Innholdsfortegnelse for July 2023/No. 191 i Western Art Collector

Welcome to the July issue of Western Art Collector! Be prepared as we launch you into our annual coverage of Western sculpture. We have brought together an amazing collection of features and sculpture pieces available for sale now. If you are not familiar with the process of fine art bronze casting we can assure you that you will be enlightened as you read through this issue. Sculpture art comes in many shapes, sizes and styles. Western art sculpture, in particular, is part of many collections from coast to coast. Why? Because there is a rich history in Western bronze work, whether it’s Frederic Remington’s The Broncho Buster from more than a century ago or Bill Nebeker’s Heading for a Hot Iron made recently. Western bronze reflects its place, its culture,…

THROUGH AUGUST 6 NATIONAL COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition & Sale Oklahoma City, OK – (405) 478-2250 www.nationalcowboymuseum.org 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 SEPTEMBER 4 NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART With the Grain Santa Fe, NM – (505) 476-5063 www.nmartmuseum.org THROUGH SEPTEMBER 17 THE JAMES MUSEUM Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art St. Petersburg, FL – (727) 892-4200 www.thejamesmuseum.org THROUGH OCTOBER 2 THE BRINTON MUSEUM Edward Borein in Brush & Ink Big Horn, WY – (307) 672-3173 www.thebrintonmuseum.org THROUGH OCTOBER 29 Phippen Museum Al Glann: Poetry in Motion Prescott, AZ – (928) 778-1385 www.phippenartmuseum.org…

Barbara Meikle Fine Art 236 Delgado Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505) 992-0400, info@meiklefineart.com www.meiklefineart.com Chris Navarro Navarro Gallery, Tlaquepaque Suite D103 Sedona, AZ 86336, www.chrisnavarro.com Chris Turri  Corrales, NM, (575) 430-7755 info@christurriart.com, www.christurriart.com Gallery MAR Carmel Dolores 5SW Ocean Avenue, Carmel, CA 93921 (831) 624-2000, www.gallerymarcarmel.com Gerald Peters Gallery 1005 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501 www.gpgallery.com Jim Stuckenberg Atascadero, CA, (805) 769-6226 www.jimstuckenberg.com Legacy Gallery  7178 Main Street, Scottsdale, AZ (480) 945-1113, www.legacygallery.com Manitou Galleries  123 W. Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505) 986-0440, www.manitougalleries.com Meyer Gallery 225 Canyon Road, #14, Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505) 983-1434, www.meyergalleries.com Oreland Joe 25 Road 6427, Kirtland, NM 87417 orelandjoe@gmail.com…

Wyoming embodies the cowboy culture and ranching life. From its deep roots in the trapping industry, to the iconic wilderness that surrounds the state, Wyoming is one of those places that just bleeds Western art and history. For some, it’s the majesty of Grand Teton or Yellowstone national parks. For others, it’s simply about the ranchers and the riders who have lived here for generations, carrying on the life’s work of their families. And for many, it’s all of those things combined. Take a trip to Jackson Hole in the fall for the widely loved Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival, taking place this year from September 6 to 17. And be sure to keep up with all of the happenings at Jackson Hole Art Auction as well. Dive into Western…

UPCOMING SHOW Up to 100 works July 15-29, 2023 Maxwell Alexander Gallery 406 W. Pico Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90015 (213) 275-1060 www.maxwellalexandergallery.com Maxwell Alexander Gallery in Los Angeles carries on a decade-long tradition with its Summer Small Works exhibition July 15 through 29. Some 100 paintings and sculptures will be shown in the online show and sale. Buying a small work is a way to begin a collection or to fill in a gap in a larger collection. It provides the opportunity to live with something by an artist you like before going on to buy something larger. In any event, it’s always better to acquire a small work of art of high quality than to purchase a large work of low quality. G. Russell Case’s 16-by-20-inch Clouds Over…

UPCOMING SHOW Up to 10 works July 14, 2023 Coeur d’Alene Galleries 213 Sherman Avenue Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814 (208) 667-7732 www.cdagalleries.com After a childhood of drawing and painting in Montana, Kenneth Yarus pursued formal education at the Grand Central Academy of Art in New York. Unfortunately, he quickly discovered that he wasn’t a city person. “The Met was my escape,” he says. “I’d go after work and school and go to the American Wing to look at paintings from Moran and Bierstadt. I’d stare at them for 20 minutes at a time and feel like I was back at home.” Soon, Yarus returned home to Montana, but those hours in the Met had given him a clear idea of what he wanted to paint. “I didn’t care if I…

