Las Vidas

Cebollas y Ajos
oil 24 x 30 $8,500

Scott Tallman Powers

A Solo Show | Saturday March 16, 2019

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1. CHARLES RUSSELL 10 ¼'' X 14'' WATERCOLOR ESTIMATE: $250,000 - 350,000 2. NICOLAI FECHIN 19'' X 31'' OIL ESTIMATE: $200,000 - 300,000
3. MARTIN GRELLE 36'' X 48'' OIL ESTIMATE: $100,000 - 150,000 4. KENNETH RILEY 36'' X 22'' OIL ESTIMATE: $60,000 - 90,000 5. LOGAN MAXWELL HAGEGE 40'' X 60'' OIL ESTIMATE: $50,000 - 75,000

A U C T I O N I N G O V E R 350 W O R K S O F I M P O R T A N T
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CHARLES M. RUSSELL
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Throwing a Diamond Hitch 1911
Pen and Ink on paper
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EDWARD BOREIN
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A Grim Discovery 1910
Pen and ink heightened with white on
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130 Robert Duncan 136 Gunnar Tryggmo 142 Equine grouping
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132 Mark Gibson 138 Three perspectives 144 Wildlife discovery

Shifting focus Works from three artists Works by 18 artists

134 Scott Tallman Powers 140 10 years of Texas

From snow to sage More than 40 new works

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 SPECIAL SECTIONS

Guide to Collecting Art 63

in Great Falls, Montana

Out West Art Show & Sale 92

Cowgirl Up! 96
Art from the Other Side of the West

State of the Art: Colorado 108

Collector’s Focus: Western Landscapes 118

FEATURES

78
The Russell: An Exhibition and Sale to
Ruby in the Rough
By John O’Hern
44
Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum Maynard Dixon: Into the Golden Dust 50
Great Falls, MT By Michael Clawson

Charles Fritz, Evening Glow, oil, 24 x 20” Estimate: $7,5/8,500 A.R. Mitchell: The Pulp Cowboy 58
By Michael Clawson

Andy & Charlie: 70

Two Artists Unite in Great Falls
By Michael Clawson

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162 Night of Artists Curating the West 38
San Antonio, TX
Recently Acquired 40
166 Southeastern Chuck Wagon Gathering Western Art Trail 42
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Artist Focus Pages 146-160

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 Western Art News
A Collector’s Passion
Ed Trumble, founder of the Leanin’ Tree museum and
greeting card company, passes away at 94.
E
d Trumble, the charismatic
Colorado businessman
who brought Western art to
the masses through his Leanin’
Tree greeting card company,
died December 26, 2018, in
Longmont, Colorado. He was 94.
The Nebraska-born
entrepreneur was born on a farm,
but after the Dust Bowl and the
Great Depression his family was
kicked off the land. With little
money to their names, the family
opened a boarding house. At the
outbreak of World War II, Trumble
joined the Army and later saw
fierce combat in Europe, including
in the Battle of the Bulge, during
which his division, outnumbered
and outgunned, fought back
German troops for four miserable
days near Hofen, Germany. In
the waning months of the war in
Europe, Trumble was injured by
a German artillery shell and sent
home to recover.
After the war he graduated with
a degree in business administration
and was recruited by Hallmark
Cards, though he declined the
offer. Later he would create the
Leanin’ Tree in 1964. It began
as a small, direct-mail Western
Christmas card business, but
would eventually become one of
America’s leading card companies,
which annually publishes more
than 700 artists on more than
6,000 cards and gift products.
During the early years of the
company, Trumble would search
for artists in many of the leading
Western galleries, which led to his
eventual support of many galleries,
artists and museums. By 1974 his
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Leanin’ Tree founder Ed Trumble with pieces from his famous art collection
before they were sold in a white-glove sale in 2018. This is the image that
appears on the cover of The Story of Leanin’ Tree: Art and Enterprise in the
American West.
own personal art collection was
vast, at which point he opened the
Leanin’ Tree Museum of Western
Art in Gunbarrel, Colorado. The
collection included major works
from James Reynolds, Kenneth
Riley, Fritz Scholder, Gerard Curtis
Delano and many others. The
museum was a must-see Western
destination for more than 40 years.
With Trumble’s advancing age, he
closed the museum in 2017.
“Western art has been my life’s
passion and mission. But all good
things must eventually come to an
end. The joy was in the journey…”
Trumble wrote to his supporters
The auction, held in January
2018 and organized by the
Scottsdale Art Auction, realized
$7.4 million and produced 37
artist world records, many of
them still standing today. It also
achieved a rare feat: a white glove
sale, an auction in which 100
percent of the items sell.
“One of the real highlights
of my career was to have the
opportunity, through the Scottsdale
Art Auction, to sell Ed’s collection.
Ed was a delight to work with.
He made the decision to sell
the collection because he didn’t
want it to be a burden to his
family—it was his passion and
he was sensitive to the fact that
maintaining a collection like that
takes a lot of time,” says Brad
Richardson, auction partner at
Scottsdale Art Auction. “What
was great about Ed was that he
was decisive. He knew how to
make a decision. He was also a
high-quality person, through and
through. I love the quote from his
when he announced the closure of
obituary: during the war he was
the museum in 2017. “The roots
injured and he told someone, ‘If
of my interest in the West were
I live through this war I will never
planted early and deep, in a young
complain about anything again.’
boy’s fertile imagination, as my
And he honored that because
family scrabbled for survival on a
I never heard him complain about
Depression- and drought-battered
anything.”
Nebraska farm. Riding my cow
In addition to being a
pony Sunny, with ol’ Buster, my
prominent figure in Western art,
dog darting to and fro alongside,
Trumble was also an avid powder
we—well, I—dreamt of leading
skier, scuba diver, sailor, fitness
great cattle drives, fightin’ off
advocate, supporter of Boy Scouts
determined varmints and rustlers,
of America and author. Though he
and pushing deep into steep, blue
closed the museum and sold off
valleys in pursuit of beaver, gold,
the art collection, the Leanin’ Tree
wealth, fame—the collective
card company is still run by his
dreams of youth.”
family today.
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• Every $100 spent at Wilcox Gallery through Dec. 31 gives you an entry to
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years of • 50th Anniversary painting will be a 50” x 50” Jim Wilcox landscape painting
• Or, send info@wilcoxgallery.com your favorite landscape photos with
50th Anniversary as the subject line. If Jim selects your photo(s) as refer-
ence material for the 50th Anniversary painting, you’ll get 10 entries.*
• Other gallery artists will paint new 50 cm x 50 cm artwork for the show

Kyle Ma 18” x 14” Oil “New York Sunset” Jim Wilcox 30”x40” Oil “Clear Waters of Taggart Lake”

Oscar Campos “Vuelo Sobre el Cerco” Don Weller “BJ at Puma Paw” Jim Daly “The Balancing Act”
12” x 16” Oil and Acrylic 16” x 22.5” Watercolor 12” x 9” Oil

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 Western Art News

Upward Progress
Construction continues on the massive North Building
renovation at the Denver Art Museum.

W
ith external
renovation nearly
complete on the
seven-story North Building at
the Denver Art Museum, work
turns to the interior, which will
likely take considerable time
considering the building’s size,
210,000 square feet. The Gio
Ponti-designed North Building,
which closed for renovation in
November 2017, will house new
and expanded art galleries and
will serve as the educational heart
of the museum’s campus. The
building was built in 1971 and
the renovation will retain many of
the Ponti’s designs, including the
perforated openings and concrete
façade.
The $150-million project
will also see the creation of the
Anna and John J. Sie Welcome Exterior view of the North Building, 2015. Photograph Aerial view rendering showing the North Building,
© James Florio. right, Welcome Center and Hamilton building.
Center, directly in front of the
Courtesy of Fentress Architects and Machado Silvetti.
North Building. The welcome
center was named after Anna take its inspiration from many of for Learning and Engagement, North Building—soon to be the
and John Sie pledged $12 million Ponti’s original Italian designs. the Design and Graphics Gallery, Martin Building—will unify the
to support its construction. That In addition to the welcome the Bonfils-Stanton Gallery for Denver Art Museum campus,
building, which will feature a center, the renovation and collection-based exhibitions, celebrate Gio Ponti’s iconic
glass rotunda with views around expansion will include new or the Western American Art design and ensure the building’s
the entire upper perimeter, will renovated spaces for the Center galleries on the seventh floor, relevance and stewardship for
and a conservation lab. Funding the next 50 years of its life,” says
for the renovation largely Christoph Heinrich, the Frederick
came from private supporters, and Jan Mayer Director of the
including museum chairman museum.
J. Landis Martin and his wife The project is slated for
Sharon Martin, who pledged $25 completion by the end of 2021,
million, the largest standalone which would mark the North
financial gift in the museum’s Building’s 50th anniversary.
history. When the North Building During construction, the
reopens it will be named the museum is still open in the
J. Landis and Sharon Martin famous Hamilton Building. For
Building in honor of their more information about the
contribution. project or the museum visit
New elevator core construction in the North Building tower, October 2018.
Courtesy Denver Art Museum. “The revitalization of the www.denverartmuseum.org.

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 Western Art News

Wooden Whimsies
Bob Wakefield’s forthcoming show at Dennis June Gallery highlights a
selection of newly finished carvings the artist has been working on for years.

A
n upcoming exhibition
at Dennis June Gallery
in Scottsdale, Arizona,
will showcase the latest body
of work by woodcarver Bob
Wakefield, whose hand-painted
highly illustrative scenes make a
playful splash in the Western art
world. Wakefield, who has a long
history with Dennis June Gallery
going all the way back to the
artist’s childhood, crafts a variety
of stylized wooden subjects,
including horses, cowboys,
prospectors and hunting dogs.
The exhibition, which runs
from March 7 to April 27, will
showcase up to 20 works, most
of which are sets comprising at
least two subjects. “It’s kind of
a selection of pieces I’ve been
working on over many years.
I don’t do one piece at a time— Bob Wakefield, Prospector & Burro, wood carving, 7 x 10 x 6"
I work on dozens at a time.
They’re mostly caricatures...
cowboys or Indians with dogs
or animals...they’re funny and
whimsical,” says Wakefield.
Among these are Saturday
Night Bath, in which a pajama-
clad cowboy gives his sullen
hound dog a bath in the
archetypal tin bucket;
Prospector & Burro,
featuring a gray-haired
prospector leading his
donkey companion; and
Saturday Night Dance, a
dynamic scene of a fiddler and
Bob Wakefield, Saturday Night Bath,
a woman dancing beside him. wood carving, 6½ x 8 x 8"
His newest work is Campfire
Stories, depicting a man jovially
reading from a storybook circled
around a campfire with his
Bob Wakefield, Campfire Stories,
two canines.
wood carving, 11 x 11 x 9"

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 Western Art News

Going Big
A Dean Cornwell mural study is back on display at
the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis.

I
t’s hard to think of Dean Cornwell’s
Americanization of California, now on
display at the Eiteljorg Museum of American
Indians and Western Art, as anything but a
finished masterpiece, but inspect the label
copy just a little and you’ll be surprised to see
one particular word: “study.”
The work, started in 1927 and finished
five years later in 1932, was a marvelous “first
draft” for Cornwell’s final mural of the same
name, a massive 40-by-40-foot canvas mural
at the Los Angeles Central Library. The mural is
flanked by two 12-by-19-foot mural panels in
a rotunda within the library’s halls.
The canvas study, which was acquired by
the Indianapolis museum in 1991 from the
museum’s founder, Harrison Eiteljorg, is now
one of several major highlights of the semi-
permanent exhibition Attitudes: The West in
American Art, which opened at the museum
in November 2018 after a lengthy renovation
of several museum galleries. Presented near
the work in the renovated gallery is a large
touchscreen that allows visitors to explore
aspects of the painting in an interactive way.
“…[V]isitors can pull up information about
each of the dozens of diverse figures depicted
in the Cornwell mural and consider the myths
portrayed in the painting versus the realities
of life in the West,” the museum says of the
display.
In January, Eiteljorg curator Johanna M.
Blume gave a public talk about the importance
of the work, which was originally titled The
Arrival of the White Women, a not-so-subtle
way of suggesting that California was properly
settled once upper-class white women arrived
from the East. Blume’s presentation was
recorded and can be viewed on the Eiteljorg’s
Facebook page.
In the video, Blume refers to one particular
gentlemen in top hats and numerous holding a baby inside a covered wagon.
female figure in the painting that is easy to
children—that Cornwell arranges in the This figure is referred to here, as well as in
miss amid the parade of people—trappers,
foreground. In the center of the painting, other paintings by other artists, as the “Prairie
explorers, Native American chiefs, cowboys,
shadowed and in the background, is a woman Madonna,” echoing imagery from the Italian

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 Dean Cornwell (1892-1960), Americanization of California, 1927-1932, oil on canvas.
Courtesy of the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis.

Renaissance and works by the Old Masters. women who paved the way and then the women and their role in settling in California.”
“What Cornwell is doing by putting her at upper-class women who came in later,” Blume Americanization of California is now on
the pinnacle is showing the progression, the says in the video. “By putting her in the middle display at the Eiteljorg Museum. For more
development of the West—from the pioneer he’s also putting an importance on pioneer information visit www.eiteljorg.org.

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 Curating the West
Each Month We Ask Leading Museum
Curators About What’s Going On In Their World.
Jennifer R. Henneman
Associate Curator, Petrie Institute of
Western American Art
Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
(720) 865-5000
www.denverartmuseum.org
What event (gallery show,
museum exhibit, etc.) in the
next few months are you
looking forward to, and why?
The North Building of the
Denver Art Museum is currently
undergoing a significant
renovation project that will
enhance the Gio Ponti-designed
building’s galleries. In preparation
for the reinstallation of the Petrie
Institute of Western American Art’s
collection, I am looking forward
to visiting a number of institutions
around the country to study
how they are interpreting their
historic American collections for
Buildout of the new welcome center structure near the North Building, November 2018.
Photo courtesy Denver Art Museum.
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contemporary audiences. There
are lively conversations happening
in the curatorial world about how
we can make historic collections
more accessible, more relevant
to now, and more diverse. It is an
exciting and challenging time to
be part of a permanent collection
reinstallation, and I am looking
forward to learning from the
dynamic exhibitions and programs
offered by my peers.
What are you reading?
I am reading Richard V.
Francaviglia’s Go East, Young Man:
Imagining the American West as
the Orient (2011) and Emily C.
Burns’ Transnational Frontiers:
The American West in France
(2018). The former considers how
aspects of the Old (and ancient)
World were applied to the West,
while the latter considers the West
imbedded among the Francophone
Old World around the turn of the
20th century. Both explode the
notion that the American West was
ever-neatly contained or produced
within a cultural vacuum, even if
it has sometimes been packaged
that way.
Interesting exhibit, gallery
opening or work of art
you’ve seen recently.
If I may expand this to include
“most interesting presentation on a
work of art and exhibition,” I would
mention the presentation curator
Joanna Gilmour from Australia’s
National Portrait Gallery gave
at the Petrie Institute of Western
American Art’s recent annual
View of the North Building from
welcome center lower level,
November 2018. Photo courtesy
Denver Art Museum.
symposium. Joanna focused on
the exhibition and interpretation of
19th century portraits of Aboriginal
men and women and white settler
families, which present the dual
challenge of considering not only
a colonial history but also a penal
colony past. Her desire to honor
sitters by providing them voice and
space resonated deeply with me
as I consider similar challenges
regarding 19th century art of the
American West.
What is your dream
exhibit to curate? Or see
someone else curate?
Inspired by the DAM’s current
exhibition Dior: From Paris to
the World, I would love to see a
major fashion and art exhibition
on the history and influence
of Western wear. It could start
with the arrival of the Spanish
500 years ago and consider the
gauchos and llaneros of South
America and Mexican vaqueros.
Nineteenth-century ranch hands
and performance cowgirls could
bridge the gap into the 20th
century, during which time waves
of Western fashion made it into
Hollywood and haute couture.
It would be a beautiful show
that could reveal the close links
between fashion, art and utility,
as well as between clothing and
socio-cultural context.
 Karen Boylan

“Rounding Up the Renegades”, oil, 24 x 36”

“Anticipation”, oil, 14 x 18” “Painted Sky”, oil, 14 x 18”

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 Recently Acquired

National Museum of
Wildlife Art: Gillie and Marc
I
n the summer of 2018, the National
Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson
Hole, Wyoming, held its annual
Collectors Circle event, which asks
Collectors Circle members to vote on
artworks to add to the museum’s permanent
collection. The artworks are first vetted by
museum curators and usually represent a
range of styles, mediums and artists.
Works acquired following the
2018 Collectors Circle include Lion, a
charcoal work on paper by Nicola Hicks;
American Elk (Wyoming) and Yellowstone
Composition #2 by James Prosek; and Time
Traveler by Clyde Aspevig. Another new
acquisition is Gillie and Marc’s 79-inch-
tall bronze The Last Three, which depicts
the last three northern white rhinos in
existence. Since the debut of the work in
2018, one of the rhinos, Sudan, the last
male, has passed away leaving only two
remaining for the entire species. Sudan is
shown as the bottom rhino, underneath his
daughter Najiin and granddaughter Fatu.
The artists, Australian collaborative artists
Gillie and Marc Schattner, who married
after meeting on a film set, created The Last
Three to raise awareness of poaching. It
was inspired after a trip to Kenya. A 22-foot
tall version of the sculpture is now on
public display in Astor Place near the East
Village in New York City.
In addition to the acquired artworks,
the Collectors Circle members also fully
funded the conservation of Henry Merwin
Shrady’s bronze Bull Moose.
Since 1998, the Collectors Circle has
helped the museum acquire more than
100 works of art. This year’s acquisitions
are now on view at the Wyoming museum.

Calling all Western Art museums! Have a

recently acquired painting or sculpture? Email
the details to editor@westernartcollector.com.

Gillie and Marc, The Last Three, 2018, bronze. 79 x 79 x 37 in. Gift of the 2018 Collectors Circle,
National Museum of Wildlife Art. © Gillie and Marc.

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 Western Art Trail Calendar

Our guide to special events, sales

& auctions from coast to coast

MARCH
March 1-22
INSIGHT GALLERY
10th Annual Texas Masters Show
Fredericksburg, TX – (830) 997-9920
www.insightgallery.com

March 2-3
HEARD MUSEUM
61st Annual Heard Museum
Guild Indian Fair & Market
Phoenix, AZ – (602) 252-8840
www.heard.org

March 2-July 31
PHIPPEN MUSEUM
Desert Horizons
Prescott, AZ – (928) 778-1385
www.phippenartmuseum.org

March 4-16
TRAILSIDE GALLERIES
Robert Duncan:
Beauty in the Journey
Jackson, WY – (480) 945-7751
www.trailsidegalleries.com

March 8-April 30
MARK SUBLETTE MEDICINE MAN GALLERY
Along the Distant Mesa:
An Homage to Maynard Dixon
Tucson, AZ – (800) 422-9382
www.medicinemangallery.com

March 9-30
MAXWELL ALEXANDER GALLERY
Howard Post, Gary Ernest
Smith & Bryan Haynes
Los Angeles, CA – (213) 275-1060
www.maxwellalexandergallery.com

Through March 10 Charles M. Russell (1864-1926), Stone-in-Moccasin Woman, 1887, oil on board, 9¼ x 9" Estimate: $70/100,000

DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM March 21-23: The Russell: An Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum
John Coleman: Bronze and Beyond C.M. RUSSELL MUSEUM | Great Falls, MT | (406) 727-8787 | www.cmrussell.org
Wickenburg, AZ – (928) 684-2272
www.westernmuseum.org

Through March 10 March 15-22 March 17-April 28 March 20-23

DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM MOUNTAIN TRAILS GALLERY DENNIS JUNE GALLERY BITTERROOT FRAMES
Wagons West Mark Gibson 2019 Winter Show Bob Wakefield Montana Miniatures
Wickenburg, AZ – (928) 684-2272 Park City, UT – (435) 615-8748 Scottsdale, AZ – (480) 500-1000 Victor, MT – (406) 363-7693
www.westernmuseum.org www.mountaintrailsgalleries.com www.nativeartbrokerage.com www.bitterrootframes.com

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 TOP WESTERN EVENTS AND
March 20-23
AUCTIONS AT A GLANCE
HERITAGE INN
APRIL
Out West Art Show & Sale March 1-31 May 29
April 1-20
Great Falls, MT – (406) 899-2958 Altermann Galleries & Leslie Hindman Auctioneers’
INSIGHT GALLERY Arts of the American West
www.outwestartshow.net Auctioneers March Online Sale
Mary Ross Buchholz, Oreland Joe Online – (307) 75303316 Denver, CO – (303) 825-1855
March 21-23 & Gladys Roldan-de-Moras
BOOTH MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART Fredericksburg, TX – (830) 997-9920 March 6 May 2019 (Date TBA)
16th Annual Southeastern www.insightgallery.com Sotheby’s American Art Auction Christie’s American Art Auction
New York, NY – (212) 606-7000 New York, NY – (212) 636-2000
Cowboy Gathering April 11-13
Cartersville, GA – (770) 387-1300
www.boothmuseum.org MUSEUM OF THE BIG BEND Through March 24 May 2019 (Date TBA)
33rd Annual Trappings of Texas Masters of the American West Sotheby’s American Art Auction
March 21-23 Los Angeles, CA – (323) 667-2000 New York, NY – (212) 606-7000
Alpine, TX – (432) 837-8730
www.museumofthebigbend.com
C.M. RUSSELL MUSEUM May 2019 (Date TBA)
March 2-3
The Russell Skull Society of Artists Suites Through April 28 Bonhams’ American Art Auction
Great Falls, MT – (406) 727-8787, www.cmrussell.org
Heard Museum Guild
New York, NY – (212) 710-1307
BOOTH MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART Indian Fair & Market
March 21-23 Mood and Tone: Phoenix, AZ – (602) 252-8840 June 7-Aug. 11
GREAT FALLS ELKS LODGE The Art of T. Allen Lawson Prix de West
Cartersville, GA – (770) 387-1300 March 20-23
March in Montana www.boothmuseum.org Out West Art Show & Sale
Oklahoma City, OK – (405) 478-2250
Great Falls, MT – (307) 635-0019
Great Falls, MT – (406) 899-2958 June 22-23
www.marchinmontana.com
April 30 Brian Lebel’s Old West Show & Auction
Through March 24 PLAINSMEN GALLERY March 21-23
Santa Fe, NM – (480) 779-9378
Wildlife & Western Visions March in Montana
Arizona Fine Art EXPO Great Falls, MT – (307) 635-0019 July 27 2019
Dunedin, FL – (727) 734-8200
Scottsdale, AZ – (480) 837-7163
www.arizonafineartexpo.com
www.wildlifeartshow.com Coeur d’Alene Art Auction
March 21-23 Reno, NV – (208) 772-9009
Through March 24
The Russell: An Exhibition and Sale
ARIZONA FINE ART EXPO MAY to Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum
Great Falls, MT – (406) 727-8787
Aug. 16-25
Santa Fe Art Auction’s Western
Craig Bergsgaard at Decorative Arts & Objects
Arizona Fine Art Expo May 1-June 2 March 29-30 Online – (505) 954-5858
Scottsdale, AZ – (480) 837-7163 PHIPPEN MUSEUM Briscoe Museum’s Night
www.arizonafineartexpo.com Miniature Masterpiece Show & Sale Aug. 17-18
of Artists Sale
Prescott, AZ – (928) 778-1385 San Antonio, TX – (210) 299-4499 SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market
Through March 24 www.phippenartmuseum.org Santa Fe, NM – (505) 983-5220
Celebration of Fine Art March 29-31
May 4 Aug. 2019 (Date TBA)
Scottsdale, AZ – (480) 443-7695, www.celebrateart.com Cattlemen’s Western Art
SETTLERS WEST Show and Sale Altermann Galleries &
Through March 24 Summer Show Paso Robles, CA – (805) 472-9100 Auctioneers August Sale
Tucson, AZ – (520) 299-2607 Santa Fe, NM – (307) 75303316
THE AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST www.settlerswest.com March 29-May 12
Masters of the American West Sept. 4-15
Los Angeles, CA – (323) 667-2000, www.theautry.org
Cowgirl Up! Art from the
May 18-September 29 Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival
Other Half of the West
TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART Jackson, WY – (307) 733-3316
March 29-30 Wickenburg, AZ – (928) 684-2272
Travelogue: Grand Destinations
BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM Sept. 13-14
and Personal Journeys April 6
Night of Artists Exhibition and Sale Jackson Hole Art Auction
Tucson, AZ – (520) 624-2333 Scottsdale Art Auction Jackson, WY – (866) 549-9278
San Antonio, TX – (210) 299-4499 www.tucsonmuseumofart.com Scottsdale, AZ – (480) 945-0225
www.briscoemuseum.org
Sept. 8-Oct. 6
March 29-May 12 April 11-13
Quest for the West
33rd Annual Trappings of Texas Indianapolis, IN – (317) 636-8119
DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM Alpine, TX – (432) 837-8730
Cowgirl Up! Art from the Sept. 2019 (Date TBA)
Other Half of the West April 16 Western Visions
Wickenburg, AZ – (928) 684-2272 Bonhams’ California and Western
www.westernmuseum.org Jackson, WY – (800) 313-9553
Paintings and Sculpture
In every issue of Western Art Collector, we Los Angeles, CA – (323) 850-7500 Oct. 18-19
will publish the only reliable guide to all
major upcoming sales, events and auctions The Woolaroc Retrospective
nationwide. Contact Alyssa Tidwell at May 3 Exhibit & Sale
atidwell@westernartcollector.com to
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Heritage Auctions’ American Art Auction Bartlesville, OK – (918) 336-0307
in this calendar. Dallas, TX – (877) 437-4824 www.woolaroc.org

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 RUBY Gorgeous water

in the ROUGH
views from a
collector’s home in
Bainbridge Island,
Washington.

