Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2018/ No.128 i Western Art Collector

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…

The National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is now presenting TINY: Charismatic Minifauna from the Permanent Collection, an ongoing exhibition that focuses on the lesser-painted, but still important, small mammals found in the American wilderness. It’s so often the case that larger animals—buffalo, elk, mountain lion, grizzly bears and pronghorn—are the featured subjects in wildlife paintings, a trend that the Wyoming museum will buck when it highlights works of small animals such as skunks, mice, lizards, insects and petite, delicate birds of many different varieties. The works range from scientific renderings done with exquisite attention to detail to more abstract paintings that capture the mood and attitude of the creatures. Artists in the exhibition include William Jacob Hays Sr., Dwayne Harty and Michael Coleman, whose works are…

April 7: Scottsdale Art Auction Scottsdale, AZ | (480) 945-0225 | www.scottsdaleartauction.com APRIL April 5-June 16 HOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART The Surging, Thundering Herd: Vintage Bison Engravings Kalispell, MT – (406) 755-5268 www.hockadaymuseum.og April 6-8 PASO ROBLES EVENT CENTER Cattlemen’s Western Art Show & Sale Paso Robles, CA – (805) 464-9335 www.cattlemenswesternartshow.com April 6-27 INSIGHT GALLERY Places I Call Home Fredericksburg, TX – (830) 997-9920 www.insightgallery.com Ending April 7 HOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART Beyond Craft: The Art of Ceramics Kalispell, MT – (406) 755-5268 www.hockadaymuseum.og April 8-May 5 CHEROKEE HERITAGE CENTER 47th annual Trail of Tears Art Show and Sale Tahlequah, OK – (888) 999-6007 www.cherokeeheritage.org April 12-14 MUSEUM OF THE BIG BEND 32nd Annual Trappings of Texas Alpine, TX – (423) 837-8143 www.museumofthebigbend.com Ending April 13 NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF…

With fields dotted violet and red from bluebonnets and prairie-fire and lands filled with longhorn, the country scenes and wild plains of Texas draw to mind the life of the cowboy. It is no wonder so many Western artists call the Lone Star State home. That same spirit is celebrated throughout the state in art districts, galleries and museums. Houston is famed across the United States for its annual rodeo and livestock show. Carrying the spirit of that event is the American Cowboy museum, housed on the Taylor-Stevenson Ranch just outside of Houston. Showcased at the museum are historic letters, photographs, oral histories and artifacts of Texas heritage. Downtown, the 19 museums are clustered in the Houston Museum District, all located within a mile and a half of the famous…

This April issue marks the first time we are shining the spotlight on some of today’s emerging artists. As the industry leader in connecting Western-themed artwork to the most affluent collectors, one of our jobs is to keep a pulse on the market and to seek out the latest and greatest artists. We know in recent years that social media has become a platform for these rising stars to share their art with collectors and galleries, so we took to our own social media pages to ask emerging artists to share their work with us. After receiving hundreds of responses, our editor, Joshua Rose, handpicked a selection of artists to feature in the following pages, where they highlight one of their newest works and discuss their inspirations. This is just…

UPCOMING SHOW Up to 15 works March 3-17, 2018 Mountain Trails Gallery 301 Main Street, Park City, UT 84060, (435) 615-8748 www.mountaintrailsgalleries.com A science lurks on the edges Andrew Bolam’s colorful Native American images, portraits of patient yet serious chiefs in elaborate war bonnets and war paint. “My works are, thematically, Western images of Native American subjects, but what they’re really about is visual cognition,” the British-born painter, who now lives in California, says. “I’m interested in how the data from our eyes is processed into information to the computer of our brains. The work hovers on the edge of abstraction, but turning that abstraction into a representational image. When viewers see my work it’s immediately apparent what they are looking at, whether it’s a Native American in profile or…

Scottsdale Art Auction’s April 7 sale in Arizona will feature a popular segment that, depending on how things play out on the auction block, can get buyers fantastic deals or sellers their asking price and then some. The first of the annual sale’s two sessions will be filled entirely with no-reserve lots. “We had such a tremendous success with our Leanin’ Tree sale in January, that we wanted to do it again,” auction partner Brad Richardson says. “The level of involvement from bidders is really fantastic on these no-reserve lots. Everyone just feels like they get to be involved with the sale of the work as the price starts lower and goes up from there.” Richardson says that the auction’s January sale of the Leanin’ Tree Museum collection, particularly the…

