Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2022/ No. 176 i Western Art Collector

Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932) began wintering and painting in California in 1902 and settled permanently in Santa Barbara in 1915. In their book, De Forest’s Santa Barbara, Frank Goss and Jeremy Tessmer of Sullivan Goss—An American Gallery, write, “What did de Forest find here in Santa Barbara? It seems that he found most of the better trappings of early 20th century civilization without all of the people. He also found a landscape that has since inspired legions of landscape painters and even more tourists.” The city was small but sophisticated. The landscape and the light continue to be unique—encompassing the sea, mountains and the desert—subjects that had attracted him when he lived in New York and on his peripatetic journeys in Europe and Asia. He had painted along the Nile,…

Mark Haworth describes his paintings as “detailed impressionism. My main thing is portraying light—especially that magic time in the late afternoon. Light has an emotion to it, the way it falls on the landscape.” Haworth calls Texas home. He grew up in Houston, lived in Fredericksburg in the middle of Texas Hill Country for 33 years and now lives in nearby Austin. But, it is the geography and light of the wilderness of Big Bend that really attracts him. “I love the light up there,” he says. Big Bend Unplugged, an exhibition of his most recent work, will be shown at InSight Gallery in Fredericksburg, April 1 through 22. Driving his sister’s car back from California in 1981 he saw a sign to Big Bend. He decided to make a…

George Catlin (1796-1872) was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and went west with General William Clark to explore Indian Territory. He eventually visited nearly 40 tribes and produced more than 500 paintings while assembling a large collection of artifacts. Many artists of the American West collected artifacts not only for their beauty but to assure the accuracy of the paintings they made in their studios. Catlin’s portraits even impressed the French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire when Catlin showed his “Indian Gallery” in Paris. “M. Catlin has captured the proud, free character and noble expression of these splendid fellows in a masterly way,” Baudelaire wrote. In 1844, he produced a portfolio of 25 hand-colored lithographs for Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio. The Heard Museum in Phoenix presents the lithographs in the…

Western landscape, sporting art, classic cowboy scenes and bronzes all performed strongly at Jackson Hole Art Auction’s Wyoming Art Auction February 18 and 19 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The two-session sale not only achieved $1.7 million in sales, but also saw an astonishing 99 percent sell-through rate across 317 lots. Not only were the sales figures high, but registration numbers also showed signs of strength with nearly 900 bidders registered on three online bidding platforms—Auction Mobility, Invaluable and Live Auctioneers. Additionally, 45 percent of the lots sold over the high estimates. The top lot was John Clymer’s Buffalo Run, a relatively smaller work by the artist measuring 10 by 20 inches, that sold for $276,000, nearly triple the high estimate of $100,000. Though the work was far away from Clymer’s…

When Michael Duchemin, president and CEO of the Briscoe Western Art Museum, started doing some initial research in the lead-up to a new exhibition on the Cowboy Artists of America, he found himself asking an important question: Does the CA have the legs to continue for another generation? That question and its answer are at the core of the new exhibition, The Sons of Charlie Russell: The Cowboy Artists of America, which opens May 27 at the museum in San Antonio, Texas. The roots of the show reside in Duchemin’s own involvement in the Briscoe’s Night of Artists event, which brings together Western artists of all stripes, from traditional cowboy and cattle painters to more contemporary genre-bending artists who explore the West through cubism, impressionism, regionalism and several otherisms, as well…

Jim Vogel has long been known for his narrative paintings of the lives, the lands and the stories of New Mexico. The figures in his artwork, often that of the working man, bear his unique style—large hands weathered by work, by time and by a life under the sun. The artist was born and raised in New Mexico, currently residing in the rural town of Dixon. Vogel describes the town, located between Española and Taos, as a place full of “piñon and juniper scrub, beautiful, arid, deserty, with lots of mesas.” He’s been there with his wife Christen for 23 years, and while the couple has moved numerous times, Vogel says, “Whenever we lived somewhere else, it was always in an effort to serve getting back home. “New Mexico is…

