Western Art Collector September 2022/ No. 181

Welcome to the September issue of Western Art Collector! Holy Toledo, is this issue jam packed for collectors! As publishers, we anxiously wait to see the final page plan each month. Of course, we are working collaboratively all month to bring the issues together with thoughtful features, insightful special sections and amazing collectors focuses to accessorize around our gold standard of upcoming auctions and art gallery previews. This is the framework of Western Art Collector! This issue is special as it has some our annual coverage of our wildlife, Western Visions and our Visions of the Fall section. More than 24 pages have been dedicated to these features starting on Page 62. We have some very important art show previews inside that should be noted as the artists are amazing…

There is something very special about animals. So special it’s coded into our DNA when we’re born. My kids (and maybe yours too!) are a shining example of this. Our bedtime routine revolves around books. Every night we’ll pick two or three books and read them on the floor of their rooms. For many, many weeks, my three young children, two of them twins, would beg to read a book that had been brought down from dad’s shelf. It was Bob Kuhn’s Wild Harvest, which is essentially a picture book with brief descriptions from the great wildlife master about the animals he painted. They would delight in flipping through the pages and pointing out their favorite animals, or marvel at the stories that were unfolding in those cinematic images—the treed…

SEPTEMBER 9-OCTOBER 9: EITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART QUEST FOR THE WEST | Indianapolis, IN | (317) 636-9378 | www.eiteljorg.org September SEPTEMBER 1-20 INSIGHT GALLERY Fall Group Show Fredericksburg, TX – (830) 997-9920 www.insightgallery.com SEPTEMBER 2-30 MANTIOU GALLERIES Spiritual Surroundings Santa Fe, NM – (505) 986-0440 www.mantiougalleries.com SEPTEMBER 2-30 MOUNTAIN TRAILS GALLERY Animal Nature: Wild & Domestic Sedona, AZ – (928) 282-3225 www.mountaintrailssedona.com 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 SEPTEMBER 5-24 COEUR D’ALENE GALLERIES Miniatures by the Lake Coeur d’Alene, ID – (208) 667-7732 www.cdagalleries.com SEPTEMBER 7-18…

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 22 AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM America’s Horse in Art Show & Sale Amarillo, TX – (806) 376-5181 www.aqha.com THROUGH OCTOBER 23 NATIONAL COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM Colter’s Hell: Yellowstone National Park at 150 Oklahoma City, OK – (405) 478-2250 www.nationalcowboymuseum.org THROUGH NOVEMBER 6 DENVER ART MUSEUM Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer Denver, CO – (720) 865-5000 www.denverartmuseum.org THROUGH NOVEMBER 13 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART Above the Clouds: Art of the Alpine Jackson, WY – (307) 733-5771 www.wildlifeart.org THROUGH DECEMBER 31 NEW MEXICO…

OCTOBER 8-9, 2022 Cherokee Art Market Santa Fe, NM– (877) 779-6977 OCTOBER 28-29, 2022 Lone Star Art Auction Dallas, TX – (469) 608-7600 NOVEMBER 1, 2022 Hindman’s Western & Contemporary Native American Art Sale Denver, CO – (312) 447-3271 NOVEMBER 4-5, 2022 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 2022 (DATE TBA) Santa Fe Art Auction’s Annual Signature Live Auction Santa Fe, NM – (505) 954-5858 NOVEMBER 20-21, 2022 SWAIA Winter Indian Market Santa Fe, NM – (505) 983-5220 JANUARY 2023 (DATES TBA) Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale Denver, CO – (303) 291-2567 JANUARY…

Marking its 30th national exhibition, the Pastel Society of New Mexico is currently celebrating the medium of pastel at the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, New Mexico. The hybrid live and virtual show opened August 5 and continues through September 21. The live portion of the show will take place at the Taos musuem, while the virtual component will take place at www.pastelsnm.org. The live exhibition will feature 66 paintings and the virtual show will have those same 66 works, but also an additional 45 works only available on the website. The Pastel Society of New Mexico was founded in 1989 and has shown artwork all around New Mexico, even as artwork from the shows is dispersed around the country and world as more and more collectors participate in the…