The Briscoe Western Art Museum presents Night of Artists 2017 ART SALE & EXHIBITION

Night of Artists

ART SALE AND EXHIBITION April 2 - May 14, 2017

FRONT COVER CREDITS, CLOCKWISE: MARK KOHLER, Standing Wave, Watercolor, 31” x 22”| CURT MATTSON, Dealin’ with the Bolter, Bronze, 35” x 25” x 23” | KIM WIGGINS, Wild Horses in the Canyonlands, Oil, 30” x 40” BACK COVER CREDITS, CLOCKWISE: BILLY SCHENCK, The Old Mission Gate, Oil, 24” x 20” | JAN MAPES, Relic, Bronze, 9” x 10” x 6.5” | 210 W. Market Street, San Antonio, TX 78205 | 210.229.4499 | BriscoeMuseum.org XIANG ZHANG Eight Miles to Red River, Oil on linen, 32” x 40” Director’s Letter

Dear Friends, Night of Artists Founded in 2001 by the National Western Art Foundation, this year marks the 16th anniversary of Night of Artists. Your generous support of this event benefits Welcome to San Antonio, home of the Briscoe Western Art Museum and its signature event, Night of Artists the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s dynamic exhibitions and programs. 2017. Celebrating its 16th year, this exhibition and sale benefit the museum by bringing together leading contemporary Western artists and discerning collectors from across the country. The 2017 exhibition features more than 270 works from 73 artists. By purchasing art at this event, you become an active participant Mission Statement Through the preservation of the art, history and culture of the American West, in elevating the future of the Briscoe, providing important funding that directly impacts exhibitions and the Briscoe Western Art Museum inspires and educates the public with engaging exhibitions, programs as the Museum continues to grow. educationaleducational programs,programs, andand publicpublic events reflective of the region’sregion’s rich traditions and shared heritage.heritage.

I wish to extend a heartfelt thanks to the dozens of volunteers, artists, board members, and Museum staff who went to great lengths to ensure a memorable Night of Artists. A most grateful appreciation goes to the 2017 Night of Artists Committee chaired by Jessica Erin Elliott, Nancy Loeffler, and Debbie Montford, who have worked tirelessly to make this year’s event the best yet. Without their dedication, none of what of Artists. we do would be possible.

Of course, we could not do it without YOU. By joining us, you are part of bringing the lure of the West to San Antonio. The West is here, my friends, and we can think of no better place to celebrate than the Night

So let’s have some fun!

Michael Duchemin, Ph.D. President & CEO

4 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 5 PRESENTING SPONSORS Janey Briscoe Marmion and Briscoe Ranch, Inc. El Bigote Ranch in memory of Tex Elliott McLean Bowman Family in memory of Ruth McLean Bowman Bowers 2017 Night of Artists COMMITTEE PLATINUM SPONSORS Gloria and Fully Clingman General Motors Company Mays Family Foundation EVENT CHAIRS: Jessica Erin Elliott Nancy Loeffler Debbie Montford Debbie and John T. Montford / Plum Foundation Silver Eagle Distributors / Texas Capital Bank Dan Briggs Robert A. Dullnig Jack Guenther Valerie Guenther Janell Kleberg Mike Kreager Cliff Logan Jane Macon Shirley Mahony Marianne Malek GOLD SPONSORS Rob McClane Rita Stich Sara Stumberg-Walker Barbara Woodman Argo Group Avalon Advisors, LLC Capital Group Valerie and Jack Guenther Lindsay and Jack Guenther, Jr. David B. Elliott Karen and Tim Hixon IBC Bank BOARD OF DIRECTORS Gates Mineral Company, Ltd. Abigail and George A. Kampmann, Jr. San Vicente Ranch, Ltd. Janey Briscoe Marmion, Honorary Chairman Courtney and Mark E. Watson, Jr. / Watson Foundation Whitacre Family Foundation Jessica Erin Elliott, Chair of the Board McLean Bowman Fully Clingman Robert A. Dullnig Jack Guenther SILVER SPONSORS Valerie Guenther Jose “Che” Guerra Mark Johnson Nancy Loeffler Jill and Chad Foster Janell and Stephen “Tio” Kleberg Bonnie and John Korbell Rob McClane Jane Macon Shirley Mahony Kenneth J. Maverick NuStar Energy, L.P. RK Group Sanger & Altgelt, LLC Diane and John Scovell Elaine Mendoza John T. Montford Richard Nunley Justin Pawl Mike Sohn Muriel F. Seibert Foundation Uhl, Fitzsimons, Jewett & Burton, PLLC Barbara and George Williams Mark E. Watson, Jr. Bradford Wyatt AWARD SPONSORS Covenant Multifamily Offices, LLC Valerie and Jack Guenther Bart Koontz ADVISORY DIRECTORS KreagerMitchell Attorneys at Law Nancy Loeffler Shirley Mahony Jean Brady J.P. Bryan Laura Gill Janell Kleberg Stanley D. Rosenberg Rebecca and Tate Ruthardt Muriel F. Seibert Foundation Dawn Jones Ricardo Romo Lionel Sosa Tracy Wolff Barbara and George Williams/Williams-Chadwick Family Charitable Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation

