With previews of gallery exhibitions, museum shows and auctions, Western Art Collector is the premier monthly magazine for collectors searching for works by talented living and past artists who depict the West in paintings and sculptures.
Welcome to the January issue of Western Art Collector and Happy New Year! We are starting this year with some of our favorite sections: the Western Auction Directory and State of the Art: Arizona. The destination guide hits close to home as our world headquarters are right here in the Grand Canyon State. While executive editor Michael Clawson will take you deeper into the importance of one New York sale on Page 6, I want to reflect on the auctioneers themselves. As a colonel and certified auctioneer, I understand the entertainment of the auction and the importance of exceptional art in a room full of serious collectors. The pageantry, the spotlight and the happy collector owning their new acquisition—it’s all magic! It is energy and spectacle that everyone must experience…
As we step into 2026, we are kicking the new year off with a very large bang. This issue includes our substantial Western Auction Directory and State of the Art: Arizona, and then also our annual Collector’s Focus: The Contemporary West. Add to that our coverage of the Coors Western Art Exhibit, as well as all the great gallery and museum previews, and what you have is a mighty fine mixture of Western art and culture within these pages. Another event happening this month is taking place far, far away from the West. In New York City, Christie’s will offer bidders selections from the William I. Koch Collection, one of the most prestigious private Western collections ever assembled. The sale will include major masterpieces from Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell,…
January January 8 Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale THE LEGACY Denver, CO – (303) 291-2567 www.coorswesternart.com January 2-12 Aaron Hazel GALLERY WILD Jackson, WY – (307) 203-2322 www.gallerywild.com Through January 3 Society of Animal Artists’ 65th Annual Art & The Animal Exhibition THE ART MUSEUM OF EASTERN IDAHO Idaho Falls, ID www.societyofanimalartists.com Through January 3 Small Works & More THE PLAINSMEN GALLERY Dunedin, FL – (727) 734-8200 plainsmengallery.com Through January 4 Birds in Art LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM Wausau, WI – (715) 845-7010 www.lywam.org Through January 5 American Plains Artists 40th Annual Juried Show PEARCE MUSEUM AT NAVARRO COLLEGE Corsicana, TX www.americanplainsartists.com January 7-11 LA Art Show LA CONVENTION CENTER Los Angeles, CA www.laartshow.com January 8 Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale THE LEGACY Denver, CO – (303) 291-2567 www.coorswesternart.com…
The American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog recently announced the acquisition of Veryl Goodnight’s sled dog painting Perseverance. The piece will be part of the museum’s permanent collection, which also includes major examples by Sir Edwin Landseer, Percival Rosseau, Maud Earl, Arthur Wardle and many others. The museum is located in the headquarters of the American Kennel Club in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The Goodnight painting is part of a series of 10 paintings devoted to sled dogs that recently was on exhibit at Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West in Arizona. “The collection came to the attention of Barbara Schwartz, retired AKC vice president of show operations and neighbor of artist Veryl Goodnight,” AKC noted in an announcement about the acquisition.…
1 Geoffrey Gersten zooms into Western objects Known for his eye-catching Pop Art images of Western iconography, Arizona painter Geoffrey Gersten has long explored imagery involving bronco busters, bull riders and cowboys. But some of his newest works, now available at Altamira Fine Art, take the artist in a new direction as he paints small objects such as watches, matchbooks and pulp Western novels. The images, many of them quite large, offer macro-level views of these small items, which helps to enlarge their scale and impact. Many have Western themes, including matchbook imagery such as cowboys and cowgirls, the famous Marlboro Man, boots, round-ups, Texas and the national parks. In this work, Gersten paints the Lone Ranger. These new works are at Altamira Fine Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Scottsdale,…
Many of the most iconic examples of landscape art were painted at the Grand Canyon, Arizona’s vast and unchallenged colossus of nature carved over millions of years by nothing more than wind and water. These paintings were created by some of the greatest landscape painters to ever set foot in the Southwest. Artists such as Thomas Moran, Gunnar Widforss, William R. Leigh, Carl Oscar Borg and others. The fact that Curt Walters not only belongs in that group, but near the front of it, is a testament to the artist’s endearing link to one of the greatest natural landmarks on the planet. Walters will celebrate the canyon—as well as his vast and unchallenged colossus of a career—with a new retrospective at Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West in Scottsdale,…
