Whitney Western Art Museum
A blog about the collections, exhibits, and goings-on of the Whitney Western Art Museum.
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…
Museum Minute: A Lone Bear
Back in 2015, when Karen McWhorter just started her position as curator of the Whitney Western Art Museum, she was interviewed for…
Museum Minute: I-80 Energy Romance
Don Stinson is a contemporary artist who uses traditional methods and materials. His painting I-80 Energy Romance portrays a western landscape, but…
Museum Minute: The Self-Portrait of a Sculptor
Alexander Phimister Proctor was a known as the sculptor in buckskin. Born in Canada, he fell in love with the American West…