Art and photography come together in one stunning collection

on Bainbridge Island, Washington.
By John O’Hern Photography by Francis Smith

W hen our collectors married in 2010, she

thought his house was “a little too much
him.” The first thing of hers to arrive was
a 110-year-old Steinway her parents gave her on her 10th
birthday. Since then, they have collaborated on building
a collection of art that might have surprised both of them
when they first got together. His rods, reels and trophy
heads, and his Native American artifacts, now live
harmoniously with American impressionist paintings and
the complete set of 20 volumes and 20 photogravure
portfolios of Edward S. Curtis’ The North American
Indian, 1907 to 1930. “We both have to like something
a lot,” she says. “Sometimes he’ll ask, ‘Do you mind if
I go for this?’ The majority of the work we both really like.”
Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) moved to the Pacific
Northwest in 1887 where he became acquainted with
the Native population. His first Indian portrait was of
Chief Seattle’s daughter, Princess Angeline. “I paid the
princess a dollar for each picture I made,” Curtis recalled
many years later. “This seemed to please her greatly, and
she indicated that she preferred to spend her time having
pictures taken to digging clams.” His interest in making
portraits expanded.
The collector explains, “Curtis rescued a group of
naturalists who were climbing Mount Rainier, one of
whom was Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the U.S. Division of
Forestry. Pinchot introduced him to Teddy Roosevelt, who
Opposite page: Above the
beam in the dining room
are, left to right, Young
Lady at Evening Tea, circa
1907, by Richard Emil
wrote the introduction to the first volume and encouraged Miller (1875-1943), and
Poplars Along the Seine,
J.P. Morgan to underwrite Curtis’s passion.
1904, by Theodore Earl
“I first saw his photogravures at my grandmother’s Butler (1861-1936). To
house in Maine. But they were later stolen,” the collector the right of the fireplace
continues. “Granny Merrill was big on Indians and Indian is Russell Chatham’s
Montana Landscape, 1985.
lore. She and I would hunt for arrowheads along the Above the table in the
brook in the church woods. We had serious discussions hallway is Rocks Along
about whether a particular rock had been ‘worked,’ and, the New England Coast,
1871, by Francis Augustus
if so, for what purpose—perhaps a knife or a hide scraper. Silva (1835-1886). Above
Or perhaps just a chip from an apprentice fletcher who the tiger maple chest is
had not yet attained the skill to make something that an Coming Home, a scene of
Alaska by Eustace Paul
elderly woman and a small boy could identify as a lethal
Ziegler (1881-1969).
weapon. After I moved West, I would occasionally send
her points of jasper and obsidian, jewels in comparison
to the workings we collected by her stream. They would
all be placed in a glass topped curio table, to be visited
and discussed whenever I was East.
“I’ve always fantasized that she was one of the original
subscribers to Curtis’s portfolios, but I haven’t been able to

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 The couple created a library for the complete 20-volume set and 20 photogravure portfolios of The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis
(1868-1952). The three copper plates were used to print the photogravures in the bound volumes. The framed works are, left to right, Lawyer,
Nez Perce, 1905; Nez Perce Warrior, 1905; and Chief Joseph, Nez Perce, 1903. On the flanking shelves are Crow Camp, circa 1985, and, on the right,
Divorce, 2003, by Michael Coleman.

make the connection. One of Curtis’s difficulties

was that it took so long for him to produce
the books that subscribers disappeared,” the
collector adds. “When he began photographing,
with the exception of the Pueblos and the tribes
of the northwest coast and Alaska, most tribes
had been reduced to living on reservations.
“I came to the Northwest in 1974 to attend
law school and moved to Seattle in 1977,”
he says. “My wife was born here but grew
up in Portland, Oregon.” Both are ardent
conservationists and have served on the board
of the Trust for Public Land.
Her book club had read Timothy Egan’s
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic
Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward
Curtis which she introduced to her husband.
“I knew he had some history with Curtis and
had bought gravures as gifts,” she explains.
“When I first came to the northwest,” he says,
“I hunted and fished in Nez Perce country. It In the trophy room of the guest house is a collection of late-19th-century beaded and quilted Sioux
teepee bags, pipe bags and other items, and early-20th-century Navajo weavings. At either end of the
was a quintessentially romantic experience. wall are paintings by Russell Chatham from 1989 and 1990.
The book rekindled my interest in Curtis.” She
adds, “We got in touch with Lois Flury and her
daughter Melissa here in Seattle who went on a

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At the base of the stairs in the dining room is an original copper plate from which the photogravures for the 20-volume set and 20 portfolios of The
North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) were printed. It is Lawyer, Nez Perce, 1905. Above the tiger maple chest is Coming Home, a
scene of Alaska by Eustace Paul Ziegler (1881-1969). On the side wall, left to right, are Hunters in a Deep Wood, mid-1850s, by Louis Rémy Mignot
(1831-1870), and Portrait/Yellow Dress, 1912, by Mary Neal Richardson (1859-1937). On the lower right is Anglers on a River, Sunset, 1870, by Arthur
Parton (1842-1914). The beaded Sioux cradles are circa 1890s.

On the right are

the shelves built to
house the complete
20-volume set and
20 portfolios of The
North American
Indian by Edward S.
Curtis (1868-1952),
High on the wall is a
beaded Sioux cradle,
circa 1890. Beneath
it are two of Curtis’
photogravures, left
to right, Wishram
Maid, 1910, and The
Columbia Near Wind
River, 1910. On the
upper right is a Pond
Boat, circa 1940.

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 In My Studio by Eustace Paul Ziegler (1881-1969) hangs above Bringing In the bedroom is Montana Winter, 2012, by Russell Chatham.
in the Deer by Earle Erik Heikka (1910-1941) cast from the original clay
by William McMahon.

The large painting

above the bed is
Dancer by Johanna
Harmon, 2016.
Flanking it are two
paintings by Charles
Henry Gifford
(1839-1904): at
left is New Bedford,
1892, and on the
right is Sailboat
Race, 1894. Above
the lamp is Fording
Stream, 1965, by
Eustace Paul Ziegler
(1881-1969).

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In the entry is By the Water’s Edge by Karl Albert Buehr (1866-1952). On the left is Rocks Along
the New England Coast, 1871, by Francis Augustus Silva (1835-1886).
hunt for the entire collection. She found a set at
Christie’s in New York where it hadn’t sold. We
took a trip to New York and eventually agreed
to acquire it.”
He adds, “I also bought a few of the copper
plates that were used in the photogravure
process to show what Curtis had to go through
back then.”
The couple have done three major remodels
of their Bainbridge Island home including the
creation of a library to contain the collection
and to allow individual images to be displayed.
They had frames made that allow them to shift
out the photogravures from time to time.
Art goes way back in his family. A friend
of his great-grandparents commissioned John
Singer Sargent to paint a portrait of them for
their wedding. The double portrait is considered
one his best. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Newton Phelps
Stokes, 1897, now hangs in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
“My wife likes impressionist art and I like
history and wanted pieces reflecting the
Northwest,” he says. “His first painting gift to
me was Butler’s Poplars Along the Seine,” she
adds. “I couldn’t afford a Monet,” he comments,
but “Butler married Monet’s step-daughter, so
I got close.”
“I met Allan Kollar, the well-regarded Seattle
dealer. He shares my passion for birds. When
I wanted to buy something out of my range
for my wife, Allan hung four or five paintings
in his gallery. When she walked in, I knew
exactly what she would choose.” She chose By
the Water’s Edge by Karl Albert Buehr which
had been in a collection earlier assembled by
Kollar. “It’s my favorite painting,” she says.
“When I first started out I wanted artists from
the Northwest,” he says. “I would go to auction
houses looking for that ruby in the rough.
I bought my first James Everett Stuart at auction,
a scene of Tacoma and Mount Rainier. I took it
to a dealer and asked, ‘What do you think?’ The
dealer said, ‘Did you look at it under a black
light?’ The black light reveals later overpainting.
He said, ‘There’s not much left that was painted
by the artist!’ It was the start of an education.
I taught myself to be less impetuous.”
When the collector first moved to Seattle he
was befriended by an elderly couple. For years
he had admired Coming Home, a scene of
Alaska by Eustace Paul Ziegler, that hung over
their fireplace. When their son was settling their
estate, he called the collector to ask if he would
like to buy it. It now hangs in the couple’s
dining room.
Among the contemporary artists in the
collection is Michael Coleman. “I like art
because the artist sees things I never see or sees
them in a way that strikes a chord. Michael
Coleman is great at painting reflected light in
an outdoor setting. We stopped to visit him at
his studio in Utah, and I commented on that.
Coleman told me, ‘I know how to do this
because when I was 16 I ran a trap line in the
winter to pay for college. I know what the light
looks like because I have been there at ever
time of day in every weather condition.’”
“I’ve never thought of this as a collection,”
he explains. “Its eclectic nature reflects the
various iterations of my life. A lot of what
I bought when I was younger I wouldn’t buy
now. But if I can’t tell you why I like living with
a piece, tell me to get rid of it.”
The couple’s house suits their interests and
has its own history. “It’s on the site of a really
old community,” he explains. “It’s a rustic house
with comforts that match my interests. I can
step outside and go rowing, train my dogs, and
chase my wife’s chickens out of my vegetable
garden. I wake up every day and enjoy it. We
both like coming home.”
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 Into
the
Works by Maynard Dixon and artists influenced by him on view at Medicine Man Gallery

Golden
in celebration of a new book on the artist by Mark Sublette.

Dust
By Michael Clawson

V isitors to the Southwest are often struck by the vastness of the

desert. And the stillness. Time seems to slow down, and sound
feels denser, muffled by the heat and the sage. In the summer,
even the critters retreat to the earth, as if absorbed back into the
sand from whence they came. The quietness allows the mind to wander, sometimes
deep into introspection. Many artists experience feelings of insignificance within
the majesty of the desert, though maybe none as much as Maynard Dixon, who
turned to paint and also poetry to summon what he was seeing and feeling:

Now I go out alone to ride the free hills,

bare-breasted and stark, these hills that make no concealment;
where no woman is with me—no woman shall ever be;
where stern and alone I face the thing that I am;
where I face the void of all that I fail to be,
and knowing my fear, shall be not afraid of that fear.
Now I put out my hand, touching the sky of evening…
reaching, reaching between the stars, and it seems
there could be no time at which I did not exist
and no time ever at which I shall cease to be,-
while here alone in my manhood-self I am.

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Edith Hamlin and Maynard Dixon by Chuck Abbott,
Tucson, Arizona, 1940.
 Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), Sahuaro, Tucson, AZ, 1940, oil on canvas board, 16 x 20”
Dixon, the grand deacon of the desert—the
cloud-filled sky his cathedral, the towering rocks
his high priests, the sunlight his sacrament—
found great solace in the West, which he
manifested through artworks that still today
evoke the calmness and reverence of the
magnificent places he painted and called home.
In celebration of Dixon and his far reach
throughout Western art, Mark Sublette Medicine
Man Gallery in Tucson, Arizona, will be
presenting a major group exhibition, Maynard
Dixon’s American West: Along the Distant
Mesa, which will feature works by Dixon as
well as works from artists who have been deeply
influenced by him. The show, which opens
March 8 and runs through April 30, will feature
work by contemporary artists such as Ed Mell,
G. Russell Case, Gary Ernest Smith, Dennis
Ziemienski, Brett Allen Johnson, Josh Elliott,
Billy Schenck, Roseta Santiago, Teal Blake and
many others. The exhibition will coincide with
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a major new book on Dixon, Along the Distant
Mesa by gallery owner Mark Sublette, coming
out in early March.
“I’ve been trying to get a book together for a
zillion years on Maynard Dixon—well, maybe
20 years—and now that it’s done what better
way to celebrate his work than with a show full
of all the top contemporary painters who were
inspired by Dixon and his work,” Sublette says,
adding that the book is more than 500 pages
with more than 450 illustrations. “It’s a major
manuscript, certainly the largest book on Dixon
that’s ever been printed, so I’m excited to see it
all come together.”
Not only has Sublette collected his work
and become a major dealer in Dixon paintings,
drawings and ephemera—Dixon even lived in
Tucson from 1940 to 1946—but the gallery
owner finds the artist a fascinating subject, on
par with other Western masters such as Charles
M. Russell, Frederic Remington and Thomas
Moran. “He’s so interesting because he lived
through so many fascinating eras, real ups and
downs he had to work through. He was born
while all the Indian wars were still going on,
just a year before Custer and the Battle of the
Little Bighorn. He lived through the great 1906
earthquake [in San Francisco], both world wars,
the atomic age…He also got to see modern art
flourish. He saw so much.”
Born in 1875 in Fresno, California—“He’s
actually born in the West, unlike Russell,
Remington or [Charles] Schreyvogel, which
gives him a singularity in the West,” Sublette
adds—Dixon took to art an early age. At just
16 years old he sent some drawings off to
Remington, then in the prime of his career,
for some tips. Remington replied back: “I have
quite enjoyed your sketches…[T]he only advice
I could give you is to never take anyone’s
advice…[I]f you imitate any other man ever
so little you are ‘gone’…Study good pictures…
Ed Mell, Evening Cast, oil on linen, 22 x 32”
Stephen C. Datz, Desert Rhythms, oil on canvas board, 30 x 36”
read books and good literature…[A]bove all
draw—draw—draw—and always from nature.”
Just two years later he was doing illustrations for
Overland Monthly. At just 18 years old, he was
fast on his way.
From then on Dixon was a force to be
reckoned with: early in his career he was the
top Western illustrator working, he and Ed
Borein rode through the Sierra Nevadas and
worked ranches in Oregon, he took important
commissions from the Santa Fe Railway,
befriended Native Americans in the Southwest
and in Montana, was married three times
(twice to artists: Dorothea Lange and Edith
Hamlin) and his work would come to define
the places he painted, namely Arizona, Utah
and Montana. Today his work is treasured
by collectors and envied by artists, and his
influence can be seen everywhere.
Mell, the Phoenix modernist whose
abstracted and geometric landscapes have,
like Dixon, come to define Arizona, says that
the artist has always been influential in his
studio. “My Southwest influences have run
the gamut from Arizona Highways magazine
to Raymond Jonson with Maynard Dixon
strongly placed in the middle. My first works,
modern and minimal landscapes, slowly
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Len Chmiel, Enormity, oil on canvas, 27 x 23”
G. Russell Case, Be Still and Know, oil on canvas board, 35 x 42”
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evolved into paintings with more information.
After enjoying playing with color and form
without the restrictions of minimalism I found
Maynard’s work in a 1945 Arizona Highways.
I realized my new-found vision was not all my
own and felt a need to go my separate way,”
Mell says. “I still, to this day, feel at times my
work crisscrosses over his territory somewhere
between my version of realism and abstraction
and I get a certain comfort out of that.”
Dixon died in 1946, long before Mell was
painting the West, but he did get to interact
with Hamlin, his last wife, in the 1980s. “There
was a Dixon show in town and she had heard
I took helicopter rides with NBC helicopter
pilot Jerry Foster, so I arranged for her and John,
Maynard’s son with Dorothea Lange, to go up
with us. She, obviously, was a painter too, so
we had lots to talk about, including Maynard,”
Mell says. “At one point we landed on a beach
on the Salt River, and she got out and talked
about all she had learned from him and how
they would go to Utah to paint together. It was
a fun trip, and later she gave Jerry and I Dixon
drawings as a thank you. Mine was on the back
of a big Dorothea Lange business card.”
Elliott, who will also be showing landscape
works in the Tucson show, has used Dixon as a
point of reference for many of his ideas about
art. “In 1917 Maynard Dixon wrote about
Glacier National Park: ‘I did not think too much
of the mountains…’ I was a bit disappointed
when I read this. How could an artist I admired
and respected say such a thing about a place
that resonates so deeply with me? While on a
trail, following in his footsteps trying to find a
mountain he had painted in Glacier it hit me—
he is a man of the desert,” Elliott says. “On his
trip to Glacier in 1917 he painted Red Eagle
Mountain from Red Eagle Lake, 101 years later
I hiked the eight miles to the lake to find
his vantage point and to paint a study of the
mountain myself. In 2006 a fire burned much
of the forest leading to the lake, but when
Maynard was there it would have been a dense
forest, which I can see would be claustrophobic
to someone used to wide and distant vistas
of the desert southwest and it may have
influenced how he saw the mountains. Even
with that revelation, I wondered how he could
not fall in love with the mountains of Glacier
with their jewel-like colors and their dynamic
and elegant shapes, something Dixon sought
out and captured so well. With that thought,
I came to realize that all great artists have their
own favorite subjects and that is what defines
their vision and Dixon was a visionary and
definitely his own man. He has inspired me to
follow my vision and showed me that the West
is romantic enough as is and does not need to
Charles Fritz, Santa Fe Traders on the Old Spanish Trail, oil on canvas, 36 x 54”
Greg Newbold, Plateau Geometry, oil on canvas, 30 x 40”
be embellished to the point of sentimentality.”
Along the Distant Mesa will feature two
works by Elliott, both interpretations of Dixon
works, including Home of the Blackfeet, a
1938 painting that currently hangs at the
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
in Oklahoma.
Utah-based Case, is also drawn to Dixon’s
lack of sentimentality in the desert. “Dixon
was clearly captivated by the abstract designs
he found in the West. He was a brilliant
editor in the field and whether on-site or in
the studio, knew how to avoid the sloshy
cliché that flows with much of the Western
monotony. In my opinion Dixon was nearly
always successful at leaving the sentimental
behind for the power of the shapes. Finding the
commonplace, the almost mundane, to be as
beautiful as the monumental dramatic image
in which the West was famous for. I think of
him as the Hopper of the West,” Case says.
“Dixon gave us his honest direct recordings of
subjects. His fieldwork, usually the 12-by-16
and 16-by-20-inch [works] show this the best.
These are some of my favorite paintings…In
these smaller works he goes after the simple
statement using a one-time-and-out approach,
as to save every brush touch and subtle
value change in the first attempt. Saving the
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 Roseta Santiago, Under Dixon Skies, oil on canvas, 24 x 18”

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Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), Drifting Shadows, January 1941, oil on canvas board, 16 x 20”

spontaneity trail void of formulaic systems.” At last,

For Sublette, Dixon is a perfect storm of talent,
a storm that crashed against the American West
at the perfect time and place. “He had stunning
draftsmanship, impeccable compositions, he
had a great sense of color. And with Native
Americans, he appreciated their ways and
captured them honestly from life, always the
truth and never embellishing,” he says. “Maynard
Dixon was the full package. He just had this
innate ability to create. It was his gift.”
All these things are true, but for Dixon it
all came down to the desert, the place that not
just held his attention but guarded his soul. In a
poem titled At Last, he plants his legacy in the
place he called home.
I shall give myself to the desert again,
that I, in it’s golden dust,
may be blown from a barren peak,
broadcast over the sun-lands.
If you should desire some news from me,
go ask the little horned toad whose home
is the dust,
or seek it among the fragrant sage,
or question the mountain juniper,
and, by their silence,
they will truly inform you.
Maynard Dixon’s
American West: Along
the Distant Mesa
March 8-April 30, 2019;
artist reception, March 8, 5-7 p.m.
Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery,
6872 E. Sunrise Drive, Suite 130,
Tucson, AZ 85750
(520) 722-7798,
www.medicinemangallery.com

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 PULP
THE

COWBO
The A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art in Trinidad, Colorado,
celebrates the legacy of artist and illustrator Arthur Roy Mitchell.
By Michael Clawson

T
The titles were almost interchangeable: All
Western, Western Story, Thrilling Western,
Western Romances, Popular Western and Wild
West Stories. Even the wood-pulp paper on
which they were printed seemed to suggest a
disposability to the magazines. After all, they
were only meant to last until the next issue.
And yet the Western pulps did last, and
today are regarded as an important cultural
bridge from real cowboys of the 1800s to
Western cinema and TV. Nowhere is this
more evident than at the A.R. Mitchell
Museum of Western Art in Trinidad,
Colorado, which celebrates the legacy
of Arthur Roy Mitchell (1889-1977), the
so-called “King of Western Pulp Covers.” The
artist, who once noted he could find eight or
more of his pulp covers at the newsstand at
any given time, is the star of the museum that
bears his name in Trinidad, where Mitchell
was born and lived much of his life.

