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.
Oh how things change. This entire pandemic began with us receiving email after email from galleries, fairs and auctions about events being cancelled or postponed. And not just any events. Some of our favorites. The kind where we attend each year to catch up with all our friends, collectors and artists to find out what’s happening in their world. It felt odd not attending these events and it made us appreciate them even more. God knows, once this is all over, our schedules will be busier than ever, and this is music to our ears! And now, the emails we are getting are reading in the exact opposite way. They shine with glimmers of hope as they announce galleries reopening and being filled with new works created by artists during…
Harvey Dunn (1884-1952), Midnight Posse or Hungry Bandidos, 1908, oil on canvas, 24 x 36” Estimate: $60/90,000 July 25: Coeur d’Alene Art Auction Reno, NV – (208) 772-9009 | www.cdaartauction.com JUNE June 26-July 10 WILCOX GALLERY Kyle Ma Jackson, WY – (307) 733-3950, www.wilcoxgallery.com JULY July 1 HERITAGE AUCTIONS American Art Signature Auction Dallas, TX – (214) 528-3500, www.ha.com July 1-October 21 OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Light Southerly: Henry Strater in Verde Valley Ogunquit, ME – (207) 646-4909, www.ogunquitmuseum.org Opens July 3 MOUNTAIN TRAILS GALLERIES Traditions in Western Sculpture: Figurative, Wildlife, and the Stories They Tell Sedona, AZ – (800) 527-6556, www.mountaintrailssedona.com July 3-12 GALLERY WILD Jennifer Johnson: Icons Jackson, WY – (307) 203-2322, www.gallerywild.com July 16-22 GALLERY WILD Parallel Visions Jackson, WY – (307) 203-2322 www.gallerywild.com AUGUST August 6-16…
July 1 Heritage Auctions’ American Art Auction Dallas, TX – (877) 437-4824 July 25 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction Reno, NV – (208) 772-9009 August 1-September 13 Prix de West Oklahoma City, OK – (405) 478-2250 September 9-20 Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival Jackson, WY – (307) 733-3316 September 9-October 11 Western Visions Jackson, WY – (307) 733-5771 September 10-12 The Russell Great Falls, MT – (406) 727-8787 September 10-12 Out West Art Show Great Falls, MT – (406) 590-1961 September 11-October 11 Quest for the West Indianapolis, IN – (317) 636-8119 September 18-19 Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale Cody, WY – (888) 598-8119 November 6-7 Cowboy Artists of America 55th Annual Sale & Exhibition Fort Worth, TX November 13 Small Works, Great Wonders Oklahoma City, OK – (405) 478-2250…
When life gave the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum lemons—museum closures around the country for months—the marketing team was ready to make some lemonade with the help of the museum’s head security guard. Beginning March 17, with the Oklahoma City museum closed to the public, Tim Tiller, the director of security and operations services, started using social media to document his rounds through the empty galleries. His observations, all done in a folksy wholesomeness, were then posted on “the Twitter, the Facebook, and the Instagram.” Viewers were treated to shots within the museum, and also of glimpses of someone learning social media on the fly. “Hashtag John Wayne. Lucas, my grandson, told me to use hashtags,” he wrote of a True Grit costume. A few days later, a revelation:…
Beginning July 11, Maxwell Alexander Gallery in Los Angeles will present its eighth annual Summer Small Works group exhibition, featuring many of the top Western artists in the country, including Logan Maxwell Hagege, Glenn Dean, John Moyers, Jeremy Lipking, Kim Wiggins and others. More than 60 works from 40 artists will be available. One of the rising stars at the gallery is Brett Allen Johnson, who will be showing Ahead of the Storm, a powerful image of a cowboy with gloomy skies behind him. “I definitely enjoy working on a small scale, and usually go back and forth between that and larger works. It’s always a good chance to think simple and experiment,” he says. “For this one, it was fun to just enjoy the loose brushwork and juicy paint…
Now in its 15th year, Tammy Christel’s hit online space, Jackson Hole Art Blog, is continuing to track the art market in a Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Christel, who was a former tour guide around Jackson, says her guiding principle is exposing people to art. “I’ve always been very comfortable with art, but when I was giving tours I would run across people who were standing outside a gallery looking in through the windows, and you could see they were debating with themselves whether to go in or not. And they usually didn’t go in,” Christel says. “The art world can be very intimidating, so my goal has been to expose people to art and show them that everyone is welcome in the galleries.” Before starting the blog, where she regularly…