UPCOMING SHOW Up to 12 works July 28-Aug. 6, 2023 King Galleries 130 Lincoln Avenue, Suite D Santa Fe, NM 87501 (480) 440-3912 www.kinggalleries.com For California-born, New Mexico-based Andrea Vargas, following paths of water is a means to access the past as much as the present. Her latest adventures, chronicled in Following Water, an upcoming show at King Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, have taken her from the Valles Caldera to Abiquiu and the Rio Chama studying rain clouds, rivers and the color-saturated high desert steppe. “I’ve really had a good time just following the Chama River, which goes from Abiquiu back to Santa Fe,” says Vargas. “It’s been my joy in this last year. It doesn’t matter what the weather is like. I just continue to trek up…

Art is many things bundled together: color, composition, form, line, texture, value, subject and much more. But for Dan Knepper, he’s especially drawn to one aspect. “Light itself was always a subject matter for me. I have always liked the mood of the slanting transitional light of early morning or late afternoon. It becomes an entity. It has a presence as it limns the peaks, illuminates foliage and fur, sets aspens aglow, and reflects off iridescent water or passes through to reveal trout above multi-colored stones,” he says. “I went to the mountains and I found my path. I stood awe-struck and realized this is what I want to paint…this feeling, this connection, this discovery, this moment in this place. I want to paint these last timeless wild places and…

On July 22, the Women Artists of the West will celebrate its 53rd national exhibition in Newton, Kansas. This region is often called America’s Heartland, which refers to its traditional way of life, its self-sufficiency and its abundance of farming. But like a heart in a chest, it also refers to the central location—Newton is not far from the geographic center of the United States, located in Lebanon, Kansas. “We’re right in the middle, right there in the Heartland of the country,” says Women Artists of the West event chair Joey Frisillo. “We strive to have every show in a different locale, but this one is going to be very fun because of where it is and what that means for everyone being right in the middle of everything.” This…

If you’ve read this magazine for even a small amount of time you know we like to talk about one aspect of our history—how art publications once solely focused on art reviews, not art previews. Our founding publisher, Vincent Miller, was adamant that the magazines—Western Art Collector and our sister publication American Art Collector, and later American Fine Art Magazine and Native American Art—be filled with as much artwork that was on the market and available for purchase as possible. It was a radical concept at the time. The idea was to give collectors opportunities to make art purchases, and that couldn’t happen with magazines full of artwork that had already sold from shows that took place weeks or months ago. This idea of “available artwork” is a philosophy that…

AUGUST 18-20, 2023 The Russell Great Falls, MT – (406) 727-1939 AUGUST 19-20, 2023 Santa Fe Indian Market Santa Fe, NM – (505) 983-5220 AUGUST 29-30, 2023 Hindman’s Laumeister Collection of Western & Wildlife Art Denver, CO – (303) 825-1855 SEPTEMBER 8-10, 2023  Quest for the West Indianapolis, IN – (317) 636-9378 SEPT. 9-OCT. 1, 2023 Western Visions Show + Sale Jackson, WY – (307) 733-5771 SEPTEMBER 16, 2023 Jackson Hole Art Auction Jackson, WY – (866) 549-9278 SEPTEMBER 22, 2023 Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale Cody, WY – (307) 587-5002 OCTOBER 14-15, 2023 Cherokee Art Market Tulsa, OK– (918) 384-6714 OCTOBER 28, 2023 Lone Star Art Auction Dallas, TX – (469) 608-7600 NOVEMBER 2023 (DATES TBA) Santa Fe Art Auction’s Annual Signature Live Auction Santa Fe, NM –…

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Art is seen as a solitary endeavor. Something artists toil away on in complete isolation. And when they emerge from the darkness of their studio, they are holding a completed artwork that is ready to be sent out into the world. Sculptors certainly can work this way, but if they ever want their clay artwork turned into a more permanent material—like, say, bronze—then they must enlist the help of other artists and artisans, sometimes a whole fleet of them, at one of the bronze art foundries that dot North America. Recently, Colorado sculptor Bryce Pettit invited us to visit his main bronze art foundry, Art City Bronze (formerly Baer Bronze Fine Art Foundry) in Springville, Utah. The biggest takeaway I had from the experience of watching his magnificent sculpture move…

UPCOMING SHOW Up to 12 works July 7-17, 2023 Manitou Galleries 123 W. Palace Avenue Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505) 986-0440 www.manitougalleries.com Whether it’s the light filtering through a cathedral-like aspen grove or a garden in a suburban backyard, Robert Moore sees the divine in the world around him. His forthcoming show at Manitou Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Nature’s Testimony, is a subtle way of paying tribute. “Hopefully I caught part of that—the essence of those landscapes and the beauty there—and communicated it to where somebody having a hard day can look at the painting and just have a little bit of relief and a little bit of peace drawn from the painting,” says Moore. “He is a pretty quiet and contemplative individual, and also very humble,” says…

