Western Art Collector February 2024/No. 198

Welcome to our February issue of Western Art Collector! In this issue, we bring you our State of the Art: California destination guide. California is an important part of the Cowboy West. In fact, the cowboy legacy and lore in California was at its peak between 1845 and 1925. These 70 years, which began with the California Gold Rush, have been immortalized through authors and artists who we know and love today. See Page 62 to start planning your own California adventures. We also have a feature by Gina Teichert who will take readers up to the Central Coast region of California, where Western art has a long history that continues still today. All of this is on top of our coverage of Masters of the American West at the…

Over on our podcast, the American Art Collective, co-host Maggie Cibik and I have started referring to Charles M. Russell as a “friend of the podcast,” the way a host would refer to a frequent guest or collaborator. Of course, Russell died 98 years ago, so he’s going to be an impossible guest to book. This all started as a joke. Every month Maggie interviews me—as well as Sarah Gianelli, who discusses the most recent issue of our sister publication, American Art Collector—to find out what’s coming up in the next issue of the magazine. We call these episodes First Looks, and they provide listeners a sneak peek of all the articles and features we have lined up for the magazine. Each episode, month after month, was filled with small…

FEBRUARY 10-MARCH 24: Masters of the American West AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST | Los Angeles, CA - (323) 667-2000 | www.theautry.org January JANUARY 15-MARCH 1 A.J. KOLLAR FINE PAINTINGS Charles M. Russell Seattle WA – (206) 323-2156 www.ajkollar.com JANUARY 27-JUNE 8 BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM Art is Meant to be Shared: Highlights of the Eddie Basha Collection Cartersville, GA – (770) 387-1300 www.boothmuseum.org JANUARY 30-FEBRUARY 10 ALTAMIRA FINE ART Jared Sanders: Painted Ground Scottsdale, AZ – (480) 949-1256 www.altamiraart.com February OPENS FEBRUARY 2 MARK SUBLETTE MEDICINE MAN GALLERY  Ed Mell Tucson, AZ – (520) 722-7798 www.medicinemangallery.com THROUGH FEBRUARY 4 COWBOY ARTS AND GEAR MUSEUM Cowboyology Elko, NV – (775) 389-1713 www.cowboyartsandgearmuseum.org THROUGH FEBRUARY 4 OJAI VALLEY MUSEUM Ojai Mystique Ojai, CA – (805) 640-1390 www.ojaivalleymuseum.org THROUGH FEBRUARY 4…

THROUGH MARCH 9 UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO ART MUSEUM Cottonwood Tassels: Gustave Baumann’s Prints, Proofs, and Process Albuquerque, NM – (505) 277-4001 www.artmuseum.unm.edu THROUGH APRIL SID RICHARDSON MUSEUM Charles M. Russell: Storyteller Across Media Fort Worth, TX – (817) 332-6554 www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org THROUGH APRIL 6 NORTHEASTERN NEVADA MUSEUM Shared Visions Elko, NV - (775) 738-3418 www.museumelko.org THROUGH APRIL 28, 2024 WESTERN SPIRIT: SCOTTSDALE’S MUSEUM OF THE WEST Decades: William Matthew Scottsdale, AZ – (480) 686-9539 www.scottsdalemuseumwest.org THROUGH MAY 5 NATIONAL COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM Italy’s Legendary Cowboys of the Maremma Oklahoma City, OK – (405) 478-2250 www.nationalcowboymuseum.org THROUGH JUNE 9 BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM Dorothea Lange & Pirkle Jones: Death of a Valley Cartersville, GA – (770) 387-1300 www.boothmuseum.org THROUGH JUNE 29 TUCSON DESERT ART MUSEUM Gold Fever: Glory and Greed…

MARCH 14-16, 2024 MARCH IN MONTANA Coeur d’Alene, ID – (208) 664-2091 MARCH 14-16, 2024 THE RUSSELL 7Great Falls, MT – (406) 727-1939 MARCH 14-16, 2024 OUT WEST ART SHOW & SALE Great Falls, MT – (406) 590-1961 MARCH 21, 2024 HERITAGE AUCTIONS’ ART OF THE WEST Dallas, TX – (877) 437-4824 MARCH 22-23, 2024 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM NIGHT OF ARTISTS San Antonio, TX – (210) 299-4499 MARCH 22-SEPT. 1, 2024 DESERT CABALLEROS COWGIRL UP! Wickenburg, AZ – (928) 684-2272 APRIL 10, 2024 BONHAMS’ MODERN NATIVE AMERICAN ART AND JEWELRY Los Angeles, CA – (323) 850-7500 APRIL 12-13, 2024 SCOTTSDALE ART AUCTION Scottsdale, AZ – (480) 945-0225 MAY 31-AUGUST 4, 2024 PRIX DE WEST Oklahoma City, OK – (405) 478-2250 MAY 2024 (DATES TBA) HINDMAN’S WESTERN & CONTEMPORARY NATIVE…

The February 2023 issue of Western Art Collector featured Kevin Chupik’s painting Continental Cowboy on the cover. Readers took immediate notice of the Texas-based painter. One of those readers was Seth Hopkins, the executive director of the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. “Credit where credit is due, I saw Kevin’s work on the cover of Western Art Collector. When I saw it, I was immediately taken by it and I was impressed at the cool contemporary Western imagery he was painting,” Hopkins says. “When I went to his website I was struck by the entire body of his work. I immediately reached out and asked about getting a piece for the Booth collection. Kevin was very nice, but he told me he had a long line of people who…