Past Exhibition Out West where the North Begins: Harold McCracken in Alaska and the Arctic, 1916–1928 June 3, 2017 – February 4, 2018 As part our Centennial celebration in 2017, […]
epiCENTER: Explore the CENTER of it all with our staff!
Enjoy the observations and interests of the people who work at the Center of the West here in our staff blog. Just note that these are the personal perspectives of individual staff members, and are not meant to be official representations of Center expertise or policy.
Right Turn at Albuquerque
Hello everyone! My name is Kyle Hestand and I am one of two summer interns at the Cody Firearms Museum (CFM). I am a senior majoring in history at the […]
June 2, 1924: 93 Years of Native American Citizenship
BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all non citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of […]
Forged & Founded: Western American Sculpture, Linda Raynolds
The Whitney staff recently had the chance to visit Linda Raynolds at her studio. She introduced us to the tools she uses to create her sculptures and showed us her […]
Forged & Founded: Western American Sculpture, Tracy Linder
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 […]
Forged & Founded: Western American Sculpture, A New Bronze Age
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 […]