UPCOMING SHOW Up to 11 works July 28-Sept. 23, 2023 Gerald Peters Gallery 1005 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, (505) 954-5700 www.gpgallery.com At the bottom of his enormous 55-by-86-inch watercolor, De Na Zin, Place of the Cranes, Bisti Badlands, New Mexico, Scott Kelley has written the following description of the scene: “De Na Zin is a 45,000-acre tract of arid wasteland of the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico. Depending on who you ask, De Na Zin translates to either ‘Place of the Cranes’ or ‘Standing Crane’ although looking out upon it today, one would be hard-pressed to imagine a crane—or anything else—wanting to be there. It is an alien landscape of incredible beauty whose sole virtue is that it offers nothing else in return.” His inscription goes on…

UPCOMING SHOW Up to 12 works August 18, 2023 J Watson Fine Art 36 E. Broadway, Jackson, WY 83001, (661) 476-7558 www.jwatsonfineart.com Nicholas Coleman jokes that he might have been born a little too late. “I love the American West and the history that comes along with it,” he says. Growing up in Utah, he learned to appreciate the landscape of the West—the fishing holes and the mountain views. “I still love Utah, but it’s getting bigger and bigger all the time, and all of those places that we used to go when I was growing up are disappearing,” he says. “They still exist, but you have to make a concerted effort to get out into it.” But his enthusiasm for the nature and history of the West are captured…

Chris Navarro is a national award-winning bronze artist renowned for his realism. It is not just the careful attention to detail that defines a Navarro sculpture, he also has an uncanny ability to tell a story. Each piece reveals a single moment yet comes wrapped in a larger narrative. Viewers are pulled into the scene, drawn by the fluidity of movement and the powerful momentum. The sculptures may be bronze but nothing about them feels motionless. The artist is from Casper, Wyoming, and is the owner of Navarro Gallery and Sculpture Garden in Sedona, Arizona. Navarro has been sculpting professionally since 1986, and is best known for his large public sculptures. His work is included in 12 museum collections and more than 35 monumental bronze sculptures placed throughout the country.…

Beginning July 14, the Art Renewal Center will host the 16th International ARC Salon Exhibition at Sotheby’s in New York City. The exhibition represents the largest competition in the world for contemporary representational art; the competition received more than 5,400 entries from 75 countries. On display in New York will be 95 works from the competition, including numerous pieces that are by Western artists, depict the American West or highlight themes from the West. Award winners from the competition include Michael Davis’ hunting-themed still life The First to Get There, Alexandra Klimas’ cloud and cattle painting Bill the Bull and His Cow, John Cogan’s Grand Canyon work September – Afternoon Turns to Evening and Rob Alexander’s Albert Bierstadt-inspired landscape The Borderlands. Western Art Collector sponsored this year’s competition and awarded the Western…

What event (gallery show, museum exhibit, etc.) in the next few months are you looking forward to, and why? I am tremendously excited for Philbrook’s next major exhibition, opening October 2023. Trade and Transformation, curated by the amazing Kalyn Fay Barnoski (Cherokee Nation enrollee, Muscogee Creek Descent), assistant curator of Native Art, examines how objects become embedded with cultural meaning by makers, and how as these objects are traded and travel they transform other cultures. The exhibition looks across time, bringing together Philbrook’s historical collections from around the globe—African, Asian, Indigenous—with works by contemporary superstars, including artists Nick Cave, Jeffrey Gibson, Mona Hatoum and Yinka Shonibare. Interesting exhibit, gallery opening or work of art you’ve seen recently. I was just in St. Louis for the opening of Counterpublic, a contemporary…

Humans have been sculpting for around 40,000 years. Commenting on a figure excavated in 2008, the Guinness Book of World Records notes, “Unlike previous carvings of likenesses of animals into bone and rock, this depiction of the voluptuous female form—known as the Venus of Hohle Fels—incorporates both biological accuracy and abstract form, meeting all the requirements for true art sculpture.” Biological accuracy and abstract form have animated sculpture ever since. In his marble sculpture The Rape of Proserpina, 1622, Gian Lorenzo Bernini carved the strong fingers of Pluto pressing into the thigh of Proserpina as if the marble were flesh itself. At the Art Gallery of Ontario, you can wander among a sea of large plaster and bronze maquettes for his abstractions of human form inspired by skulls and bones.…

Cheryl Koen (505) 819-9956, www.cherylkoenfineart.com Claggett/Rey Gallery 216 Main Street, Suite C-100, Edwards, CO 81632, www.claggettrey.com Gallery MAR 436 Main Street, Park City, Utah 84060 (435) 649-3001, www.gallerymar.com Leslie Levy Fine Art Scottsdale, AZ, (602) 952-2925 www.leslielevy.com Manitou Galleries 123 W. Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505) 986-0440, www.manitougalleries.com Maura Allen (415) 305-3149, www.mauraallen.com art@mauraallen.com Darcy Presiloski  www.darcypresiloski.com, dpresiloski@shaw.ca Sophy Brown  www.sophybrown.com…