When thinking of Texas, we can’t help but think of the West. Without a doubt, the Lone Star State is chock full of those quintessential elements of the Western way of life, from dude ranches and desert lands to cowboys and cattle drivers. And the art world in Texas is booming, with dozens upon dozens of Western art events, galleries, museums and artists sprawled across the state. Hosted by the Bosque Arts Center, the 37th annual Bosque Art Classic takes place in Clifton, Texas, from September 11 to 24 with an opening sale, dinner and awards ceremony on September 10. The juried show and sale features an array of Western artwork in oil, acrylic, pastel, sculpture, drawings and water media. In San Antonio, Texas, collectors will find the Briscoe Western…

Horse Forms At a young age, Jill Soukup moved with her family from New York to Colorado. It was there in the Centennial State, known for its pristine landscapes and close link to nature, that young girl discovered the horse as an art subject. Decades later, the artist’s love for the horse has only increased. Soukup will have a new equine-themed show opening April 9 at Denver’s Gallery 1261, where she will unveil her newest horse paintings, including works inspired by her visits to two Colorado ranches. “I’ve been using reference from one particular group of ranches that I really enjoy visiting. They’re called Ranchlands, and they have the Medano-Zapata Ranch and the Chico Basin Ranch. They have both bison and cattle, and I never tire from those locations,” Soukup…

Claggett/Rey Gallery owner Bill Rey first met James Reynolds (1926-2010) in 1989 at a lunch with Joe Beeler in Sedona, Arizona. The gallery in Vail, Colorado, started representing Reynolds in 1992 until his passing in 2010. For the last 15 years of Reynolds’s life, his most productive period, Claggett/Rey represented about 85 to 90 percent of his market. They started having annual shows—sometimes they were one-man shows and sometimes paired up with artists such as Beeler and Herb Mignery. Some of the shows were pure landscape, and others included Western and wildlife paintings. “We gave Jim the freedom and encouragement to pursue landscape painting, which had always been the background for his Western subjects,” Rey says. “We always have a number of the finest paintings by James Reynolds in the…

For the first time, the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe has composed a permanent gallery space showcasing regional New Mexico artwork of the 20th century. It’s a continuous exhibition for those iconic Southwestern works by the Taos Society of Artists, Los Cinco Pintores, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gustave Baumann and many others. “There’s never been a time where people could come to the museum and know they’d be able to see the works representative of these movements,” says Christian Waguespack, curator of 20th-century art at the New Mexico Museum of Art. “We’ve been collecting art for over 100 years now at the New Mexico Museum of Art, and one of the things I really love about our collection…is that [it comes] almost entirely from contemporary artists who were living…

APRIL 8-9: SCOTTSDALE ART AUCTION Scottsdale Art Auction | Session I and II | Scottsdale, AZ | (480) 945-0225 | www.scottsdaleartauction.com March MARCH 24-31 KING GALLERIES Roseta Santiago: Messages and Messengers Scottsdale, AZ – (480) 481-0187 www.kinggalleries.com MARCH 25-SEPTEMBER 4 DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM Cowgirl Up! Art from the Other Half of the West Wickenburg, AZ – (928) 684-2272 www.westernmuseum.org April APRIL 1 HECHO A MANO Grand Opening of Second Location Santa Fe, NM – (505) 455-6882 www.hecho.gallery.com APRIL 1-22 INSIGHT GALLERY Mark Haworth Fredericksburg, TX – (830) 997-9920 www.insightgallery.com APRIL 1-MAY 2 MANITOU GALLERIES Young Guns Santa Fe, NM – (505) 986-0440 www.manitougalleries.com THROUGH APRIL 2 ED MELL GALLERY Ed Mell Phoenix, AZ – (602) 359-7333 www.edmellgallery.com THROUGH APRIL 2 STEAMBOAT ART MUSEUM Portrayals of the American West Steamboat…

1 CHLOÉ MARIE BURK BRINGS HER COLORFUL NEW WORK TO PARSONS GALLERY OF THE WEST Parsons Gallery of the West, based in Taos, New Mexico, has new work by French artist Chloé Marie Burk, whose expressive paintings call out to the rich history in and around Taos. Her paintings, often rendered in a modernist style with blocks of gem-like color, feature Native American figures and horses. The gallery also shows work by Jerry Jordan, Ron Rencher, Spike Ress, Nathanael Volckening and many others. For more information visit www.parsonsart.com/parsonswest. 2 INSIGHT GALLERY GETS NEW BATCH OF ROBERT PUMMILL PAINTINGS New Texas works by Robert Pummill, including the artist’s famous bluebonnet paintings, are now available at InSight Gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas. Pummill, who lives in Texas Hill Country, is famous for painting the…

