Don Stinson is a contemporary artist who uses traditional methods and materials. His painting… Read More
Points West Online: A Public Monument: Theodore Roosevelt, “Rough Rider”
Originally published in Points West magazine Winter 2008 A Public Monument: Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Rider By Stuart Gunn Former Assistant Registrar, Whitney Western Art Museum’s… Read More
Museum Minute: The Self-Portrait of a Sculptor
Alexander Phimister Proctor was a known as the sculptor in buckskin. Born in Canada, he fell in love with the American West and most… Read More
Museum Minute: The Heyday of the Fur Trade
The painter, Alfred Jacob Miller, was an early artist explorer depicting the American West. But it turns out, he only went out to the… Read More
A Look Back at Michele Farrier’s Time as Artist-in-Residence
A native of northern California, Michele Farrier now calls Cortez, Colorado home. She received a BA in Studio Art from the University of California –… Read More
Artist-in-Residence Jeff Rudolph demonstrates in Whitney Western Art Museum July 16–20
For the week of July 16–20, 2018, visitors to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Whitney Western Art Museum have the opportunity to interact… Read More
Points West Online: W.H.D. Koerner: A Family Legacy
Originally published in Points West magazine Summer 2008 W.H.D. Koerner: A Family Legacy By Mindy A. Besaw W.H.D. Koerner, painter and illustrator, was born in… Read More
Albert Bierstadt: A Conservationist
Albert Bierstadt—He’s a late 19th-century artist, most well-known for his majestic landscape paintings of the Wind River Range, Yellowstone, and the American West. But… Read More
Museum Minute: Where Elegance Meets Fear
It’s a weird story not often told at museums since it’s against the rules. But at the Whitney Western Museum of Art there’s… Read More
Electronic Press Kit: Albert Bierstadt – Witness to a Changing West
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Whitney Western Art Museum (Cody, Wyoming) and Gilcrease Museum (Tulsa, Oklahoma) opens an extraordinary special exhibition in June… Read More
