With previews of gallery exhibitions, museum shows and auctions, Western Art Collector is the premier monthly magazine for collectors searching for works by talented living and past artists who depict the West in paintings and sculptures.
With the coming of the New Year, I tend to reflect on everything we have accomplished with this magazine over the past 12 months. The wonderful thing about publishing is that all your past accomplishments/failures/successes/attempts and everything else is right there in print for everyone to see. It’s the ultimate in accountability. Nothing goes unnoticed. 2017 was a wonderful year for us on a variety of levels. However, what I’m most proud of is the content we delivered each and every month. I’ve said this many times before over the last 10 years of being the editor of this magazine, but it still rings true: content is key and the success of this magazine is tied directly to our ability to provide original, insightful, accessible and usable information to help…
OWNER Kim Roseman K. Newby Gallery & Sculpture Garden Tubac, AZ As long as there is cold weather, we will be blessed with many visitors at this time of year. Who can resist typical 75-degree days in January through March? We are fortunate to be located where art and history meet in the quaint, charming village of Tubac. Only 1,200 residents, not a single traffic light but more than 100 art galleries, shops and amazing restaurants in our little slice of heaven on earth. Tubac is a destination worth seeing—the historic Tumacacori Mission, Presidio and our wonderful Tubac Center of the Arts. “Tubac is a favorite for anyone looking to add to their art collection and have a great time doing it.” After 30 years in business, our location gives…
Long known for his works depicting cowboys, oil workers, carriage drivers and Native Americans—many of them on horseback riding directly toward the viewer, as if to initiate them in the story and composition—G. Harvey has been a staple in the Western art market, where his works have attracted widespread attention and praise, as well as commanding auction prices. Harvey, whose paintings were treasured in Texas Hill Country and far beyond, died November 13. He was 84. Along with Howard Terpning, Martin Grelle and others, Harvey was in the top tier of Western art, and his works have captivated fans around the world. His artworks are also widely collected and have often sold out at solo shows and bring high prices and frantic bidding at live sales. Grelle, a fellow Texan…
That Day, an exhibition honoring and examining the photography of Laura Wilson, opens January 20 at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. The work will span much of Wilson’s 37-year career including Plains Indian reservations, lavish cotillions, Hutterite communities and West Texas cattle ranches. Wilson, who first moved to Texas from New England in 1966, began taking pictures in 1979 when she was hired by renowned photographer Richard Avedon, who was moving from New York to the West and needed someone to set up his itineraries. She eventually spent six years working with Avedon on his In the American West, and during that time she grew a fondness for the West and its people. “I am drawn to people who live in an enclosed world—those people who live…
The Denver Art Museum has expanded its modernist collection with the acquisition of Willard Nash’s Santa Fe Hillside. Thomas Brent Smith, director of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art at the Denver Art Museum, says that Nash moved to New Mexico at a pivotal time for the region and himself. “In 1921 Willard Nash moved to Santa Fe, where he dedicated himself to painting. Though he received formal training in Detroit, his stylistic approach was deeply influenced by Andrew Dasburg. Nash met Dasburg in New Mexico, and through mentorship quickly absorbed the avant-garde philosophies and techniques attributed to Parisian artists Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso,” Smith says. “Between 1921 and 1936, Nash became closely associated with the group of modernist painters who adapted European abstraction to their portrayals of the…
Emily Kapes Curator of Art James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art St. Petersburg, FL www.thejamesmuseum.org What event (gallery show, museum exhibit, etc.) in the next few months are you looking forward to, and why? I’m excited for the opening of the James Museum in spring 2018. After managing the private collection of Tom and Mary James for 11 years, it is an honor to curate the 25,000 square feet of gallery space and plan for the art transition to a downtown museum setting. In addition to paintings and sculptures, there will be a fantastic display of contemporary Native American jewelry. Our first special exhibition in the rotating gallery is the Society of Animal Artists’ annual show opening July 28. What are you reading? I just started reading The Heart…
