Today was a great day for the walls of our museum. Our collection’s newest addition was recently hung. It is a fitting landscape tribute to Wyoming’s winter. Don Stinson (b. 1956) is a contemporary artist who lives in Evergreen, Colorado. His paintings are panoramas of the American West of today. The magnificent landscapes are […]
Today we celebrate the birthday of one of our patrons, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, whose generosity and continued support of his mother’s founding contributions helped to shape the Whitney Western Art Museum into the great institution that it is today. Born in 1899 to Harry Payne Whitney and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Cornelius Vanderbilt (nicknamed CV) went […]
The West of the nineteenth century was a fascinating place to venture. This was the time of Lewis and Clark, the Louisiana Purchase, territories becoming states, and (right in our own backyard) the Hayden expedition to northwest Wyoming, which pushed Congress to designate Yellowstone the nation’s first national park in 1872. Today’s blog title comes to […]
Dear readers and patrons, Thank you so much for all of your thoughtful questions on our collections, gallery displays, and objects. I hope you find our responses helpful. Let’s get to it. Q: I can find no pictoral references or illustrations as to the logistical method Plains Indians would carry/utilize all their gear, like strung […]
Hi to all you western art lovers out there. Things are kickin’ at the Whitney as we gear up to start rotating out our art and prepare for the spring season with two new exhibitions. (Yay!) In the meantime, I thought I’d put a call out for all the queries, questions, concerns, or shout-outs that […]
If you are familiar with the art of James Bama, you will immediately think of his beautiful photo-realistic paintings, paintings filled with the people of the West—Native Americans, cowboys, rodeo clowns, ranchers, and a host of others. But what you may not know is that all of these paintings were inspired by photographs, and the photographs […]