Tracy Linder grew up on a family farm and received her MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Linder now lives in south central Montana. Her sculptures and installations address our integral connection to the land, the sanctity of our food sources, and the innate survival skills of all species. Her works have been […]
The ancient technique of casting sculpture in bronze took a fresh turn in 1849, when Henry Kirke Brown created Choosing of the Arrow, one of the first bronze sculptures cast in the United States. The trajectory of bronze casting in America can be traced from statuettes, like Brown’s classical nude, manufactured for an emerging class […]
The Whitney Western Art Museum houses studio collections of four western American artists: Frederic Remington, W.H.D. Koerner, Joseph Henry Sharp, and Alexander Phimister Proctor. Each of these collections are individually significant, and together, they form the cornerstones of the Whitney’s broad and deep holdings of artwork. Each has the capacity to inspire and astound causal […]
The Whitney Western Art Museum presents a special exhibition of photographs by renowned photographer and author Laura Wilson. That Day: Pictures of the American West, organized by the Amon Carter Museum and the artist, highlights Wilson’s photographs made in the American West over three decades. The exhibition includes photographs of outsiders, law enforcers, cowboys, debutantes, […]
With a fine wife as inspiration in my work and as a companion in the wilderness, with a fine family of children, and with good friends, my cup has been full to overflowing. – Alexander Phimister Proctor Alexander Phimister Proctor met Margaret Daisey Gerow at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1891, where both […]
I still love and long for the old west, and everything that goes with it. But I would sacrifice it all for Mrs. Russell. – Charles M. Russell In 1895 Charles M. Russell was a dinner guest at the home of Ben and Lela Roberts. It was here that he met Nancy Cooper, the Roberts’ […]