Art & Galleries

New exhibit at Oklahoma's Gilcrease museum traces the history of the great Apache artist

Get ready for a month-long celebration of all things cowgirl as the Desert Caballeros Western Museum turns 50

Looking back the grand opening of Goldenstein Gallery’s fifth annual show, a month-long event celebrating the preservation of Native American and Western cultures in contemporary art.

Artist's technique draws viewers into pareidolia

Artist helps preserve Montana's natural legacies

Two-and-a-half-acre sculpture garden accentuates artwork both inside and out

The biggest boots in the world turn 30 years old

Capturing the Western spirit - romance and reality

 Glacial grandeur in black-and-white.

Santa Fe Found exhibit and lecture series helps mark city's 400th anniversary

Utah's Brent Flory has an intimate connection with the West that shows through in his oil paintings.

"Prints of the American West, 1820-1970" on view at Ft. Worth's Amon Carter Museum through January 2010.

Astoria Fine Arts offers work by Ed Kucera and others that will ignite your passion for Western Art

Belinda Bell's colorful rendition of Jackson Sundown celebrates Pendleton Round-Up's 100th Anniversary

Period accuracy and tradition give inspiration and impact to works by New Mexico painter K. Henderson

Unexpected hues in work by Julia Lucich's make for a wilder treatment of the West in her Party Animal series

New Mexico sculptor Tara Roberts' talks about her lifelong affinity for clay and composition in her approach to pottery

Structure and pattern give Jami Tobey a fresh approach to color and line in
her thoughtful reflections on landscape painting

October marks the grand opening of the gallery's fifth annual show, a month-long event celebrating the preservation of Native American and Western cultures in contemporary art.

Mark and Pattie Johnson have combined their skills in glass and steel to create striking shaman pieces reminiscent of ancient Southwestern petroglyphs.

The Art Tour of Tulsa will be offered in conjunction with the market, enabling attendees to visit the extensive Native art collections at the Gilcrease and Philbrook museums free of charge by complimentary shuttle.

You'll also find a variety of horn accessories at the unassuming storefront, located in the historic Oklahoma City stockyards.

Located in Jackson, Wyoming, the must-see gallery is housed in a space designed by architect Larry Berlin.

It features more than 1,000 objects — artifacts such as clothing, regalia, tools, and weapons, as well as works of art and a wide variety of objects crafted from bison — that reveal the crucial history and cultural role of the bison in the American West.

Today's leading talents in contemporary woodworking may embellish with turquoise or iron, or choose to leave the wood grain raw. But for all of the following artists, working with wood is an enduring labor of love.

Although she used to paint outside in plein air, she now finds that her best work happens in the studio, where she is able to re-create the experience of a place or an animal while she paints or sculpts.

An accounting major in college, she started her own graphic design company 23 years ago, and you can see her prior experience in the striking and vibrant way she portrays her subjects on canvas.

The digital photographer has a passion for the wild mustangs of the American West.

The move to the northeast corner of the town square allows the 5,500-square-foot gallery to feature a greater variety of bronzes in addition to the gallery's signature traditional and contemporary Western paintings.

Pieces of the Old West find new meaning in found-object art.

This and other one-of-a-kind pieces of Western and Native art are available at The Wild West Trading Co.

Gordon Tonips of Fort Worth, Texas, celebrates his heritage as an Indian dancer, as a speaker on Native American culture and beliefs, and as a sculptor.

Stern designs everything from hand-sewn clothing to hand-painted, hand-hammered tin art at her New Mexico-based business Corpirate.

Created by the Native peoples of the Southwest, the artwork and goods sold by the non-profit charitable organization benefit the unemployed artists creating the work, Native Americans living in poverty, and SWIF programs.

The Harwood Museum of Art celebrates the 40th anniversary of the counterculture movie Easy Rider with exhibits led by the award-winning actor.

With the help of beautiful weather and cool breezes, artists and art lovers met and mixed at Phippen Museum's 35th annual Western Art Show and Sale.

We've listed the most beautiful, interesting, and significant equine sculptures across the West.

Lovers of handcrafted furniture, accessories, jewelry, and fashion need to list Jackson, Wyoming, as a September destination.

The American Museum of Natural History exhibit celebrates the animal's traits, place in history, and relationship with humans.

If you've been to Denver International Airport lately, outside the main terminal you've surely noticed the massive — and massively controversial — 32-foot-high metallic-blue mustang sculpture rearing up on its hind legs.

He didn't begin painting full time until 1986, when he was 50 years old. "I didn't recognize and acknowledge the talent I have," he says.

John Banovich, a master wildlife artist, attempts to create art that is timeless, ancient, and primitive.

Morse says the challenge of each canvas never stagnates. Each painting is of a different place and has a different feeling, a different coloring.

In her latest online portfolio, you'll find color and black-and-white pictures of her Western travels.

The annual auction in Wyoming features many master works from the past. But collectors who prefer contemporary Western and wildlife art will not be disappointed, either.

The mural was created during a 24-hour paint-a-thon with 70 artists creating 252 panels, the result of months of planning and design.

He strives to be honest in his representational landscape paintings and to give people a desire to be in that place.

The abstract painter is integrated into the rhythm of nature and beauty.

The contemporary impressionist's work tell a romanticized story of American life at the turn of the century.

Follow the image-capturing adventures of 17 aspiring photographers during a week at a photography workshop documenting various aspects of life in a small northwestern Wyoming town.

Steve Atkinson's paintings capture the atmosphere of the West. They transport you to where he was standing when he painted them — you can smell the hay and feel the chill of the air.

Robert Highsmith uses watercolors to capture the landscapes of the Southwest with astonishing realism.

Don Marco has three words of advice for anyone who wants to attempt making crayon drawings on construction paper that are as stunning and powerful as his own: practice, practice, practice.

His custom woodcarvings include wildlife, Western scenery, hunting and fishing scenes, snowboarding, skiing, cowboys, Indians, and of course, the Western man's best friends: dogs and horses.

Twenty years ago, French sommelier Philippe Franquelin followed his passion to live among the Northern Cheyenne of Montana. Today, the wine expert is a sought-after beading artist who teaches young Cheyenne, Sioux, and Crow about their art and traditions.

Located in downtown Phoenix, the Berlin Gallery is the latest extension of The Heard Museum. The gallery features contemporary American Indian paintings, sculptures, and photography, as well as prints and drawings.

Timothy O'Sullivan, one of the American frontier's most important photographers, wasn't just an artistic hybrid of Matthew Brady and Ansel Adams. He had a little Kit Carson in him as well.