On April 24, Bonhams will host its first California and Western Paintings & Sculpture auction of 2018. The sale, taking place in Los Angeles and simulcast in San Francisco, will feature approximately 150 lots of artwork by some of the icons of the Southwest. Many of the artists made their names by living in or painting the region, with the sale boasting artwork by leading California Impressionists from across the state as well as artists whose Western subjects have propelled them to the forefront of American art. “Coming off a tremendously robust year, we’re pleased to put together another impressive auction of top-quality works,” says Scot Levitt, director of fine arts at Bonhams. “We hope to meet the high expectations and discerning tastes of today’s collectors and are excited by…

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.…

The Denver Art Museum has acquired a number of new works throughout 2017, including a major work by Swedish-American Birger Sandzén, whose impressionist works of the American West have thrilled collectors and art enthusiasts. The 1927 piece, A Mountain Symphony (Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado), was purchased by the museum’s Petrie Institute of Western American Art, which governs the Denver Art Museum’s extensive collection of Western art. The oil painting was done in Colorado and has strong ties to the Centennial State. The work has not been viewable by the public since the year it was painted, more than 90 years ago. “After moving from Europe to Kansas, Sandzén visited Colorado every summer between 1908 and 1952,” the museum states about the work. “In this painting, Longs Peak…

In 1962, the Sierra Club published In Wildness is the Preservation of the World by Eliot Porter (1901-1990) and Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). Although they lived a century apart, their dedication to nature and to conservation matched perfectly. Porter coupled his magnificent color photographs of the woods of New England with passages from Thoreau’s writings. Porter grew up in Chicago and went to Harvard where he received his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and later his M.D. He had been photographing since he was a child and his brother was the painter Fairfield Porter. His black-and-white photographs impressed Alfred Stieglitz so much that he gave him a one man show at his influential gallery, An American Place. The exhibition established Porter as a major photographer and he gave up his…

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers now has eight locations around the country, including offices in Denver and Scottsdale, Arizona. “You’d think all of our Western consigners would come from those offices,” says the auction houses’ Maron Hindman, “but they come from all of our regional offices. Western art is everywhere.” One Allan Houser stone piece is coming from Europe, she adds. Hindman, the managing director of Southwest materials for Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, says that this year’s Arts of the American West sale, to be held on April 21 in Denver, comes on the heels of several successful auctions. “We had a big November sale so we’re excited to ride this momentum into April as we prepare this auction,” she says, adding that as many as 400 lots will be offered on April…

Artists of all kinds—sculptors, actors, dancers, directors, artists in every conceivable medium—are notorious for looking back on old creations with disdain and regret. “I should have done that differently,” they say about an early work. It’s a forgivable trait, especially since artists learn so much as they progress in their careers and grow away from their earliest pieces. For master landscape painter Clyde Aspevig, though, his early career is one of fond recollection. “I look back on them and absolutely treasure those times. Some of them were from my college days, back when I put myself through school with $25 watercolors, or others are linked to a time back after my mother died, and they are very meaningful,” Aspevig says. “They are records of my life in those times, and…

During its opening weekend April 12 through 14, the Museum of the Big Bend’s 32nd annual Trappings of Texas show will exhibit custom cowboy gear alongside artwork from emerging and established Western artists. This year’s premier artist is Buffalo, Wyoming-based Chessney Sevier. Her featured etching Jack of All Trades is a depiction of her daughter’s horse Freckles. “He’s a tall giraffe of a horse that she has used for 4-H and Junior Rodeo; we can always depend on him to be steady and safe,” she says. “My art is an authentic expression of my life. The culture and landscape are rooted so deep in my soul that it’s automatically what I create.” Sevier will demonstrate her work during the weekend. Kim Mackey’s Shade of Night is also among the works…

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.…

Kent and Kaki Grubbs have traveled and lived around the world through his work as a geologist in the petroleum industry. Their new home in Santa Fe is a reflection of their eclectic taste, their interests and their travels. Their home also reflects the Pueblo revival traditions of Santa Fe partly because of choice and partly because of the strict guidelines for building in an historic district. They had contacted Cody North of True North Builders, a custom home builder in Santa Fe, to show them a piece of land. At the top of a narrow lane they saw a scrubby, rocky, cactus-filled lot that would have scared away less-adventurous clients—and had. When they turned around they saw there was a view of the nearby Sun and Moon Mountains. The…

