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PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Image of the Day, December 13, 2011
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“It’s more like I’m discovering the personality of the horse that I’m working on. I can’t really preconceive what it is that will work, and so it’s just trying to see as many things as you can and to incorporate them.” - Deborah Butterfield |
ARCHITECTURE: As a Matter of Fact I WAS Brought Up In A Barn!
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We come honestly by our barnyard bona fides. Our Grandpa was a rancher and gifted builder, responsible for one of the most beautiful barns in Beaverhead County. In those days hay was for horses and horseplay was for haylofts and I doubt that in his wildest dreams Grandpa could have imagined humans might someday want to inhabit his equine temple. |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting Mount Olympus - No Easy Task for Mere Mortals
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Mount Olympus is not the tallest mountain in the Wasatch Range, but anyone who has seen this natural wonder will agree with the early pioneers who bestowed upon it the Greek name for ‘the home of the gods.’ Mount Olympus acts as an anchor in the Salt Lake Valley, an unchanging reference point locating residents both in their environment and their history. |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, December 9, 2011
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"Winter is lovely to paint because…you’ve got a beautiful harmony of color relationships—the lavenders in the road. Every note of color has a relationship." - LeConte Stewart |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Image of the Day, December 8, 2011
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"I have in many places departed form the severe ascetic style ... Under ordinary circumstances, the ascetic discipline is necessary. Give the imagination an inch, and it is apt to take an ell, and the fundamental requirement of scientific method - accuracy of statement - is imperiled. But in the Grand Canyon district there is no such danger. The stimulants which are demoralizing elsewhere are necessary here to exalt the mind sufficiently to comprehend the sublimity of the subjects. Their sublimity has in fact been hitherto underrated." - Clarence Dutton |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, December 6, 2011
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"I see the world in terms of a balance between cosmos and chaos. Painting for me is the process of continually seeking, and attempting to work out, that balance. I don't feel it necessary for viewers to "know" my personal symbols in order to feel that my work -- if it is successful in blending chaos and cosmos into a beautiful whole -- has a spiritual base." – Clay Wagstaff |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, December 5, 2011
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"It is not a country of light on things. It is a country of things in light." – Marsden Hartley |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, December 4, 2011
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William Koerner painted during the end of the “Golden Years of Western Illustration.” His considerable talent as a draftsman landed him jobs with Harper’s, Good Housekeeping, Colliers and Saturday Evening Post during the 1920s and 30s. And like other illustrators working to fuel the media craze for pictures of the West, his images came to represent western life for Americans in the East and for Europeans who were fascinated with the West. |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, December 3, 2011
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Today’s painting of the day is titled “Vetting Cattle.” It is a large painting, perhaps 4 ft. high and 6 ft. long. The painting is being featured today because it keeps showing up in My-West posts. It first appeared in our post on Elizabeth Taylor and Giant and now in today’s post on the Menger Hotel in San Antonio. |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, December 2, 2011
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“Arizona’s picturesque setting provide in my mind the greatest possible opportunity for pictorial beauty…the people themselves are naturally artistic…” - Gerald C. Delano |
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Lately we’ve been thinking it’s about time our kids had their own hideaway, so recently we took a stroll across the old property to see what might still be salvageable after so many years of neglect. And we came away with a variety of possibilities for a fairytale space for them. Right now we have little else to show but vivid imaginations, some sketches and a lot of number crunching… and, of course, winning the lottery. In case that happens, here this one picture that came to mind. |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 30, 2011
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"I paint barns and rural life, not because it may have been or is in vogue, but because my twenty years as a farmer provide me with an essential and intimate knowledge of my subject matter...." – Dale Nichols |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 29, 2011
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George Catlin’s oil study Buffalo Chase, A Surround by the Hidatsa will be selling at Sotheby’s Auction for between $800,000 and $1,200,000 dollars on December 1st. |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 27, 2011
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W. Herbert “Buck” Dunton was a successful illustrator working for Scribner’s, Harper’s, and for Zane Grey before settling in Taos and becoming founding member of the Taos Society of Artists. Before his work became more stylized toward the end of his career, Dunton used a softer more impressionistic approach to paint the sun-drenched landscape that surrounded him. |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 26, 2011
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“I say as much as I can about how an animal lives and interacts with its environment an other organisms.” -- Carel Pieter Brest van Kempen |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: The Artist's Studio: Part 1
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Even with the familiar smells of turpentine, linseed oil and paint dominating your sense of smell, the artist’s studio can be a mysterious place to visit—an alchemical chamber where elements are mixed, stirred and modeled to become valuable impressions of beauty. Although most studios have high ceilings, towering north facing windows and waxed wooden floors, they can tell a lot about how an artist chooses to work, the props they use and the ambiance they need to be inspired. |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 25, 2011
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“Emaciated to a degree, my eyes sunken, and clothes all torn into tatters from hunting our animals through the brush. My hands were in a dreadful state; my fingers were frost-bitten, and split at every joint; and suffering at the same time from diarrhea and symptoms of scurvy…” -- Solomon Nunes Carvalho |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 24, 2011
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“My paintings reflect my fascination with the beauty found in the interaction between perception, painting, and the natural environment. Beauty is created when a composition achieves a balance within the tension between contrasting forms and stylistic representations.” -- Woody Shepherd |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Image of the Day, November 23, 2011
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Happy Thanksgiving! |
