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.
Welcome to the July issue of Western Art Collector! This month our eye is on sculpture and its impact within Western art. It was just a few issues ago that Western Art Collector had its first sculpture on the cover. It was a bronze by John Coleman called Victory! Plenty Coups. You can hear John Coleman’s incredible story in Episode 31 of our podcast, the American Art Collective. His passion for his craft will inspire you. (Other sculptors on the show include Curt Mattson, Bryce Pettit, Dave LaMure Jr., Jeremy Bradshaw, Roxanne Swentzell, Ed Natiya and LaQuincey Reed.) Evidence suggests that sculpture predates paintings as the first type of art. Why is that important now? First, as a collector you should have both in your collection. Second, while we love…
In late May I was in New Mexico for Native Elements, a show we sponsored for its inaugural year. Although the show was in Santa Fe, I flew to Albuquerque and then planned on taking a shuttle up to Santa Fe, which is so walkable and friendly for pedestrians that I rarely rent a car. I landed in New Mexico with plenty of time to spare, so I did something I had been meaning to do for years: I took the Santa Fe Rail Runner for the 64-mile journey into Santa Fe. The train is not long—an engine and four double-decker passenger cars—and yet it made a statement with its roadrunner imagery painted on the side as it glided into the station in Albuquerque. Seated on the second level as…
July 26 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction GRAND SIERRA RESORT AND CASINO Reno, NV – (208) 772-9009 www.cdaartauction.com July July 2025 Broadmoor Art Experience THE BROADMOOR Colorado Springs, CO – (719) 577-5744 www.broadmoorgalleries.com July 1-15 Dennis Ziemienski: Under the Western Skies ALTAMIRA FINE ART Jackson Hole, WY – (307) 739-4700 www.altamiraart.com July 4-14 Patricia A. Griffin: Avante Garde GALLERY WILD Jackson Hole, WY – (307) 203-2322 www.gallerywild.com Through July 5 Tres Pintores ACOSTA STRONG FINE ART Santa Fe, NM – (505) 982-2795 www.acostastrong.com July 5-26 American Plains Artists: Signature Show & Sale PRAIRIE ARTS CENTER − IMPACT GALLERY North Platte, NE – www.americanplainsartists.com July 12-26 Summer Small Works MAXWELL ALEXANDER GALLERY Pasadena, CA – (213) 275-1060 www.maxwellalexandergallery.com July 5-August 2 Kyle Ma, 25 in 2025 WILCOX GALLERY Jackson Hole, WY –…
In April, the Bosque Arts Center announced the acquisition and installation of Bruce Greene’s bronze monument Goats in the Garden. The 1,200-pound piece now sits at the entrance to the center in Clifton, Texas, in Bosque County. Greene, who lives in Clifton, was on hand for the unveiling and installation. The monument was commissioned and donated to the center by Roland and Joyce Jones. It is a remake of a piece Greene did while serving as an artist in residence at the center early in his career. “I was dusting some of the sculptures off one day and I looked at the original Goats in Garden. I thought, ‘Hmm, wouldn’t that look good if it were 5 feet tall?’ So I called Bruce,” Joyce Jones relates. She told him, “She’d…
Other than actor Sean Connery, few people were as instrumental in defining the look, mannerism and suave style of secret agent James Bond than illustrator Robert McGinnis. The Ohio-born artist worked on the Bond franchise early in its development and it remained an important part of his studio and legacy, even as he turned to paperback book covers, nudes and, for a large segment of his career, paintings of the American West. McGinnis, whose career started in the 1950s and continued for more than seven decades, died March 10 at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut. He was 99 years old. McGinnis’ art journey began when he moved from Ohio to California to work for Disney, but World War II cut his time there short. He served as a Merchant Marine…
1 Tim Cox nocturne now available from his New Mexico studio New Mexico painter Tim Cox recently completed a major new work from his studio, Wishing on a Star, which shows a pair of riders admiring a shooting star lighting up across the silent night sky. Cox, an emeritus member of the Cowboy Artists of America, is one of the most respected names in realist cowboy art in the country. The artist’s wife, Suzie Cox, calls the piece “a serene painting capturing a brief moment in time. “I personally fell in love with this piece during its creation, with the unique ambiance of the Western night sky,” she says. “Tim has captured a time of day that has a magnificent beauty but is rarely portrayed.” To make inquiries about this work,…
