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 the June issue of Western Art Collector! As collectors of Western art, we love not only the romanticism of the West but the brave acts of the pioneers on the landscaped prairies, the rodeos, the trail rides, the wildlife, the cowboys and even the mountain men of their time. Painting and sculpting these images, whether classical or modern, brings the spirit of the West to our homes. In this issue, Virginia and David Mullins give us a tour of their magnificent home. You will see stories of the West played out and curated beautifully through every room. Don’t miss this starting on Page 42. It is special! Every June issue Western Art Collector celebrates women artists. Their perspective on the West is intrinsic to their art. Their creativity…
As the only monthly Western art magazine in the country, Western Art Collector takes great pride in offering readers not only the best art available right now, but more of it. Each issue is supposed to be representative of the entire month, but there are months where I could fill an issue four times over—one issue per week. It’s a good problem to have. Take for instance, our Prix de West coverage in this issue. I could fill 30 pages with artwork from this year’s show, 40 if we include all the great stories that artists have been sending me about their pieces. I keep thinking about those old images of pack mules marching supplies down narrow trails into the Grand Canyon. As the string of mules shuffles down the…
JUNE 2-AUGUST 6: PRIX DE WEST INVITATIONAL ART EXHIBITION & SALE NATIONAL COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM | Oklahoma City, OK | (405) 478-2250 | www.nationalcowboymuseum.org May MAY 20-OCTOBER 22 BUFFALO BILL CENTER OF THE WEST Tony Foster: Watercolour Diaries from the Green River Cody, WY – (307) 587-4771 www.centerofthewest.org June JUNE 2-30 MOUNTAIN TRAILS GALLERY Summer Group Show Sedona, AZ – (928) 282-3225 www.mountaintrailssedona.com JUNE 3 NATIONAL RANCHING HERITAGE CENTER Summer Stampede WesternArt & Gear Show Lubbock, TX – (806) 742-0498 www.summerstampede.com JUNE 3-JANUARY 28 HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART Harwood Museum of ArtCentennial Celebration Taos, NM – (575) 758-9826 www.harwoodmuseum.org JUNE 3-NOVEMBER 30 COUSE-SHARP HISTORIC SITE Aún Aquí: Spanish Colonial Contemporary Taos, NM – (575) 751-0369 www.couse-sharp.org THROUGH JUNE 4 PHIPPEN ART MUSEUM Arizonarama: Artwork by R. G. Rodell Prescott,…
THROUGH JULY 8 MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART 40 Years of Western Art Kerrville, TX – (830) 896-2553 www.museumofwesternart.com THROUGH JULY 31 ANTHONY’S FINE ART Brad Teare—Western Journeys Salt Lake City, UT - (801) 328-2231 www.anthonysfineart.com THROUGH AUGUST 20 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART Survival of the Fittest: Envisioning Wildlife and Wilderness with Carl Rungius and his Contemporaries Jackson, WY - (307) 733-5771 www.wildlifeart.org THROUGH AUGUST 27 THE BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM Many Metals, Many Fires:Strauss, Ivy, Rogers Cartersville, GA – (770) 387-1300 www.boothmuseum.org THROUGH SEPTEMBER 4 NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART With the Grain Santa Fe, NM – (505) 476-5063 www.nmartmuseum.org THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART For the Love of Canines Jackson, WY – (307) 733-5771 www.wildlifeart.org THROUGH OCTOBER 1 AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Avedon’s…
Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum Wof the West will be the next stop for Vaqueros de la Cruz del Diablo, a major traveling exhibition for photographer Werner Segarra. The exhibition, which is coming from the Briscoe Western Art Museum, opens at the Arizona museum on June 19. Drawing from two decades’ worth of intimate observation of Northern Mexico’s famous vaqueros, the exhibition will highlight Segarra’s images as they shine light onto the realities of the working cowboys in Mexico. “La Cruz del Diablo, the Devil’s Cross, is a part of the landscape that frames the ordinary life of local vaqueros, revealing complex stories,” the museum notes. “The lens of this photographer interweaves families, traditions, cultures, beliefs and nature, always pointing to the texture of time and the joys and difficulties of…
In 2018, the University of New Mexico Art Museum unveiled Hindsight Insight, an exhibition meant to dig deeper into the museum’s permanent collection. The exhibition was a success. So much so that the museum is bringing back a sequel with a tweaked theme. It’s called Hindsight Insight 2.0: Portraits, Landscapes, and Abstraction from the UNM Art Museum and it’s open now in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Funded in part by a grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the exhibition is, the museum notes, “devoted to complicating existing narratives about racism, decolonization, and gender stereotypes within museum collections while de-centering curatorial authority and institutional voice.” Curator Mary Statzer says the “de-centering curatorial authority and institutional voice” part of that description is a way of saying the museum turned to students,…
