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Mar 01, 2009; ... The Collector's Preview in our January issue should have included the Jackson Hole Art Auction (www.jacksonholeartauction.com) on September 19, presented by Trailside ...
BEST OF THE WEST: SOUTHWEST
Mar 01, 2009; ... openings / exhibits / events / auctions Together in Tubac A celebration of local artists TUBAC * K. Newby Gallery presents Together Rising, a show featuring paintings by local artists Tom Hill, Barbara Hill, David Simons, and Nicholas Wilson as well as Santa Fe artists ...
BEST OF THE WEST: ROCKY MOUNTAINS
Mar 01, 2009; ... openings / exhibits / events / auctions UTAH Whimsical Worlds Terzian Galleries features inventive new work PARK CITY * New works by Kina Crow and Emily McPhie are on view at Terzian Galleries this month. Both artists display a certain sense of whimsy in their ...
BEST OF THE WEST: WEST COAST
Mar 01, 2009; ... openings / exhibits / events / auctions CALIFORNIA Finding the Middle Ground First major showing of works by Roger Kuntz LAGUNA BEACH . In 1962, Life magazine published a special issue on California with a story focused on five of the state's prominent artists: ...
BEST OF THE WEST: BEYOND THE WEST
Mar 01, 2009; ... openings / exhibits / events / auctions MARYLAND Passion for Color Vibrant paintings are on display at McBride Gallery ANNAPOLIS * Recent landscape, still-life, and figurative paintings by Louis Escobedo are on display in a solo show titled Passion for Color at ...
ARTIST TO WATCH
Mar 01, 2009; ... the editors' choice for up-and-coming talent Angela Bentley Fife Exploring women's roles through art In high school, Angela Bentley Fife thought about majoring in math when it came time for college. But one day her art teacher pulled her aside and joked, "If you don't go ...
ART VALUES
Mar 01, 2009; ... four pastel and watercolor paintings to add to your collection 1. California artist Joe Santos received his first set of watercolors when he was 15 and has been painting almost exclusively in watercolor for the past 18 years. His artistic influences include Charles Sheeler, Richard ...
The West That Was
Mar 01, 2009; ... TOM GILLEON PAINTS ICONIC IMAGES OF THE OLD WEST IT'S SUCH A SEEMINGLY simple subject: a lone teepee. Yet Montana artist Tom Gilleon makes this iconic dwelling of the Plains Indians a mesmerizing sight to behold. He takes this classic symbol of the American West and paints it in a way ...
My World
Mar 01, 2009; ... Why did yon move to the West from Ohio and Pennsylvania? Probably because of my grandfather. As a girl, I got into horses when I used to visit him on his farm in Pennsylvania. I was always animal crazy. I think my grandfather wanted to move out west. As soon as he retired, he made four trips out ...
the Human Experience
Mar 01, 2009; ... Lorri Acott-Fowler's sculptures deal with relationships and emotions LAS APRIL, when Colorado sculptor Lorri Acott-Fowler heard that she had been awarded a commission for a public art piece, she had tears in her eyes. It was her first major public art commission. But what mattered even ...
paper rules!
Mar 01, 2009; ... Welcome to our special section spotlighting works on paper by talented pastel and watercolor artists. These contemporary practitioners can trace the origins of their media back through the annals of art history. Pastel painting, for example, goes back to 18th-century French artist ...
UNDER THE Desert Sun March is high season in Palm Desert
Mar 01, 2009; ... ARE SNOW AND ICE turning your back yard into frozen tundra right about now? We have the perfect artistic balm for the wintertime blues: Head to Palm Desert, CA, home to some 30 galleries, an impressive public arts program, and 350 sunny days a year. A rapidly growing resort, the town has 44,000 ...
Open to Art & Life
Mar 01, 2009; ... Margaret Nes translates her life experiences into potent works of pastel art LIFE DEALS IN the unknown, in constantly shifting perspectives. So does art. For New Mexico-based pastel artist Margaret Nes, the intimate intertwining of life and art has always been central to her creative ...
DESERT DREAMER
Mar 01, 2009; ... Robert Highsmith's subtle paintings capture New Mexico in a different light By Mark Mussari NEW MEXICO HAS haunted Robert Highsmith throughout his life. Thanks to a father who was a career of- ficer in the military, his family moved 35 times before High- smith turned 18. Yet, no matter ...
news makers
Mar 01, 2009; ... Dean Mitchell received the Artists' Choice award at the 17th annual Coors Western Art Exhibit and Sale, which was held at the National Western Complex in Denver, CO, in January. William E. Sharer's ...
color & light
Mar 01, 2009; ... Six artists interpret the world in pastels and watercolors Frank LaLumia "I quit my last job on September 9, 1977, at 5:05 p.m.," says Frank LaLumia. "And I've been a full-time artist ever since." That to-the-minute precision underscores LaLumia's lifelong dedication to what he ...
Tools of the Trade
Mar 01, 2009; ... In art, the medium matters I LOVE TO WRITE in longhand. I realize that in this day and age, when so much in life revolves around a keyboard, I might as well say I prefer not to use electricity. But it's true. Whether it's a letter to a friend or a grocery list or a couple of words jotted ...
BEST OF THE WEST: BEYOND THE WEST
Feb 01, 2009; ... GEORGIA Abandoned Beauty CARTERSVILLE * An exhibition of photography by Barbara Bowles is on display at the Booth Western Art Museum this month. "In the past, my photos served as inspiration for my paintings; now I create colorful photographs that look like paintings. My goal is ...
ARTIST TO WATCH
Feb 01, 2009; ... the editors' choice for up-and-coming talent Michael Cutlip An artist for the new millennium A few years ago, when artist Michael Cutlip had a solo show as part of the New California Artists Series at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, CA, one critic called him "a ...
BEST OF THE WEST: ROCKY MOUNTAINS
Feb 01, 2009; ... COLORADO Women of the West Vance & DeDecker honored at annual juried show DENVER * This month Saks Galleries presents a juried show of paintings and sculptures by members of the Women Artists of the West group. In conjunction with the show, the organization is ...