Wagon Train Scouts, oil, 21 x 34”

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The JJ Bronc Busters, oil, 27 x 21”

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 The museum likely isn’t on many Western fans’
must-see lists, but Allyson Sheumaker, the museum’s
executive director, is betting on the museum’s huge
collection of Mitchell materials and its gorgeous
location in a renovated and historic department
store to entice new visitors, especially those
who may not have been aware of the museum’s
existence. “We’re just not on the map for many
people,” she says, “but Mitchell is a fascinating
subject and I expect once visitors see what we have
that word will spread.”
Mitchell, who appeared on hundreds of
covers of Western pulp magazines, started out as
a real cowboy working cattle on the A6 ranch in
Vermejo Park,  New Mexico. Later he took a job
at newspapers in Boise, Idaho, and Seattle before
venturing to New York to study with Harvey Dunn,
who encouraged his students to make a living
through art. “When they ask you what a picture
is for,” Dunn told him, “tell them, ‘for sale!’”
Mitchell took it to heart and became one of the
most prominent artists working in Western pulps
and book covers from the late 1920s to the 1940s.
Later, by the start of World War II, Mitchell returned
to Trinidad to settle his affairs after a cancer
diagnosis. Except his cancer was held at bay and
he lived another 30 years, during which he became
part of Trinidad’s history.
“Mitchell felt like he was born too late. He hated
all the change. He hated car radios. He hated that
people weren’t walking or riding horses. You have to
go back and think about what life was like in 1920:
kids didn’t have TV, no internet, no cellphones and
half of them didn’t even have electricity. They just
read stories and used their imagination,” Sheumaker
says. “And here were magazines that allowed them Bustin’, oil, 35 x 25”

to use their imaginations.”

Not only was Mitchell known around Trinidad
as a talented artist and illustrator, but he also had a
cantankerous side to him that was documented in
Richard Louden’s book Mitchellisms. Mitchell was
outspoken, gruff and blunt. He didn’t suffer fools.
When the local church built a gymnasium, Mitchell
was vocal about the look of it: “It looks like a horse
turd in a pan of milk.” In another feud with the city, the
artist had harsh words for the mayor: “If they searched
the world over they couldn’t find a worse one. He’s not
fit to be mayor of a prairie dog town.” During World
War II, as the chamber of commerce was hosting a
scrap metal drive, someone suggested Mitchell donate
his collection of oxen shoes he owned. Mitchell
offered to donate the shoes only if they “would melt
them down and make bullets to shoot the dumb
Chamber of Commerce bastards like you.”
Mitchell was city’s grump in chief, and he would
frequently vent his disapproval in letters to the
editor of the town’s paper, and these complaints
would cover the gamut of city problems including
sidewalks, roadways and even the newspaper itself.
And yet, Mitchell worked hard to protect aspects Gold Panner, oil, 25 x 30”

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Prayer, oil, 22 x 34”
of Trinidad, including the Bloom Mansion
and the Baca House, the first house built in
Trinidad. After helping save the monuments,
the governor of Colorado wrote Mitchell to
thank him for his work. “It was written in a
very flowery language, just really thanking him
for preserving the Baca House and the Bloom
Mansion,” Sheumaker says. “But then down at
the bottom, Mitchell had written ‘Horseshit!’
He didn’t preserve those buildings for people
to commend him on it. He did it because it was
the right thing to do.”
Although Mitchell was close with his sister,
who would eventually preserve his legacy,
the artist largely avoided women entirely.
“I prefer horses to most men, and certainly
I prefer horses to women in general,” he once
said. “Why in the hell women try to pick me
I’ll never know.” Sheumaker points to one
letter in particular, in which a female admirer
half-seriously berates him: “Dear Mitch: What
two-legged heifer in her right mind would try
to lasso such a cantankerous, chauvinistic,
opinionated, ornery, lovable old curmudgeon?
Love, Joan Reese. P.S. We Hope to see you
when you move to Denver—we’re only a few
blocks from your sister.” He never married, nor
did he have any children.
The museum was established in the years
after Mitchell’s death in 1977 with a generous
donation of Mitchell materials from the artist’s
sister, Ethel “Tot” Mitchell Erickson. “The horses and horsemen, big skies and the great
only condition she had was that we had to unfenced outdoors. As a boy I was in love
be operable for five years to make sure it was with these same things that thrill me now. The
sustainable, and then once we proved that look of this particular piece of country with
she left us her full trust,” Sheumaker says. its pinon-dotted flat-topped hills, and the man
“And she donated everything to the museum, on horseback moving against the background
including all of Mitchell’s things—he was a bit thrilled me when I was a boy and time has not
of a hoarder—as well as her own collection changed that in the least.”
of Mexican and Spanish Colonial religious
artifacts. There are so many materials that I have
to remind myself to spend an hour every week
going through all the boxes in the basement.”
And the artwork is wonderful: Cowboys
on reared-back horses with guns blazing.
A.R.
Young buckaroos leaning on fenceposts rolling Mitchell
in the
cigarettes. Bucking broncs and cattle scenes. doorway of
Native Americans traversing the land under the Pioneer
Museum at
billowing clouds. Gold panners sloshing the Trinidad
water through tin pans at the edges of streams. History
Museum in
These are the images that came to define pulp Trinidad,
Colorado.
magazines, and Mitchell as well. He later wrote:
“To whoever might be interested: All of my
work deals pretty much with the same region, The Art of
the same subject matter, the same kind of
A.R. Mitchell
people and springs from the same impulse.
Maybe this is just romantic impulse to try Ongoing now
to recreate the past of my own forebears, or The A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art
that of those still living in my boyhood whom 150 E. Main Street
Trinidad, CO 81082
I knew and admired and who were an active (719) 846-4224
part of that great migration and settlement www.armitchellmuseum.com
of our frontier West. It was then a world of
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A look at Andy Thomas’
successful run at The
Russell

78 The Russell
The popular show and
sale, named after Charles
M. Russell, returns for its
51st year

84 March in Montana
The 32nd annual sale
returns with more than
700 lots of Western and
Native American objects

88 Russell Skull
Society of Artists
Suites
Top-quality artwork from
some of the top Western
artists working today

90 Montana Masters
New works from 26 top-
tier Western painters
and sculptors

92 Out West Art

Show & Sale
100 exhibit rooms and
10 galleries to offer a
variety of artwork
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400 13th Street North, Great Falls, MT 59401
(406)-727-8787, www.cmrussell.org
Events: The Russell Auction Preview,
Art Preview Party
2 Heritage Inn
1700 Fox Farm Road, Great Falls, MT 59404
(406) 761-1900, www.gfheritageinn.com
Events: Out West Show & Sale, Montana
Miniatures, Montana Masters, Montana
Watercolor Society Art Show
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Wine Hall & Snug
116 First Avenue S., Great Falls, MT 59401
(406) 952-0393, www.thecelticcowboy.com
Events: The Kira Fercho Art Show
4 Hampton Inn
2301 14th Street SW, Great Falls, MT 59404
(406) 453-2675
Events: The Wild Bunch Art Show
5 Holiday Inn Great Falls
1100 Fifth Street South, Great Falls, MT
59405 (406) 727-7200
Events: Western Heritage Artists’ Footprints
on the Trail Art Show
6 Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art
1400 First Avenue North, Great Falls,
Montana 59401, (406) 727-8255,
www.the-square.org
Events: Runway Show at Paris Gibson
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7 The History Museum
422 Second Street S.,
Great Falls, MT 59405, (406) 452-3462,
www.thehistorymuseumgreatfalls.com
Events: Missouri Falls Fine Arts Show & Sale
8 Hilton Garden Inn
2520 14th Street SW, Great Falls, Montana,
59404, (406) 452-1000
Events: Jay Contway Art Show
9 Four Seasons Arena at
Montana ExpoPark
400 Third Street NW, Great Falls, MT 59404
(406) 727-8900, www.goexpopark.com
Events: Great Western Living & Design
Show, Native Plains Artists Show, Great Falls
Western Collectibles & Antique Gun Show
10 Great Falls Elks Lodge #214
500 First Avenue South, Great Falls, MT
59401, (406) 454-1305
Events: March in Montana
11 Mansfield Convention Center
2 Park Drive South, Great Falls, MT 59401
(406) 455-8514
Events: Studio 706 Art Show and events
related to The Russell: Russell Skull Society
of Artists Suites, First Strike Auction, The
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12 Meadow Lark Country Club
300 Country Club Boulevard,
Great Falls, MT 59404, (406) 453-6531,
www.meadowlarkclub.com
Events: Art in Action, The Russell Runway
Show: Wearable Art of the American West
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342 Ulm, Vaughn Road, Ulm, MT 59485
(406) 866-2217, stateparks.mt.gov/first-
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Russell Skull Society of
Artists Suites
March 21-23, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
MansǕeld Convention Center, 2 Park
Drive South, Great Falls, MT 59401
Free public event
Art Preview Party
March 21, 5-7 p.m.
C.M. Russell Museum
$40 members / $50 non-members
Art in Action
March 22, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Meadow Lark Country Club, 300
Country Club Boulevard, Great Falls,
MT 59404
$50 members / $60 non-members
First Strike Auction
March 22, 6 p.m.
MansǕeld Convention Center
$55 members / $65 non-members
The Russell Educational Symposium
MansǕeld Convention Center,
Missouri Room
Free public event
The Russell Runway Show:
Wearable Art of the American West
March 23, 12:30-2 p.m.
Meadow Lark Country Club
$40 members / $50 non-members
The Russell Live Auction
March 23, 5 p.m.
MansǕeld Convention Center
$175 members / $200 non-members
Information: (406) 727-1939
www.cmrussell.org/the-russell-event
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March 21-24
Missouri Falls
Fine Arts Show & Sale
Reception and scholarship raǔle:
March 21, 4-8 p.m.
Show hours: March 21, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.;
March 22-23, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; March
24, 10 a.m-1 p.m.
Where: The History Museum,
422 Second Street South, Great
Falls, MT 59405
Information: (406) 564-5784,
www.artsassociationofmontana.org
Tickets: Free
March 21-23, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.
Jay Contway Art Show
Where: Hilton Garden Inn, 2520 14th
Street SW,ȞGreat Falls,ȞMT,Ȟ59404
Information: (406) 452-7647,
www.Ňaycontway.com
Tickets: Free
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March 21-24
Great Western Living &
Design Show
Show hours: March 21-23, 10 a.m.-
8 p.m.; March 24, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Where: Four Seasons Arena at
Montana 0xpoPark, 400 Third
Street NW, Great Falls, MT 59404
Information: (406) 761-0288,
www.thegreatwesternshow.com
Tickets: Free
March 21-24
Native Plains Artists Show
Show hours: March 21-23, 10 a.m.-
8 p.m.; March 24, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Where: This show is part of the
Great Western Living & Design Show
at Four Seasons Arena at Montana
0xpoPark, 400 Third Street NW,
Great Falls, MT 59404
Information: (406) 761-0288,
www.thegreatwesternshow.com
Tickets: Free
March 21-23
March in Montana
Dealer show: March 21-23, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.,
Auction begins: March 22-23, 11 a.m.
Where: Great Falls 0lks Lodge ȁ214,
500 First Avenue South, Great Falls,
MT 59401
Information: (208) 664-2091,
www.marchinmontana.com
Tickets: Free
March 21-23
Studio 706 Art Show
Show hours: March 21, 5-9 p.m.;
March 22, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; March 23,
10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Where: MansǕeld Convention
Center, 2 Park Drive South, Great
Falls, MT 59401
Information: (406) 799-4789,Ȟ
www.studio706artistguild.com
Tickets: Free
March 21-23
Great Falls Western
Collectibles & Antique
Gun Show
Show hours: March 21, 3-7 p.m.;
March 22, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; March 23,
9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Where: Montana 0xpoPark, 400
Third Street NW, Great Falls, MT
59404
Information: (406) 580-5458,
www.greatfallsgunshow.net
Tickets: $5
March 23, noon-3 p.m.
DG House & King Kuka Exhibit
Where: First Peoples Buǔalo `ump
State Park, 342 Ulm, Vaughn Road,
Ulm, MT 59485
Information:
(406) 866-2217, stateparks.mt.gov/
Ǖrst-peoples-buǔalo-Ňump
Tickets: $6 park admission
 Western Art News
Words from the Past
The C.M. Russell Museum marks 50 years of
fifth-grade essays about Charles M. Russell.
Artwork is sold at auction at The Russell: An Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum.
E
very year during the
lead-up to The Russell:
An Exhibition and Sale to
Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum,
fifth-grade students across Cascade
County, Montana, are asked to
write an essay answering the
question “Why is Charlie Russell
Important?” Winners are selected
from each school and are invited
to tour the museum and meet
Nancy Russell, portrayed by the
C.M. Russell’s artist in residence
Mary Jane Bradbury.
This year the museum will
mark 50 years of the annual
essay contest, and to celebrate
The Russell has unearthed some
of the earliest examples from the
contest. In one essay from 1970,
Paula Egan writes: “I like Charlie
especially for his determination.
His boyhood dream was to
become a cowboy and his
determination brought him to the
West where his dream came true.
I like this great artist in every way
and am proud to be from Charlie
Russell country.”
In another essay from 1970,
Bartly Dzivi writes: “[Russell]
was a real cowboy, not some
dude from St. Louis. Of course
he was not some grim-faced
cowboy either. He had a sense
of humor. He said what he felt
and felt what he said.
I also admire him and envy
him because he was free on the
range. He wanted the range to
stay free too. He did not like
the Indians to be rounded up
like stray cattle. Nor did he
want farmers putting up fences
shutting off the free land. When
the prairies were fenced off and
fastly becoming an agriculture
area, he used the mountains
as a last resort to get close to
nature. The reason I like Charley
Russell best is that he was a fine
Montanan and a real good man.”
Modern essays run slightly
longer and show a wealth of
information, a possible product
of the ease of research in the age
of the internet. “Jake Hoover,
the owner of the ranch Russell
worked on, once asked about the
conditions on the ranch,” Mason
D. wrote in 2018. “Russell drew
him a picture to show exactly
what was going on.”
“Charlie was a hardworking
young man. He worked during
the day, and painted at night.
He never expected things to be
given to him. His paintings were
sold in exchange for lodging
and food,” wrote Madisyn P.
in 2018. “This teaches our
present and future generations
that it is important to work hard
for what you want, develop
responsibilities, and have a
good work ethic. We should not
expect things to be given to us,
but to work hard for them like
Charlie did.”
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Montana
Minis
An auction of small works
featuring more than 150
artists returns this March
to Great Falls, Montana.
Kathy Ashcroft, Memories, oil, 14 x 11"
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ontana Miniatures will mark
its third annual silent auction
on March 20, during Western
Art Week, in Great Falls, Montana. The sale,
featuring small works from more than 150
artists, is organized by Bitterroot Frames based
in Hamilton, Montana.
Artists in the sale include Brian Bateman,
Brooke Wetzel, Cynthie Fisher, Diane
Whitehead, Frank Hagel, Mark Boyle,
Whitney Hall, Kathy Ashcroft and many
more. The event will feature a silent auction
format. Works will go on display on March 20
at 6 p.m. at the Heritage Inn in Great Falls.
Whitney Hall, Mexican Silver, oil, 10 x 8"
Frank Hagel,
Topping Out,
oil, 8 x 15"
Bidders will be able to view the works and
place bids through March 23.
“We developed this concept three years
ago to promote artists and to bring together
the greatest collection of small works that un-
rivals any miniature show in the country,” says
Zach Cheetham, the show’s organizer. “Our
model for this event was not just to sell as
many [pieces] as we could but rather promote
the best artists in the country that we could.
Instead of starting with as many inexpensive
paintings as we could find, we started with a
‘top down’ concept. This concept encouraged
us to go after some of the best artists in the
industry first and then trickle down to entry-
level artists. By using this plan, our goal was
to bring new buyers into the Heritage who
would not normally be there to see some of
these great works. By doing that, these buyers
also supported some mid-level and lower-
level artists. Our plan worked!”
Cheetham continues: “I am very happy
that so many top-shelf artists have believed
in us and have participated in the show and
we so greatly appreciate them. The residual
success of the show has trickled down to so
many of the artists who are established at the
Heritage or are just beginning their career
and that was our intention all along.”
For more information about the sale visit
www.bitterrootframes.com.
 Range Master (detail), oil on canvas, 48 x 60"
ROOM #139
The Out West Art
Show & Sale
Heritage Inn, “Beauty and inspiration abound everywhere in
Great Falls, Montana Montana, and from my home near Glacier
March 20-23, 2019 National Park, I am continuously blessed with
endless opportunities of wildlife & equine subjects
and breathtaking scenery that move me to capture
them in my realistic oil paintings. My goal is to
inspire all who see my work to reconnect with
nature and the tranquil beauty that surrounds us,
sometimes unfortunately from all too far away.”

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MARCH 21‒23, 2019

Make plans to be part of the excitement this year! The Russell
is recognized as one of the most prestigious Western art
events, attracting collectors, artists, and patrons from
around the country. It is the premiere fundraising event for
the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana, providing
critical funding through commissions and premiums that
directly support the museum’s educational programs and
cultural outreach.
REMOTE BIDDING OPTIONS
Contact Director of Art and Philanthropy Duane Braaten
Charles M. Russell (1864‒1926), Approach of White Men, dbraaten@cmrussell.org | (406) 727-8787, ext 333
1897, oil on canvas, 24 ⅛ x 34 ⅛ inches

400 13 th Street North | Great Falls, Montana | (406) 7271939 | cmrussell.org

 Andy&
Charles M. Russell in his log cabin studio in Great Falls, Montana, Andy Thomas in his Missouri studio.
working on the painting When the Land Belonged to God. Stark
Photograph, 1914.

Charlie
With a century between
them, artists Andy Thomas
and Charles M. Russell
are linked through time
by The Russell in Great
Falls, Montana.

P
art of the legend of Charles M.
By Michael Clawson Russell—beyond the authentic
depictions of the West, his colorful cast
of cowboy characters and reverent treatment of
Native American subjects—is the artist’s distinct
physical appearance. That thoughtful gaze. The
prominent jawline and furrowed brow. His lips
in a slight frown, more serious than angry. His
hairstyle, undercut on the sides and parted left
of center with hair swooping down around his
forehead, topped by a hat tilted back on his
head. And, of course, the iconic sash around his
waist and dangling at his side.
His appearance is just as much of the legend
as the art. And here’s a test to prove it: quick,
what does Charles Schreyvogel look like? Or
Albert Bierstadt? Describe Frederic Remington
without using the word “portly” or Thomas
Moran without using the word “beard.” You
would be forgiven for drawing a blank when
asked to pick out Maynard Dixon and William
Herbert “Buck” Dunton from a lineup of tall,
lanky men with mustaches.
But Russell was different. He had a look. It
was his own, and it made him identifiable, in
his time and still today.

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Andy Thomas, Russell Paints a Masterpiece, 2012, oil on linen, 34 x 48"
One person who has always been struck by
Russell’s work, as well as his unique look in
the annals of Western art, is Missouri painter
Andy Thomas. Though the two artists’ lives
never intersected—Russell died more than 30
years before Thomas was born—their artwork
has plenty of overlap: rowdy cowboys on
horseback, brave Native American warriors
setting across the plains, and thrilling action
scenes that show how these characters could
interact with the West. “I grew up with Charlie
Russell. My dad liked Western art so he exposed
me to him very early,” he says. “In our house
it was all Russell, Remington and Norman
Rockwell, and I was certainly influenced by all
of their work, especially Russell.”
In 2008, Thomas did something that would
explicitly link him to Russell: he painted him,
and then brought the work to The Russell in
Russell’s hometown, Great Falls, Montana, on
Russell’s birthday.
“There was a bit of a risk doing that. It
was very different, and then after I submitted
it I immediately had this self-doubt. Artists
are a cautious bunch sometimes, and I started
worrying it wouldn’t get a single bid,” Thomas
remembers. “At that time I had only really
painted Russell one other time for a small
show in my hometown of Carthage, Missouri.
That painting featured campfire storytellers
and included Russell and Remington next to
each other. I had a lot of fun painting him, and
I knew I wanted to paint him again.”
When the call went out for works for The
Russell: An Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the
C.M. Russell Museum, Thomas, who had
largely been selling art from a van as he and
his wife crisscrossed the country to attend art
fairs, was met with a lucky break. “I had made
a concerted effort to get in a big show and that
year, in a weird twist, The Russell wanted artists
to submit their actual paintings for inclusion in
the sale. They had previously asked for 35mm
slides, and I never thought those represented
my work very well. Once they could see the
work firsthand, I got in,” he says. “It would be
an important milestone in my career because
The Russell would change everything from that
point on.”
The work Thomas submitted was his first
major Russell painting, Charlie Russell and His
Characters. The work depicted a group of men
and one woman in a saloon admiring Russell’s
newest painting that has been propped up on
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the bar. Russell, wearing his sash and that high-riding
hat, can be seen in the crowd taking in the responses of
the onlookers. Thomas was worried about receiving a
single bid, so a bidding war seemed far-fetched. When
the work sold for $180,000, he was speechless. “At that
point I had never sold a painting over $20,000, and to
think I almost didn’t send it in. I was in the room when
it sold and I’m not really comfortable in big crowds, so
when it hit about $60,000 I quickly realized there was
no slinking out of the room after that,” he recalls. “It
was certainly a magical night.”
Although Thomas’ work was already on the map,
now it had a spotlight on it, and he quickly began doing
some of the best work of his career: scenes of shootouts
in Old West towns, outlaws shooting their way out of
tense situations, stagecoach robberies, bear attacks,
buffalo hunts, cattle stampedes and Native American
riders crossing golden prairies. Like Russell, Thomas
was led by his brush and didn’t feel pigeonholed to one
subject or style.
Russell would return as a subject for the 2013
Russell auction, when Thomas painted the cowboy
artist in his studio in Russell Paints a Masterpiece.
“A friend of mine had known the story and supplied
me a copy of the Joe De Yong letter. Joe had visited
Russell and described in detail the studio and
Russell working. And Nancy Russell must have had
a photographer come in because a photo exists with
this piece on the easel,” Thomas says of the work.
“I just wanted to get as much as I could in the painting,
which is why I painted all these finished works on the
walls and the floor. Painting a Russell work is tricky.
I had to paint my interpretation of them but I also had

Andy Thomas, Grizzly Mountain, 2008, oil, 30 x 40"

Inset: Charles M. Russell (1864-1926), Crippled
but Still Coming, 1913, oil on canvas. The Eiteljorg
Museum. The Gund Collection of Western Art,
Gift of the George Gund Family.

