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 September issue! Like the rebirth of spring each year and the buds opening to set the stage for a beautiful blooming summer, so too has the Western art world opened for our collectors. Record sales are happening across the United States with no end in sight. Executive editor Michael Clawson just returned from the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction in Reno, Nevada, and witnessed Western art sales over $17.5 million. And then Adolfo and I just returned from the LA Art Show, where every single copy of Western Art Collector we had at the show was taken like it was a stock trading guide. Galleries at the show talked about the first six months of the year being their best months yet. We even saw Arnold Schwarzenegger get…
If you’ve followed the magazine for any length of time, you know that we like to mix things up here and we’ll take Western art wherever we can. A number of years ago we jumped whole heartedly into social media by bringing unique content—everything from artist interviews and studio visits to event coverage and real-time auction updates—right to our followers on Instagram and Facebook. We also used YouTube, where we posted comprehensive videos related to events, openings and artists. When collectors were looking for easier ways to shop, we introduced the Online Exhibition Spaces, allowing readers to make inquiries about art right from our homepage. And as more and more magazines offered interactive ways of reading digital magazines, we revamped our entire website to make flipping through the online version…
AUGUST August 18-September 2 MOUNTAIN TRAILS GALLERY Amy Lay: One Woman Show Jackson, WY – (307) 734-8150 www.mtntrails.net August 19-September 19 ANN KOROLOGOS GALLERY One West, Three Perspectives Basalt, CO – (970) 927-9668 August 21-30 ASTORIA FINE ART Jay Moore Jackson Hole, WY – (307) 733-4016 www.astoriafineart.com August 27-September 18 BLUE RAIN GALLERY Enduring West: Kathryn Stedham Santa Fe, NM – (505) 954-9902 www.blueraingallery.com August 28 HIGH DESERT MUSEUM High Desert Rendezvous Bend, OR – (541) 382-4754 www.highdesertmuseum.org Through August 28 MAXWELL ALEXANDER Group Show Los Angeles, CA – (213) 275-1060 www.maxwellalexander.com August 31 JOHN MORAN AUCTIONEERS Art of the American West Monrovia, CA – (626) 793-1833 www.johnmoran.com SEPTEMBER Ongoing Through September GERALD PETERS GALLERY Leon Loughridge Santa Fe, NM – (505) 954-5700 www.gallery.gpgallery.com September 1-24 FINDLAY ART LEAGUE GALLERY…
August 21-22 SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market Santa Fe, NM – (505) 983-5220 September 10-11 Quest for the West Indianapolis, IN – (317) 275-1341 September 17-18 Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale Cody, WY – (307) 587-5002 September 17-18 Jackson Hole Art Auction Jackson, WY – (866) 549-9278 October 9-10 Cherokee Art Market Online – (877) 779-6977 October 16-December 31 The Woolaroc Retrospective Exhibit & Sale Bartlesville, OK – (918) 336-0307 November 5-6 Cowboy Artists of America 55th Annual Sale & Exhibition Fort Worth, TX – cowboyartistsofamerica.com November 6 Santa Fe Art Auction’s Annual Signature Live Auction Santa Fe, NM – (505) 954-5858 November 2021 Small Works, Great Wonders Oklahoma City, OK – (405) 478-2250 December 2021 (Date TBA) SWAIA Winter Indian Market Santa Fe, NM – (505) 983-5220 January…
Now open at the Couse-Sharp Historic Site in Taos, New Mexico, is Glimpses of the Past: Historic New Mexico Prints, 1880-1950, a new exhibition that will highlight prints and other artwork, much of which has never been seen by the public. Artworks include a variety of techniques ranging from etching and lithography to woodblock printing, linocut, aquatint, serigraphy and monotype. More than 50 pieces will be in the exhibition, all of which comes from a single private collection. The works will be on view in the 1830s Luna Family Chapel, which was also Joseph Henry Sharp’s first painting studio in Taos. “The exhibition is stylistically diverse with examples of academic realism, regionalism, modernism and cubist-inspired abstraction,” says guest curator David Clemmer. “We’ve included work by artists who will be familiar…
Wildlife art enthusiasts will have two different opportunities, one on each side of the country, to view works from prominent wildlife artists. Both events are hosted by the Society of Animal Artists and both open in August. The first show, Art That Matters to the Planet, opens August 14 at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, New York. “Direct or indirect, subtle or confrontational, light-hearted or deadly serious, the featured artwork will help raise awareness, spark meaningful conversations and move people—hearts and minds—to protecting the plants and animals we love,” according to the museum. Artists in the exhibition include John Brennan, Rusty Frentner, Paul Rhymer, Derek Robertson, Aleta Rossi-Steward and others. It runs through October 25, and then travels to the Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum in Oradell, New York,…
