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.
Happy Holidays and welcome to the December issue of Western Art Collector! Your emails and messages about events across the country tell the story behind the Western story. We know you love the art you collect and want more in this vast frontier of a market. We know because you tell us. Western art is more than just a painting hanging on a wall or a sculpture. It is an entire lifestyle born and bred on American soil. Your home can be Western, as can your furniture, jewelry, apparel, shoes and accessories. Even the type of car you drive can have a Western appeal. Why is all of this important? Because it is uniquely ours. Nowhere else in the world has this art, this culture and this lifestyle. These images…
If you go back a handful of years in Western Art Collector, you might find one of our old mottos: “Buy Art Early. Often.” We don’t use this much these days, but it still applies to everything we publish in these pages. If you like something, you have to buy it, or someone else will. The art market does not favor the slow, the wishy-washy or the fence sitters. It favors those who act quickly and decisively. Our old motto is especially meaningful when it comes to new, emerging and up-and-coming artists. These are the artists we like to find and help break into the art world. These are the artists who you get a lot of bang for your buck in the art market because their works are usually…
Western Art Trail Calendar OUR GUIDE TO SPECIAL EVENTS, SALES & AUCTIONS FROM COAST TO COAST December 2024 Dec. 14, 2024-May 4, 2025 Parallel Paths: The Art of Allan Houser & Harry Jackson BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM November November 15 Illustration Art Signature HERITAGE AUCTIONS Dallas, TX – (214)528-3500 www.ha.com November 24 Contemporary Western Art Show and Sale MOUNTAIN OYSTER CLUB/POND MANSION Tucson, AZ – (520) 623-3417 www.mountainoysterclub.com Through November 30 64th Annual Art and the Animal Exhibition SIOUX CITY PUBLIC MUSEUM Sioux City, IA – (712) 279-6174 www.siouxcitymuseum.org December Ongoing Crossing the Divide: American Art from the Permanent Collection BYU MUSEUM OF ART Provo, UT – (801) 422-8287 moa.byu.edu Dec. 2, 2024-Jan. 1, 2025 Mini Masterpieces GALLERY WILD Santa Fe, NM – (505) 467-8297 www.gallerywild.com Opens December 14 Joshua LaRock: Passage…
Through January 27, 2025 Knowing the West: Visual Legacies of the American West CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Bentonville, AR – (479) 418-5700 www.crystalbridges.org Through January 31, 2025 Selling the Southwest MUSEUM OF NORTHERN ARIZONA Flagstaff, AZ – (928) 774-5213 musnaz.org Through February 28, 2025 Vecinos y Amigos: Bert Geer Phillips and His Neighbors COUSE-SHARP HISTORIC SITE Taos, NM – (575) 751-0369 www.couse-sharp.org Through May 30, 2025 Elements of the Earth: Contemporary Native Sculpture SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN Santa Fe, NM – (505) 471-9103 www.santafebotanicalgarden.org Through June 8, 2025 The Horse in Art DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM Wickenburg, AZ - (928) 684-2272 www.westernmuseum.org…
Joslyn Art Museum Omaha, NE, (402) 342-3300, www.joslyn.org WAC What event (gallery show, museum exhibit, etc.) in the next few months are you looking forward to, and why? TBR I am planning the Omaha presentation of an exhibition that we have co-organized with two other institutions: All Aboard: The Railroad in American Art, 1840-1955. The show is travelling to the Shelburne Museum in Vermont and the Dixon Gallery in Tennessee before coming to us in February. Omaha has such a fruitful history with railroads, and I am excited that we can share a number of rail-themed works by significant American artists with the community. WAC Can you tell us about any recent acquisitions at the museum? TBR The Joslyn was closed for expansion and renovation between May 2022 and September…
Arizona sculptor Al Glann unveiled a new piece of art in a public ceremony on September 26 in Tucson, Arizona. The work, Wild Spirit, was acquired by Sculpture Tucson, the arts organization that hosts the annual Sculpture Tucson Festival Show & Sale. The work, done in Glann’s minimalist and iconic style, stands more than 9 feet tall. It sits on top of a 4-foot base on the southeast corner of Swan Road and the Rillito River on the Chuck Huckelberry Loop in Tucson. The artist calls the work “an expression of the spirit of nature and horses in action…I love to create a three-dimensional gestural drawing using steel and bronze, exaggerating form to convey movement and emotion,” says Glann, who adds that the piece showcases his ability in balancing form,…
