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.
I ’ve been fortunate to see a lot of wonderful things through my job as editor of this magazine. But I would say the highlight of my career was being in the room at Christie’s on November 15 and watching Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi sell for $450 million after a 19-minute bidding war between two phone bidders standing right next to each other on the Christie’s elevated platform, unassumingly raising each other by $10 million bids at a time each second. “The masterpiece by Leonardo, Christ the Savior, been in the collection of three kings of England, King Charles the First, King Charles the Second and King James the Second. What am I offered here? Let’s open this at $70, $70, $75 million,” the auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen rattled off to get…
COAST-TO-COAST COVERAGE Find out what’s happening across the nation. Western Art Collector is the first magazine to provide nationwide coverage of upcoming shows and auctions showcasing Western art from coast to coast. PREVIEWS In the Preview pages we reveal new contemporary and historic Western works about to become available for sale at the country’s leading Western art galleries. AUCTION AND EVENT PREVIEWS AND REPORTS Each month we alert you to upcoming Western art auctions and events nationwide. Read our reports on prices fetched so you can stay informed and up-to-date on the market. WESTERN ART INSIGHTS Find out everything the discerning collector needs to know. Each month our panel of art consultants, museum curators and experts share their behind-the-scenes knowledge of how the Western art market works. STATE OF THE…
OWNER DIRECTOR Mesia Hachadorian Cobalt Fine Arts Gallery Tubac, AZ Located in the village of Tubac, Arizona, one of the top small art towns in the United States, we enjoy a strong winter seasonal market, with clientele drawn both locally and from the colder areas of the country and Canada. This year, I’ve seen that season extended with more collectors coming in during our fall shoulder season. The market seems particularly strong with collectors buying a variety of work, including a resurgence of higher-end sculptural glass. “The market seems particularly strong with collectors buying a variety of work, including a resurgence of higher-end sculptural glass.” I continue to see people responding to elements of dimension and structure within paintings. I’ve seen that trend with the unique bent woodwork of Cynthia…
Hyperrealist sculptor Marc Sijan’s newest one-of-a-kind creation, Cowboy, stands tall enough to rub shoulders with. The figure, cast in resin and painted with oil paints, stands at attention, one hand at his side and the other at his belt, with a saddle and rope at his feet. He’s an imposing force, and allows viewers to stare right into the eyes of the American West. The artist, who was born in Serbia, studied art in Wisconsin and was heavily inspired by Michelangelo’s David. “He was always fascinated by Michelangelo’s awareness of human anatomy and his ability to execute this awareness,” the gallery says. “However, unlike Michelangelo, Sijan does not celebrate the ideal form; his works are tributes to real people and in their realism they are unpretentious and gritty and communicate…
Now open at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas, is Constance Jaeggi’s debut exhibition, Aspects of Power, Light and Motion, which will feature her dramatically lit equine photographs. The exhibition opened in the museum’s Anne W. Marion Gallery in September 2017. Jaeggi—pronounced jayguee— achieved her photographs by bringing horses directly into her studio she built on her ranch, the J5 Horse Ranch in Parker County near Weatherford, Texas, the “cutting horse capital of the world.” “I photograph the horses with no halters or means of restraints,” Jaeggi says. “It is a soft and natural process. Unrestrained, horses tend to be incredibly cooperative if you know how to talk to and coax them. In many ways, I feel that my process is similar to the…
Beginning March 3, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art will present The Reel West, a new exhibition that explores the West that was depicted in film and on television, and how those mediums helped shape the West within pop culture. According to the museum, “The Reel West explores morality, diversity and American identity as depicted in the Western film genre and how Hollywood and Westerns shape our understanding of the world around us.” The exhibition will include film costumes, props, memorabilia, art and images from a century of Westerns, from early silent films to the classic era of popular movies and TV shows to the genre-bending films of recent years. Highlights from the show include a mask, hat, costume, gun belt and scarf worn by The Lone…