The desert is everything all at once. It’s dusty and hot, and yet a single thunderhead can saturate the sandy soil and flood the desolate creek beds and water-starved arroyos. The desert can be all sharp angles, cacti spines and jagged rock edges, and yet also soft and gentle like the rolling buttes in the distance or the yellow-tipped chamisa that blooms bouquets of golden flowers. It can be vast, and yet confining. Quiet and still, and yet explosively powerful. Like looking through a diamond, the desert shimmers with possibility, a kaleidoscope of shattered images each more limitless than the one before it. A new exhibition at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will explore the shifting nature of the desert, particularly locations in Arizona and New Mexico, when it…

UPCOMING GROUP SHOW Up to 25 works April 6-27, 2018 InSight Gallery, 214 W. Main Street, Fredericksburg, TX 78624 (830) 997-9920 www.insightgallery.com The surrounding world can have a personal connection to each person who passes through the terrain. Whether it be a fond family memory or a breathtaking landscapes, places have a lasting impact that often is recollected for years. In the upcoming exhibition Places I Call Home at Fredericksburg, Texas-based InSight Gallery, three artists—Jeremy Browne, Calvin Liang and Clive Tyler—will interpret landscapes that have become their inspirations for dynamic compositions in three different mediums. Working in acrylic, Browne translates the countryside in all seasons. Often it is places he finds near his home and Canada, and other times it is farmlands he finds while on trips. The commonality is the…

Just three months after its monumental white glove sale for the Leanin’ Tree Museum, the Scottsdale Art Auction is back April 7 for its 14th annual sale, once again making top Western, wildlife and sporting art available to bidders. With the tremendous success of the Leanin’ Tree sale, the auction partners—Brad Richardson, Jack Morris and Michael Frost—are feeling a renewed sense of momentum coming into another sale. “The success of Leanin’ Tree was wonderful. Not only did we sell 100 percent, we sold more than $7.5 million when we had hoped to [sell] about $5 million. It far exceeded expectations and it really is leading us into the April sale,” Richardson says. “We’re hoping that the interest and the sale results are a good sign of things to come for…

In 2010, David Rockefeller signed the Giving Pledge, confirming his plans to give the majority of his personal wealth to charitable causes. When he passed away in 2017, the family began work with Christie’s to execute that pledge via the sale of the Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller. “It’s poised to be the largest single-owner auction ever,” says Paige Kestenman, associate specialist of American art at Christie’s. “With the charitable aspect, that’s especially exciting.” The origins of the works crossing the block span the globe, and contributions from American artists include Western works by Georgia O’Keeffe and Thomas Hart Benton. Many of the artworks reflect the Rockefellers’ travels, throughout America. O’Keeffe’s scenes of New Mexico, Near Abiquiu, New Mexico (est. $3/5 million) and New Mexico—Near Taos (est. $2/3 million)…

Now on view at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is Jackson Collects: Wild Selections from Private Collections, a new exhibition that presents works from some of the museum’s most devoted patrons. The exhibition brings in artworks from all around Jackson Hole and beyond, and because these are pieces from private collections, they are often rarely seen by the public, which gives the exhibition a “blink and you’ll miss it” quality. More than 20 works will be on view, both from private collections and promised future gifts to the popular Wyoming museum. One of the promised gifts is Robert Bateman’s 2003 work Harris Hawks and Old Saguaro, which shows a beautifully detailed saguaro cactus that is the perch for three brazen hawks that cling to its…

This April, the San Luis Obispo Cattlemen’s Association presents the 28th annual Cattlemen’s Western Art Show at the Paso Robles Event Center in Paso Robles, California. Considered a major cultural event on the Central Coast, the show is a unique opportunity to meet acclaimed artists and get involved in the world of Western art. Offerings include Western themes and landscapes in acrylics, oil, pencil, pastels, scratchboard and sculptures. More than 400 new works will be on display and available for purchase. The 2018 featured artist, Susan von Borstel, will share her enthusiasm and talent along with her creations on canvas and stone. The show will also exhibit works from celebrated Western artists such as Keith Batcheller, Richard Myer, Valeriy Kagounkin and Tamara Magdalina, among many others. Among von Borstel’s works…