“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” —Henry Ward Beecher [1] As I mentioned in one of my earlier blog posts, Wild Things, we offer three Family Fun Days during the summer at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Family Fun Days take place one […]
Mindy Besaw, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Margaret and Dick Scarlett Curator of Western American Art talks about today’s contemporary western art scene with Today’s West: Contemporary Art from the Whitney Western Art Museum, on Thursday, August 28, 2014, at 12:15 p.m. in the Center’s Coe Auditorium. The illustrated lecture is free to […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 1995 Clymer “Winchester” Paintings Reunited By Howard Michael MadausFormer Curator, Cody Firearms Museum Contemporary western art sometimes comes from unexpected sources. In 1969, Olin Corporation, parent company of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, commissioned noted western artist, John Clymer (1907–1989) to create three large paintings that represented the lever-action […]
Curator Mindy Besaw recently spoke to Wyoming Public Media about the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Whitney Western Art Museum, its unique juxtaposition of historic and contemporary western art, and how the thematic design of the Whitney helps us tells the story of western art in chapters. Visit their website to listen to Besaw […]