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 spoke about this last month but I want to discuss it again now because, frankly, it’s quite exciting for us here at Western Art Collector to finally bring our new product to market. What I’m talking about, of course, is our new Online Exhibition Space, and it is just one more way that we intend to get the best art from the best galleries in front of the best collectors across the country. And that is you. And, that is where you come into this. This December issue you are reading right now is our first issue to include the Online Exhibition Spaces. So here is what I would like you do. Go to our website, www.westernartcollector.com. Now, scroll down and look on the right-hand side and you will…
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…
Opening January 11, 2020, at the Phoenix Art Museum is Ansel Adams: Performing the Print, an exhibition that will feature 60 photographs from the Ansel Adams Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, housed at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. The exhibition will show the photographs in groups of two and three to emphasize how Adams created varying interpretations depending on the images he selected. The museum explains, “…using the same score, Adams was constantly revising the way it was performed.” The exhibition will also examine how Adams cropped and printed the image from the original negative, and how, over time, his methods evolved with his perspective. The photographs will span across Adams’ six-decade career, and many will be accompanied by quotations from his published writing. The exhibition…
On November 25, Bonhams will be offering selections from the Eddie Basha Collection at a live auction in Los Angeles. Basha, the famous Arizona entrepreneur and public figure, was a devoted collector of works by members of the Cowboy Artists of America. So it came as a pleasant surprise when Kathy Wong, a specialist at Bonhams, discovered in a box of books being processed by the auction house a complete collection (from 1966 to 2000) of limited edition CAA annual exhibition catalogs, including a pamphlet from the 1966 show, which was the group’s first exhibition. “The lot of books was unrelated to the Bashas Collection, but it was quite serendipitous to find these materials in it,” Wong says. “It’s a really great thing to see. And the voice of the…
Prominent Western artist Sophy Brown, whose paintings of horses and working cowboys have captivated collectors for many years, has been named the featured artist for the 2020 Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale, which will be held January 11 through 26 in Denver. The annual art show, held during the National Western Stock Show, is known for its embrace of contemporary Western art, even work that pushes the envelope and challenges collectors in unique ways. In addition to being a major venue for Western art, the Coors show is also one of the largest fundraisers for the National Western Scholarship Trust, the philanthropic pillar of Colorado’s National Western Stock Show. “In the genre of Western art, Sophy Brown is an iconoclast. Horsewoman and classically trained artist, Brown elevates equine imagery…
Welcoming visitors into the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s permanent Western gallery space this December is Find Your Western. Taking over the museum’s west hallway, the micro-exhibition explores the portrayal of the West through popular media from silent films and the heydays of the Western film genre to now. Find Your Western will include a variety of media—including paper archival materials, movie posters, production booklets, film clips, costumes and even comic books—broadening the horizons of what it means to be a “Western.” “I think visitors will be surprised to see a lot of the things on display,” says Nathan Jones, the museum’s associate curator of cowboy culture. He adds that Find Your Western will not be the “traditional interpretation” of the West. While the exhibition will still feature classic Western…
