A specific western furniture style was born in Cody in the 1930s. And for the past 30 years, its biggest fans have tried to spread it beyond the West by holding annual furniture expositions around the northwest Wyoming city. The style in question is an old-west, rustic look you might relate to the 1800s. Only […]
The painter, Alfred Jacob Miller, was an early artist explorer depicting the American West. But it turns out, he only went out to the West once. His patron, William Drummond Stewart, commissioned Miller to come along to a rendezvous out near present day Pinedale, Wyoming. A rendezvous was a gathering of fur traders and […]
Albert Bierstadt’s paintings may have contributed to the profound changes occurring in the American West in the late 1800s. Across Bierstadt’s thirty-year career, his depictions of an idealized western landscape helped inspire new waves of pioneers to follow Manifest Destiny, the concept that westward expansion by Euro-Americans was divinely sanctioned and inevitable. But Bierstadt’s paintings […]
A new exhibition is soon to take flight at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Draper Natural History Museum, Monarch of the Skies: the Golden Eagle in Greater Yellowstone and the American West. The project draws together past studies and the Draper’s own 10 years of research and field work in the sagebrush-steppe environment […]
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West is located in a rural place: Cody, Wyoming. But it works hard to reach beyond its four walls to keep the American West myth and spirit alive. This is one story of many: the Go West! Art of the American Frontier exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine […]
For the past three years, the Whitney Western Art Museum of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody lent over eighty works of art from their main collection for a traveling exhibition: Go West! Art of the American Frontier. Since 2013, the Western American art exhibit traveled to Atlanta, Georgia, Omaha, Nebraska and Palms […]