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PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Image of the Day, November 22, 2011
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“When as a young man of 18, I came east to study art, there were on the same train with me a group of Crow Indians on the way to Washington, D.C. Their chief was a mammoth person over six feet tall and weighing 265 pounds. All of them were big fellows and had the dignity of a Caesar.” -- Cyrus Dallin |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 21, 2011
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“Figuring out the value of shadows and how much color to put in the shadow are demands I enjoy as an artist.” -- David Meikle |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 20, 2011
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“I am still convinced that a literal naturalistic painting can still satisfy the passions of an intellectual mind.” - Clyde Aspevig |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Paintings Without Color: The Grisaille
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Grisaille paintings are often offered for sale by western art auctions and galleries today. Oftentimes you’ll hear viewers wondering why the artist “didn’t finish the painting.” The simple answer is the works are finished. Newspapers and magazines in the latter part of the 19th century and early 20th needed black and white images for their publications—especially as they tried to fill the high demand of their readership for images of the West. |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 17, 2011
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William H.D. Koerner made numerous trips to Montana to study the details of ranch and mountain life and the mannerisms of the lively personalities that populated the region. Over eighteen hundred images were featured in the most popular magazines of the day and he illustrated for authors such as Zane Grey. Koerner’s Riding the Open Range, was featured in the "Saturday Evening Post." |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Image of the Day, November 16, 2011
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Navajo classic chief’s blanket. Bonham’s Native American Art catalogue notes it was “Woven in a first phase Ute style pattern of rich indigo and brown panels overlaid on the striped ground, on a dark brown warp in handspun yarns.” It is estimated to sell at a low estimate of US $250,000 and a high estimate of $350,000. |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 15, 2011
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The painting Moving Cattle is typical of the unusual aerial perspective and bold shadows found in much of Howard Post’s work. Raised on a cattle ranch near Tucson, his paintings are narratives of life and labor on a working ranch. |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 14, 2011
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Famous for his landscapes and mountain scenes set in the High Sierras of California, Payne was also attracted to the desert southwest and worked around Canyon de Chelly and the Grand Canyon for the Santa Fe Railroad. Payne wrote the primer Composition of Outdoor Painting in 1941. Now in its seventh edition, it is still considered today to be one of the most important and cherished books found on an artist’s shelf. |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 12, 2011
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Josh Elliot continues to offer discerning and fresh images of the West. He first came to our attention with his painting of a beaverslide in Hay Season, painted during haying in his home state of Montana. His painting of a desert nocturne Midnight Passage is rare because we see so few contemporary artists tackling the complex tonal values inherent in the difficult and cumbersome process of painting by moonlight. |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Image of the Day, November 10, 2011
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Texas born sculpture, Robert Temple Summers II, was approached by the Dallas Trees and Park Foundation in 1992 to sculpt a scene depicting the story of Shawnee Trail, a trail used prior to the old Chisolm Trail. Cattle were gathered from east and west Texas and trailed through Austin Waco, Dallas and ultimately ended in Kansas. The commission included three cowboys on horseback who are herding seventy longhorn steers. The sculptures are 130% of life-size and cover four acres in downtown Dallas. |
PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE: "Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts"
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Famous movie director John Ford once exclaimed, “…Monument Valley was my greatest star.” |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 9, 2011
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"I paint the Indian as he is. In the garden digging--in the field working--riding amongst the sage--meeting his woman in the desert--angling for trout--in meditation" (Walter Ufer - American Art Review, June, 1999). |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 8, 2011
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“I choose subjects that are timeless, the things I see today—landscape, wildlife, rocks. I do outdoor sketches, but I am a studio painter. If I had lived in the East, my paintings would be different. I live in the West, so my painting reflect the West—but I hate to be categorized. People in the West like realistic art because they think of Westerners as realistic people. They are straightforward, honest, and unpretentious, so the art has to reflect these things.” -– Tucker Smith |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 7, 2011
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Today's painting of the day, by E. Martin Hennings, is being offered at the Santa Fe Art Auction on November 12th. The starting bid is $440,132, and it is estimated to sell at between $500,000 and $700,000. We'll report back on the hammer price. |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 6, 2011
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The night is dark. The moon will rise late, and when it does, I will be up. I have a canvas ready and a fresh candle in my lantern. My tent is insect-proof. My bed is a bag filled with pine fronds and covered with several layers of blankets. My pillow is my coat and overalls rolled up. I sleep deliciously. Through some unconscious working of the mind, I wake up because the moon is shining through… -- William R. Leigh |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 5, 2011
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Contemporary Utah artist George Handrahan paints the red rock of southern Utah and is well known for his regional farming scenes such as this scene from Liberty, Utah. He depicted this composition from a vertiginous height so that the key element, the mountain casting the shadow, becomes the dominant unseen force. Handrahan notes, “It will soon envelop the farm and affect all within. Slowly it will replace the warm afternoon light with winter’s defining cold darkness.” |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 4, 2011
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The Lost Art of Letter Writing: |
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE: Painting of the Day, November 3, 2011
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"When I was a little boy and lived in Maine, I read everything about the West I could get my hands on - not dime novels, but everything authentic. I lived the life in prospect. Then I lived it in actuality, living with cowpunchers in Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona - all along the cattle strip. Now that those days are gone, I live it in retrospect and in my pictures." – W. Herbert “Buck” Dunton |