Western Art Collector August 2022/ No. 180

Welcome to the August issue of Western Art Collector! This month we are supporting our sister publication, Native American Art magazine, the official magazine for SWAIA’s Santa Fe Indian Market. The market is celebrating its 100th year and team Western Art Collector will be there August 20 and 21 to represent and participate in the festivities. There will be 800-plus Native American artist booths in the Santa Fe Plaza that expands throughout the city during this great celebration of art. Please see our coverage of the event beginning on Page 118. This issue of Western Art Collector also spotlights the C.M. Russell Museum’s annual auction, The Russell, which runs from August 18 to 21 in Great Falls, Montana, the same weekend as the Santa Fe Indian Market. Our feature, Modest…

You just can’t ever escape Charlie Russell. The cowboy Y artist influenced almost everything in Western art. The artists idolize him, the curators fill their walls with his work and collectors scramble for a Russell when it hits the market, which is why his pieces so regularly sell for six and seven figures. We’ve been recording episodes for our American Art Collective podcast and Russell comes up so frequently we’ve come to refer to him as a “friend of the podcast.” And he died 95 years ago! Russell is also the central figure of the C.M. Russell Museum and its annual event The Russell, which is previewed in this issue. The auction portion of the weekend usually gets some terrific works by Russell, and this year is no exception. As…

August AUGUST 1-SEPTEMBER 1 MARK SUBLETTE MEDICINE MAN GALLERY Mateo Romero Tucson, AZ – (520) 722-7798 www.medicinemangallery.com AUGUST 1-SEPTEMBER 2 TURNER FINE ART Where the West Begins: Yellowstone 150th Anniversary Invitational Jackson Hole, WY – (307)734-4444 www.turnerfineart.com AUGUST 5 PARSONS GALLERY OF THE WEST Big Summer Show Taos, NM – (575) 737-9200 www.parsonsart.com/parsonswest AUGUST 5-15 MANITOU GALLERIES  B.C. Nowling: Statements Santa Fe, NM – (505) 984-9859 www.manitougalleries.com AUGUST 5-31 SORREL SKY GALLERY Star Liana York: The Bosque Del Apache Santa Fe, NM – (505) 501-6555 www.sorrelsky.com AUGUST 5-31 MOCKINGBIRD GALLERY Western Traditions Bend, OR – (541) 388-2107 www.mockingbird-gallery.com AUGUST 6-7 LUJAN CENTER The Great Southwestern Antique & Vintage Show Albuquerque, NM – (505) 255-4054 www.gswevents.com AUGUST 6-SEPTEMBER 25 PHIPPEN MUSEUM Hold Your Horses! Exhibit and Sale Prescott, AZ – (928) 778-1385 www.phippenartmuseum.org THROUGH…

THROUGH SEPTEMBER 4 DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM Cowgirl Up! Art from the Other Half of the West Wickenburg, AZ – (928) 684-2272 www.westernmuseum.org THROUGH SEPTEMBER 5 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM Sons of Charlie Russell: The Cowboy Artists of America San Antonio, TX – (210) 299-4499 www.briscoemuseum.org THROUGH SEPTEMBER 12 CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Let’s Talk: Art of the West Bentonville, AR – (479) 367-7500 www.crystalbridges.org THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30 HIGH DESERT MUSEUM Art in the West Bend, OR – (541) 382-4754 www.highdesertmuseum.org THROUGH OCTOBER 3 MT. KEARSARGE INDIAN MUSEUM One Hundred Years of Hopi Katsinas Warner, OH – (603) 456-2600 www.indianmuseum.org THROUGH OCTOBER 16 THE BRYAN MUSEUM Of Birds and Texas: The Art of Stuart and Scott Gentling Galveston, TX – (409) 632-7685 www.thebryanmuseum.org THROUGH OCTOBER 23 NATIONAL COWBOY &…

SEPTEMBER 9-11, 2022 Quest for the West Indianapolis, IN – (317) 636-9378 SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 Western Visions Show + Sale Jackson, WY – (307) 733-5771 SEPTEMBER 16-17, 2022 Jackson Hole Art Auction Jackson, WY – (866) 549-9278 SEPTEMBER 19-24, 2022 Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale Cody, WY – (307) 587-5002 OCTOBER 8-9, 2022 Cherokee Art Market Santa Fe, NM– (877) 779-6977 OCTOBER 29, 2022 Lone Star Art Auction Dallas, TX – (469) 608-7600 NOVEMBER 2022 (DATE TBA) Cowboy Artists of America Show & Sale Fort Worth, TX – (817) 247-1200 NOVEMBER 2022 (DATE TBA) Christie’s American Art Sale New York, NY – (212) 636-2000 NOVEMBER 2022 (DATES TBA) Sotheby’s American Art Sale New York, NY – (212) 606-7000 NOVEMBER 1, 2022 Hindman’s Western & Contemporary Native American Art Sale Denver, CO…

Arizona painter and sculptor John Coleman will be unveiling his newest batch of work at a solo show opening October 8 at InSight Gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas. The still-untitled show will feature 10 new works from the prominent artist, whose last two shows in Scottsdale, Arizona, were huge milestones in the Western art market. The show will feature a mixture of paintings, drawings and new bronze works, including a sculpture of Crazy Horse. “The point for me is to have some balance among all the work, from drawing, painting and the sculptures,” Coleman says. “I also try to have a mixture of men, some women and then also some children as well. It provides that balance that I want.” For several of the larger works on paper, Coleman is not…