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Allen and Patty Eckman - Art of the West

Johnny D. Boggs | Published: February 05, 2012 at 9:19 pm
Allen and Patty Eckman found a new home in Rapid City, S.D., and the inspiration to drive their unique sculpting method.

Buck Taylor - Art of the West

Johnny D. Boggs | Published: December 02, 2011 at 1:09 pm
Buck Taylor, former cast member of the TV series Gunsmoke, now creates historically themed paintings and posters for various rodeos.

Charlie Norton - Art of the West

Johnny D. Boggs | Published: October 06, 2011 at 2:09 pm
With his monumental bronze The Birthplace of the Legend, Charlie Norton has re-created Bill Cody’s legendary buffalo-hunting contest in Oakley, Kansas.

Tim Trask - Art of the West

Johnny D. Boggs | Published: August 05, 2011 at 4:28 pm
Sculptor Tim Trask gives Tombstone founder Ed Schieffelin another marker.

Ely, Nevada - Art of the West

Tom Straka and Bob Wynn | Published: June 03, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Ely, Nevada, honors the Old West with traditional sculptures and murals, including a standout Shoshone harvester.

George Caleb Bingham's "Order No. 11"

Pamela D. Toler | Published: May 03, 2011 at 5:00 am
Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham's last work was conceived to avenge a brutal Civil War action, but it failed to achieve its purpose and derailed his career.

Eiteljorg Museum - Art of the West

Johnny D. Boggs | Published: March 31, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Since 1989 the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, Ind., has been introducing Western art to a worldwide audience.

George Rivera - Art of the West

Johnny D. Boggs | Published: February 03, 2011 at 5:41 pm
George Rivera’s bronze sculpture Buffalo Dancer II pays tribute to Pueblo Indian culture.

Gib Singleton - Art of the West

Johnny D. Boggs | Published: December 02, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Gib Singleton's bronze "Tombstone" captures the emotional charge of that fateful day at the O.K. Corral in October 1881.

Tom Lea - Art of the West

Johnny D. Boggs | Published: October 01, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Tom Lea's 1938 mural "Pass of the North" honors the giants who made El Paso. The Texan also illustrated books by J. Frank Dobie.

Paul Sheldon - Art of the West

Johnny D. Boggs | Published: August 06, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Artist Paul Sheldon became fascinated with the American Southwest as a child and shares that fascination in his paintings of Apaches, cowboys and the land itself.

Glen Swanson - Art of the West

Stephen Mauro | Published: June 04, 2010 at 10:35 am
Glen Swanson, sculptor and avid Custeriana collector, has created a sculpture of Custer as he appeared on the eve of his Last Stand on the Little Bighorn.

The War Over Plunder: Who Owns Art Stolen in War?

Colin Woodard | Published: April 26, 2010 at 2:35 pm
Over the past two decades, globalization, changing attitudes, and clearer international laws have emboldened aggrieved nations to demand the return of cultural property seized by enemy forces in the past, but laws alone can’t guarantee their success.

Prix de West - Art of the West

Johnny D. Boggs | Published: April 02, 2010 at 2:34 pm
Tom Browning's oil The Dawn of a New Day won the Purchase Award at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's 2009 Prix de West art show and sale in Oklahoma City.

Kevin Red Star - Art of the West

Johnny D. Boggs | Published: February 05, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Crow artist Kevin Red Star paints historical Indian subjects with strength, power and passion.

W.H.D. Koerner - Art of the West

Johnny D. Boggs | Published: December 16, 2009 at 3:05 pm
If any painting has ever captured the misery of cowboy and cattle, and the deadliness of Western weather, it is W.H.D. Koerner’s "Hard Winter."
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