Western Landmark: Rancho de los Caballeros
One minute you can pretend to be a fictional Hopalong Cassidy on horseback trailblazing across terrain straight out of a Hollywood Western, and the ne...
One minute you can pretend to be a fictional Hopalong Cassidy on horseback trailblazing across terrain straight out of a Hollywood Western, and the ne...
In 1993, a headline in The New York Times described Bozeman, Montana, as a “Cow Town With Charm.” It made sense, considering the city was built ar...
Jewelry by Melanie Yazzie Colorado-based artist Melanie A. Yazzie (Navajo-Diné) has made a name for herself in a variety of mediums, including printm...
You don’t come across too many architecture firms named after a flower, but Seattle-based Heliotrope Architects chose a flower named for the Greek g...
To the contemporary art lover and collector in the realm of Western American art, Alfred Jacob Miller is often lesser known but is nonetheless a major...
John Wayne stood looking at a painting by Olaf Wieghorst, an artist he knew and admired and whose work he collected. The painting, Spring Rain, is a n...
Many years ago, when David A Leffel moved into a studio on Union Square in New York City, the walls were white and the landlord refused to let him rep...
Amanda Markel’s bronze works portray their subjects by what she leaves out just as much as by what she includes. Aria, for example, melds a fluid Ea...
Andy Mast cannot recall the horrific 2009 accident that forever changed his life at the age of 17. Nor did anyone else see it happen. Yet, his ordeal ...
Nancy Seamons Crookston’s colorist paintings overbrim with joy. Working primarily in oils from her plein air studies and reference photos, she captu...
Whitney Gardner was camping and plein air painting last spring at Lost Dutchman State Park east of Phoenix. Before sunset one day, she decided to capt...
Scott Baxter brings to his photographs of present-day American ranchers the insights of a scholar, the eyes of an artist, the magic of an alchemist, a...
The artists and architects profiled in this issue are tied to an inspiring region. Diverse as they are, they share a desire to document the West, its ...
Interior designer Barbara Glass was at the airport waiting to board a flight to Paris, and the excitement in her voice was palpable. She planned to at...
Art is a team sport. Perhaps this sounds counterintuitive, but in reality, the cliched vision of the tortured artist working alone in a bleak, drafty ...
For more than 50 years, Perry Null has been trading artwork and jewelry with American Indians from different tribal nations. He began learning the bus...
Tradition is a term that is used frequently as a statement, ending discussions instead of starting them. But such reluctance does not apply to traditi...
In the coveted northwest corner of Wyoming, you find Teton County, a geographic region spanning some 3.8 million acres. Approximately 97 percent of th...
Painter Thomas Aquinas Daly expresses the exquisite beauty of living through the lens of death. Echoing the work of 16th- and 17th-century Dutch vanit...
Throughout her life, Abigail Gutting cannot remember a time when she was not drawing or painting. The Idaho-based artist has spent the last two decade...
Luminosity and radiance are two words that come to mind when describing D. Eleinne Basa’s paintings. The light in her work seems to live and breathe...
Situated on the banks of the Rio Grande, the Pueblo Revival home of gallerists Richard and Nedra Matteucci is a compendium of the modern adobe. It’s...
If a picture says a thousand words, then Hopi potter Nampeyo [c. 1859 – 1942] has shared many great tales. Widely known as the most remarkable Puebl...
When Gladys Roldán-de-Moras tells her story of becoming a painter, it’s hard to believe fate was not involved. The San Antonio, Texas-based artist ...
Mid-century Modern architect Kenneth Birkemeier built approximately 700 houses and apartments in the Portland, Oregon, area during his long career. Th...
Bridgette Meinhold paints large-scale landscapes inspired by the Mountain West she calls home, imbuing these artworks with an almost trancelike qualit...
Kathleen Frank’s oil paintings portray the natural world with lively patterns inspired by her training in woodblock printmaking; exuberant color roo...
Steve Latimer has legitimately considered himself a fine artist of Western scenes for most of his 77 years. Yet, for the past four decades, he has liv...
For as far back as he can remember, Ken Williams Jr. has loved collecting artwork made by Native peoples, including those of his and his mother’s tr...
A stunning estate with views in every direction serves as a private family retreat. Located on 3.7 acres in the high desert of Santa Fe, New Mexico, t...
Tom Uttech was alone one evening on a lakeshore in Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, doing what he says he does best these days: sitting sti...
An exhibition at the Steamboat Art Museum in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, traces the beginnings of “New Western Art” to Lloyd Kiva New and the ear...
Paul Rochford, who grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was one of those unusual kids whose parents never had to ask him to clean his room. He always kept...
The art world is famously opaque. Let’s face it, obfuscation is, well, arty. And fun. Really fun. This is why I love writing “Collector’s Notebo...
Auctions in the closing weeks of 2022 saw sales of contemporary paintings by Western and Native American artists achieve handsome sums in a market tha...
Levi Wilson founded the respected decorative lighting company Hammerton in Salt Lake City, Utah, back in 1995. Today, as its vice president of design,...
When artist Mark Maggiori attended Académie Julian in Paris, he’d never heard of the Taos Society of Artists. The venerable art organization, found...
Here in my publisher’s note, I always write about a painting and its creator. And almost always, that painting is a dramatic landscape. It’s time ...
At the far end of a shallow alleyway in Santa Barbara’s El Pueblo Viejo neighborhood, a 19-by-19-foot four-story home wrapped in undulating white pl...
Custom Hats from The Montana Territory Hat Company Courtney Green founded The Montana Territory Hat Company with a mission to create timeless products...
“I found out that the sunshine in New Mexico could do almost anything with one,” wrote American arts patron Mabel Dodge Luhan after moving to Taos...
Since its opening in 1926, the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel has galvanized its position as a San Francisco landmark. Located atop the city’s ...
The exploration of the Western frontier lasted only a few hundred years, but it dramatically shaped our national identity. As historian David Hamilton...
WA&A publisher and art critic Tim Newton discusses a legendary artist Richard Schmid [1939 – 2021] stands as a legend among artists and collecto...
Taylor Crisp can pinpoint the moment she decided to become a painter. Seven years ago, soon after graduating from the University of Southern Californi...
Mike Stidham may portray a wide variety of fish coveted by anglers, along with the land and waterscapes where the finny prey are found. But don’t mi...
Larry Yaw has always found his art to be an avocational outlet and also a dynamic creative tool, working as he does in architecture, a field in which ...
The cylindrical glass coffee table fabricated by Bullseye Studio seems magically lit from within. Yet, the sculptural object contains no internal sour...
Last summer, turn-of-the-20th-century photographer Royal W. (Roland) Reed Jr. finally received recognition for his imagery of Indigenous Americans at ...
I remember having a conversation as a college freshman with a friend who was studying painting. It was early in her career, and she was wondering abou...