Of all the Western art destinations in the country—from Scottsdale to Great Falls, Santa Fe to Jackson Hole—few are as universally treasured and historically hallowed as Taos, New Mexico. Home to the centuries-old Taos Pueblo and the Taos Society of Artists, which helped transformed Western art in just 12 short years, Taos is the bedrock that so much of Western art is built on. In Europe they say all roads lead to Rome. In the West, all trails lead to Taos. That is being made abundantly clear at the Couse-Sharp Historic Site, where La Luz de Taos is now on display. The exhibition features 39 of the top Western artists working today. Many of them will openly admit their careers were directly influenced by the work of Taos artists—including the…

Nearly 100 years after the first wagon trains headed West, Helen Lundeberg (1908-1999) painted her interpretation of the experience in a style known as postsurrealism in Pioneers of the West, 1934. The hopes and trials of the pioneers were echoed in the hopes and trials of a country in the midst of the great depression. Lundeberg worked for the Works Progress Administration, a program that employed artists to create art for public spaces. Her pioneers face the future and away from the viewer of the painting. The mountains represent the difficulties of their journey but dissolve into the light—the hope of a new beginning. The figures are monumental, as if possessed of limitless strength and resources. She and her husband, Lorser Feitelson (1898-1978), developed subjective classicism or postsurrealism as an…

Beginning April 1, Manitou Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, will acknowledge the new perspective of Western culture in art, while honoring what came before. The show, titled Young Guns, highlights how the “history of Western art is constantly evolving as young artists migrate onto the scene,” the gallery notes. The show provides a unique opportunity for viewers to see artists fresh to the Western art world, along with artists that are more seasoned, yet remain contemporary in nature. Artists featured include Curtis Wade, Campbell Dosch, Aaron Hazel and Chase Tafoya. Dosch is one of the newest artists to the scene with his bronze depictions of Native American figures, but one would never know with the skill and talent he’s bringing to the table. “I’m not very well known,” he…

The Plainsmen Gallery’s annual Wildlife & Western Visions gathers nearly 75 works of Western and wildlife paintings, drawings and sculpture. Among the 23 artists featured in this year’s event are Steven Lang, Nicholas Coleman, Jim Eppler, Grant Hacking, Hyrum Joe, Grant Redden, Suzie Seerey-Lester, Geoffrey Smith, Terry Smith, Trevor Swanson, Ed Takacs, Robert Tate, Ezra Tucker and more. Visions Of Great Mystery, an oil by David Yorke, is a powerful, entrancing scene of a Lakota chief bathed in deep, golden light. “[This piece] illustrates a Lakota chief preparing a ceremonial bison skull with painted symbols, representing various forces of nature. These supernatural images of earth and sky were associated with the Great Spirit and with rituals of prayer,” says Yorke. “I enjoy painting the interaction of light and shadow, and…

Born and raised in the California deserts near Palm Springs, Naomi Brown is a self-taught artist who has been painting Western landscapes for nearly two decades. Now living in Arizona, Brown has turned her attention to the sky for some of her recent works. “I am really enjoying painting skies lately, especially sunsets. I am having fun with saturated colors on my palette. Like deep blues and warm bright yellows,” she says. “I am trying to have a balance between realism and a contemporary approach with my landscapes. My skies are usually the main character of my painting. When I am painting in my skies, I want it to tell a story. I want it to seem familiar and calming to the viewer. I am trying to capture that romance…

The 2022 Scottsdale Art Auction takes place in Arizona, so naturally the state is a prominent subject among the lots. From Ed Mell’s iconic desert landscapes and Edgar Payne’s majestic scene of riders under towering clouds, to paintings from Thomas Moran and Howard Terpning, one of the Grand Canyon State’s most prominent living painters. And yet, even as Arizona plays an important role in this year’s sale, dig deeper in the auction’s lots and the work fans out all over the West: California images from Jeremy Lipking, New Mexico and pueblo scenes from the Taos Society of Artists, riveting Wyoming paintings from John Clymer and classic Texas scenes from G. Harvey. “It’s that diversity of material that we always look forward to every April here in Scottsdale,” says auction partner…