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.
As we all know, social media and other digital platforms have increased the amount of art that is being bought online these days. Eager collectors scour the digital version of our magazine, gallery websites and other similar virtual spaces to find the newest art offered each month from top galleries across the country. To us, all art sales are good things so this is very positive. However, we will always be fans of brick and mortar galleries. Galleries found in places like Santa Fe, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Scottsdale, New York City, Boston, Charleston or wherever else one may find a cluster of such spaces these days. The art market needs galleries in order to survive and thrive. It is galleries in these cities where collectors wander into and…
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…
GALLERY CO-DIRECTOR Jamie Oberloh Broadmoor Galleries Colorado Springs, CO The Broadmoor Galleries has been established for over 35 years and in that time we’ve seen the art market transition and evolve to where the most novice art appreciator can independently research an artist and become an expert with the help of the internet. The buyer is savvier than ever and they know what they want. Fine art has been one of the last forms of physical media to resist the powerful forces of the web and fall victim to complete online commerce. And as we’ve seen the Amazon’s of the world consume music and book stores, we still see most art buyers more comfortable visiting physical galleries for the “gallery experience” that the web will be hard pressed to duplicate.…
Now on view at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, is Alfred Jacob Miller’s mid-1800s work The Surround. The painting, at nearly 8 feet wide, was a key part of the traveling exhibition Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art, which opened in 2016 and visited museums in Tennessee, Vermont and Texas. The exhibition included major works from many important Western artists, including William Tylee Ranney, John George Brown, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, Charles M. Russell, William R. Leigh, Charles Deas and Frederic Remington. But it was Miller’s enormous painting of Native American hunters on horseback surrounding buffalo that most enthralled visitors to the acclaimed exhibition. The work, with its dramatic action scene and moody tones, was inspired by a scene Miller saw while traveling in 1837…
Drawing from a vast collection of materials, the Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma, Washington, is now exhibiting Immigrant Artists and the American West, a new exhibition that features work from artists who came from outside the United States. The exhibition, which opened on February 2, taps into the personal and political issues that are at the forefront of an ongoing immigration dialogue. It pulls artwork from the museum’s Northwest Art Collection and the vast Haub Family Collection of Western American Art, as well as featuring prominent loans from other museums and private collections. Artists being shown in Immigrant Artists and the American West come from places such as China, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico and Russia, among others. “Immigration is a topic on many peoples’ minds,” the museum states.…
Many years ago, before Texas painter and sculptor Bruce Greene was even a member of the Cowboy Artists of America, he had completed a bronze piece of Susanna Dickinson, one of the few survivors of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. The work was just a tabletop-sized piece, maybe one-sixth life-size, but it left an impression on those who saw it, enough that the officials at the Alamo, decades later, have asked Greene to do another sculpture of Dickinson for the historic site in San Antonio, Texas. The new work, the 89-inch tall The Lady of the Alamo, is now finished in clay and at the foundry for its bronze cast. Its next stop will be the Alamo, where it will join more than a dozen other sculptures, both…
