Originally published in Points West magazineFall 2004 Proctor Museum Donates Collection Ed. Note: A look back to the acquisition of the Alexander Phimister Proctor Collection following a 2004 exhibition on the sculptor and his work. By Sarah E. Boehme The Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s 2004 special exhibition on Alexander Phimister Proctor reaped a […]
Originally published in Points West magazine in Summer 2003 Why Are There No Great Women Artists of the West? But, Wait, There’s Georgia O’Keeffe By Sarah E. BoehmeFormer Curator, Whitney Western Art Museum Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) stands as an important figure in American art with her stunning articulations of floral patterns, bone shapes, and stark […]
Originally published in Points West magazine in Summer 2003 Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists of the West? Or, Rephrased, Why Is There No Woman Who Is the Equivalent of Frederic Remington or Charles M. Russell? By Sarah E. BoehmeFormer Curator, Whitney Western Art Museum This question can seem startling, because, as a […]
Originally published in Points West magazineFall 1998 William R. Leigh in Cody Country By Sarah E. Boehme, Former Curator, Whitney Western Art Museum The landscape and western life around Cody, Wyoming, have inspired many works of art, but few are as fiercely dramatic as the William R. Leigh (1866–1955) painting of Grizzly at Bay, 1913–15, oil […]