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N.C. Wyeth

N.C. Wyeth - Above the Sea of Round, Shiny Backs the Thin Loops Swirled and Shot into Volumes of Dust, 1904

Points West Online: A Day with the Round-up: An Impression by N.C. Wyeth

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Originally reprinted in Points West magazine in Fall 2002 By N.C. Wyeth Ed. note: Artist Wyeth wrote this story for the March 1906 issue of Scribner’s Magazine (Vol. XXXIX, no. 3), pages 285 – 290. The paintings accompanying it appeared as illustrations with that article. Groping and feeling my way out from beneath three or […]

N.C. Wyeth (1882 – 1945). "Hashknife Ranch," October 1904. Photograph courtesy Colorado Historical Society. F26,282

Points West Online: N.C. Wyeth

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Originally published in Points West magazine in Fall 2002 N.C. Wyeth: From the Hashknife to the Palette Knife By Sarah E. Boehme Former Curator, Whitney Western Art Museum “Here I am in the great West, and I’ll tell you it is the great West.”[1] The twenty-one year old easterner, in search of adventure and knowledge, […]

Whitney Western Art Museum

In and Out: Creating art “en plein air” and in the gallery

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Greetings fellow art fans! The time of year has arrived when artists converge in the Whitney Western Art Museum. During the weeks of July 6 and July 13, we had the pleasure of hosting Michele Z. Farrier as our artist-in-residence. Farrier formerly taught art to K – 12 students in the Teton County School District. […]

Remington New Model Army revolver. In 1906, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody sent this revolver as a gift to the managers of his Nebraska ranch, Charlie Trego and his wife Carrie. A note accompanied the gift which read, "This old Remington revolver I carried and used for many years in Indian wars and buffalo killing. And it never failed me." Photograph by Paul Goodwin, Newport, Kentucky.

Points West Online: The Arms and Art of the Remington Arms Company

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From Points West magazine Originally published in Summer 1997 The Arms and Art of the Remington Arms Company By Howard Michael Madaus Former Curator, Cody Firearms Museum, Robert W. Woodruff Firearms Chair In 1816, the 22-year-old blacksmith Eliphalet Remington forged his first gun barrel. The process was slow and tedious. A skelp of iron (a […]

Albert Bierstadt's Last of the Buffalo (detail). 2.60

Center of the West shares its extraordinary collection in two exhibitions in Georgia

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Editor’s Note, April 14, 2014: These exhibitions in Georgia have now closed. From November 3, 2013 – April 13, 2014, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, shared its extraordinary collection with museums in Georgia. Go West! Art of the American Frontier from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West at the High […]