embody the meeting point of art, design, and craft. “A lot of the work I do starts wi...
Designing the West: A Timeless Approach
You might say it all started with Frank Lloyd Wright. Vernon Swaback, founder of the Scottsdale, Arizona-based interior design firm Studio V, holds a ...
Collector’s Notebook: As Worlds Collide
Oftentimes, museum and personal art collections are built around specific genres, be it Abstract, Classical Realism, Cubism, or any number of the othe...
Collector’s Eye: Steered By Stewardship
Many of Jordan Schnitzer’s earliest memories revolve around art. When he was in first grade in his hometown of Portland, Oregon — where he still l...
Auction Block: A Spirit of Perseverance
Western art auctions and sales in the final months of 2020 showed the genre’s lasting ability to inspire, especially during a period rife with uncer...
Editor’s Note: A Place of its Own
In his book, Under Western Skies, historian Donald Worster writes that “regionalism is about telling differences or it has nothing to tell.” When ...
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Rendering: Living Art
Architecture with a capital A is what Craig Hoopes has always aspired to at his Sante Fe, New Mexico, firm — not simply building. Yes, a house is pr...
Wanderings: From Petroglyphs to Architectural Pioneers
When architect Oscar Ruffini stepped out of a stagecoach in the tiny West Texas town of San Angelo, he was very sick. His last hope of getting well in...
Western Landmark: Sonoran Desert Escape
In the early 1980s, what others saw as a pile of rocks, developer Rusty Lyon envisioned as a world-class destination. He snapped up 13,000 acres fille...
Publisher’s Note: Focusing on the Positive
Despite the difficult realities for many out there, there’s also a lot of good news happening if you take the time to look for it. And you know from...
Perspective: Abstract In Nature
The last time Mara Williams, Chief Curator of the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, saw Emily Mason, it was about a week before the artist’s deat...
In the Studio: From Intrigue to Discovery
A few minutes from his home in Prescott, Arizona, painter and sculptor John Coleman strides over a bridge, where a wash runs below, to his art studio....
Artist Spotlight: Lisa and Loren Skyhorse
Lisa and Loren Skyhorse design and craft uncommonly intricate saddles and collaborative works of leather and silver that’s prized by collectors and ...
Artist Spotlight: Pamela Caughey
It’s been said that all artwork is a self-portrait. For Pamela Caughey, her increasingly non-objective work reflects a personal transition, includin...
Artist Spotlight: Frank Soenke Haseloff
Frank Soenke Haseloff reckons that a big reason he “ended up being an American was because of a car.” It was a 1958 Plymouth that his dad saved up...