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.
Readers of this magazine know that ever since issue No. 1 we have spent a great deal of time and effort profiling cities from coast to coast in relation to the galleries collectors can find there. There are so many wonderful art destinations in this country and we want art collectors to experience them just as we have. So early on in the history of the magazine we came up with something called State of the Art. In this section we have made collectors aware of all the wonderful art regions and destinations across America, places like Wyoming, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and Arizona. And we do so by providing profiles of the major galleries and artists in those areas, the events that take place every year and the other…
Senior Curator & Curator of Art Gilcrease Museum Tulsa, OK (918) 596-2700 www.gilcrease.org What event (gallery show, museum exhibit, etc.) in the next few months are you looking forward to, and why? In 2018, Gilcrease Museum partners with the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, to present Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West. This exhibition sheds new light on Bierstadt’s connection to the early conservation movement in America—a topic that resonates with today’s concerns about environmental preservation. The show opens on June 8 at the Center of the West and on November 3 at Gilcrease, and we’re thrilled to host the first major exhibition of Bierstadt’s work in over 25 years. What are you reading? I recently visited Walden Pond for the first time—and was inspired…
The New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe is fast at work on a $10 million expansion that will include a space for contemporary art. The museum most recently announced a $4 million gift from Santa Fe philanthropists Ellen and Bob Vladem, who have been given naming rights to the new expanded space in the Santa Fe Railyard. The expansion will be called Vladem Contemporary. The Vladem gift is the largest donation in the museum’s history. “On behalf of the State of New Mexico and the Department of Cultural Affairs, I extend our deep appreciation to Ellen and Bob Vladem for their overwhelming generosity,” says Cultural Affairs Secretary Veronica Gonzales. “We now have momentous support to exhibit and grow our contemporary collections. The visionary design of the architects honors…
Back on view at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, are two major works from prominent 19th century American painters. The works are Albert Bierstadt’s The Trappers, Lake Tahoe and George Caleb Bingham’s Watching the Cargo by Night. Both works show off trademark elements of each artist’s painting careers: Bierstadt’s luminist landscapes and Bingham’s fascination with rivers and the people who live and work on them. The works have been travelling since 2016 as part of the special exhibition Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art. The Joslyn was one of four co-organizers of the exhibition, along with the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Tennessee, the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Texas. Wild Spaces, Open Seasons was the…
Bronze wildlife is the subject of a new exhibition, Animals: Wild and Captured in Bronze, now open at the Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma, Washington. The exhibition, which opened in January, will feature sculptural work from a variety of artists across a wide expanse of time, from the late 1800s to present day. The works will feature animals that inhabit the West, which will give viewers a sense of the wildlife around them as they visit the museum. “Wild mustangs and majestic bison are symbols of the American West,” according to the museum. “However, many other creatures also live in the diverse habitats west of the Mississippi River. This exhibition features all kinds of wildlife that inhabit the West and the artists who have captured their likenesses in bronze.” Works…
Ongoing now at the National Museum of American Illustration in Newport, Rhode Island, is a new exhibition highlighting recent donations to the museum. The Art of Giving: Recent Donations to the NMAI’s American Imagist Collection is now open at the illustration museum, home to major works by Norman Rockwell, John Clymer, N.C. Wyeth, Howard Pyle and many other Golden Age illustrators. Artists represented in the exhibition include Peter Darro, Gil Elvgren, Stuart Kaufman, Charles MacLellan, Frank Schoonover, Robert McGinnis and many others. All of the acquisitions were donations. “The gifts on display in this exhibition emphasize the wide range of artworks and artifacts received in recent years,” according to the museum. “Many of these are works of pulp art, so named for the inexpensive paper on which they were printed.…