UPCOMING SHOW Up to 20 works July 7-30, 2023 Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Avenue Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505) 501-6555 www.sorrelsky.com Sculptor Star LianaYork celebrates canines and cats in her upcoming show at Sorrel Sky Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The gallery will host a special VIP event and fashion show on horseback July 6, the night before the official exhibition opening. Inspired by the need in their own community, York, Sorrel Sky and collectors Dion and Charlie Messer are joining forces to raise funds for the Horseshoe Canyon Rescue Ranch in Northern New Mexico, which takes in animals of all shapes and sizes. “She’s just one of the most lovely human beings—beautiful inside and out,” Sorrel Sky owner Shanan Campbell says of York. “So generous. You…

UPCOMING SHOW Up to 20 works July 21-31, 2023 Gallery Wild 80 W. Broadway Jackson Hole, WY 83001 (307) 203-2322 www.gallerywild.com Caleb Meyer and Ron Russon explore color and place with Chromatic, their two-man show at Gallery Wild in Jackson, Wyoming. From Yellowstone wildlife to downtown Jackson bars, the artists riff off regional culture, exploring different takes on the area’s greatest hits. Raised in Hailey, Idaho, and now calling Missoula, Montana, home, Meyer knows mountain towns as a local. His paintings of landmarks like Million Dollar Cowboy Bar bring to mind good times—perhaps his collectors’ as much as his own. Meyer’s campfire paintings often come straight from life, gleaned from trips with family and friends. Russon, a Utah-based painter, explores wildlife themes within a framework of planning and chance. He…

Colt Idol, one of the fast-rising stars of Western art, grew up within a Western lifestyle in Montana, so his work is informed by not only his surroundings but also his memories. “My childhood was camping, hiking, hunting and fishing. East of the Rockies we would look for fossils and arrowheads, and west of the Rockies we would see abundant wildlife at the National Bison Range or near-perfect scenery in Glacier National Park,” Idol says. “When I began my art journey in my early 20s, I had an idea of what I wanted to paint, just not how I wanted to paint. I didn’t know immediately that color and light would become defining aspects of my work, and thus, my heart and soul. Now I see one of my main…

Devoted to the plein air tradition of landscape painting, Shaun Horne is inspired by one of the great painters of the 20th century. “I make long-form, large-scale (many session) plein air paintings in a manner taken directly from Rockwell Kent. My inspiration to paint has always been the direct conversation with nature and reality involved in painting what you see,” Horne says. “I look for beautiful landscape, and then paint it with sustained effort. I love letting nature lead me as a painter. The surprises inherent in sustained observation seem infinite.” New works include Whetstone 5th Season, showing a winding river and mountain peak; Red, Purple, Big Snow, a wintery barn scene; and Aspen Curves, showing gorgeous fall color alongside a dirt road. “Beyond my interaction with beautiful landscape views, my…

Tracing its origins back to 1981, the Cheyenne Frontier Days Invitational Western Art Show & Sale is one of the longest-running art shows in Western art. This year’s show, presented by the Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum and timed to coincide with the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo, will be the 42nd edition of the storied event. Events kick off on July 20 with an opening reception at the Wyoming governor’s residence, before heading over to the museum, both of which are in Cheyenne, Wyoming. July 20 also features the unique Jump-the-Gun event, which allows collectors to immediately purchase artwork prior to the normal fixed-price, by-draw sale. Skipping the normal channels comes at a premium price, though, which offers collectors a tantalizing choice: buying artwork at a higher price now…

In 1945, Pablo Picasso offered a lesson in abstraction with his image progression in The Bull, which showed 11 different renderings of his bovine subject, from somewhat realistic to a final drawing that showed his subject drawn with what amounts to seven lines. Western sculptor Al Glann appreciates that “less is more” approach to art, although rather than working in paint or pencil, he creates his art in metal. “I’m basically a three-dimensional gesture artist. The idea is put down the least amount of material as possible but still let people see the subject,” Glann says. “It’s definitely an additive process, and not so much taking away like normal [clay] sculpture. I start with the leg and just go from there. I used to teach anatomy, so I know the…

Western Art Collector magazine has changed the way artists, galleries and collectors connect. It has closed the gap that previously existed in the Western art market. On this page you can read just some of the spectacular feedback pouring into our office from coast to coast on sales and connections achieved. 1. Barbara Mauldin sells painting from the pages of the magazine Texas painter Barbara Mauldin advertised her painting Flower Power in the April issue of Western Art Collector. Once one of our readers received their copy of the issue, they were instantly captivated by the work and reached out to the artist. “The collector contacted me through my website the day he received the magazine!” Mauldin says. Congratulations to the new owner of this stunning painting. 2. Fritz Scholder…