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 our December issue! This issue wraps up 2020, the year of the #newnorm in art buying, as well as everything else in the world. We look forward to 2021, and we’re hopeful of fully gaining back the momentum that we had coming into the year—we want to travel, go to events, visit museums and meet artists. We are here to tell you that art buying is on the rise. As we close 2020, collectors are still collecting and our galleries and auctions are selling artwork at record prices. People want art in their life and Western Art Collector is the bridge to this. As we close out 2020, we want to take a moment to thank you—our subscribers for your loyalty to the collecting of Western art and…
NOVEMBER November 14-28 KING GALLERIES Changing Forward: Kaa Folwell & Derek No-Sun Brown Santa Fe, NM – (480) 440-3912 www.kinggalleries.com November 19-December 25 LEGACY GALLERY Tom Browning: Life with Santa Scottsdale, AZ – (480) 945-1113 www.legacygallery.com November 20-December 31 MODERN WEST FINE ART Modern West Holidays: Group Exhibition Salt Lake City, UT – (801) 355-3383 www.modernwestfineart.com November 21 SETTLERS WEST GALLERY Great American West Tucson, AZ – (520) 299-2607 www.settlerswest.com November 23-December 5 TRAILSIDE GALLERIES Deck the Walls: Holiday Miniature Show Jackson, WY – (307) 733-3186 www.trailsidegalleries.com November 25-July 11, 2021 NATIONAL COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM Close Encounters: Western Wildlife Oklahoma City, OK – (405) 478-2250 www.nationalcowboymuseum.org November 27-December 11 SWAIA Virtual Winter Indian Market Santa Fe, NM – (505) 983-5220 www.swaia.org DECEMBER Opens December 2020 INSIGHT GALLERY Jeremy…
December 3: Heritage Auctions' American Art Auction Dallas, TX − (877) 437-4824 November 27-December 11 SWAIA Virtual Winter Indian Market Santa Fe, NM – (505) 983-5220 December 1 Heritage Auctions’ Art of the West Auction Dallas, TX – (877) 437-4824 December 3 Heritage Auctions’ American Art Auction Dallas, TX – (877) 437-4824 January 21-24, 2021 Brian Lebel’s Mesa Old West Show & Auction Mesa, AZ – (480) 779-9378 February 12-14, 2021 Southeastern Wildlife Exposition Charleston, SC – (843) 723-1748 February 13-March 28, 2021 Masters of the American West Los Angeles, CA – (323) 667-2000 March 6-7, 2021 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market Phoenix, AZ – (602) 252-8840 March 17-20, 2021 Out West Art Show & Sale Great Falls, MT – (406) 899-2958 March 18-20, 2021 March in Montana…
Earlier this summer, after some reflection on the diversity in Western art, Mark Maggiori started a painting showing two Black cowboys on horseback. Before it was completed, he began contemplating where the piece might end up and his thoughts immediately went to Texas. “I knew I wanted it in a museum, because there wasn’t a lot of history there as far as I could tell. Joe Beeler had done some Black cowboys, but they were never on horseback and never working. I felt strongly about the piece because it showed Black working cowboys,” he says. “My first call was to the Briscoe Western Art Museum because it’s based in Texas, which has a strong cowboy history. Texas also had a lot of slaves, which means a lot of its history…
Christopher Cardozo, one of the leading experts and dealers of materials related to photographer and ethnographer Edward S. Curtis, likes to keep his eyes and ears open when it comes to Curtisrelated materials that turn up online. So when an auction listing for an obscure plaster cast popped up eBay, Cardozo’s senses started tingling. “The owner didn’t know anything about it, and most people wouldn’t know either. I had seen a bronze of the plaster cast at one of Curtis’ grandchildren’s homes, and then another offered online years before,” Cardozo says. “It was a remarkable find.” The plaster cast was created by Alfred Lenz in 1906 and it was modeled after one of Curtis’ photographs, Vash Gon–Jicarilla, from 1904. After Curtis commissioned the artist for bronzes, Curtis gifted them to…
Mark Sublette is a man of many talents: doctor, gallery owner, author, podcast host, YouTube personality, art expert and historian. Now add another one—jewelry designer. Sublette has teamed up with third-generation jewelry artist Sam Patania to create his own line of Southwest-inspired jewelry. The works—now available at Medicine Man Gallery in Tucson, Arizona, and on his website—prominently feature silver and gold, as well as exceptional stones, including turquoise. The pieces are certainly inspired by Native American jewelry, but also call out to Sublette’s own history and interests, including a simple chevron design element that can be seen in many of the pieces, including in the Medicine Man Gallery logo. “For me it all came down to these strong Southwestern design elements,” says Sublette. “And also the materials. Everything is top…
