In 1973, John Wayne sat inside Norman Rockwell’s studio in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, so the artist could paint a portr…
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The Thirsty Trapper Another million-dollar auction record for rendezvous artist Alfred Jacob Miller.
When the hammer fell at $1.5 million on July 28, Coeur d’Alene Art Auction tied with Sotheby’s New York on the highest a…
Beyond Awesome The Grandeur of the West in Western Art.
Grandeur is often associated with the paintings of early artists of the American West: George Caleb Bingham, Karl Bodmer…
Romance and the Buffalo Hunt The lady Charles M. Russell would wed improved his study and treatment of frontier buffalo hunts.
Nancy Cooper clearly fired up Charles M. Russell’s imagination when they met in 1895 (a year later, 32-year-old Charlie …
The Painter’s Cabin A cabin restoration allows Maynard Dixon fans to enjoy views that inspired the master artist .
Visiting the Maynard Dixon cabin is like walking into a Maynard Dixon painting. For the last seven years of his life, Ma…
What History Has Taught Me: Allen Polt
This issue’s Ulysses S. Grant cover was illustrated by Allen Polt, a portrait artist who lives in Oro Valley, Arizona, a…
An Unusual Scale Edgar Alwin Payne’s close-up view of Navajo scouts bid the highest at Jackson Hole Art Auction.
Edgar Alwin Payne’s language of the Southwestern landscape mainly spoke of brilliant cliffs and skies towering over a sm…
Million-Dollar Cowboys Collectors are focusing on a rare and unusual subject for William R. Leigh oils.
Thomas Moran was alive today, he would be surprised to hear that his former pupil reached the million dollar auction mar…
The Myth and Legend of the West Captured in Art
Artist Thom Ross is well known for his Western works, with efforts ranging from Tombstone to the Little Bighorn and Buff…