August 2019

Southwest Art

Southwest Art: The work of the West's most accomplished artists come to your home in the pages of Southwest Art. Dedicated to the coverage and preservation of this unique genre of American art, each issue profiles the artists of the Southwest and looks at

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John Huerta Jr.
ONE WINTER MORNING, as John Huerta Jr. pulled into the parking lot at Ogden-Weber Technical College, where he teaches graphic design, he instinctively glanced toward Ben Lomond Mountain. The prominent, 9,712-foot peak rises up from the Wasatch Range
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Spotlight On The West
WELCOME TO this month’s special issue focusing on The New West, in which we turn the spotlight on artists who offer contemporary interpretations of traditional western subjects. We begin with Utah painter David Dibble, our cover artist, whose sophist
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Julie Nighswonger
USUALLY, FOR Julie Nighswonger, it’s the quiet, unhurried scenes around her home in rural southeastern Wyoming that inspire her to put brush to canvas or charcoal to paper. A mare nuzzling her foal, early-morning fog drifting over a creek, or a coupl
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Donald Yatomi
IF YOU’RE LOOKING for paintings with traditional subject matter and brushwork, artist Donald Yatomi is not your guy. “It’s everything against tradition,” the Oregon painter says about his work. “It’s saying: What haven’t we seen on the museum wall ye
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Denman, Rambadt & Moore
THIS MONTH Astoria Fine Art hosts two must-see shows featuring three of its top artists. From Thursday, August 1, through Saturday, August 10, the Jackson, WY, gallery hosts a two-person show for contemporary wildlife artists Andrew Denman and Don Ra
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Kim Wiggins
THE NEW SOLO show from Kim Wiggins at Manitou Galleries’ Palace Avenue location proclaims the artist’s all-embracing intentions with a gently punning title, How the West Was One. Indeed, a spirit of regional unity reigns in the more than 20 paintings
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Bettina Steinke Studio Group
DISCERNING collectors of western art prize the works of the late artist and illustrator Bettina Steinke (1913-1999) for her lifelike images that captured subjects as diverse as U.S. presidents, Hollywood stars, captains of industry, and pueblo dancer
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Hayes & Taylor-Gore
A FEW HAPPY occasions gave cause for a special two-person show this month, entitled Together Again, at Alexandra Stevens Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. With artist Arlene LaDell Hayes recently returning to the gallery’s stable, and her longtime friend Vict
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Estes Valley Plein Air
WITH QUICK access to the pristine lakes, pine forests, gushing waterfalls, and stunning overlooks of Rocky Mountain National Park, the small resort town of Estes Park, CO, is a plein-air painter’s paradise. Not surprisingly, it’s the designated headq
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Cynthia Duff
VISITORS TO CYNTHIA Duff’s solo show, taking place this month at Raitman Art Galleries in Vail, CO, can expect to see a plethora of Colorado vistas and wildlife portraits. While this new collection of work—about 20 paintings in total—isn’t out of the
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Crested Butte Arts Festival
SOME 12,000 VISITORS flock to the Rocky Mountain town of Crested Butte, CO, every year to attend the Crested Butte Arts Festival. “It’s the largest event in Crested Butte during the summer,” says executive director Chelsea S. Dalporto-McDowell. “And
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Tales OF THE West
A COWBOY LEANS against a fence, holding a piece of paper, while a horse props its head on his arm. The curious equine pokes its nose over the cowboy’s shoulder, as though the pair is reading a letter together. In the painting MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS,
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Western Heritage
“ART IS A vehicle that I think God has given us to understand Him and ourselves and others better, to be better as a world. It is a means to make us who we need to become as individuals and as families and communities.” So says Utah painter David Dib
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The Bronze Menagerie
WHEN MICHAEL TATOM was a sixth-grader in his hometown of Los Alamos, NM, he was obsessed with choppers—motorcycles that have been modified with stretched frames, large front wheels mounted on extended forks, tall handlebars, and exaggerated vertical
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Spirit of Place
JENNIFER CAVAN was standing beside her work at her first major art show, in Dallas in 2000, when a fellow artist stepped into her booth and looked around. He took in the earlier pieces Cavan had created shortly after she moved to Angel Fire, NM— reta
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Artists Of Utah
What inspires you to paint? I’m inspired by the beauty around me—the changing colors and the contrasts between light and dark or warm and cool. I have been given a gift; sharing the beauty I see and feel by creating a painting is a way to give back.
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Kelli Folsom
WITH THEIR CLASSIC, old-master beauty and drama, Kelli Folsom’s still-life paintings have received a great deal of national recognition since she graduated from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts about a decade ago. Although still lifes have formed th
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Splash 20
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ARTISTS CHOSEN AS WINNERS OF NORTH LIGHT BOOKS’ ANNUAL WATERCOLOR ART COMPETITION! A SAMPLING OF THE winning artists is featured in the following pages. They are all part of a new publication, Splash 20: Creative Compositions,
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Art of NEW MEXICO
Carolyn Lindsey, a residence of Cuervo New Mexico, creates paintings in oil using the people and places in the area as subject matter. Painting from life, she feels is paramount in the understanding and use of color. The point at which you leave the
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WOMEN in Art
THERE’S NO QUESTION THAT FEMALE PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS ARE ENJOYING MUCH MORE RECOGNITION IN THE 21ST CENTURY THAN THEIR PREDECESSORS IN history received. It’s true that women remain underrepresented in art museums today, but they are making bold mar

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