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 spring! With the change of the season, we are so excited to bring you some of the most popular shows of the year, including Cowgirl Up! Art from the Other Half of the West at Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona; Night of Artists at the Briscoe Western Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas; and March in Montana in Great Falls, Montana. In addition to these great events, we have some highly anticipated museum coverage, including an in-depth preview on Creating the American West in Art at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. Events and shows are starting to bustle this year, both online and in person. And yes, we miss seeing our collectors at events and shows. Our entire team is getting excited to attend some…
I t was one year ago this month that the world changed for many of us. I still remember where I was when it happened. I was sitting in our Western Art Collector and Native American Art booth at the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market at the Heard Museum in Downtown Phoenix. As people streamed into the event, they shuffled past a hand sanitizer station and a sign asking for sick people to stay home. I remember a woman wearing a face mask. It seemed so surreal and strange at the time. A year later, it is the new normal. Here, in what is my first issue of Western Art Collector as executive editor, I find myself reflecting back on that time. Not because of some misplaced nostalgia—make…
FEBRUARY Through February 16 PALM BEACH CONVENTION CENTER Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show West Palm Beach, FL – (561) 822-5440 www.palmbeachshow.com Through February 17 MOUNTAIN TRAILS GALLERY The Iconic West Park City, UT – (435) 615-8748 www.mountaintrailsgalleries.com February 20 BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM For the Love of Art 2021 Cartersville, GA – (770) 387-1300 www.boothmuseum.org February 20 JACKSON HOLE ART AUCTION Wyoming Art Auction Jackson, WY – (866) 549-9278 www.jacksonholeartauction.com Through February 21 BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM Indians & Cowboys: Redefined by Duke & Woodard Cartersville, GA – (770) 387-1300 www.boothmuseum.org Through February 21 GILCREASE MUSEUM Landscapes on Fire: Paintings by Michael Scott Tulsa, OK – (918) 596-2700 www.gilcrease.org Through February 21 LEGACY GALLERY The Painted West Scottsdale, AZ – (480) 945-1113 www.legacygallery.com February 24-28 ONLINE American Indian…
February 20 Wyoming Art Auction Jackson, WY – (866) 549-9278 February 27-April 4 Masters of the American West Los Angeles, CA – (323) 667-2000 March 6-7 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market Phoenix, AZ – (602) 252-8840 March 17-20 Out West Art Show & Sale Great Falls, MT – (406) 899-2958 March 18-20 March in Montana Great Falls, MT – (208) 664-2091 March 26-27 Briscoe Museum’s Night of Artists San Antonio, TX – (210) 299-4499 March 26-May 9 Cowgirl Up! Art from the Other Half of the West Wickenburg, AZ – (928) 684-2272 Through March 19 C.M. Russell Museum Sealed-Bid Sale Great Falls, MT – (406) 727-8787 April 10 Scottsdale Art Auction Scottsdale, AZ – (480) 945-0225 May 30 Santa Fe Art Auction’s Art of the West Santa Fe,…
What event (gallery show, museum exhibit, etc.) in the next few months are you looking forward to, and why? The Denver Art Museum anticipates reopening its Gio Ponti-designed Martin Building in the late fall of 2021. This will include a reinstallation of all the permanent collection galleries, including the Western American art collection on the seventh floor. It will be an opportunity for audiences to see the collection like never before! What are you reading? For general reading, I have just started Barack Obama’s memoir A Promised Land. In the art realm, I have been reading Clyfford Still, a book edited by John P. O’Neill that accompanied the artist’s 1979 retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum. The latter is an interesting case of an artist allowing personal letters to shape the…
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired a major watercolor from Thomas Moran and is unveiling the work as part of the museum’s 60th anniversary celebrations in 2021. The work, painted around 1879 and titled Mount Superior, as viewed from Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, will be the centerpiece of the exhibition Thomas Moran’s Mount Superior, which will bring together photography, works on paper and popular culture from the period while documenting a rarely explored time of Moran’s career. The work itself is lightly painted, but shows imposing mountain forms, subtle detail in the surrounding valley and Moran’s delicate use of color. Thomas Moran’s Mount Superior will be joining other exhibitions in the Amon Carter’s year-long festivities, including Photography is Art and An Expanding…