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Andy Thomas, Steamy Night at Madame Dumont’s, Fort Benton, Montana, 2017, oil on canvas, 25¾ x 48"

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Andy Thomas, Hot Time in Ft. Benton, 2018, oil on linen, 26 x 46"

to record them as well. They are painterly and

slightly impressionistic, but still very much
Russell works.”
Once again, The Russell bidders were
very kind to this new depiction of Russell: it
sold for $200,000 on estimates of $70,000 to
$85,000. For comparison purposes, the only
pieces that rival or top that at The Russell are
frequently works by Russell himself. Thomas
lays the interest at the feet of the great painter.
“People are fascinated by Russell and his look,
a look that I’m sure his wife helped cultivate
when she would remind him to put on his
sash and wear his hat. Nobody in the West
is as identifiable as Russell. Certainly not
Remington or others,” Thomas says. “And also,
Russell’s just fun to paint. He’s so distinctive.
And his personality was unique—he had a
kind of curmudgeonly personality, and yet
people say he was very funny.” Charles M. Russell (1864-1926), Utica (A Quiet Day in Utica), 1907, oil on canvas, 24/ x 36/".
Finally, in 2017, The Russell offered Courtesy Sid Richardson Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
Thomas’ Steamy Night at Madame Dumont’s,
Fort Benton, Montana, and it sold for
$216,000, an artist world record. Though it
didn’t depict Russell, it certainly had a Russell
vibe to it as Western figures blast at each other

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Charles M. Russell (1864-1926), Smoke of a .45, 1908, oil on canvas, 24/ x 36/". Courtesy Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

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Andy Thomas, Charlie Russell, 2018, oil, 16 x 12"
with pistols and shotguns as horses buck and
dogs bark in the dust.
Although he hasn’t done any major Russell
works since 2013, Thomas has painted smaller
pieces of the artist, including a recent portrait.
And if you look close in other paintings, Russell-
like characters make appearances. In A Knock
at the Door a figure that looks an awful like
Russell waves his hat as fellow cowboys ride
their horses into a saloon’s open doors. In other
works, Thomas calls back to classic Russell
images. Grizzly Mountain, for instance, features
a bear attack on a rider with a string of ponies on
a mountain path. It could easily be an immediate
follow-up to Russell’s Crippled but Still Coming.
And while Russell is still king in Thomas’
studio, another figure landed like a meteor in
the artist’s life—President Donald Trump. After
the 2016 election, Thomas painted Trump in The
Republican Group, where he is seated at a table
with other Republican presidents, including
Richard Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower and
Ronald Reagan. They all have drinks; Trump has
a glass of Diet Coke while Teddy Roosevelt has
what appears to be a mint julep in a tin cup. A
print of the piece was seen hanging in Trump’s
personal dining room in the White House in an
October 2018 piece on 60 Minutes. The phone
started ringing not long after.
“I have to be honest that I didn’t grumble or
grouse because it was a lot of fun. I felt like the
pretty girl at the dance and everyone wanted to
talk to me,” Thomas says, adding that the story
was picked up by The Washington Post, New
York Times, USA Today, Time and hundreds
of other newspapers, magazines and online
outlets. “Even TMZ called and wanted to do an
interview. I remember the call, it was this sweet
girl, a young woman with a valley girl voice.
I got one interview request from a Hungarian
newspaper that was published for Hungarian
ex-pats in Bosnia. It was wild stuff.”
The painting was polarizing, which
seems about right in this era of politics.
Trump supporters saw the painting as a grand
declaration of Trump’s ascendancy in the GOP,
the White House and to the top of the American
political system, while Trump’s opponents saw
it as kitschy art that painted Trump as equals of
Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. Thomas
read the good and the bad coverage and was
just thrilled to be talking about his art, and
Western art in general, to an audience that might
not have been exposed to it. And when people
suggested he was a shill for Trump, Thomas had
a powerful comeback: when Barack Obama
was elected, he painted a version of the same
painting featuring Democratic presidents, with
Obama enjoying a beer next to John F. Kennedy.
“Everybody’s taste in art is different, and you
certainly saw that in a big way when that
painting was in the news,” he says. “Also, sales
were through the roof. At one point we had to
cut off orders to do a count on our numbered
prints. It was a fun chaos, and even today they
are still selling very well.”
With calls about the Trump painting still
coming in—the president himself even called—
Thomas has once again let his thoughts drift
to The Russell and its namesake. This year’s
painting is Hot Time in Ft. Benton, which tells
the true story of a cannon that was fired on the
back of a mule, a story Russell surely would
have chuckled at. “A demonstration of the
power of a mountain howitzer to impress the
Indians seemed a clever move to their agent,”
the artist, who is a member of the Russell Skull
Society of Artists, writes of the piece. “That
would make the meeting more productive. No
need to unpack it, the back of the mule would
work. The mule did not agree.”
Thomas goes into each sale grateful to
be part of The Russell’s rich history, and even
more grateful that his name is included in
any discussion related to Charles M. Russell.
“He was a really talented guy, especially his
drawing. He had an innate talent that even
Remington didn’t have, and I love Remington’s
work, but you can just see talent oozing out of
Russell,” he says. “I’m not in the same league
with Russell, but I’m glad to be connected to
him in this way.”
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Bidders participate in a sale at The Russell: An Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana.

Auction Preview

All Eyes on Russell

Charles M. Russell, the man and the myth, takes center stage at the
annual event that bears his name in Great Falls, Montana.

W
hen work began on the
planning of a new art exhibition
and auction in Great Falls,
Montana, the museum staff at the C.M. Russell
Museum started pitching show titles around the
room. These likely had different combinations
of “Great Falls,” “Montana,” “Charlie Russell”
and “Western,” producing results like Great
Falls Western Art Show or Charlie Russell’s
Western Sale in Montana. At one point a brave
soul blurted out, “Let’s just call it The Russell.”
This is all hypothetical of course—and would
have occurred 51 years ago—but it seems
very plausible considering the audacity of a
name as simple, as effective and as instantly
iconic as The Russell. The annual event, which
includes a variety of elements and culminates
in a major auction, is not just named after
the famous Western artist; it revolves around
him and his legacy. It is hosted in Russell’s
hometown, smack in the middle of a week
often referred to simply as Russell Week, items
up for sale include pieces by Russell as well
as works by artists inspired by him, and it is
hosted by the C.M. Russell Museum, which
has on its property both the Russell home and
studio. To call Russell the star of the show is a
vast understatement.
This year’s event, formally titled The Russell:
An Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the C.M.
Russell Museum, once again features a suite of
events that includes exhibitions, artist booths,
quick draws and live auctions. All of the

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various events help fund the museum and its

educational opportunities to both Russell and
Western art.
“We’re so thrilled during each and every
year’s event that Charlie and his contemporaries
can bring out this great collection of consigners
and collectors to support the museum. We’re
in such a fortunate position that the event can
fund all of our educational programming and
exhibitions,” says Duane Braaten, director of art
and philanthropy at the C.M. Russell Museum.
“And we have a lot of fun, too.”
One of the key developments at this year’s
event will be the reopening of the Russell home
and log cabin studio, both of which have been
closed following a major conservation and
reinterpretation. Both buildings are on the
museum property, in a residential area of Great
Falls. “Not only did they conserve each log in
the studio, but they redid the roof, structurally
improved the entire cabin and house, and
they also even peeled back years of wallpaper
to reveal the original look of the cabin when
Russell was working in it,” Braaten says. “The Charles M. Russell (1864-1926), Approach of White Men, 1897, oil on canvas, 24⁄ x 34⁄"
way they’ve done it, these buildings will Estimate: $1.25/1.75 million
continue to inspire Western fans for another
hundred years.”
The Russell events largely kick off on March
21 with the Art Preview Party at the museum
from 5 to 7 p.m. The ticketed event will
allow guests to see the auction artwork one
final time before it is moved to the Mansfield
Convention Center, where the bulk of The
Russell takes place. Also opening March 21
at the convention center are the curated artist
booths in the Russell Skull Society of Artists
Suites, which runs through March 23, from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m.
On March 22, the Art in Action quick draw
event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
at the Meadow Lark Country Club, where
invited artists will create a new work of art
in front of an audience. The piece will then
be auctioned off, with 100 percent of the
proceeds benefitting the museum. Later that
night, starting at 6 p.m., the First Strike auction
will take place back at the convention center.
This auction will focus entirely on works by
contemporary Western artists.
On Saturday, March 23, at 9 a.m., an Charles M. Russell (1864-1926), The Scout, 1895, watercolor on paper, 13½ x 18½"
Estimate: $225/325,000
educational symposium will take place.
This year’s symposium will feature author
Larry Len Peterson as he discusses his new
biography  Blackfeet John L. “Cutapuis” Clarke

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Charles M. Russell (1864-1926), Indian with Bow, ca. 1900, oil, Charles M. Russell (1864-1926), On the Warpath, ca. 1892, watercolor,
18⁄ x 12¼" Estimate: $600/800,000 15½ x 10½" Estimate: $50/75,000

and the Silent Call of Glacier National Park:

America’s Wood Sculptor that explores Clarke’s
rise to fame. Afterward, Peterson will sign copies
of his book. Also on Saturday, at the Meadow
Lark Country Club, is the Russell Runway Show
from 12:30 to 2 p.m. It will feature wearable
art of the American West from designers such
as Montana Dreamwear, Meredith Lockhart,
Lindsey Thornberg and others.
The Russell comes to a close with a bang on
March 22 with the live auction, which starts at 5
p.m. at the convention center. If you’re in Great
Falls before Russell Week the auction works
will be available for preview at the museum
beginning February 22.
Highlights in this year’s sale are once
again works by Russell, including major oils,
watercolors, drawings and bronzes—12 pieces
in total. The expected top lot is Approach of
White Men, an oil from 1897 featuring three
Native American figures on horseback on the
top of a small hill that overlooks the Judith
Will James (1892-1942), Hazing a Steer, charcoal on paper, 15 x 20" Estimate: $15/25,000 Basin in Montana. The painting demonstrates

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Jennifer Johnson, Iconic Big Sky Country (triptych), oil, 36 x 72" Estimate: $16/25,000

Russell’s deep empathy for the fate of the Native

American. “[Russell] was a brilliant action
painter, but reserved a special place in his heart
for quiet contemplation,” writes Russell scholar
Brian W. Dippie about the piece. “Indians
scanning the distance from a promontory were
stand-ins for his overview of a dreamland that
he made his own, and all the world’s.” The
museum notes that at least four previous Russell
paintings offer clues to this eventual work,
which itself foreshadowed similar themes that
would come up in paintings between 1910 and
1919. Approach of White Men is estimated to
sell for $1.25 million to $1.75 million.
Russell’s Indian with Bow, an oil from
around 1900, comes to the auction with one of
the more interesting provenances. It was likely
traded by Russell to a tavern owner for food. It
was later purchased for $15 in Montana, after
which it descended through a family. In 2015
the work turned up on Arizona Collectibles, an
Antiques Roadshow-like appraisal program,
during which Manitou Galleries owner Bob
Nelson immediately recognized Russell’s
John Fery (1859-1934), Avalanche Lake, oil, 22 x 27" Estimate: $17,5/20,000 brushstrokes and signature and valued it at
more than $750,000, to the astonishment of
the painting’s current owners. The following
year the work was sold at The Russell for
$800,000. The work is back at the auction this

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Tim Shinabarger, Wapiti, bronze, 19 x 19 x 9" Estimate: $5/6,000
year with an estimate of $600,000 to $800,000.
Another fascinating element of the work is that
a significant amount of photography exists of
a shirtless Russell, clad in Native American
clothing, posing in his studio holding this pose.
Other works include The Scout, an 1895
watercolor on paper, estimated at $225,000 to
$325,000; On the Warpath, another watercolor,
estimated at $50,000 to $75,000; and Stone-in-
Moccasin Woman, an oil portrait of a woman
and child, estimated at $70,000 to $100,000.
“All over the country collectors have seen
our successes with Russell works, and seen our
prices that we get, so we’re very fortunate we
can get so many great buyers and sellers who
trust us on Russell works,” Braaten says. “It’s
always fun for us as well, because every year
we see an amazing variety of Russell works. Just
this year alone I helped get two pieces included
in the Russell catalogue raisonné. People start
looking in their closets and realize they’ve had
something that has been handed down for
generations. We just never know what we’re
going to see next.”
In addition to the Russell works, the auction
will also offer a number of other important
works from both historic and contemporary
artists. Those highlights include pieces by Oleg
Stavorwsky, Jenness Cortez, R. Tom Gilleon,
Edgar Paxson, Jim Carson, Luke Frazier,
C. Michael Dudash, Olaf C. Seltzer, Andy
Thomas, Will James, John Fery, Jeremy Winborg,
Frank Schoonover and many others.
“With the contemporary artists, we get so
many standouts because we have an open call
for artwork, which is we find so many great
surprises each year. We must look at 1,000
pieces of artwork, but only select 200 pieces,”
Braaten adds. “The caliber of our artists reflects
the competitive process to get in. It ensure our
collectors and our audience are getting the best
of the best.”
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the C.M. Russell Museum
The Russell Auction Preview
February 22-March 21, Wednesday
through Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
C.M. Russell Museum, 400 13th Street
North, Great Falls, MT 59401
$9 / free for museum members
Russell Skull Society of Artists Suites
March 21-23, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Mansfield Convention Center, 2 Park Drive
South, Great Falls, MT 59401
Free public event
Art Preview Party
March 21, 5-7 p.m.
C.M. Russell Museum
$40 members / $50 non-members
Art in Action
March 22, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Meadow Lark Country Club, 300 Country
Club Boulevard, Great Falls, MT 59404
$50 members / $60 non-members
First Strike Auction
March 22, 6 p.m.
Mansfield Convention Center
$55 members / $65 non-members
Educational Symposium
March 23, 9 a.m.-noon
Mansfield Convention Center,
Missouri Room
Free public event
The Russell Runway Show:
Wearable Art of the American West
March 23, 12:30-2 p.m.
Meadow Lark Country Club
$40 members / $50 non-members
The Russell Live Auction
March 23, 5 p.m.
Mansfield Convention Center
$175 members / $200 non-members
(406) 727-1939
www.cmrussell.org/the-russell-event
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Collectors gather at the March in Montana dealer show and auction.

Auction Preview

Montana Mainstay
The 32nd annual March in Montana features more than 700 lots of
paintings and sculpture, cowboy collectibles and Native American art.

F
or the past 31 years, March in Montana
has been a must attend event in Great
Falls during the famed Western Art
Week when collectors from all parts of the
country gather to not only celebrate the birthday
of Charles M. Russell but also participate in
sales, exhibitions and paint outs. This year’s 32nd
annual March in Montana will happen March
21 to 23 at the Great Falls Elks Lodge #214,
which is known for its ties to Russell.
The three-day dealer show is a highlight of
the event, with seven exhibitors—including
March in Montana partners Coeur d’Alene
Galleries and Coeur d’Alene Art Auction—
showcasing artwork, ephemera and more.
Patrons can visit the dealers March 21 to 23
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The auction happens the
latter two days at 11 a.m.
“There will be over 700 lots, in which a
large percentage is paintings and sculpture
mostly historical,” says Ron Nicklas, of
Coeur d’Alene Galleries, which is partnering
with the sale for the first time. “There are
also weavings, Native American artifacts,
beadwork and cowboy collectibles. The
weavings this year are particularly strong.
We don’t have as many, but we have what
everyone feels is better quality.”
The fine art segment of the sale will be
led by Olaf C. Seltzer’s painting Trail of
the Diamond R, Great Divide, Montana,
which dates to around 1936. “That piece
was owned by the Great Falls Brewing
Company and was gifted to their president
when he retired in the late 1950s,” says
Nicklas. “The trail of the Diamond R was
incorporated in 1866 in Helena and ran
freight lines. It was most likely Montana’s
first transportation company.”

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Andy Thomas, Gunfight at Long Branch Saloon, oil on linen, 24 x 20" Edgar S. Paxson (1852-1919), Two Scouts Watching Custer’s
Estimate: $25/35,000 Command, Big Horn, oil on canvas, 30 x 24" Estimate: $50/75,000

The work, which has a presale estimate of

$70,000 to $90,000, is arriving at auction for
the very first time.
Glacier Park works have always been a
standout in the auction, with this year’s offerings
being no exception. There will be pieces from
John L. Clarke, Philip R. Goodwin, Julius Seyler,
Lone Wolf and more. One of the highlights
is a large-scale painting by John Fery titled
Swiftcurrent Lake (est. $15/25,000). Measuring
at nearly 4 by 9 feet, the work depicts a subject
matter that Fery had become known for. “It
was what put him on the map,” says Nicklas,
who adds that the artist’s time working for the
railroad in the area inspired the works.
Another historic piece in the sale is Edgar
S. Paxson’s Two Scouts Watching Custer’s
Command, Big Horn, which is expected to sell
between $50,000 and $75,000. “Paxson was
known for doing lots of different works of Gen.
Custer including masterpieces that are at major Auction spotters have fun during the show and sale.
museums,” notes Nicklas. “His Custer pieces

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Olaf C. Seltzer (1877-1957), Trail of the Diamond R, Great Divide, Montana,

oil on canvas, 24 x 36" Estimate: $70/90,000

Kenneth Riley (1919-2015), Winter Haven, oil on board, 24 x 36"

Estimate: $15/25,000

Kyle Polzin, Weathered Iron, oil on canvas, 8½ x 21½" Estimate: $15/25,000

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are highly collectible. A couple have come to
auction over the past few years that have sold
really well. This one was done in 1916 toward
the end of Paxson’s career.”
There also will be a collection of Western
illustrations coming to market. Nicklas shares,
“We have a couple of really nice pieces by
Frank McCarthy; an Outdoor Life cover piece
from 1942 by Joseph Kernan; and works
by [W.H.D.] Koerner and Guy Diehl, who
illustrated a lot of the old Western books
including those by Louis L’Amour.”
Contemporary works arriving at auction
include Andy Thomas’ Gunfight at Long
John Fery (1859-1934), Swiftcurrent Lake, oil on board, 46 x 95" Estimate: $15/25,000
Branch Saloon (est. $25/35,000) that depicts
a gunfight between “Cockeyed” Frank Loving
March in Montana
and Levi Richardson and a work by Kyle
Polzin titled Weathered Iron from the Joe March 21-23, 2019
& Doris Hinton Collection of Washington, • Dealer show, March 21-23,
Texas, that has a presale estimate of $15,000 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
to $25,000. Also for the sale Coeur d’Alene • Auction, March 22-23, 11 a.m.
Galleries will present around a dozen works Great Falls Elks Lodge #214, 500 First
by emerging artists such as Abigail Gutting, Avenue South, Great Falls, MT 59401
Colt Idol and Ken Yarus. “We feel it is (208) 664-2091, www.marchinmontana.com
important to give these guys an outlet, and we
think they have a bright future,” says Nicklas.
“We’re trying to get them in the public eye a
little bit.”
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An overview shot of the 2018

Russell Skull Society of Artists Suites.
Event Preview

Elevating the Energy

The Russell Skull Society of Artists Suites is one of the highlights of
Western Art Week, giving collectors the opportunity view additional
works and have one-on-one interactions with artists.

D
uring Russell Week, the modest town of Great Falls, Montana, Dunlap Cawdrey and Chad Poppleton, among others, as well as four
transforms into the Western art capital of the world—it’s a newcomers: John Phelps, Don Oelze, Jennifer Johnson and Troy Collins.
celebration of Charlie Russell and Western art as a whole, “The exhibition suites are a really unique opportunity to come and
with events occurring all across the city. While part of that lineup, of meet these artists all in one place...You can visit with these artists and
course, includes the C.M. Russell Museum’s annual Russell Exhibition have a great story to tell about the artwork you just collected over the
and Sale, another anticipated event is the Russell Skull Society of Artists weekend,” says Braaten. He adds that the Skull Society show and sale
Suites held at the Mansfield Convention Center from March 21 to 23. offers collectors even more art purchasing possibilities throughout the
“[The Russell Skull Society is] very much ingrained in all aspects
of the Russell Sale and event. We originated the Russell Skull
Society of Artists to really promote and celebrate the top tier
of artists that have a longstanding history of participation in
the auction events to benefit the Russell Museum,” says Duane
Braaten, director of art and philanthropy at the museum.
This secondary event bolsters the energy and excitement
of the Russell’s main exhibition and sale; the Russell Skull
Society of Artists Suites literally surrounds the room in which
the auction is held. “Just visually, it reminds us why we’re
gathered together. We’re surrounding ourselves with art. The
creative spirits from Charlie Russell to the artists of today,”
Braaten says.
Currently, the Russell Skull Society comprises 23 artists,
ushered into the esteemed group for their artistic merits and
history of support to the C.M. Russell Museum, says Braaten.
Members include Joe Kronenberg, R. Tom Gilleon, Nancy Artist Andy Thomas talks with a collector in his booth at last year’s event.

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 Chad Poppleton, Hazards of the Trail, oil on panel, 30 x 48"

Luke Frazier, Forest Sentinel, oil, 36 x 48" R. Tom Gilleon, Winter Lodge, oil, 36 x 36"

three-day event.
In Luke Frazier’s Forest Sentinel, included in
the Skull Society show, a formidable elk stands
with commanding presence in the center of
the composition. “Elk are some of the most
vocal of the deer family—the bull elk bugle
is a rugged and beautiful sound to hear in the
wild,” Frazier comments. “A herd bull gets his
moniker by being a bigger badass than the
other bulls. He’ll run off all suitors, and on
occasion, fight to the death for the breeding
rights of the females.”
“The event has become a cornerstone of my
career, and it was such an honor to be invited,
and among the inaugural members of the
[Russell Skull Society],” says Randy Van Beek,
who has participated in The Russell for more
than 25 years.
“It’s a huge honor,” Collins says of his recent
inclusion in the Russell Skull Society. “[I’m one
of the] landscape contemporary impressionist
guys. Most of the other guys are pretty
traditional Western artists, extremely good
artists, so it’s exciting because it’s different...I’m
really thankful that they’re allowing me to be
a part of it.” One of Collins’ pieces, Dreaming
in Color, features the artist’s classic aspen
landscapes. “It’s not about the colors but the
relationships of the colors,” he says. “Colors
are only beautiful when they’re neighboring
something that complements them. It all has to
do with the harmonies you’re using.”
The Russell Skull Society of Artists Suites will
run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. all three days and is
free to the public.
Russell Skull Society
of Artists Suites
March 21-23, 2019
Mansfield Convention Center,
2 Park Drive South, Great Falls, MT 59401
(406) 727-8787,
www.cmrussell.org/the-russell-event

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Steven Lang, Confrontation, oil, 30 x 40"

Event Preview

Best in the West

Montana Masters kicks-off this March, bringing the country’s top
Western artists together under one roof.

