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Remington’s Second Life
Not many collectors know that Frederic Remington was a novelist. Because he earned his living as an artist, he had the luxury of portraying the West...
A Tale of Two Shirts
On June 20, 1905, “one of the greatest affairs of the kind” took place, a potlatch feast-giveaway of the belongings of Nez Perce Chief Joseph, who...
Viva Villa!
When Mexican Revolution Gen. Francisco “Pancho” Villa sat on his ornate silver saddle, he probably did not envision that the six-year-old son of a...
MARK SUBLETTE
The owner of Medicine Man Gallery (in Tucson, Arizona, and Santa Fe, New Mexico), Mark Sublette specializes in early Western and Indian paintings....
LESLIE BAKER
Leslie Baker is the editor-in-chief of Persimmon Hill Magazine, published by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City,...
BILLY GOES BIG
The sale sent shockwaves throughout the Western collectibles community. No photograph of an outlaw had ever brought this kind of money ($80,000 is...
Debbie Sells Out
A few months prior to finding out she would have to liquidate her collection of movie memorabilia—the largest private collection of its kind Debbie...
A River of Returns
“It is a toss-up whether the scenery or the adornment of Marilyn Monroe is the feature of greater attraction in River of No Return,” reviewed The...
Arizona’s Top 10 Paintings
If some of the major early artists in the West—Catlin, Bodmer, Miller, Audubon, Bierstadt—had painted in Arizona, they would be on this list. But...
Artists We Love—Ed Mell
Not one of the many art bios on Ed Mell mentions his great sense of humor. Ed Mell Not one of the many art bios on Ed Mell mentions his great sense...
Nampeyo’s Legacy
“I want to continue the traditional methods and designs,” Tonita Hamilton Nampeyo said. “I don’t want to deviate from what my mom [Fannie Polacca]...