Western Art Collector March 2024/No. 199

Welcome to our March issue, which is issue No. 199! One issue away from No. 200 and we have some super cool design refreshes coming in the next issue, so stay tuned. March always launches us straight into the travel season. As I prepare to write about Western landscapes (it is the biggest section of the year), I am making a detour to talk about all of the destinations that Adolfo Castillo, executive editor Michael Clawson and myself are headed to in the coming months. The headline “Meet Your Favorite Western Artist This Month” is not in jest. If you would like to buy a piece from a paint-out, watch a quick-finish, attend an auction, see mermaids (well, they aren’t exactly Western but we will get there), or attend award-winning…

One of the last images we received for this issue was Morgan Weistling’s High Stakes, a painting he is sending to the Briscoe Western Art Museum for its Night of Artists exhibition this month. The painting shows a table surrounded by four gamblers, their faces illuminated in warm light from an oil lamp amid the cards and coins. A set of hands at the bottom of the painting reveals that we, the viewers, are the fifth gambler at the table. It’s hard to tell, but the cards he’s holding look mighty good. This painting reminds me a lot of making every issue of Western Art Collector. We send out artwork requests for all the shows we want to cover, and then we wait for images to get dealt into play.…

MARCH 22-MAY 5: Night of Artists BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | San Antonio, TX − (210) 299-4499 | www.briscoemuseum.org February FEBRUARY 10-29 MAXWELL ALEXANDER GALLERY George G. Redden Los Angeles, CA – (213) 275-1060 www.maxwellalexandergallery.com March MARCH 1-2 LEGACY GALLERY Western Horizons Scottsdale, AZ – (480) 945-1113 www.legacygallery.com MARCH 1-15 BLUE RAIN GALLERY Sean Diediker Durango, CO – (970) 232-2033 www.blueraingallery.com MARCH 1-23 MARK SUBLETTE MEDICINE MAN GALLERY Glenn Dean: From Dawn to Dusk Tucson, AZ – (520) 722-7798 www.medicinemangallery.com MARCH 1-JUNE 23 PHIPPEN MUSEUM Women Artists of the West’s 54th National Exhibition and Sale: Dreamweavers Prescott, AZ – (928) 778-1385 www.phippenartmuseum.org THROUGH MARCH 2 YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM 60th Anniversary Yellowstone Art Auction Billings, MT – (406) 256-6804 www.artmuseum.org MARCH 2-JULY 28 NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART Sagebrush and Solitude: Maynard…

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 13 STEAMBOAT ART MUSEUM Wild West: Wildlife Masters, Past and Present Steamboat Springs, CO – (970) 870-1755 www.steamboartartmuseum.org THROUGH APRIL 28 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 MAY 26 BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM Tony Foster: Watercolour Diaries from the Green River Cartersville, GA – (770) 387-1300 www.boothmuseum.org THROUGH JUNE 30 PHOENIX ART MUSEUM The Muse of New Mexico Phoenix, AZ – (602) 257-1880…

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 AMERICAN ART SALE Denver, CO – (312) 447-3271 JUNE 21-23, 2024 BRIAN LEBEL’S OLD WEST SHOW & AUCTION Santa Fe, NM – (877) 968-8880 JULY 19-21, 2024 TEHACHAPI ARTS COMMISSION ART 2023 SHOW Tehachapi, CA – (626) 945-3753 JULY 27, 2024 COEUR D’ALENE ART AUCTION Reno, NV – (208) 772-9009 JULY 2024 (DATES TBA) CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS WESTERN ART SHOW & SALE Cheyenne, WY – (307) 778-7290 AUGUST 17-18, 2024 SANTA FE INDIAN MARKET Santa Fe, NM – (505) 983-5220 SEPTEMBER…

In late 2023, the Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art in David City, Nebraska, received a major gift of 24 paintings by Gary Ernest Smith from the Overland Gallery of Minneapolis. A number of the paintings are now on display in the exhibition Gary Ernest Smith: Elemental Landscapes. The donation was made possible because of an expansion project and a $6.2 million funding campaign that will add new exhibition space at the museum. Bone Creek is renovating and renewing its Nebraska space into a state-of-the-art national venue. This renovation allows the museum to expand space for youth education, create more functional areas for displaying and preserving agrarian art, supply accessible community gathering and classroom spaces, and broaden art education for patrons of all ages. The new museum is expected to…