T
his spring, Bitterroot Frames is
bringing its inaugural Montana
Masters to Great Falls, Montana,
as part of the highly-anticipated Out West Art
Show & Sale. No stranger to the three-day
event, Bitterroot Frames will host the art show
and sale alongside its popular companion,
Montana Miniatures, which launched in 2017.
Using a similar concept as Montana Miniatures,
the show features 26 of the best Western artists
in the country. Hosted in a convention room
at Heritage Inn, Montana Masters offers visitors
a rare opportunity to view a wide selection of
different works for sale while chatting with top
Western artists in an intimate setting.
Zach Cheetham, who owns Bitterroot
Frames and has been working with Out West
Art Show & Sale for the past few years, says that
he started Montana Masters with the goal of
bringing top artists to the event while creating
a welcoming experience for artists and visitors
alike. “The inspiration was to bring some of
the notoriety of the big pieces to the Heritage
Inn and see if we could gather some of the top
artists in one spot,” he says. “Over the years
from doing this framing business, I’ve been
fortunate to establish really great relationships
with all the artists. Since we don’t necessarily
have commitments with specific artists like
other galleries sometimes do, I kind of had free-
range on which artists to invite.” Cheetham adds
that this year’s Montana Masters will feature
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elaborates, “It’s a really rare opportunity to see
so many great artists in one room. It’s great to
be able to tell a story about a painting on your
wall, so opportunities like this to meet the artist
are really special.”
The show’s roster includes Skull Society
artists and other premier Western artists,
including Oleg Stavrowsky, Troy Collins,
Jennifer Johnson, Brenna Tyler and Mark
Keathley, to name a few.
“Whether portraying a hard working farmer,
a Native American perched majestically on
his horse, or a serene landscape of North
America with meandering wildlife, my style
and my desire is to bring calmness and rest
to the viewer,” Keathley says of his paintings.
“I typically paint in a detailed manner which
exposes the intricacies of human design in
clothes or beadwork, or the beauty of an animal
or face. I also incorporate a broader brushed
style to point out direction and movement.”
Artist Brenna Tyler will be unveiling her
limited edition bronze sculpture, Sky Dancer,
Brent Cotton, Entering the Canyon, oil, 32 x 40"
for the first time at the show. “Encompassing
nature’s beauty, Sky Dancer represents the wide
open spaces, expansive sky and wild spirit of Cheetham says that while Montana Masters will
Montana,” Tyler says. feature primarily oil paintings, visitors will will
be surprised at the variety of artworks offered,
including bronze and wood sculpture. “I think
the really cool thing about these shows is that
every year you go, there’s a new emerging
artist,” he says. “I’ve succumbed to the art-
buying bug myself—I don’t think I could go to
Great Falls and not buy something.”

Brenna Tyler,
Sky Dancer, bronze,
36 x 10 x 35"

Montana Masters
March 20-23, 2019
Heritage Inn, 1700 Fox Farm Road, Great
Falls, MT 59404
(406) 363-7693, www.bitterrootframes.com
Don Oelze, Into the Sun, oil, 42 x 32"

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Artists take part in the Quick Finish competition.

Art Show Preview

Out and About

Western art’s big weekend returns this March in Great Falls, Montana.

J ourneying to the Heritage Inn from March 20 through

March 23, the Out West Art Show and Sale will bring more
than 140 great Western artists to one spot. As one of the
most bustling art events in Montana, it’s no surprise that the four-day
long affair attracts top-tier talent. “The Out West Art Show has been
the gold standard for Western art for 48 years,” says Chip Jones, one
of the organizers of the event. Jones’ work will also be included in
this year’s show. He adds, “Each artist prides themselves on creating
their own private gallery for the four-day event and continues to
have playful competition with each other to see who can present
their work in just the right environment.”
For those unfamiliar with the event—which is free to the
public—each featured artist converts a hotel room into a studio
where visitors can view artwork while chatting with the artists
themselves. Out West Art Show will also feature a “quick draw”
competition, where a select group of artists have one hour to
create an original piece of art, as well as a “quick finish” event,
where artists have a limited amount of time to put the finishing
touches on their works.
“Both (events) are filled with energy and excitement
as patrons get to rub shoulders with true masters of their Karen Young, Range Master, oil on canvas, 48 x 60"

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Left: Greg Eiselein, Jamie on Barney, oil on linen, 18 x 24"; Middle: Karen Young, Mountain Goat, oil on canvas, 30 x 15";
Right:Kim Randleas, Abeyance, oil on copper, 24 x 18"

Out West Art

Show & Sale
March 20-23, 2019
Heritage Inn
1700 Fox Farm Road,
Great Falls, MT 59404
www.outwestartshow.net

Montana Miniatures
March 20-23

Montana Masters
March 20-23
Left: Bobbie K. Carlyle, Pace the Wind, bronze, 27"; Right: Jerry Crandall, Cow-Boy, oil, 24 x 30”
Montana Watercolor Society
Art Show
March 21-23, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
craft and bid on their work directly afterwards,” truly the master of his home on the range.”
says Jones. Among the featured artists are Ron Ukrainetz, Opening Reception:
Other highlights from the multi-day event include Michael Blessing, Greg Eiselein, Jerry Crandall, Kim March 20, 5 p.m.-7 p.m.

auctions, artist awards, a raffle and a performance by
Native American dancer and rapper Supaman. Other
events, including Montana Miniatures and Montana
Masters, will join forces with the Out West Art Show
and Sale the same weekend.
“In my exhibition room at the Out West Art
Show guests will be able to see my latest piece,
Range Master, which depicts a majestic male bison
captured in his native plains environment,” shares
participating artist Karen Young. “You can almost feel
the different hair textures on his massive frame and
even count the blades of grass at his hooves. He is
Randleas, Bobbie Carlyle, Daniel Parker, Randy Quick Draw
Van Beek, Jerry McKellar, Gary Lynn Roberts, March 22, 2 p.m.
Paul Dykman, Troy Collins, Jennifer Johnson, Joe
Quick Finish
Kronenberg and many others.
March 23, 2 p.m.
Galleries including Wrangler Gallery, Samarah
Gallery, Dana Gallery and Bitterroot Frames will Performance by Supaman
also be participating in the show. March 23, noon
“With over 140 of the highest quality artists in the
country converging at Heritage Inn, it’s a sight you
don’t want to miss,” says Jones.
For more information about Out West Art Show
and Sale, visit www.outwestartshow.net.

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Western Women
Artwork from some of today’s top women artists working in
Western subject matter are selected to be a part of the annual
Cowgirl Up! exhibition and sale.

T
he Desert Caballeros
Western Museum’s
Cowgirl Up! Art from the
Other Half of the West Exhibition
and Sale turns the spotlight
on the many talented women
artists of today. Bringing more
than 200 paintings, drawings
and sculptures to Wickenburg,
Arizona, Cowgirl Up! brings to
light a more complete picture of
the Western art world. This major
event is recognized across the
country, currently celebrating 14
years running. Artists featured in
the 2019 show include Harper
Henry, Sue Krzyston, Mejo Okon, event. “I like to tell them that the accomplishments and love being
Sandy Graves, Sam Woolcott, show is beautifully displayed. back together again,” she says.
Judith Durr, Sheila Cottrell, I say that the group of women is Arizona-based artist Sherry
Stephanie Hartshorn and Lisa very close and very welcoming Blanchard Stuart’s work
Danielle, among many others. to newcomers into the show. illustrates the many human
Opening weekend, which We rejoice at the award winners subjects, landscapes and wildlife
begins on March 29, will and celebrate each other’s of the American West. “A lifelong
transform Frontier Street into
an energetic affair with catered
dinners, dancing, live auctions
and an artists’ quick draw.
Sculptor Rebecca Tobey,
whose creations often depict
wildlife in bronze and ceramics,
says she enjoys talking with
friends and clients about the

Artist Stephanie Revennaugh with her work at last year’s Cowgirl Up!. The 2018 Cowgirl Up! opening night awards dinner and live auction.

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Mejo Okon, Your Move, oil, 36 x 48”

Shelby Keefe, Wyoming Dusk, oil on linen, 22 x 28” Rebecca Tobey, A Friendly Game of Tag,
ceramic, 31 x 25½ x 8½”

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love for the American West

inspires me to paint. My subject
matter may vary, but for the
most part I seek interesting light
qualities and compositions that
come from a direct observation
of nature,” she says. “As an artist
I feel privileged and honored
to be part of such a wonderful
venue for women artists.”
One of the many paintings
featured in the show is Aspen
Glow, an oil by Joni Falk that
features deep evergreens and
aspens in bright, hyper-pigmented
yellows. “As a participant of the
inaugural debut of Cowgirl Up!,
I have been proud to be included
with fellow women artists in a
history-making exhibition. It has
been a defining moment in my art
career. I am impressed with the
continued growing popularity of
the show,” Falk says.
Northern California native
Maura Allen’s distinctive style
of silhouetted cowboys and
cowgirls on horseback are

Stephanie Hartshorn, Diesel

Shade, oil on panel, 24 x 24”

Harper Henry, Tapestry, oil, 36 x 36” Rebecca Tobey, Prometheus, bronze, ed. 75, 19 x 9 x 9”

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 Our 2019 Participating Artists
Visit westernmuseum.org or call
928.684.2272 for opening weekend
14 t h A n n u a l tickets, March 29-31, 2019
Maura Allen Shelby Keefe
Suzanne Baker Susan Kliewer
Heather Beary Sue Krzyston

Art from the Kathy Beekman

Heather Burton
Laurie J. Lee
Jan Mapes
Other Half of the West Stephanie Campos
Jennifer Cavan
Sharon Markwardt
Deanne Lawrence McKeown
Invitational Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey Barbara Meikle
Sonja Caywood Krystii Melaine
Exhibition & Sale
Sherry Cobb Marcia Molnar
Rox Corbett Julie Nighswonger
Sheila Cottrell Susanne Nyberg
March 29 - May 12, 2019 Lisa Danielle Mejo Okon
Judith Durr Julie Oriet
Joni Falk Karen Petrovich
Sheri Farabaugh Jessica James Rabins
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Deborah Copenhaver Fellows Stephanie Revennaugh

Jessica Garrett Samantha Sherry
21 N. Frontier Street • Wickenburg, AZ 85390 Linda Glover Gooch Sharon Standridge
Lisa Gordon Sherry Blanchard Stuart
928-684-2272 • westernmuseum.org Lindsey Bittner Graham Gail Jones Sundell
Sandy Graves Carol Swinney
Ann Hanson Karmel Timmons
Erin Hanson Rebecca Tobey
Stephanie Hartshorn V….Vaughan
Harper Henry Liz Wolf
Micqaela Jones Sam Woolcott
Peggy Judy Dinah Worman
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Maura Allen, Tres Amigos, acrylic on panel, 40 x 40” Maura Allen, Ode to the Canyon, acrylic on panel, 48 x 34”

Barbara Meikle, Tending Her Garden, oil on canvas, 30 x 30” Sam Woolcott, Wind To Water, charcoal Sherry Blanchard Stuart,
and mixed media on paper, 60 x 48” Hunting Medicine Plants, oil on
linen, 34 x 26”

instantly recognizable. “Song, to the American West, both past and new, real and romanticized, impressionist painter Shelby
cinema, literature and, of course, and present. That’s the focus of magic and myth,” says the artist. Keefe, a vast stretch of road
art, open our hearts and minds my work, that continuum of old In Wyoming Dusk, an oil by traveling into a vibrant sunset

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Joni Falk, Aspen Glow, oil on board, 6 x 9” Sherry Blanchard Stuart, Apache Crown
Dance, oil on linen, 36 x 30”

Judith Durr, Saddle Up, oil, 30 x 40”

Joni Falk, Along The Salt River, oil on board, 9 x 12” Sue Krzyston, A Rich Heritage, oil, 30 x 24”

creates a strong sense of depth. visiting my sister in the Lander, captivated by a particular road, piece titled Unbridled Tranquility,
“This year, most of my work Wyoming, area,” she says. During which became the inspiration also included in the Cowgirl Up!
comes from inspiration I got when her travels, she was continuously for several paintings, including a exhibition.

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Lisa Danielle, Ancient Arizona, acrylic, 15 x 30”

Far left:
Sheila
Cottrell, Henry
Wickenburg at the
Bar FX Ranch, oil,
30 x 36”

Left:
Sandy Graves,
Bronc, bronze,
16 x 9 x 4”

“I don’t know which is the most exciting part of Cowgirl Up! Art from the Other Half
Cowgirl Up!: the miniatures show with little gems of of the West Exhibition and Sale
paintings to tease the appetite of the collector, the ‘big
show’ which can literally take your breath away as you
March 29-May 12, 2019
tour the room, or the Sunday morning breakfast and • Exhibition Preview and Miniatures Katherine Benton-Cohen, Georgetown
two-hour paint-out where the artists start and finish a Sale Preview, March 29, 2-3 p.m. University, March 30, 11 a.m.
painting right in front of your eyes,” says artist Barbara • Miniatures Cash & Carry Sale • Opening night “Bash & Bid”
and Artist & Patrons Party, Sale, Awards Dinner and Live
Meikle. “After seven years of being included I still get
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butterflies to be with some of the best women artists in
• Exhibition Preview, March • Chuck Wagon Breakfast,
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• Lecture and Conversation with Dr.
Exhibition and Sale continues through May 12.
Desert Caballeros Western Museum, 21 N. Frontier Street, Wickenburg, AZ 85390,
(928) 684-2272, www.westernmuseum.org

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“Elegant Past”, oil, 24 x 18”

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Featuring nationally recognized artists
Steve Atkinson ❒ Wayne Baize ❒ Teal Blake ❒ Dan Bodelson ❒ Nancy Boren ❒ Tyler Crow ❒ Jim Dolan ❒ Mikel Donahue
Loren Entz ❒ Tony Eubanks ❒ Deborah Fellows ❒ Bruce Greene ❒ Martin Grelle ❒ Terry Cooke Hall ❒ Whitney Hall ❒ Harold Holden
Oreland C. Joe Sr. ❒ Greg Kelsey ❒ TD Kelsey ❒ Mehl Lawson ❒ Krystii Melaine ❒ Herb Mignery ❒ Bill Nebeker ❒ Gary Niblett
Jim Norton ❒ Dustin Payne ❒ Bruce Peil ❒ Clark Kelley Price ❒ Paul Puckett ❒ Grant Redden ❒ Jason Rich
Ron Riddick ❒ Aaron Schuerr ❒ Jason Scull ❒ Donna Howell-Sickles ❒ Kathy Tate ❒ Joshua Tobey
Ezra Tucker ❒ Nelson Tucker ❒ Don Weller ❒ Xiang Zhang

Reception with the Artists

March 23 | 5-7 p.m.
at the Bosque Arts Center
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 State of the Art:
COLORADO
The sculpture garden at the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs. Courtesy VisitCOS.com.
A
mountainous region known for
its multitude of outdoor activities,
stellar ski resorts, craft breweries and
Steamboat Springs undeniably hipster vibes, it’s no surprise that
Denver the state of Colorado has an electrifying art
Breckenridge
Parker
Evergreen scene as well. The terrain itself is diverse, from
Vail
Elbert arid deserts to river canyons to the snow-
Basalt capped Rocky Mountains, and while there
Colorado is plenty to explore in the Centennial State,
Springs
Western art lovers will rejoice in the wide
COLORADO
range of galleries, museums, artists and events
showcasing Western sensibilities.
Pueblo, Colorado, in the southern area of
the state, is home to a variety of arts events
throughout the year, including First Fridays
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at the Art Center, hosted by the Sangre de
Cristo Arts & Conference Center. During
these evenings, visitors can partake in self-
guided tours of the art galleries, restaurants
and businesses located within the Creative
Corridor in downtown Pueblo. In addition,
the Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center
holds its annual Representing the West: A
New Frontier running through May 26. In this
juried art show, attendees can view artwork in
a variety of mediums. Works in the exhibition
reflect the changing culture and myths of the
American West and include non-traditional
subject matter, materials and concepts as well
as traditional depictions of the West.
 The entrance to the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. Courtesy VisitCOS.com.

The cattle drives are a prominent event in Colorado. Courtesy VisitCOS.com.

Showcasing the work of both living and deceased artists, Claggett/

Rey Gallery, located in Vail, displays a range of mediums including
paintings, sculpture and photography. Artists represented at the gallery
include Joe Beeler (1931-2006), James Reynolds (1926-2010), Tim
Shinabarger, Oreland Joe, Walt Gonske and Jim Morgan, among dozens
of others.
And we would be remiss not to mention the Greeley Stampede’s
historic Stampede Western Invitational Art Exhibit & Sale, a beloved
Public art on view during Art on the Streets in downtown Colorado
staple in the state of Colorado, featuring more than 200 works from Springs. Photo by Mike Pach. Courtesy VisitCOS.com.
some of the top artists of today working in Western subject matter.
Throughout the pages of this special section, collectors will find Gallery, Stephanie Hartshorn, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and John
artwork and information on a variety of other galleries, artists, events Pyson, who is organizing a retrospective exhibition for late nature
and organizations, including Steamboat Art Museum, Wild Horse artist Gene Diodato.

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State of the Art: COLORADO

100 E. Meadow Drive, Suite 7 “The art scene in Vail has always been vibrant
Vail, CO 81657, (970) 476-9350 and lively, and it feels the effects of the economy
www.claggettrey.com
Claggett/Rey Gallery is celebrating
as it ebbs and flows. It offers visitors and locals a
30 years of representing the finest in broad spectrum of creative genres to inspire and
traditional American art in the Vail absorb from Western to modern and everything in
Valley. Building fine art collections
and respected friendships has been between.”
the passion of owner Bill Rey and his - Bill Rey, owner, Claggett/Rey Gallery
family of associates. From miniature
to monumental and from private
to public collections, relationships
are the key to this gallery’s success.
Come enjoy the gallery’s latest
acquisitions from artists coast to
coast as they continue sharing their
love of art. During the month of
March, the gallery will open an
exhibition featuring landscapes
from many of its artists. Claggett/Rey
Gallery will also be celebrating its
30th anniversary with an all-gallery
exhibition in late July.
“The art scene in Vail has always
been vibrant and lively, and it feels
the effects of the economy as it
ebbs and flows,” says Rey.  “It offers
visitors and locals a broad spectrum
of creative genres to inspire and
absorb from Western to modern and
everything in between. As we sell
and resell great works of art, there
is always the common thread, ‘truly
great art sells.’ Live with it and enjoy
it, and if you pay attention and look
for quality and educate yourself,
Claggett/Rey Gallery, Headwaters—Fremont Creek, oil, 24 x 32”, by Lanny Grant.
you will have the comfort of visual
dividends for years to come.”

Claggett/Rey Gallery, Aspen Alchemy, Claggett/Rey Gallery, Tatanka, oil, 8 x 10”, by Lanny Grant.
oil, 11 x 14”, by Lanny Grant.

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Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Grandfather, acrylic, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Young Bill Cody, oil, 24 x 36", by Andy Thomas.
60 x 47½", by Kevin Red Star.

Leslie Hindman
“Our Denver
Auctioneers
1024 Cherokee Street, Suite 200, saleroom and
Denver, CO 80204, (303) 825-1855, auctions attract
denver@lesliehindman.com
www.lesliehindman.com collectors not
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers specializes only from the
in fine Western and American art from
Rocky Mountain
early historic masters to some of today’s
outstanding contemporary artists. In two region but
annual live auctions, the department the greater
showcases exciting examples of Western
Southwest.
paintings, drawings and bronzes, authentic
cowboy antiques and decorative objects, We are seeing
as well as Native American art and a significant
artifacts. Headquartered in Leslie Hindman
Auctioneers’ Denver and Scottsdale offices,
amount of
Arts of the American West specialists are interest in
uniquely positioned to seek and procure the more
quality consignments throughout the West
and Southwest. An upcoming auction to look
contemporary
forward to is the Arts of the American West Western, wildlife
auction, which will take place on May 2 in
and Native
Denver. “Our Denver saleroom and auctions
attract collectors not only from the Rocky American art
Mountain region but the greater Southwest,” along with the
says Kate Harrington, the business
historic pieces.”
development director of Western art. “We
are seeing a significant amount of interest in — Kate Harrington,
the more contemporary Western, wildlife and business development
Native American art along with the historic director of Western
pieces. Our May Arts of the American West art, Leslie Hindman
auction will be comprised of works by: Auctioneers
Joseph Henry Sharp, Emil Bisttram, Wilhelm
Kuhnert, Andy Thomas, Kevin Red Star, Earl Leslie Hindman Auctioneers,
Biss and Ray Swanson, among many others.” The Colors of Hope, oil,
72 x 40", by Elias Rivera.

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Stephanie Hartshorn, Rural Line, oil on panel, 12 x 36"

Stephanie Hartshorn, Cypress and White, oil on panel, 10 x 10" Stephanie Hartshorn, 6&40, oil on panel, 24 x 36"

Stephanie Hartshorn
stephanie@studiohartshorn.com,
www.studiohartshorn.com
As a fifth-generation Coloradan, artist
Stephanie Hartshorn has “both a lineage and a
rich legacy that greatly influence my work.”
“My journey to art actually began with
schooling in chemical engineering, took
a heavy right turn to architecture and
ultimately led to spontaneously signing up
for a painting class one summer,” she says.
“I spent the next handful of years weaving
time in for it until the day came that I took
‘the leap.’”
In a nutshell, what Hartshorn paints is
rural America.
Hartshorn adds, “It’s a fairly broad
umbrella that spans ranch and farm country
to rail yards to images of Route 66. The
more I’ve painted the more my connection
to the West’s open space and the deep
roots (agriculture, travel, memory) behind
it has grown. I consider my work a type of
portraiture…portraits of place. In my often
layered and scraped-off oils, I’m looking for
ways to capture the texture and character of
this aging landscape.”
You can find Hartshorn at Cowgirl Up! at the
end of March, Door County Plein Air Festival in
July and various other events in between.

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The OPA exhibit at the Steamboat Art Museum. Photographer: Rod Hanna.

Steamboat Art Museum, Reflections of a Small Pond, oil on linen, by James Morgan. Steamboat Art Museum, Mostly Sunny, oil on
linen, by James Morgan.

Steamboat Art Museum
807 Lincoln Avenue, Steamboat Springs,
CO 80487, (970) 870-1755,
www.steamboatartmuseum.org
Established in 2006, the Steamboat Art
Museum has developed a strong reputation
presenting original artwork by living masters
whose work is relevant to the culture
and heritage of the West. Housed in the
iconic First National Bank/Rehder Building
(1905/1920), which is on the National
Register of Historic Places, the museum is
located in the heart of Steamboat Springs’
Creative District. The recent 5,000-square-
foot renovation pays tribute to the building’s
rich history and provides an exquisite setting
for its rotating exhibitions, including group
shows like the upcoming American Women
Artists exhibit Looking West, on view from
May 24 to September 2, and the current
James Morgan retrospective exhibit Moments
in the Wild, which runs through April 13.

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State of the Art: COLORADO

(719) 338-8853, pyson50@yahoo.com
A retrospective running through February 28
explores the many works of artist Eugene “Gene”
J. Diodato (1935-2013), depicting the beauty and
allure of nature. Having spent the last 25 years
of his life in nature, mostly painting the Upper
Arkansas Valley, Diodato focused on painting that
was real, governed by an adherence to the truth
that nature displayed. Captivated by light and its
effect on environment since childhood, Diodato
reveled in the moments when light transformed the
world from the normal into the transcendent. His
work has been described as having a “quality of
gentleness.” The subtlety of color in his work and his
choice of subject matter never demand attention,
but rather, appeal to the unique perspectives and
insights of each viewer. Organized by John Pyson,
the retrospective is held at the Salida SteamPlant
Event Center, Joshua Been Studio/Gallery, Peak View
Mortgage, Inc. and Box of Bubbles.

