Coffee & Curators: Whitney Western Art Museum Center of the West members, we invite you to join us for refreshments and a curator talk focused on our Whitney Western Art Museum. Our Coffee & Curators series invites members to enjoy coffee, refreshments, and each other as one of our curators speaks about a topic inspired […]
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2019 Albert Bierstadt’s White Horse and Sunset Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze […]
First Friday February 7 5–7 p.m. Join the Buffalo Bill Center of the West for a FREE event! Enjoy appetizers, a cash bar, live music, and painting. Our Whitney Western Art Museum will be open. All ages welcome. Gather friends and family February 7 from 5–7 p.m. It’s a great time to enjoy the company […]
Museum curators often receive public inquiries, and sometimes an outside person can be very helpful to gaining better insight on a painting or object in the museum. For Karen McWhorter, the curator of the Whitney Western Art Museum, a call from a professor made her look at George Catlin’s “Mandan-View of the Missouri Above the […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2014 Turning Back: Reflecting on the Art of Harry Jackson By Mindy N. Besaw Harry Jackson (1924–2011) is a familiar name around Cody, Wyoming. He is known primarily for paintings and bronzes about the American West, but also for his larger-than-life personality. He was, in fact, the most influential […]
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Fall/Winter 2018 Thomas Moran’s “Zoroaster Peak” The trajectory of Thomas Moran’s career would change dramatically in 1871. That year, the painter traveled to Wyoming Territory on a government-sponsored survey expedition led by Ferdinand V. Hayden. Moran was invited to visually record the geological wonders of the region. He […]