Alexander Phimister Proctor was a known as the sculptor in buckskin. Born in Canada, he fell in love with the American West and most of his work featured the West. However, he didn’t only sculpt, he occasionally painted. Proctor’s Self Portrait is a painting of the artist in his early 20s. Karen McWhorter, the curator […]
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 Whitney’s […]
Contemporary painter and water-colorist, Dean Mitchell, shares his story of the road to becoming a professional artist, describing his process and what motivates his work. Mitchell was the 2014 Weiss Award winner at the Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale in Cody, Wyoming. His work, Taliesin West, 2014 is in the collection of the Whitney Western […]
The practice of itinerant painting was popular in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries. Artists would travel through urban and rural areas seeking commissions from wealthier families and prominent members of society. These portraits would often hang in the household’s parlor room indicating to guests the sitter’s gentility and position in society. […]
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 […]
It is always an exciting time when artists in our permanent collection make the trip out to Cody to come see us. This past weekend I had the pleasure of meeting Jared Sanders and his wife Paula. Jared’s painting, Landmark, 2013, came into our collection last year and now hangs in our Contemporary West section […]