Wild Horse Gallery

Shirley Stocks and Richard Galusha,
owners, (970) 879-5515
wildhorsegallery@wildhorsegallery.com
www.wildhorsegallery.com
Wild Horse Gallery is a traditional fine art gallery
specializing in realism and impressionism. Located
in the year-round destination resort of Steamboat
Springs, Colorado, the gallery celebrates its 20th
anniversary this year. Wild Horse Gallery is a
“full service” gallery that includes individual art
consultations for new, existing or second homes
along with delivery and installation of artwork.
Their personal connection with the client is critical
throughout the art acquisition process. Wild Horse
Gallery also facilitates commissions and large
monumental sculptures for private individuals and
community needs. Co-owner Richard Galusha, OPA,
will have an upcoming retrospective exhibition titled
An Artist’s Journey at the Steamboat Art Museum in
winter 2019 to 2020. The show will feature more than
100 of his paintings, including many plein air pieces
from his travels around the world, Westerns and
portraits. Work by his high school art students as well
as portraits he created of them will be featured in the
Youth Gallery. Contact either the Wild Horse Gallery
or the Steamboat Art Museum for more information.

Top: Gene Diodato, Untitled, oil on paper

mounted on board, 12 x 14”

Middle: An outdoor view of Wildhorse

Gallery in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Right: Wild Horse Gallery, Sage, oil,

30 x 40”, by Richard Galusha.

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The Greeley Art Show staff. Trish Stevenson, Getting Sideways, acrylic, 12 x 16"

Stampede Western some of the finest in Western paintings the exhibit exceeded $1,000,000 in total art
and sculpture. Visitors are encouraged to sales. Revenue from artwork purchased goes
Invitational Art
browse the diverse range of art exhibits as directly to scholarships in Weld County for
Exhibit and Sale
well as meet and greet the artists throughout high school seniors through the Stampede
(970) 356-7787
the event. The exhibit features outstanding Foundation. The exhibit is free to view with
www.greeleystampede.org
artists from around the country and more Greeley Stampede admission and remains
The 20th annual Stampede Western
than 200 pieces of artwork are showcased. open to the public throughout the Stampede,
Invitational Art Exhibit and Sale in Greeley,
The art show sees more than 250,000 June 26 to July 7.
Colorado, has a rich history showcasing
Stampede visitors each year, and in 2013

Retrospective
Salida SteamPlant Event Center
Paquette Gallery and Annex Gallery

Joshua Been Studio/Gallery

139 West First Street

Peak View Mortgage, Inc.

151 West First Street

Box of Bubbles
206 ‘E’ Street
Gene Diodato, “Luminous Silence Speaking”, oil on board, 8 x 10”

RECEPTION AT ALL LOCATIONS

February 1, 5-7 pm
Show runs February 1-28
“Our Region’s Legendary Plein Air Painter”

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 Robyn Cook
Pencil Drawings

Shy Guy Wicked

J.E. Cauthen & Sons • jecauthen.com • Fredericksburg, Texas

Cherry’s Art Gallery • cherrysartgallery.com • Carthage, Missouri
 COLLECTOR'S FOCUS
WESTERN LANDSCAPES

W I D E
O P E N
S PAC E S
BY JOHN O’HERN
1. Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, Storm Passing at Twilight - New Mexico, oil on panel, 10 x 14", by Jeff Aeling.

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2. Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Far Bank Cottonwoods, oil on panel, 18 x 24", by Walt Gonske. 3. Trailside Galleries, Vestiges of Winter, oil on canvas,
24 x 48", by Robert Moore. 4. Sullivan Goss, Point Lobos Veteran Tree (Monterey), oil on cardstock, 9¾ x 14", by Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932).
O
ne of the earliest references to the
adage that March “comes in like a
Lion, goes out like a Lamb” occurred in
1732. Its interpretations are nearly as varied as
March weather. At the beginning of March it’s
winter. At the end, it’s spring. Some note that
in late-February, early-March, the constellation
Leo (the lion) is rising in the east and by the
end of the month Aries (the ram) is setting in
the west.
The in-betweenness of the season can
be seen in Robert Moore’s Vestiges of
Winter. The snow has begun to melt in the
mountains, and the trees and grasses of the
valley are still dormant, getting ready to
burst into bloom. Brought up in Idaho and
living in the Snake River Basin, Moore often
paints in plein air, absorbing the energy of a
scene and expressing it in his characteristic
lush brushstrokes and often vivid color.
The landscape of the farmland in the basin
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gradually rises to mountain peaks, giving him
a constant source of inspiration.
The Western landscape is also as varied
as March weather—prairies, mountains,
deserts and even the sea. Lockwood de Forest
(1850-1932) grew up and was educated
among the cultural elite of the east coast’s
Gilded Age. His great uncle, by marriage, was
Frederic Church (1826-1900), who became
his mentor. After a career in interior design he
settled in Santa Barbara, California, captivated
by the light and rugged coast. Point Lobos
Veteran Tree (Monterey), 1911, is a dramatic
composition of a dramatic site. The Veteran
Tree is a Monterey cypress and was about 100
years old when de Forest painted it. Today it
sits even more precariously on the rocky coast.
De Forest placed it as a horizontal element
in a diagonal composition, its branches just
touching the horizon, anchoring the image as
it is anchored to the rocks.
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The vast skies of the West, especially those
of northern New Mexico, are the setting for
some of nature’s most dramatic weather events
and captivating cloud forms. Jeff Aeling’s
Storm Passing at Twilight - New Mexico is one
of those scenes. Aeling often paints in the
“golden hour” just before sunset. “It’s the time
of day when things get a lot more interesting,”
he says. He adds, “I want to capture transitory
light.” Whether painting on Long Island or in
Colorado, his low horizons invite the viewer
into the scene to experience the drama of the
changing light and weather.
Walt Gonske lives in Taos, New Mexico,
and captures one of the area’s two fall foliage
seasons in Far Bank Cottonwoods. After the
aspens in the mountains have finished their
display of yellow, the valley cottonwoods
bring their own. Growing along the river
banks, they form yellow ribbons through the
landscape. Gonske expresses the landscape
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with paint—not paint imitating reality,

but paint acting as paint. He says, “Each
stroke of paint carries emotion and
power. I work in a loose, painterly style
in part because I want the viewer to
see the process and not hide it behind
‘finish.’ For the viewer to maybe even
feel how a particular piece of paint was
put down.”
Within the pages of this special
section, collectors will find a variety of
depictions of the dynamic and spirited
terrain of the West.
“Viewers should really take the
time to study landscape works and
allow themselves to get lost in the
complexities of the compositions,”
says Duane Braaten, director of art
and philanthropy at the C.M. Russell
Museum in Great Falls, Montana.
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5. Briscoe Western Art Museum, Cimmerian Whispers, oil on canvas, 60 x 80", by Curt Walters. 6. Briscoe Western Art Museum, West of Fort
Laramie on the Oregon Trail, oil on canvas, 24 x 36", by Charles Fritz. 7. C.M. Russell Museum, Dreaming in Color, oil, 30 x 48",
by Troy Collins. 8. C.M. Russell Museum, Guardians of the Badlands, oil, 30 x 40", by Todd Connor.

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“The best landscape works can not only stop

a viewer in their tracks in a gallery, but they
stick with us and heighten our awareness
of the world around us.” The C.M. Russell
Museum’s major annual event, The Russell:
An Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the C.M.
Russell Museum, features Western works from
a wide range of talented artists and presents a
unique opportunity to admire all of the various
depictions of the West.
Another prominent yearly event is
Trappings of Texas at Museum of the Big
Bend. The show “began 33 years ago with
the idea to showcase contemporary Western
art alongside custom cowboy gear. This show
has launched many Western artists’ careers
including memberships into the elite Western
art groups the Cowboy Artists of America and
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9. Museum of the Big Bend, Clouds Over Big Bend, oil on canvas, 20 x 24", by Tom Paulson. 10. Museum of the Big Bend, Something’s Out There, oil on
canvas, 12 x 16", by Tom Paulson. 11. Gene Diodato, Untitled, watercolor, 12 x 16". Courtesy John Pyson. 12. Darcie Peet, Cascades of Cool, oil, 48 x 24"
Traditional Cowboy Arts Association,” says
museum director Mary Bones. “For collectors,
this is a wonderful opportunity to meet these
artists and to purchase works from both the
up-and-coming and established artists all the
while being in the beautiful Big Bend ranching
country of Texas!”
Darcie Peet finds inspiration for her
landscapes through direct experiences with
nature. Her oil Cascades of Cool came about
during a hike through Glacier National Park
where she encountered an unnamed cascade
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Briscoe Western
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210 W. Market Street, San Antonio, TX 78205
(210) 299-4499, www.briscoemuseum.org
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400 13th Street North, Great Falls, MT 59401
(406) 727-8787, www.cmrussell.org
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between St. Mary’s Falls and Virginia Falls,
spilling into “aqua, jewel-like waters.” She
describes the scene: “Late afternoon sun
glances over and steps down the boulders to
the right where there is a scraggly, thin pine
barely holding on in the ledge rock, catching
sun along with spindly grasses scattered
amongst the cracks.” Peet says that sharing the
stories of her artwork with collectors allows
her to form meaningful connections with
them, often having shared similar experiences
in their backcountry adventures.
Darcie Peet
www.darciepeet.com
www.facebook.com/darciepeet
John Pyson
(719) 338-8853, pyson50@yahoo.com
Mark Sublette Medicine
Man Gallery
6872 E. Sunrise Drive, Suite 130, Tucson,
AZ 85750, (800) 422-9382, (520) 722-7798
office@medicinemangallery.com
www.medicinemangallery.com
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The inspiration behind the collection
of artwork at the Briscoe Western Art
Museum comes from the rich tradition of
the American West, says vice president
Liz Jackson. The museum, located in San
Antonio, Texas, educates the public through
various programs, exhibitions and events
throughout the year that reflect the traditions
and heritage of the region. Each work in its
collection supports the museum’s mission:
“the preservation of the art, history, and
culture of the American West.”
Museum of the Big Bend
400 N. Harrison Street C-101, Alpine, TX 79832
(432) 837-8730, www.museumofthebigbend.com
Nedra Matteucci Galleries
1075 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501
(505) 982-4631, inquiry@matteucci.com
www.matteucci.com
Sullivan Goss
11 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(805) 730-1460, www.sullivangoss.com
Trailside Galleries
Jackson Hole, WY, and Scottsdale, AZ
info@trailsidegalleries.com, www.trailsidegalleries.com
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“Forward Progress”, oil on canvas, 40 x 60”

Ovando, MT | 435 714-0611

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 Located along the iconic San Antonio River Walk,
the Briscoe Western Art Museum proudly presents
the Night of Artists Exhibition, Live Auction & Sale.
Featuring over 280 works, including paintings and
sculpture from 80 of the country’s top Western artists,
this 18th annual event is not to be missed.

OPENING WEEKEND Greg Beecham, When Orange and Black Clash, Oil, 40” x 40”
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 UPCOMING SHOW S HOW LO C AT ION JAC K S ON HOL E , W Y
Up to 10 works
March 4-16, 2019
Trailside Galleries
130 E. Broadway Avenue
Jackson Hole, WY 83001
(307) 733-3186
www.trailsidegalleries.com ROBERT DUNCAN

Beauty in the journey

I
n his latest series of paintings, Utah-
based artist Robert Duncan is spotlighting
the moments in life where beauty is on
full display. These are awe-inspiring moments
when both the viewer and the people in his
works take a moment to pause and enjoy
everything that surrounds them. “I’ve been
thinking a lot about the value of beauty in our
lives and noticing the everyday things around
us that lift us up through the beauty we see
and the beauty of simple things,” Duncan says.
March 4 through 16, Duncan will display
these newest paintings in the solo exhibition
Beauty in the Journey at Trailside Galleries in
Jackson Hole, Wyoming. On view will be his
classic Western scenes, images of rural farm life
and wildlife compositions.
One of the standout pieces in the show
is Spread Your Wings, which depicts his
granddaughters on horseback, wind through their
hair and arms outstretched. “I hope [the painting]
gives a lot of other girls the feeling of freedom
and flying in the wind that my granddaughters
were feeling at the time,” he says.
A Welcome Sight is another work featuring
one of his granddaughters, who when pulling
her sled through the fresh snow encountered A Sturdy Partner, oil on linen, 22 x 28”

A Welcome Sight, oil on linen, 22 x 28” Winter’s Coming, oil on linen, 36 x 48”

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Spread Your Wings, oil on linen, 22 x 28”

two deer nibbling at a bush. “We have a herd

of deer around our place that are here all the
time in summer and winter,” Duncan explains,
continuing, “That memory will always be there
for her and that feeling of awe and inspiration that
she felt coming on a couple of beautiful deer in
the backyard.”
Duncan’s wildlife painting Winter’s Coming
came about while visiting the Grand Teton
National Park about two months ago. “Part of
my inspiration for that painting was my feeling of
gratitude for the people who years ago put their
hearts and minds together to preserve Jackson
Hole,” the artist says. “And now we can still—100
years later or however long it’s been—go up there
and there’s this beautiful valley that’s open, clear
and protected where moose are free to roam, and
the grizzlies and elk.”
Beauty in the Journey will close with an open
house for the artist on March 16 from 5 to 7 p.m.

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 UPCOMING SHOW S HOW LO C AT ION PA R K C I T Y, U T
Up to 15 works
March 15-22, 2019
Mountain Trails Galleries
301 Main Street
Park City, UT 84060
(435) 615-8748
mountaintrailsgalleries.com
MARK GIBSON

Shifting focus
M
ark Gibson has long been fascinated
by the teepee—its unique shape,
its practical design, the ability to
pick it up and move it wherever a Native
American tribe might be headed next. The
teepee once again takes center stage in
Gibson’s new work, but so does a second
element, the landscape.
“It’s still too early to tell what exactly the
entire show is going to look like, but it will
more than likely have a good mixture of teepee
paintings, and maybe a buffalo or two,” Gibson
says from his studio near Missoula, Montana.
“Once upon a time the teepees took up more
space on the canvas, but lately I’ve been having
fun with the landscape. It’s been nice showing
more of the scenery and really focusing on
those aspects.”
That shift in focus to the land allows Gibson
to paint works such as Nature’s Spotlight, a
48-inch-wide landscape of a forest that meets a
shoreline while the day’s last light rakes across
the top of the trees as the sun relinquishes the
day to night.
“That one came to me after painting a work
for a friend who had a cabin on a mountain
lake here in Montana. That was the very last
light that was passing over the tamarack trees,
which turn yellow in fall,” he says of the work.
“The moment I saw this it looked like the trees
were on fire as the last light of the day touched
that fall color. It was magnificent.”
Gibson will be showing this work and more
than a dozen others beginning March 15 at a
new show Mountain Trails Gallery in Park City,
Utah. In addition to the landscape paintings,
major new teepee works include People’s
Lodge and Green Blanket Door, both of which
show the Native American lodges in relation to
the larger landscape scenes in which they are
placed. They are rooted in grass, and clouds
fill the limitless air above them. They have an
abstract quality to them, but Gibson sees less
abstraction than geometry.
“They’re very geometric, which is maybe

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because I studied architecture in college.

Maybe that’s my draw to them—square, circle,
triangle. They are appealing shapes,” he says.
“In the back of my head I want to make it more
abstract, maybe because I’m impatient, but
more than anything I just want people to know
it’s a Gibson when they see it.”

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 UPCOMING SHOW S HOW LO C AT ION T UC S ON, A Z
Up to 20 works
March 16-23, 2019
Settlers West Galleries
6420 N. Campbell Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85718, (520) 299-2607
www.settlerswest.com
SCOTT TALLMAN POWERS
From snow to sage
T
he last time Scott Tallman Powers had
a solo show was in 2014, after which
he promptly vanished into the wild. “I
disappeared for awhile, into the mountains,
into the bush in Alaska. I was just looking for
subject matter,” he says. “I learned a lot from
that period, and I often learned it the hard way.
Living in a camper, sleeping outdoors, living
off the fish I caught…it changes the way you
see things.”
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Now back in the “lower 48,” Powers
has turned his attention to warmer climates,
namely Mexico, a place that captivated his
attention long before Alaska and one that he
was excited to return to. “My heart is really in
Mexico, just all over. I spent a lot of time in
the Copper Canyon area in northern Mexico
and then in Oaxaca, where I mostly wanted
to see the people and these wonderful market
scenes,” Powers, now based in Kalispell,
Montana, says. “It’s such a different pace of
life, especially in the indigenous areas where
the people are so kind. I learned so much from
seeing the world through their eyes.”
One of the things that attracted him to
Oaxaca was the color, everything from the
buildings and the clothing to the produce
lined up with pride in the market and
the various tarps that covered the vendors.
“The way the produce was lined up was
incredible. They had it all so beautifully
displayed because they had so much pride
in their work,” he adds. “You see what they
could do with their hands, and you had so
much respect for them.”
He also ventured into more rural areas
to paint the Tarahumara Indians, who were
the mesmerizing subjects in George Carlson’s
famous one-man show at the Smithsonian
National Museum of History in 1982.
Powers will be showing his long-awaited
new work at a solo show beginning March 16
at Settlers West Gallery in Tucson, Arizona.
Works in the show include Spoon Man, a
work showing a man plucking at a guitar in
Oaxaca, and Jewels of the Auction, which
shows a market full of colorful detail and
dramatic shadows. “I was in the town of
Tlacolula, Mexico, for the Sunday market
when locals told me about an animal auction
just outside of town. So I jumped into the back
of a small pick-up jammed with farmers and
headed over to the sale. I was amazed by the
number of cows, horses and burros waiting
for their time on the auction block,” Powers
says.  “As the dust swirled, the local people
bought and sold their animals that are vital to
their livelihoods.”
Collectors Wendie and Steve Olshan are
continuously impressed by Powers’ work and
careful observation of his subjects. “Whether
Scott is painting scenes from foreign or
Wedding Day, oil, 15 x 13”
Jewels of the Auction, oil, 24 x 36”
Spoon Man, oil, 8 x 12”
Western lands reflecting the cultures of the
area, portraits or landscapes, his attention to
detail, realism and making the painting come
alive are superb,” they say. “We overheard a
hand surgeon remark as he examined one
of Scott’s paintings at an exhibition that he
Mercado de Caballos, oil, 15 x 24”
had never seen a hand painted so perfectly to view the wide range of works Scott Powers
accurate. Scott has an amazing ability to so effectively produces.”
capture and project both age, beauty and
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 UPCOMING SHOW S HOW LO C AT ION JAC K S ON HOL E , W Y
Up to 25 works
Through March 29, 2019
Turner Fine Art
545 N. Cache Street, Jackson Hole,
WY 83001 (307) 734-4444,
www.turnerfineart.com
GUNNAR TRYGGMO

Wonder from afar

Out of Nowhere, watercolor on paper, 22 x 30"

A
lthough he lives more than 4,000 miles
away from the American West, Swedish
painter Gunnar Tryggmo relates deeply
to the wildlife of the West, particularly the
critters in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Bison, elk,
moose, pronghorn, waterfowl—each one is a
new opportunity to connect with the region
and its iconic inhabitants.
Tryggmo, who lives in the coastal village
of Viken, Sweden, which overlooks Denmark
from across the Øresund strait, is currently
showing his newest wildlife paintings in The
Wild Wonder, his first solo show in the United
States, at Turner Fine Art in Jackson Hole. Not
only will the works feature wildlife subjects,
but each one will be done in watercolor, an
unforgiving medium that Tryggmo has been
working in for the last five years.
“It can be very difficult to work with
watercolors. You can fix small things, but if
you make a big mistake you can’t fix the whole
painting. At one point it’s best to just start
over,” the painter says. “I was first introduced
to it by an uncle, who was also an artist. He
encouraged me from a very early age and
helped me get a good start. He also taught me
to use the right paper and colors. It’s interesting
that in the United States watercolor is still
not that common. Most shows seem to be 90
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Gunnar Tryggmo in his studio in Sweden.

long history with watercolor paintings and it is much

more common.”
Tryggmo’s paintings are quite minimalist works
that mostly focus on the animal and not so much
on its habitat. He leaves large pieces of the paper
unpainted as focus is drawn to the animal, its
pose and the delicate paint that swirls around it.
“Sometimes the most difficult part is knowing when
to stop. I’ll get comments on social media telling me
to stop now. Or my wife will come in and tell me
she thinks it’s finished,” he says. “It’s easy to kill a
painting by overworking it.”
The new show will feature a magnificent elk
image, Earth Tones, as well as the moose piece Out
of Nowhere in which a moose’s head is proudly
presented in a light wash of paint that gently colors
the paper. The works primarily feature animals in
the American West, but also some wildlife that exist
in both the United States and Sweden, such as sea
birds and ravens.
“I first met Gunnar at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson
Museum, where we were both exhibiting in the
international Birds in Art juried exhibition. One Earth Tones, watercolor on paper, 15 x 11"
afternoon, the artsts were sharing their field journals,
and I was so impressed with Gunnar’s. They had the
scholarly approach of a naturalist, but the astute
renderings of a very practiced artist,” says Turner
Fine Art owner, and fellow wildlife painter, Kathryn
Mapes Turner. “Traditional watercolor is a very
challenging medium because of its unpredictable
nature and transparency—it is not possible to undo
a misstep. This is why Gunnar’s commitment to
painting in this medium is so impressive. The result
of his commitment are pieces that are both bold and
sensitive, painstakingly rendered with a distinctive
lightness of touch and spontaneity.”
The Wild Wonder continues through March 29 in
Jackson Hole.

