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.
Welcome to the October issue of Western Art Collector, which celebrates the fall season across the country with our Visions of the Fall special section. We introduced this special section last year and it was so popular we thought we would try it again this year. Inside you will see the results. We pioneered these special sections, which we have named Collector’s Focus, and we did so because we know collectors want to see a variety of different works all under the same theme. Last month we had our enormously successful wildlife special section, and November will bring both Sporting Art and Small Works & Miniatures. When we plan these sections, we make sure that galleries and artists know that all work in them need to be brand-new, fresh to…
928-445-7170 | billnebeker.com Being raised in Arizona, I have always been fascinated by Geronimo and the Apache Wars. This sculpture portrays one of Geronimo’s warriors as an ever-vigilant sentinel; always watching from a high lookout point, aware of enemies or friends wanting to find his encampment. Cowboy Crossings: National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City Opening on Sat. Oct 6 – Nov 25th. Gallery Representation Trailside Galleries, Scottsdale & Jackson Texas Treasures Fine Art, Boerne, TX Broadmoor Galleries, Colorado Springs, CO Mountain Spirit Gallery, Prescott, AZ…
In 2016 the Phoenix Art Museum began a series of upgrades to the fire suppression system in the art storage vaults. Because the cost of storing fine art—a whole lot of it—was so high the museum elected to store the entire collection in the American galleries temporarily while construction was completed. Work is now done and the American galleries were re-opened September 15 with five brand new thematic installations, two of which are landscape themed: Philip C. Curtis and the Landscapes of Arizona and Sublime Landscapes. Both are now on view at the Phoenix museum, which will also be presenting the entire collection of Western work purchased by the Western Art Associates. Philip C. Curtis and the Landscapes will focus on works by the Arizona-based artist, who first came to…
At this year’s Cowboy Crossings exhibition at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma, the Traditional Cowboy Arts Association will celebrate two decades of creating top-quality leather and silver cowboy gear. As an added bonus to this year’s event, which opens October 4, the TCAA will also unveil Cowboy Renaissance, a coffee table book that documents the works produced by the group’s members over the last 20 years. “This is a great way to tell our story and to build momentum for what we’re all about,” says saddlemaker and TCAA member Cary Schwarz. “We’re excited to show the book off because it’s really quite amazing.” The 10-by-11-inch full-color book is written by A.J. Mangum, with contributions by TCAA saddlemaker Chuck Stormes and Don Reeves, who recently concluded a…
A new photography exhibition at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, celebrates 150 years since the meeting of two trains at Promontory Point, Utah, effectively linking the West Coast with the East Coast by rail. The Race to Promontory: The Transcontinental Railroad and the American West is a traveling exhibition that recognizes the importance of the momentous event and celebrates what it signified for the country. The exhibition, which opens at Joslyn Art Museum on October 6, is a partnership between the museum, Union Pacific and also the Union Pacific Museum in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The show will present photographs and stereographs of Andrew Joseph Russell and Alfred A. Hart drawn exclusively from the Union Pacific Historic Collection. The images represent the largest collection in the world of original…
On November 11, the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, will host its Booth Photography Guild Annual Exhibition. The juried show will feature works from the museum’s Photography Guild, whose members represent a wide range of skill levels and backgrounds who are united in their love of photography. The exhibition, which will take place in the museum’s Borderlands Gallery, will present a variety of subjects, including many Western themes. The show will add to the museum’s growing lineup of photography shows, which in recent months and years has also featured exhibitions for Arizona photographer Jay Dusard and Tlingit Alaskan Native Zoë Marieh Urness. The exhibition will present new photography works to museumgoers, and it will also bring attention to the Booth Photography Guild, which aims to “pursue, develop and…
