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 New Year! As New Year’s resolutions abound in our homes there is one we want you to keep this year. The team at Western Art Collector have vested interest in this. We invite you to Arizona. Not only is it a great place to visit in January for art lovers, cowboys, golfers, hikers and outdoor adventurers, it is our world headquarters. Yes, the magic of this magazine comes together every month right here in Scottsdale, Arizona. In this issue we roll out the red carpet for the Grand Canyon State with the 2025 edition of our popular State of the Art: Arizona destination guide, which starts on Page 60. Michael Clawson and his team have made it easy for you to accomplish your New Year’s resolutions in Arizona. We…
Choosing a cover for Western Art Collector is one of the joys of every magazine deadline. It’s an agonizing kind of joy, but one I look forward C to every month. The process is easier than you think: we have a folder on our system where any member of our editorial or design team can drop images that they think are candidates. As artwork arrives, the folder starts filling up. I’m bad about putting too many images in there. We consider every show, every artist and every artwork. Nothing is off the table. At the end of the month we mock up the candidates with our logo, and then our team talks through each one. It’s a spirited debate as each person makes the case for their favorite. We consider…
January 2025 Western Art Trail → Fresh Paint → SOLD! January 6-7 Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale CSU SPUR’S HYDRO BUILDING December December 14-March 2 Painting the Western Light: The Art of Tim Cox DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM Wickenburg, AZ – (928) 684-2272 www.westernmuseum.org January Ongoing A Fistful of Colors WESTERN SPIRIT: SCOTTSDALE’S MUSEUM OF THE WEST Scottsdale, AZ – (480) 686-9539 www.westernspirit.org Through January 1 Holiday Small Works and Miniatures Show LEGACY GALLERY Scottsdale, AZ – (480) 945-1113 www.legacygallery.com Through January 3 Jenna Von Benedikt: Moments & Memories GALLERY WILD Santa Fe, NM – (505) 467-8297 www.gallerywild.com Through January 6 Selling the Southwest MUSEUM OF NORTHERN ARIZONA Flagstaff, AZ – (928) 774-5213 musnaz.org January 24 Maynard Dixon’s 150thBirthday Celebration MAYNARD DIXON AND NATIVE AMERICAN ART MUSEUM January 6-7 Coors Western Art Exhibit &…
1 Western art crosses the Atlantic Ocean with Jack Browning Proving that the American West is a lifestyle that can't be contained by a border, Jack Browning is tearing it up in the United Kingdom, both as an aspiring artist and a professional musician. Largely self-taught and working with themes of “folklore, storytelling, history and ethnography,” Browning is in love with the American West and utilizes his unique perspective as an outsider to inform his compositions. His work has already found American collectors, especially after pieces were shown during a summer show at the Taos Art Museum. The artist is presently working on his first body of work for a United States audience. He’s also been mentored by several American artists, including Western painter Joshua LaRock. See more of his work—and…
Bulbous, occasionally ominous, gumdrop-shaped clouds. Molten pink mountains fleeing the day’s last light. Surreal, sculpted forms vibrating with energy perhaps best described with the words of Hunter S. Thompson: that moment “on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.” To call Taylor Crisp’s paintings simply trippy would do a disservice to the multitudes she packs within. Her day job in the film industry as a creative assistant imbues her work with a cinematic quality, but the Long Beach, California, artist does more than recreate tropes from the silver screen. Originally from Craig, Colorado—midway between Steamboat Springs and Highway 40’s dinosaur country—Crisp’s interests meander from history, ecology and mining to fantasy and science fiction. During the pandemic, she dabbled in Dune-themed ceramics and resin-cast creatures. The…
When Kate Hlavin, the curator at the Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale, started making calls about the 2025 edition of the popular Denver show, a question emerged from several artists: “Is this going to be a contemporary Western show or a traditional one?” Perplexed by the seemingly well-meaning inquiry, Hlavin was quick to whittle her answer down to one succinct point: “It’s going to be neither,” she says. “What is contemporary and what is traditional? It was driving me nuts. Contemporary to one person was not contemporary to another. Even ‘Western art’ itself can be a loaded term. To me it’s about place, people, landscape and lifestyle. It’s incorporating all of those themes into one show. It’s not contemporary or traditional. It’s the very best of Western art.” Hlavin…