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 UPCOMING SHOW S HOW LO C AT ION LO S A NG E L E S, C A
Up to 20 works
March 9-30, 2019
Maxwell Alexander Gallery
406 W. Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(213) 275-1060
www.maxwellalexandergallery.com

Three perspectives

Howard Post, Vintage Pens, oil, 12 x 24"

T
hree artists of the American West, each with his own take and unique
philosophy, will show their latest work in an exhibition at Maxwell Alexander
Gallery in Los Angeles, March 9 through 30.
Howard Post was raised on a ranch in Arizona, became a cowboy, competed in
rodeos, received his MFA and worked as a commercial artist before dedicating his
life to portraying ranch life in his oil and pastel paintings.
Gary Ernest Smith grew up on a cattle ranch and farm in rural Oregon where
“the demands of farm life taught me the values of discipline and self-reliance.” After
receiving his MFA he painted murals and later turned to studio painting of rural
scenes inspired by the work of Edward Hopper and Maynard Dixon.
Bryan Haynes grew up among the rolling hills of Missouri and later received his
degree in commercial design. He returned to Missouri, appreciating its character in a
new way and with a new appreciation for the way regionalists like Thomas Hart Benton
responded to it. He considers his work a continuation of the regionalist tradition.
In his Sledge Crew, Haynes depicts a once-common occurrence in rural
America—the circus coming to town in a time between the wars. The graceful rope

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Bryan Haynes, Team of Belgians, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 20"

walker, exotic animals and clown parading in front of

the giant tent are brightly lit in celebration of the festive
experience. In the foreground, forming a shadowed
frame are the behind-the-scene workers, driving a spike
into the ground. Haynes’ sinuous lines and soft palette
recall those of the regionalists who preceded him.
Smith often reduces a scene to its elements
with a strong emphasis on design. His portraits
are often isolated against a plain ground, focusing
on the character of the individual. In Sitting Bull,
the Lakota Sioux leader who united his people to
defend their land is depicted in profile with a single
eagle feather in his hair. He stands in front of a
painted buffalo hide showing scenes from Native
versus government conflicts.
Post paints the nearly timeless life of the cowboy
and rancher. Although there have been changes in their
lives, the hard work continues. It includes constant
maintenance of the ranch buildings and fences. Known
for his paintings from a bird’s-eye view, in Vintage Pens,
he takes an uncharacteristic perspective from below the
shed and pens on the hill. The high, hot sun casts short
shadows illustrating one of the many extremes the pens
have endured over time, repaired and rebuilt over and
again by the ranch hands.

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 UPCOMING SHOW S HOW LO C AT ION F R E DE R IC K S BU RG , T X
Up to 40 works
March 1-22, 2019
InSight Gallery
214 W. Main Street
Fredericksburg, TX 78624
(830) 997-9920
www.insightgallery.com

10 years of Texas

Jill Carver, Barton Creek Greenbelt, oil, 24 x 48"

I
nSight Gallery reaches a milestone this
year with their 10th annual Texas Masters
show running from March 1 to 22. The
exhibition, one of the most anticipated at the
gallery each year, features more than 40 new
works from some of today’s top Texas-based
artists including Roy Andersen, Mary Ross
Buchholz, Nancy Bush, Jim Eppler, George
Hallmark, Kyle Ma, Bruce Greene, Douglas
Clark, Teresa Elliott and many others. Several
guest artists will be in attendance as well. Also
featured in the 2019 show are four original
oil paintings and one bronze by the late
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 Left: Brian Grimm, Texas Muleys, oil, 24 x 24"
Below: Bruce Greene, The Charge, bronze, 29 x 49 x 11½"

In A Summer Graze, an oil by Cheri Christensen,

a warm color palette elicits a sense of peace
and tranquility as a field of burnt oranges and
deep greens surround a group of grazing sheep.
The painting came about after a recent sitting
in which Christensen was looking through old
photos and videos from a trip to England taken
many years ago, she says. “What attracted me
to it was the calm and stillness it evoked and the
gentle peace to it that I feel we are all looking
for these days,” the artist says. “I find that my
collectors usually bring their own stories to my
paintings, so I like to keep it open. It may evoke
pleasant memories of childhood or somewhere
they have visited that brings a smile to their face.
As an artist I enjoy this connection and hearing
their stories of what the painting means to them.”
Another piece that will be showcased in
the exhibition is wildlife artist Brian Grimm’s
Texas Muleys. “Inspiration was sparked to paint
this painting by a late day encounter with this
mule deer buck in west Texas. He had a wary
confidence iconic of a buck in his prime. Not
as skittish as whitetail deer, he allowed me to
follow him up a rise on a rocky peak,” says
Grimm, who often takes reference trips to study
the various beasts he depicts. “Witnessing this
timeless scene stuck with me. The abundance
of wildlife helped shape culture and country
and is such a vital part of the West.”
An opening reception for the Texas Masters
show will be held with the artists on Friday,
March 1, from 6 to 8 p.m.

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 UPCOMING SHOW S HOW LO C AT ION SA N TA F E , N M
Up to 40 works
March 1-31, 2019
Manitou Galleries
123 W. Palace Avenue
Santa Fe, NM 87501
(505) 986-0440

Equine grouping

Douglas Aagard, Awaiting Spring, oil, 40 x 60"

U
nbridled, an equine-themed group
show, opens March 1 at Manitou
Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Nine artists will be offering works that
speak grace, beauty, strength, resilience and
friendship of horses in the American West.
The artists are Douglas Aagard, Amy Lay,
David Frederick Riley, Debra Sindt, Gail Gash
Taylor, Kim Wiggins, Jie Wei Zhou, Ethelinda
and guest artist Siri Hollander. The artists work in
many mediums, including oil and acrylic paint
and bronze, and in a variety of sizes.
Aagard, who began his career as a
watercolorist, was moved to switch to oils after
seeing the work of Gary Ernest Smith, who
would later offer encouragement and feedback
to the artist. “I never get bored painting with oil,”
says Aagard. “There are so many possibilities;
so many techniques to try that one could never
exhaust the love of learning. I have found that
my work has a more dimensional feel or depth
when painted with knife, and oftentimes the
texture is more fun [than] the composition.”
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Amy Lay, Pegasus, oil, 36 x 24" Kim Wiggins, A Vanishing Breed, oil, 40 x 50"

60-inch-wide winter scene in a calm pasture

with several horses.
Lay will be presenting Pegasus, featuring
two front-facing horses done in her distinct
style with long instinctual brushstrokes and
free-flowing abstract compositions. “I want to
create paintings which make people happy
and give back a little glimpse of the beauty
that animals have shown me my entire life,”
Lay says.
Ethelinda will be showing Amaretti,
a massive 72-inch-wide image of a horse
in profile in a full gallop. “Throughout my
career I have painted horses,” she says. “They
are mystical creatures. I am particularly
drawn to black and white, spotted Paints
and Appaloosas. They create patterns all on
their own. Then there is no conformation or
dance like that of the Andalusian. Burros and
longhorns followed. Then birds, cows, fruit,
vegetables—who knows what will come next?
My favorite work is always on the easel.”
Unbridled will take place at Manitou’s
location on Palace Avenue in Santa Fe and will
run through March 31.

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 UPCOMING SHOW S HOW LO C AT ION JAC K S ON HOL E , W Y
Up to 50 works
March 18-30, 2019
Trailside Galleries
130 E. Broadway Avenue
Jackson Hole, WY 83001
(307) 733-3186
www.trailsidegalleries.com

Wildlife discovery

Ezra Tucker, Peeping Tom, acrylic on board, 15 x 40"

J
ackson Hole, Wyoming, has a long tradition wetlands around the world is a major piece the same ridge, were wolf tracks,” Marris recalls.
of wildlife enthusiasts visiting the region to of the puzzle for the good health of our plant. “I waited and waited. The next day I went back
catch a glimpse of some of North America’s Thus the longevity of mankind.” up and saw them beyond the ridge. As they
most majestic creatures as well as be inspired by On a recent trip seeking out source material, gathered, they played. Whining and howling,
the vast terrain. To honor that tradition, Trailside Bonnie Marris had begun by following a large tails wagging, they played. The black one was
Galleries hosts its annual Wildlife Discovery group of elk cows being escorted down a really pretty in the golden light.” The scene
exhibition. Pieces in the show primarily focus mountain by two bulls. “Later that day, along became her painting Above the Clouds.
on the local wildlife, but also include imagery
of species from around the world.
“With the heighted awareness of global
warming and fragile ecosystems, the genre has
taken on a whole new dimension,” the gallery
explains, “as the artists strive not only to create
an aesthetically pleasing image, but to have
it serve as an educational tool to bring more
awareness to preservation.”
Ezra Tucker will exhibit several of his
acrylic works, including Peeping Tom, which
depicts a wild cat peering out at the wetlands.
Elaborating on the work, Tucker says, “The
beauty of North America’s wetlands is in the
variety of plant and animal species living
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Bonnie Marris, Above the Clouds, oil on canvas, 24 x 48"

Another wolf painting in the show is Kyle Mackenzie Mountains,” he says. through 30, with works also on view by Mick
Sims’ work Willow Run, which was inspired “We stopped to camp along the road and Doellinger, J.C. Dye, Veryl Goodnight, Bruce
by the color harmony and the lines of the I did a small plein air painting. I got rained out, Greene, Bruce Lawes, Shawn Gould, Stefan
wolves individually and together. “The wolves’ but still got the basic light effect down,” Oberg Savides, Lindsay Scott, John Seerey-Lester,
earth tone coats juxtaposed with the wine, continues. “I’ve looked at it in my studio for Suzie Seerey-Lester, Adam Smith, Dustin Van
magenta and orange-like coloration of the these 17 years and finally decided to use it for Wechel and Sarah Woods.
willow branches is a very pleasing display for the setting of this moose. It usually doesn’t take
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me, and you can probably find a lot of those that long for a good sketch to get blown up
ex h i b it i n g g a l l e r y g o to
same colors in your own home,” Sims explains. bigger! Finally, I saw the painting in my head!”
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“The biggest challenge with this piece came Wildlife Discovery will be on view March 18
when I had to decide to lose two wolves and
crop the painting down considerably in size.
The other two wolves were going off of the
edges of the painting, cutting their heads off
essentially. While I felt like the shapes of those
wolves completed the composition, I had to
come to the realization that they also created an
uncomfortable feeling for the viewer. So, since
those other two wolves’ roles were included
for the purpose of a darker shape, I decided to
use the willow instead once I had cropped the
image down and this is what you now have.”
Ralph Oberg’s painting Coming Through the
Willows was a work that came to fruition many
years after he first found the reference material.
“In 2001 my wife, Shirley, and I were on a long
trip to Canada’s Yukon. We had driven all the
way up from Colorado, met friends who lived
along the Alcan Highway and started north with
them on the Canol highway on our way to a
wilderness fly-in lodge called Inconnu in the

Ralph Oberg, Coming Through the Willows,

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Tomorrow, oil on wooden panel, 39 x 39"
Atsu Harada
A tsu Harada was born in southern
Japan in 1962. He has been
painting animals for as long as he
can remember, with his primary subjects
being cats and other wild predators. “I’ve
been fascinated by their beauty and physical
prowess ever since I was a child, and I’ve tried
to depict the strength and dignity I sense in
A Feast of Red, oil on wooden board, 13 x 22"
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White Ghost, oil on wooden panel, 28½ x 36"
their lives,” he says.
The artist considers himself a Western-
style painter. He works mainly with oils but
over the years he has felt the influence of
traditional Japanese art. “This is especially true
in my backgrounds, which tend to be limited
to a few elements of nature, like a single plant
or a handful of stones,” says Harada. “I hope
by focusing almost entirely on the animals
themselves I can bring their emotions even
more strongly to the scene [to] convey the
pure emotion they feel.”
He adds, “I also try to give a sense of what
isn’t in the picture. What just happened to the
animal; what’s about to? I like hinting at the
tension, the mystery of ‘moments in between.’”
In his youth, he found these animals to
be symbols of immortality. “But their natural
environments have rapidly changed over the
years, and more and more of them are now in
danger of extinction,” Harada says. “Wildlife
art to me is a search for humanity in nature,
an expression of how we as human beings
should view nature and the lives within it.
The respect we should have for them and the
inescapable fact that our destinies are linked,
that we must move forward together.”
Harada will have a solo exhibition at
Maruzen Gallery in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward
from May 22 to 28.
Want to See More?
atsu-harada.webnode.jp
/atsu.harada
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Sunlit, acrylic and gold leaf, 16 x 40"

Sunset Harmony, acrylic and gold leaf, 48 x 72" Sunrise Blush, acrylic and gold leaf, 48 x 48"

Carrie Wild
C arrie Wild is based in Jackson
Hole, Wyoming, where she enjoys
photographing and observing the
wildlife that appears in her work. After visiting
for a summer, she fell in love with the Greater
Yellowstone Ecosystem and decided that there
was no better place to be to realize her vision.
Surrounded by the inspiration of wildlife,
horses and wide-open spaces, she paints in
both her home studio at the edge of Grand
Teton National Park and in her public studio
within Gallery Wild.
Raised on a small horse farm in Southern
Michigan, she learned to respect, appreciate
and love animals from a young age. She also
developed a passion for art at an early age,
and experimented with different dry mediums
including graphite, charcoal, colored pencil
and soft pastel. Through her knowledge of
horses and wildlife she developed a strong
drawing technique focusing on the anatomy
and characteristics of each subject. As a teen
Wild bought her first camera and began taking
photographs of her subjects as a foundation for
her artistic vision. She uses her photography for
inspiration as well as an excuse to spend more
time in the field with the animals she loves.
“Inspiration for my work starts with my love
and intrigue for wildlife and wild, wide-open
places that I find surrounding my home,” she
says. “I wanted to find a way to communicate
my time and emotional connection to the wild
and outdoors using color. The natural world is
very difficult to replicate in a two-dimensional
form. I found that dramatic color and shapes
could transcend the limitations of the canvas
to bring back the emotion of my personal
experiences.”
Wild will exhibit her work in the Great Falls,
Montana, event Out West Art Show & Sale in
Room 254 at the Best Western Heritage Inn.
Want to See More?
(307) 699-2077 | www.carriewildart.com
Represented by Gallery Wild
80 W. Broadway Avenue
Jackson, WY 83001
(307) 203-2322 | www.gallerywild.com
@carriewildfineart, @gallery.wild
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Heroic Quail, oil on canvas, 24 x 18”

Cool Drink, oil on canvas, 36 x 24” Hollyhocks, oil on canvas, 24 x 20"

David Jonason
D
avid Jonason’s work is inspired by
the austere beauty of the American
Southwest and the aesthetics of
cubism and art deco. His love of stark
landscapes began in childhood on family
rock hunting trips to the Mojave and Anza-
Borrego deserts in California. “I love the
desert for its lack of clutter,” he says. “All that
empty space allows you to see the forms with
much more clarity.”
Early in Jonason’s painting career he was
drawn to the volumes of architecture, cubism
and the Taos Society of Artists. Jonason
considers his style to be a fusion of cubism
and realism. He explains, “The severe angular
shapes of the American Southwest are a
perfect expression of this aesthetic that
I love in cubism.”
Jonason paints in oils using gradations
to express form. “I don’t really like a lot of
texture in the paint,” he says. “I want my
works to have the clean, graphic qualities of
travel posters from the 1920s and 1930s.”
Prior to his career in fine art, Jonason
was an accomplished commercial artist. He
was represented in the 1980s by PushPin, a
trendsetting design and illustration agency in
New York. There, he produced illustrations for
Fortune 500 advertising and editorial clients.
In addition to landscapes, Jonason
has painted cacti, birds and skulls for his
upcoming Desert Icons show, held March
28 to April 11 at The Marshall Gallery in
Scottsdale, Arizona. On November 8 Manitou
Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, will open
the exhibition Southwestern Synergy featuring
Jonason’s work.
Want to See More?
www.davidjonason.com
Represented by The Marshall Gallery
7106 E. Main Street | Scottsdale, AZ 85251
(480) 970-3111 | www.themarshallgallery.com
/david.jonason.5
@david_jonason

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Denis
Milhomme
B orn and raised in rural New England,
Denis Milhomme had ample
opportunity to fall in love with
nature. He says, “I was outside as much as
I could, exploring the lake, creeks and forest,
and when not, I was drawing. It was a great
childhood.”
Milhomme was fortunate to receive years
of private and group art lessons as a youngster,
providing him with a solid foundation
in drawing and painting. In his early 20s
Milhomme gravitated west and continued
his studies through workshops and college
Autumn
courses. He explains, “The Western landscape Radiance,
has much variety and drama, with its soaring oil, 16 x 24"
mountains and cliffs, deep valleys and vast
forests and deserts. I am awestruck by the
visual beauty of nature.”
As his work developed, Milhomme found
that sales and opportunities increased, and
he began to fulfill his dream of being a full-
time landscape nature artist. “It’s such a
wonderful lifestyle, [with] research trips to the
most beautiful lands in the country, seeking
to capture the perfect moment,” Milhomme Land of the
shares. “Being able to work at home, [I am] Navajo, oil,
always striving to improve and create a valued 20 x 30"

work of art. [My work is] something someone

can connect with, fall in love with, live with
and give them joy and beauty in their lives.”
Milhomme’s work began to be
recognized in the 1990s through galleries
in Carmel, California, and Kirkland,
Washington. He received a regional award
from Arts for the Parks and inclusion in Bob
and Irma Eubanks’ Peppertree Art Show.
Today, his paintings can be found at Settlers
West Galleries in Tucson, Arizona, and
he is fortunate enough to have his work
included in such prestige shows as Masters
of the American West at the Autry Museum
of the American West, Quest for the West
at the Eitlejorg Museum and Small Works,
Great Wonders at the National Cowboy &
Western Heritage Museum.

Want to See More?

milhommedenis@yahoo.com Winter Light,
www.denismilhomme.com oil, 22 x 22"
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Day Sleeper, oil on linen, 10 x 20"

Berry Maiden, oil on linen, 36 x 24"

Diane Whitehead
D iane Whitehead was born the second of eight children to
loving parents. She assumed the default role of babysitter and
relished her alone time finding art not to be a curriculum but
an escape from the noise and energy. After raising four children of her
own and having two careers, Whitehead found herself yearning for the
peace and solitude of her paints and brushes.
Now, 17 years later, she says, “You can live your life, or spend your
life. You are always at choice. Life can be lived aimlessly drifting the Awkward Silence, oil on linen, 36 x 24"
rivers of time, or spent chasing illusions of money and possessions.
There exists a place of peace within your soul. You have to search for it. 23 Whitehead will participate in the Out West Art Show & Sale in Great
I found it first in the eyes of the animals I painted.” She always begins a Falls, Montana, at the Best Western Heritage Inn. Her work will be on
painting with the eyes. view in room 242.
Whitehead is an avid outdoorswoman and a self-taught artist. Her
work comes alive through strong brushstrokes and bold color. Living at
the end of a dirt road backed up against the wilderness, she has found
it to be a place where the noise of the world meets the silence of her Want to See More?
soul. This location has been ideal for Whitehead to paint what she loves (435) 714-0611 | www.dianewhitehead.com
best: nature and animals. www.artoutwest.blogspot.com
Whitehead’s artwork is found in a number of galleries throughout
Montana, including Going to the Sun in Whitefish. March 20 through Diane Whitehead @dwhiteheadartoutwest @artoutwest

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Takin’ a Break, relief linden wood sculpture, 20½ x 13½"
Don Woodard
D on Woodard’s passion is creating
three-dimensional artwork.
He creates images of wildlife,
landscapes, people and Western events into
select woods. First, he hand carves and sculpts
the image into the wood, and then he often
paints the piece with the same attention to
fine detail. Artwork that he paints are referred
to as “3-Dimensional Paintings,” while those
that are finished naturally he refers to as
“Relief Wood Sculptures.” All of his artworks
are ready to hang on a wall in the same way
as traditional paintings.
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Big Horn View, mixed media,
hand sculpted and painted linden wood, 20 x 27"
Kauai-South Shore, mixed media,
hand sculpted and painted linden wood, 16 x 20"
Woodard began creating his style of art
more than 18 years ago, showcasing events
that occurred during his many packhorse,
wilderness adventures into the Rocky
between Denver and Boulder. Both his original
art and “Image-True Prints” of his and other
artists’ work that he has befriended are on
display, including Edward Aldrich, Don Weller,
Mountains of Colorado. After refining his Susan von Borstel, Dennis Bennett and others.
artistic style, he began showing his art at
juried art shows throughout the West. Often
he hears, “Wow, these are beautiful and I have
never seen artwork done like this,” and his list Want to See More?
of collectors continues to grow. Don Woodard ARTWORKS
In the summer of 2018, he opened Don 12712 Lowell Boulevard
Broomfield, CO 80020
Woodard ARTWORKS, a new art studio and
(303) 430-1986 | www.donwoodard.com
gallery in Broomfield, Colorado, located
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Raymond
Gibby
S
culptor Raymond Gibby says,
“Being outdoors has always been a
rejuvenating experience for the soul.
And there has been nothing more inspirational
than finding wildlife while I explore. Growing
up with God in my life, I have viewed the
creation of art as an expression of gratitude
and praise for the outdoor beauty that has
been provided to all that experience it.”
Under the tutelage of his grandfather,
who was a landscape painter, Gibby learned
to respect the medium that he works in as
much as the subject matter. “For him, it
was as important to showcase oil painting
techniques as much as it was important to Driven, bronze, 9 x 6 x 2½"
depict a landscape,” Gibby shares. “From him,
I learned to not over control the medium so
that it can maintain its unique characteristics.”
These days, Gibby creates wildlife
sculptures in clay and cast in bronze. To
adhere to his grandfather’s counsel, he
includes tight details into loose textures to
highlight the versatility of the medium. “I also
spend a lot of time studying and appreciating
wildlife to generate the inspiration to
create. The overall result of my work should
demonstrate anatomic accuracy for a particular
wildlife species,” he says. “It should showcase
the qualities of clay, and also show the unique
capabilities of bronze. Whenever possible
I like to display the strength of bronze in my
compositions, not only in my messages but
also in the actual physical strength of bronze.
There are things that can be achieved in
bronze that are nearly impossible in other
mediums. But as I mentioned, the message
should be strong too. I hope that my pieces
aren’t just nice to look at, but instead my great
desire is that they sink deep and stir emotion
with the message.”
Gibby will participate in the NatureWorks
Art Show and Sale March 1 through 3 at the
Renaissance Tulsa Hotel & Convention Center.

