Whitney Western Art Museum
A blog about the collections, exhibits, and goings-on of the Whitney Western Art Museum.
A Look Back at Michele Farrier’s Time as Artist-in-Residence
A native of northern California, Michele Farrier now calls Cortez, Colorado home. She received a BA in Studio Art from the University…
Museum Minute: Zoroaster Peak
Thomas Moran was one of the artist documenting the expansion to the West. He was on the first formal expedition in 1871…
Albert Bierstadt: A Conservationist
Albert Bierstadt—He’s a late 19th-century artist, most well-known for his majestic landscape paintings of the Wind River Range, Yellowstone, and the American…
Museum Minute: Where Elegance Meets Fear
It’s a weird story not often told at museums since it’s against the rules. But at the Whitney Western Museum of Art…
Buffalo Bill Center of the West receives NEA grant for Bierstadt exhibition
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West has won a $30,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)….
Sculpture Guide: Mule Deer
Life-Size Mule Deer By Michael Coleman2013 Location: Cashman Greever Garden Life-Size Mule Deer, cast number 6 of an edition of 20, takes…