Whitney Western Art Museum
A blog about the collections, exhibits, and goings-on of the Whitney Western Art Museum.
Thomas Moran’s “Zoroaster Peak”
Moran, Zoroaster Peak, 11.96 Thomas Moran (1837 – 1926). Zoroaster Peak (Grand Canyon, Arizona), 1918. Oil on canvas, 9 x 12 inches. Purchased…
Don Stinson, “I-80 Energy Romance”
Stinson, I-80 Energy Romance, 15.13 Don Stinson (b. 1956). I-80 Energy Romance, 2013. Oil on linen, 28 x 64 inches. Gift of…
Palmore, “Where Elegance Meets Fear”
Palmore, Where Elegance Meets Fear, 22.96 Tom Palmore (b.1945). Where Elegance Meets Fear, 1996. Acrylic on canvas, 46 x 46 inches. Gift…
Museum Minute: A Painting Documents a New Technology
A watercolor painted in the late 19th century features the Buffalo Bill Wild West show in action. But the painting doesn’t only…
Museum Minute: A Monumental Portrait
Frank Perley Fairbanks was a classmate of Phimister Proctor’s, the famous American sculptor, at the American Academy in Rome. Fairbanks who himself…
Museum Minute: Morning Blue
Josh Elliot is a Montana born and raised artist of Western landscape. Karen McWhorter, the Scarlett Curator of Western American Art for…