Want to See More?

www.gibbybronze.com

/gibbybronze @gibbybronze

Triumphant, bronze, 84 x 60 x 36"

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Utah Meanders, oil on canvas panel, 11 x 14” Summers Farewell, oil on canvas panel, 11 x 14"

Julia Munger Seelos

J ulia Munger Seelos had an idyllic
childhood where she had the freedom
to wander in the thick woods near her
home overlooking the Ohio River. “My love of
Monterey Bay Plein Air Painters Association, as
well as an active member of the Laguna Plein
Air Painters Association and California Art Club.
/julia.seelos.3

nature was cemented by those experiences,”

she says. “Growing up in Kentucky, my love
of horses was a given. My sketchbooks were
filled with drawings of them along with
landscapes dotted with livestock. I often focus
on farm animals and rodeo cowgirls.”
As early as she can remember, the artist
has been painting outdoors with watercolors,
and has found painting in oils outside to be
a rewarding challenge. “Colors in the deep
shadows and bright daylight are more intense
when experienced firsthand,” she says. “The
wonderful climate on the San Francisco
peninsula allows me to paint the California
coast from San Francisco to Big Sur and east
to the Sierras year-round.”
Plein air events have taken the artist to
the colorful Western landscapes of Zion,
Escalante, Sedona, the Grand Canyon, the
Olympic Peninsula and the Sierras. This June
she will have a feature show, titled Western
Inspiration, at Viewpoints Gallery in Los Altos,
California. “The Southwest’s red rocks will
be a counterpoint to the cool Pacific,” Seelos
says. “I plan to once again start the plein
air season participating in the Carmel Fine
Art and Music Festival and continue in the
western plein air events.”
Seelos is a signature member of the
American Impressionist Society and the Sliding Stop, oil on canvas, 12 x 12"

Beaver Pond Sunset, oil, 9 x 12"
Julie Nighswonger
J ulie Nighswonger’s art exemplifies life
in the West in a way that captures the
beauty of her surroundings. In a style
that she describes as impressionistic realism,
Nighswonger depicts moments that she
believes are all too often taken for granted.
Her work is an exploration of nature,
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animals and the West. “Certain things catch
my eye,” Nighswonger says, “It’s the crisp
early morning light, the warm glow of the
evening or the way the light dances off of
a horse’s mane.” In her work, she strives to
document and share the uniqueness of the
Western landscape and its cowboy lifestyle.
The Frat Boys, oil, 12 x 12"
She adds, “It is my hope to stir a memory or
evoke an emotional response.”
This spring Nighswonger’s artwork can
be found in Great Falls, Montana, during
Western Art Week at the Out West Show &
Sale in Room 284 and during the Montana
Miniatures exhibition. Both of these shows
are at the Best Western Plus Heritage Inn
from March 20 through 23.
Nighswonger will also be in Arizona
participating in Cowgirl Up! from March 29
through May 12 at the Desert Caballeros
Western Museum in Wickenburg and at the
Phippen Museum’s Western Art Show & Sale
in Prescott over Memorial Day weekend.
Want to See More?
(307) 534-5314 | jnigh@scottsbluff.net
www.julienighswonger.com
/nighswongerart
@julienighswonger
Early Morning Jingle, oil, 12 x 36"
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Traffic Jam, oil, 16 x 20" Sunday Drive, oil, 22 x 28"

Yellowstone Bighorn, gouache, 12 x 29"

Karen Boylan
E xtraordinary experiences of her
everyday life are the driving force
that makes Karen Boylan’s paintings
what they are today. Because her experience
as a rancher fuels her passion and creates
the inspiration that goes into her creations,
collectors have come to appreciate the insight
and intimate knowledge she has for her
subjects. Years of ranching, countless hours in
the saddle and working with cattle have all
been invaluable in creating the energy, strength
and beauty that is present in the detailed
paintings that people have come to recognize.
Boylan describes her art as a passion. She
constantly finds herself drifting away from the
reality of life and concentrating on how light
affects objects, the contrasts in colors and the
infinite detail of everything from grass, rocks
and leaves to the vastness of the landscapes
around her. “It’s really an obsession,” Boylan
adds. She has always had a fascination with
nature and animals: their shapes, colors,
textures and, most of all, their beauty. Her
attention to detail is apparent in each piece
she creates.
Boylan continues ranching today, drawing
inspiration from the beautiful surroundings in
which she lives in the Gallatin Valley outside of
Bozeman, Montana. Her paintings are available
in these upcoming shows: Out West Art Show
& Sale on March 20 through 23, Room 186,
at the Best Western Plus Heritage Inn in Great
Falls, Montana, and the National Fine Art Show
& Auction, May 17 to 19, at the Kittitas Valley
Event Center in Ellensburg, Washington.
Want to See More?
(406) 581-3226 | www.kboylanart.com

Place of Honor – Goat Skull, charcoal and graphite, 15 x 25"
Mary Ross Buchholz
M ary Ross Buchholz’s charcoal
and graphite drawings
seem timeless and impart a
simplicity without other distractions. She
relishes in creating the portrait, whether
the subject is an animal or person; she
enjoys subtlety rendering the details,
the different textures and the individual
characteristics of her subjects.
Buchholz wants her work to captivate
the viewer both up close and from a
distance. The eye is often the focal point
of her artwork and she enjoys creating a
luminous and liquid eye. As they say, “the
eye is the window to the soul.”
Buchholz uses plane changes and a
wide range of values to describe form,
which in turn gives her work a realistic
and three-dimensional quality.
Buchholz deliberately leads the
viewer’s eye around various areas of
her drawings. This can be achieved by
designing works with strong compositions,
interesting lighting and the use of negative
space. Another important aspect of her
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work is having areas of rest. Buchholz
explains that much like beautifully
composed music, art needs areas of rest or
areas that have less detail or only subtlety
suggested detail. It is all a balancing act in
creating an intriguing piece of artwork.
Buchholz invites visitors to attend
her spring shows. She is honored to
participate in each of these shows
and has been working particularly
hard on her show pieces for the three- Ranch Romance, charcoal and graphite, 16 x 19"
person exhibition at InSight Gallery in
Fredericksburg, Texas, from April 5 to 26.
She also is exhibiting in the gallery’s Texas
Masters show March 1 to 25; will have
work in the March in Montana auction
from March 21 to 23; and Night of Artists
at the Briscoe Western Art Museum,
which has its opening March 29 to 30.
She’s
Starting
Well,
Want to See More? charcoal
(325) 853-3839 and
maryrbuchholz@gmail.com graphite,
www.maryrossbuchholz.com 20 x 19"
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Sheila
Cottrell
F amily heritage and history infuse the
paintings of Sheila Cottrell whose
pioneer family arrived in Arizona
by covered wagons in 1900. “I’ve lived
all my life in Arizona and studied art at
the University of Arizona,” Cottrell says.
“However, my real art education came from
studying for 28 years under and with the
Western painter James Reynolds. I enjoy
painting anything to do with the West, past
and present, but especially love illustrating
the tales of pioneering adventures my family
experienced.”
The tales are related in the Wells family
book, The Cochise County Bunch. It is still
a tightknit family, primarily because of their Twilight Travel, oil, 18 x 24"

Wells Pioneer Family Cemetery. After 104

years Arizona finally granted them ownership
of their cemetery in 2010. After going to
the media with TV videos and magazine
articles, the State told Cottrell they would
work something out if “I stopped going to the
media,” she says.
“I fulfilled a wish of my father’s to get
ownership and now I want to fulfill a promise
to my mom. She asked me to ‘please beautify
it.’ We need shade trees for services but first
we need water,” Cottrell explains. “I’m using
my paintings in a fundraising for improving the
cemetery. We’ve now raised over $7,000 so the
well starts construction by April this year. Some
paintings tied to my family history, shown here,
are exhibited at Settlers West Galleries. And
since this is a nonprofit charity, portions of the
purchase price are tax deductible.”

Want to See More? Foggy Morning

www.sheilacottrell.com Crossing, oil,
20 x 30"
Represented by Settlers West Galleries
6420 N. Campbell Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85718
(520) 299-2607 | www.settlerswest.com

/fineartbysheila

@sheila.cottrell

Working the
Wells Ranch,
oil, 20 x 24"
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Theresa
Paden
T
heresa Paden is known for unique
paintings that feature vivid colors and
expressive brushwork. She is an animal
lover and avid equestrian who has a passion for
painting horses, longhorns, wildlife and people
of the West. She is dedicated to helping animals
and donates a portion of all of her sales to horse
rescues and other animal rescue organizations.
Inspired by the Fauves, she mixes bright
colors and intense light with her expressive style
to capture the heart and soul of her subjects.
Paden says, “I approach each canvas with a
feeling of adventure and excitement. My hope
is that people will be energized by the colors
and textures in my work and feel an emotional
connection to the animals and people I portray.”
Paden has been painting with oils since age
10. She earned her BFA from ArtCenter College
of Design, Pasadena, California, in 1983. Before
turning her focus to fine art Paden was senior art
director at the NFL, where she designed Super
Bowl logos, posters, tickets and VIP invitations.
Her work has been shown at Western
Masters in Great Falls, Montana; the San Dimas
Western Art Show in San Dimas, California; and
the Western Spirit Art Show & Sale in Cheyenne,
Wyoming. Paden has also exhibited at the
Mountain Oyster Club Western Art Show and
Sale in Tucson, Arizona; Cattlemen’s Western
Art Show & Sale in Paso Robles, California; the
SLOPOKE Art Rodeo at Seaside Gallery in Pismo
Beach, California; and at the Traveling the West
Art Show & Sale at Southwest Gallery in Dallas.

Want to See More?

(805) 279-2957 | theresapaden@gmail.com
www.theresapaden.com
Represented by Worrell Gallery
103 Washington Avenue
Santa Fe, NM 87501
(505) 989-4900 | www.worrellgallery.com

/paintinghorses

@artyanimals

Top: Bear in Dappled Light,

acrylic on panel, 12 x 12”

Left: Tipi at Dusk,

acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24”

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Jim Wilcox
A
ccording to artist Jim Wilcox,
“Painting requires tricking people
into seeing grandiose subjects with
depth and mood when they’re really seeing
dabs of paint on a flat surface. A somewhat
impressionistic approach like mine may
appear photographic at a distance, but tool
marks of the artist will be obvious to anyone
taking a close look. When viewers excitedly
discover those marks, as some clients did
yesterday as we hung my paintings in their
beautiful home, I realize that the trick of
turning dabs into vistas is working.”
Summer jobs in Jackson Hole, Wyoming,
led Wilcox to choose a career in art, as it
allowed him to live in the city and spend time
outdoors with his favorite subjects. Wilcox
not only paints, but owns the Wilcox Gallery,
which has two locations in the city that has
become known for its Western art scene. “This
spring my family and I will have lived here 50 Winter Lace, oil on linen, 16 x 20"

years, with my career and galleries adding to

the joy and successes of being here,” he says.
While Wilcox enjoys the beauty of
ordinary subjects his focus is on spectacular
views that are abundant where he lives.
Within 100 miles, he explains, there is
almost every kind of landscape except for the
ocean and jungle.
“Varied and competing subject matter
often make the decision of what to paint
next difficult. Choosing any subject requires
temporarily ignoring thousands of others,” he
says. “As if mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls,
geysers and skies aren’t enough, we’re
also blessed with abundant wildlife, which
sometimes appears in the foreground of my
painting instead of being hidden behind trees
or rocks.”

Want to See More?

Represented by Wilcox Gallery
1975 N. Highway 89 & 60 Center Street
Jackson, WY 83001
(307) 733-6450, (307) 733-3950
www.wilcoxgallery.com

Icons of String Lake, oil on linen, 16 x 20" Triple Glaciers of Mt. Moran, oil on linen,
24 x 36

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Kim Wiggins, Colonel Crockett’s Return from Cibolo Creek, oil, 36 x 48”

A Night to Remember
The Briscoe Western Art Museum’s Night of Artists kicks off March 29 with its
opening weekend festivities and the second annual Collectors Summit.

F
or the past 15 years, the Briscoe Western Art Museum has hosted its
annual Night of Artists exhibition and sale with 80 leading Western
artists exhibiting new paintings and sculptures. This year’s 16th annual
show continues the tradition with more than 300 pieces by the exhibitors on
view in a variety of subject matter and styles. To kick off the festivities on
the banks of San Antonio, Texas’ River Walk, the museum hosts an opening
weekend where collectors and artists converge.
At the 2018 show, the Briscoe premiered its Collectors Summit at the
Hotel Contessa on the River Walk. The summit is a two-part ticketed event for
seasoned and emerging collectors alike, featuring a panel discussion about
the market and its trends. This year’s second edition opens the Night of Artists

Guests enjoy the Friday night dinner at the Briscoe Western Art Museum.

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Xiang Zhang, The Arrival, oil on linen, 36 x 48”

festivities on March 29 and 30. At the museum will be the signature

events where the participating artists’ works will be available.
“Night of Artists has become a premier showcase of this region’s
emerging and well-renowned contemporary Western artists,” says
Michael Duchemin, president and CEO of the museum. “Last year’s
response and art sales were overwhelmingly successful and we are
looking forward to another remarkable year.”
On Friday, March 29, at 6 p.m. is the exception preview, awards
dinner and live auction on the museum’s Jack Guenther Pavilion.
During the evening guests are treated to the exhibition, as well
as cocktails and a seated dinner, a live auction and the awards
presentation. The following night, at 5:30 p.m., is the grand opening
of the exhibition and the “Luck of the Draw” art sale where all of the
works in the show are available for purchase.
Among this year’s exhibitors are many return artists including
San Antonio

Suzanne Baker, Greg Beecham, Shawn Cameron, John Coleman,

Brent Cotton, Glenn Dean, C. Michael Dudash, Martin Grelle,
George Hallmark, Mark Maggiori, Curt Mattson, Bill Nebeker, Don
Oelze, Paul Rymer and Kim Wiggins. Newcomers to Night of Artists
are R. Tom Gilleon, Doug Hyde, Joe Kronenberg, Ed Kucera, Bonnie
Marris, Randy Van Beek, Joseph Velazquez, Jeremy Winborg and Greg Beecham, When Orange and Black Clash, oil, 40 x 40”
 Above:
John
Coleman,
He Who
Jumps Over
Everyone,
bronze,
50 x 38 x 20”

Left:
Stefan
Savides,
Pins & Curls,
bronze,
33 x 25½ x 33”
Bonnie Marris, Twenty Below, oil, 36 x 24”

Greg Woodard.
Wiggins will present a number of new
works for the show including one related to the
Battle of the Alamo titled Colonel Crockett’s
Return from Cibolo Creek. The painting is from
the same series as his 2018 Night of Artists
work titled The Texans. As Wiggins explains,
“It focused on an event that took place on
March 3, 1836, in which Col. Crockett and
two other men were sent out to look for
possible reinforcements. The 2019 Briscoe
Night of Artists will feature a companion
piece in the series further capturing the event
that took place on the evening of March 3
and early morning March 4. This painting
portrays Crockett’s return hours later with
greatly needed reinforcement forces found
along Cibolo Creek. To my knowledge this is
the first time this particular event has been
depicted on canvas. The Battle of the Alamo
would take place only a few days later on
March 6, 1836.”
Beecham’s equine painting When Orange
and Black Clash is another that will be available
in the exhibition. “On an April morning in
Eastern Utah, I watched these two wild stallions
of the Onaqui herd do battle,” Beecham recalls.
“Most of the frequent fights among the herd’s
stallions last no more than a few seconds.
That is a good thing as they are exceptionally
violent. These two, however, kept up their
skirmish over a period of about 15 minutes—
giving me ample time to photograph and dream
of composing their rough beauty and toughness
into a painting.”
Another wildlife-themed painting in the
show is Marris’ buffalo piece Twenty Below.
She says, “Almost every year I go west to
photograph buffalo. I love painting them and

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C. Michael Dudash, Crossing White Water Creek, oil on linen, 36 x 48”
watching them especially in winter. They are
like great monoliths withstanding whatever
the weather throws at them. Pushing deep
heavy snow around with their great heads,
steam huffing from their nostrils, they search
for any grass beneath.”
In describing his piece for the show,
Crossing White Water Creek, Dudash
explains, “I love painting landscapes, and
river/water scenes are especially enjoyable,
so placing a group of rim-lit riders crossing
the middle of a rushing creek makes for
a lot of fun and creates many interesting
challenges as well. In this case, the
mountain man is taking the lead for what
he hopes will be a successful journey. The
Indians seem content to let him blaze the
trail, and are putting their trust in their white
trapper friend.”
Bronze works in the show include Stefan
Savides’ Pins & Curls and Coleman’s He
Who Jumps Over Everyone.
Of the former piece, Savides describes,
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“Pins & Curls featuring two of the most Night of Artists
sought-after waterfowl, a mallard and a
pintail, are sculpted to depict the explosive
excitement one feels as thee birds flush from
their watery environment.”
Coleman’s work is based on a historical
account. “In the early 1830s while a guest of
the Crow, George Catlin was being entertained
by some of the men and he expounded on their
March 31-May 5, 2019
flamboyant exuberance as they performed on
• Collectors Summit and Opening
their horses,” Coleman says. “Catlin painted Weekend, March 29-30
one such individual, He Who Jumps Over • T icket Holder Preview,
Everyone, who rode his horse back and forth, March 29-30, 10 am.-3 p.m.
rearing and jumping as he showed off his • Exhibition Preview, Artist Awards
extraordinary skills of horsemanship. Dressed Dinner & Live Auction, March 29,
in full Crow regalia, his horse was also heavily 6 p.m.
adorned and wore a matching war bonnet • Art Sale & Reception, March 30,
San Antonio
which demonstrated the prestige and close 5:30 p.m.
relationship between them.” Briscoe Western Art Museum
210 W. Market Street
After the opening weekend closes, the
San Antonio, TX 78205
Night of Artists public exhibition will run
(210) 299-4499
March 31 to May 5, with any unsold artwork www.briscoemuseum.org
available for purchase.
 EVENT PREVIEW

Saddle Up
Cowboy cuisine comes to Cartersville, Georgia, with the
return of the Southeastern Chuck Wagon Gathering.

The Booth Western Art Museum will host the 16th annual
Southeastern Chuck Wagon Gathering.

T
he 16th annual Southeastern Chuck
Wagon Gathering returns, celebrating all
things cowboy at Booth Western Art
Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. The chuck
wagon-filled event promises a taste of the Wild
West—literally. Recognized as one of the best
annual food festivals in Georgia, the event
features a cowboy cook-off you have to taste
to believe, with Southeastern staples like beef,
potatoes, beans, cobbler, biscuits and cornbread.
Although food is the focal point of the event,
the fun doesn’t stop there. Visitors can chow
down on cowboy cuisine while enjoying an
entertainment lineup that includes live Western
music performed by Catherine Thompson, a
Cowboy Poetry CD release of Contemplating Life
by Tom Kerlin with music by Jim Dorsett, and a
singer/songwriter workshop (ticketed separately)
with Tony Arata, who wrote Garth Brooks’ The
Dance. Legendary chuck wagon cook and
steakhouse owner Tom Perini will also share his Festivities for the Southeastern Chuck Wagon Gathering will take place both indoors and
stories of cooking for presidents and celebrities outdoors at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia.

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T. Allen Lawson, Winter Blueberries, oil on linen mounted on board, 20 x 48”. © T. Allen Lawson.

T. Allen Lawson, Bernadette, oil on linen

mounted on board, 30 x 21”. © T. Allen Lawson.

in Cowboy Cooking: Then and Now.

Inside the museum, actors portraying Toy
Story’s Woody and Jessie will provide plenty
of photo ops for the whole family, while
author Jim Rhoden reads his children’s book
Adventure of Cowboy Little and Cowboy
Small: The Mystery of the Lost Map.
In addition, visitors will have the
opportunity to meet historical figures from
the artwork in the Booth Collection in the
museum’s Art Comes to Life.
While in the museum, visitors are
encouraged to view Mood and Tone: The Art A chuck wagon from a prior year’s Southeastern Chuck
of T. Allen Lawson, Bob Kolbrener: 50 Years in Wagon Gathering—aka “the original food truck.”
the West, Treasures from the Vault—15 years
of Collecting at Booth Museum and Middle &
High Schools Art Exhibition.
To end the evening on a high note, visitors
are welcome to mosey on over to the Grand
Theatre for Cowboy Concert with Texas-bred
powerhouse Kristyn Harris.

Southeastern Chuck
Wagon Gathering
March 23, 2019
Booth Western Art Museum,
501 Museum Drive, Cartersville, GA
Cartersville

(770) 387-1300,
www.boothmuseum.org

T. Allen Lawson, A Little Accumulation, oil

on linen mounted on panel, 10 x 14”.
© T. Allen Lawson.

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 Artists in this issue
Aagard, Douglas 142 Eiselein, Greg 93 Krzyston, Sue 101 Russell, Charles M. 42, 73, 80
Aeling, Jeff 118 Elliott, Teresa 140 Lang, Steven 90 Santiago, Roseta 56
Allen, Maura 100 Falk, Joni 101 Lawson, T. Allen 167 Savides, Stefan 164
Ashcroft, Kathy 68 Fery, John 82, 87 Lay, Amy 143 Seelos, Julia Munger 153
Aspen, Kate 160 Frazier, Luke 89 Marris, Bonnie 145, 164 Seltzer, Olaf C. 86
Beecham, Greg 163 Fritz, Charles 55, 122 Meikle, Barbara 100 Shinabarger, Tim 83
Boylan, Karen 155 Galusha, Richard 115 Mell, Ed 53 Sims, Kyle 144
Buchholz, Mary Ross 156 Gibby, Raymond 152 Milhomme, Denis 149 Smith, Gary Ernest 138
Carlyle, Bobbie K. 93 Gibson, Mark 132 Mitchell, A.R. 58 Stevenson, Trish 116
Carver, Jill 140 Gilleon, R. Tom 89 Moore, Robert 120 Stuart, Sherry Blanchard 100
Case, G. Russell 54 Gillie and Marc 40 Morgan, James 114 Taylor, Gail Gash 143
Chmiel, Len 54 Gonske, Walt 120 Newbold, Greg 55 Thomas, Andy 71, 85, 112
Coleman, John 164 Grant, Lanny 111 Nighswonger, Julie 154 Tobey, Rebecca 97
Collins, Troy 123 Graves, Sandy 102 Oberg, Ralph 145 Tryggmo, Gunnar 136
Connor, Todd 123 Greene, Bruce 141 Oelze, Don 91 Tucker, Ezra 144
Cornwell, Dean 36 Grimm, Brian 141 Okon, Mejo 97 Tyler, Brenna 91
Cotton, Brent 91 Hagel, Frank 68 Paden, Theresa 158 Wakefield, Bob 34
Cottrell, Sheila 102, 157 Hall, Whitney 68 Paulson, Tom 124 Walters, Curt 122
Crandall, Jerry 93 Hanes, Bryan 139 Paxson, Edgar S. 85 Whitehead, Diane 150
Danielle, Lisa 102 Harada, Atsu 146 Peet, Darcie 125 Wiggins, Kim 143, 162
Datz, Stephen C. 53 Hartshorn, Stephanie 98, 113 Polzin, Kyle 86 Wilcox, Jim 159
de Forest, Lockwood 121 Harvey, G. 141 Poppleton, Chad 89 Wild, Carrie 147
Diodato, Gene 115 Henry, Harper 98 Post, Howard 138 Woodard, Don 151
Dixon, Maynard 52 James, Will 81 Powers, Scott Tallman 134 Woolcott, Sam 100
Dudash, C. Michael 165 Johnson, Jennifer 82 Red Star, Kevin 112 Young, Karen 92
Duncan, Robert 130 Jonason, David 148 Riley, Kenneth 86 Zhang, Xiang 163
Durr, Judith 101 Keefe, Shelby 97 Rivera, Elias 112

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Dustin Van Wechel, A Winter Fellowship, oll on canvas, 24 x 30 inches Bonnie Marris, Above the Clouds, oil on canvas, 24 x 48 inches

Ezra Tucker, Cozy Companions, acrylic on board, 12 x 30 inches Stefan Savides, Pins and Curls, bronze ed. of 16, 33 x 33 x 25 ½ inches

Sarah Woods, The Learning Tree, oil on canvas, 34 x 32 inches Mick Doellinger, Incoming, bronze, Ralph Oberg, The King’s Crown, oil on mounted linen, 34 x 48 inches
ed. of 25, 29 ½ x 17 ½ x 13 ½ inches

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Works by: Mick Doellinger, J.C. Dye, Veryl Goodnight, Shawn Gould
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