Western Art Collector September 2023/No. 193

Welcome to the September issue of Western Art Collector! This fall issue has our extremely popular Collector’s Focus: Wildlife Art section. John O’Hern, our Santa Fe editor, sheds light on the genre of wildlife art while also highlighting a number of great artists in the section. Michael Clawson also addresses wildlife art in his editor’s letter on Page 6. Adolfo and I love this particular issue and we both have wildlife art in our office collection. This issue is complemented by several wildlife shows you don’t want to miss, including the Artist for Conservation Festival, the Society of Animal Artists’ Art and the Animal exhibition and Western Visions at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. All of the artwork in these articles is available for purchase to grow your collections.…

Several years ago I found myself in a collector’s home that had magnificent views out over Texas Hill Country. On all the walls were wildlife paintings, and on pedestals, mantles and tables all over the house were wildlife bronzes—bison, bear, pronghorn, elk, many species of bird, moose, fish, and lots of little critters like rabbit, fox and squirrel. Being in Texas, I was curious why they didn’t have any cowboy artwork. The collectors surprised me with their answer: “We don’t know any cowboys, and we’ve never really been on a ranch or near cattle. But these animals in our home, we’ve seen every one of them. We seek them out wherever we go.” What they were telling me was something I have heard from many collectors of wildlife art: they…

SEPTEMBER 10-OCTOBER 8: Quest for the West EITELJORG MUSEUM | Indianapolis, IN | (317) 636-9378 | www.eiteljorg.org August AUGUST 26 HUDSON BARN Andrée Hudson Cherry Hills, CO – (303) 667-6638 www.andreehudsonart.com September SEPTEMBER 1-22 INSIGHT GALLERY Fall Group Show Fredericksburg, TX – (830) 997-9920 www.insightgallery.com SEPTEMBER 1-23 COEUR D’ALENE GALLERIES Miniatures by the Lake Coeur d’Alene, ID – (208) 667-7732 www.cdagalleries.com SEPTEMBER 1-30 MOUNTAIN TRAILS GALLERY Call of the Wildlife Sedona, AZ – (928) 282-3225 www.mountaintrailssedona.com SEPTEMBER 5-17 ALTAMIRA FINE ART Geoffrey Gersten: Silver Screens & Cowboy Dreams Jackson, WY – (307) 739-4700 www.altamiraart.com SEPTEMBER 6-17 VARIOUS LOCATIONS Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival Jackson, WY – (307) 733-3316 www.jacksonholechamber.com SEPTEMBER 8-9 MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART Annual Roundup Exhibition and Sale Kerrville, TX – (830) 896-2553 www.museumofwesternart.com SEPTEMBER 8-11 GALLERY WILD…

THROUGH OCTOBER 1 AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Avedon’s West Fort Worth, TX – (817) 738-1933 www.cartermuseum.org THROUGH OCTOBER 2 THE BRINTON MUSEUM Edward Borein in Brush & Ink Big Horn, WY – (307) 672-3173 www.thebrintonmuseum.org THROUGH OCTOBER 14 AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM America’s Horse in Art Show & Sale Amarillo, TX – (806) 376-5181 www.aqha.com THROUGH OCTOBER 15 BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM Barbara Van Cleve: Women of the West Cartersville, GA – (770) 387-1300 www.boothmuseum.org THROUGH OCTOBER 29  PHIPPEN MUSEUM Al Glann: Poetry in Motion Prescott, AZ – (928) 778-1385 www.phippenartmuseum.org THROUGH NOVEMBER 5  BONE CREEK MUSEUM OF AGRARIAN ART Erin Hanson: Color on the Vine David City, NE – (402) 367-4488 www.bonecreek.org THROUGH NOVEMBER 30  COUSE-SHARP HISTORIC SITE Aún Aquí: Spanish Colonial Contemporary…

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 4-5, 2023 COWBOY ARTISTS OF AMERICA SHOW & SALE Fort Worth, TX – (817) 247-1200 NOVEMBER 10-11, 2023 SANTA FE ART AUCTION’S ANNUAL SIGNATURE LIVE AUCTION Santa Fe, NM – (505) 954-5858 NOVEMBER 2023 (DATES TBA) CHRISTIE’S AMERICAN ART SALE New York, NY – (212) 636-2000 NOVEMBER 2023 (DATES TBA) SOTHEBY’S AMERICAN ART SALE New York, NY – (212) 606-7000 NOVEMBER 2023 (DATES TBA) SWAIA WINTER INDIAN MARKET Santa Fe, NM – (505) 983-5220 JANUARY 7, 2024 COORS WESTERN ART EXHIBIT & SALE Denver, CO – (303) 291-2567 JANUARY 2024 (DATES TBA) BRIAN LEBEL’S OLD WEST MESA Mesa, AZ – (480) 779-9378 JANUARY 2024 (DATES TBA)  PIWAA SYMPOSIUM…

The National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, has recently announced the acquisition of two pieces of wildlife art: Richard Friese’s Three Polar Bears and Bruno Liljefors’ Fox in Snow with Prey, both from around 1912. Both works are gifts from museum patrons Tim and Karen Hixon. “The Hixons are longtime supporters of the museum, and we are so pleased that Karen Hixon chose Fox in the Snow to come to us. Bruno Liljefors was the most influential Swedish wildlife painter of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, and he is known today as a part of the Big Four, which includes Wilhelm Kuhnert, Richard Friese and Carl Rungius,” says museum curator Tammi Hanawalt. “Liljefors’ style is quite unique, perhaps because he lived in Sweden, he painted with an…