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.
August is here and Western Art Collector is in top form as the voice of galleries across the country. Every month we believe we have created the best issue and the next month we surpass our expectations. August is no different. In this issue, we have eight gallery previews of new shows by top artists. If you don’t know these artists yet, we hope you get to know them, admire them and collect their work. When you see art on our preview pages feel free to call the gallery about the piece right away. Galleries are a wealth of knowledge about the artists they represent. We have learned, in this competitive space of collecting, to never delay if you see a perfect painting for your collection. This month we also…
The best part about the Western art community is that it can feel both large and small all at once. It’s large because there is an infrastructure built around it, including many great galleries spread out all around the country, entire museums dedicated to this genre of art and even whole Western-focused cities—like Great Falls, Montana, featured in this issue! And yet, it feels small because it’s easy to know everyone and even easier to get pulled into a tight orbit around this close-knit community. I just returned from the Prix de West in Oklahoma City, and it was overwhelming how truly wonderful it was to be back in that museum for that show. And just to see friends again. It feels like things are returning to normal, just a…
JULY Through July 16 NATIONAL COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM Framework: Exploring the Artistic Process Oklahoma City, OK – (405) 478-2250 www.nationalcowboymuseum.org July 16-August 7 BLUE RAIN GALLERY Deladier Almeida Santa Fe, NM – (505) 954-9902 www.blueraingallery.com July 23-August 25 ASPEN BUILDERS COMMUNITY ACTIVITY CENTER TEHACHAPI ART SHOW & SALE Tehachapi, CA – (626) 945-3753 www.artstehachapi.org Through July 25 NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART A Fiery Light: Will Shuster’s New Mexico Santa Fe, NM – (505) 476-5072 www.nmartmuseum.org Through July 25 THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Karl Bodmer: North American Portraits New York, NY – (212) 570-3951 www.metmuseum.org July 29-October 16 HIGH DESERT MUSEUM Art in the West Bend, OR – (541) 382-4754 www.highdesertmuseum.org July 30-August 21 BLUE RAIN GALLERY Billy Schenck and Dennis Ziemienski Santa Fe, NM – (505)…
September 17-18: Jackson Hole Art Auction Jackson Hole, WY – (866) 549-9278 Howard Terpning, Vanishing Pony Tracks, oil on canvas, 60 x 40" Estimate: $700/1,000,000 July 23-August 26 Tehachapi Art Show & Sale Tehachapi, CA – (626) 945-3753 Through July 31 Trail of Tears Art Show & Sale Tahlequah, OK – (918) 456-7311 August 4 Bonhams’ Western Art Sale Los Angeles, CA – (323) 850-5220 Through August 15 Cheyenne Frontier Days Western Art Show & Sale Cheyenne, WY – (307) 778-7200 August 20-21 The Russell Great Falls, MT – (406) 727-8787 August 21-22 SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market Santa Fe, NM – (505) 983-5220 September 8-19 Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival Jackson, WY – (307) 733-3316 September 10-11 Quest for the West Indianapolis, IN – (317) 275-1341 September 17-18 Buffalo Bill Art…
When the Denver Art Museum opens its “renovated, reimagined and reinstalled” Martin Building in October, there will be several new works hanging amid the collection. One of them is a major work by Thomas Moran. The painting, a 1905 oil titled Indian Pueblo, Laguna, New Mexico, was acquired with funds from Denver resident Henry Roath. “…[Moran] is best known for his grandiose canvases of Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon. He first ventured west in 1871, joining an expedition lead by Ferdinand V. Hayden, director of the U.S. Geological Survey, to the then little-known Yellowstone region,” writes Thomas Brent Smith, director and curator of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art at the Denver museum. “Moran’s paintings, along with the photographs of the noted Denver photographer William Henry Jackson, revealed to…
The story of the West often is a story of outlaws. And the most famous outlaw was arguably Billy the Kid, whose life ended July 14, 1881, at Fort Sumner in New Mexico Territory. The gun that took his life, Pat Garrett’s single-action army revolver, will be offered to bidders on August 5 in Los Angeles during Bonhams’ auction The Early West: The Collection of Jim and Theresa Earle. Estimated at $2 million to $3 million, the .44-40-caliber gun—serial number: 55093—will lead a historic collection of Western items, including one of the most important and well-documented collection of firearms belonging to Western lawmen and outlaws. The grouping was assembled over the course of 40 years by Jim Earle, a beloved engineering professor at Texas A&M, and his wife, Theresa. The…
