John Giarrizzo (b. 1955) was chosen as one of the Whitney Western Art Museum’s 2014 Artists in Residence at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. Throughout his residence, Giarrizzo focused on the discipline of drawing and the practice of ‘learning from the masters’ by studying the western masters in the […]
Sculptor, Jeffrey Burnham Rudolph (b. 1956), was one of this year’s artists in residence in the Whitney Western Art Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. In this interview, Rudolph discusses his journey as an artist, his work, and provides commentary on the process of turning a clay sculpture into a […]
Northern Cheyenne artist, Bently Spang, became our first Artist in Residence for 2015. Bently Spang was born on the Crow Indian Reservation in 1960 and grew up both on and off the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, living in places such as Sitka, Alaska, and Portland, Oregon. He graduated from Montana State University-Billings and earned a […]
In 2013, artist John Hull created a series of paintings on The Sporting Life. A few of these works centered around the Johnson County Fair and Rodeo in Buffalo, Wyoming, where Hull sketched while an artist-in-residence at the Ucross Foundation. One of the paintings from this series, Ropers, 2013, is now in the permanent collection at the Whitney Western Art Museum. We hope […]