UNDERWRITING Kim and Richard Nunley

6 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 7 RAGAN GENNUSA, Out of the Brush, Oil, 20” x 40” Ragan Gennusa 2016 Museum Purchase Award

XIANG ZHANG, Palo Duro Breeze, Oil on linen, 32” x 40” Xiang Zhang 2016 Sam Houston Award for Painting

8 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 9 MARK MAGGIORI, The Monsoon Sun, Oil on linen, 36” x 36” BILL NEBEKER, Double Trouble, Bronze, 29” x 27” x 17” Mark Maggiori Bill Nebeker 2016 William B. Travis Award for Patron’s Choice 2016 James Bowie Award for Sculpture

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2017

Night of Artists Participating Artists JOHN MOYERS, Call of the Canyon, Oil on canvas, 36” x 36” John Moyers 2016 David Crockett Award for Artists’ Choice

12 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 13 WAYNE BAIZE Refreshing Morning Oil CYRUS ASFARY 18” x 24” Reflective Time Oil on linen 20” x 16”

14 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 15 GERALD BALCIAR Guardian Angel Bronze 12” x 15” x 12”

SUZANNE BAKER Fall Color Walker Creek Acrylic on canvas 24” x 28”

16 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 17 BUCKEYE BLAKE When the Sun Sets on the Sage Oil 24” x 36” TEAL BLAKE Long Ear Watercolor 10”x 12”

18 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 19 TOM BROWNING MARY ROSS BUCHHOLZ Silent Spirits Tending to Business Oil Charcoal and graphite 20” x 18” 13” x 11”

20 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 21 NANCY BUSH Thunderstorm in the Pasture Oil on linen SHAWN CAMERON 36” x 40” At Heaven’s Door Oil on canvas 14” x 11”

22 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 23 KEN CARLSON Focused - Texas Coyote Oil 12”x 18”

CAROLINE KORBELL CARRINGTON Marfa Landscape I Oil on canvas 36”x 36”

24 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 25 TIM CHERRY CLIFF CAVIN Swan Egg Spring Breeze Bronze Oil on canvas 10” x 12” x 8” 17” x 19”

26 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 27 MICHAEL COLEMAN NICHOLAS COLEMAN On the Milk River Through the Sage Oil on linen Oil on linen 14” x 20” 30” x 40”

28 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 29 JOHN DEMOTT Poker is the most popular card game played worldwide, and Texas Hold’em is the Texas Hold’em most popular version of poker played. This then raises the historical question of Oil where did Texas Hold’em come from? There is no real information in regard to 30” x 48” where the first game was played. However, according to legend, the earliest game of Texas Hold’em was played in Robstown, Texas around 1900, and it first came to Dallas in 1925.

SHEILA COTTRELL High Country Pack In Oil 20” x 24”

30 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 31 MICK DOELLINGER MIKEL DONAHUE Distant Bugle Three Fingers Bronze Mixed Media 27” x 22” x 13” 20” x 25”

32 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 33 MICHAEL DUDASH The Dressmakers Oil on linen 28” x 40” BARRY EISENACH Crow Foot Bronze 25” x 10” x 13”

34 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 35 TERESA ELLIOTT Hill Country Brindle TONY EUBANKS Oil on linen Hank & Hobo 24” x 30” Oil 24” x 24”

36 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 37 LUKE FRAZIER The Old Homestead Covey Oil 24” x 36”

STEVE FORBIS Tres Amigos at San Juan Colored pencil 14” x 11”

38 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 39 RAGAN GENNUSA Shade Oil BRUCE GRAHAM 12” x 16” Path of Least Resistance Oil 30” x 24”

40 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 41 BRUCE GREENE BOB GUELICH Monarch of the Plains Roosting Circle Bronze Painted Bronze 27” x 22” x 13” 19”x 15”x 5”

42 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 43 ENRIQUE GUERRA El Coyote Bronze 14” x 8” x 6”

ABIGAIL GUTTING With Strap and Stirrups Flyin’ Oil on linen 24” x 18”

44 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 45 GEORGE HALLMARK It’s mid-morning on the Yucatán Peninsula, JOHN AUSTIN HANNA where at one time, this area was the sisal Bienvenido High Noon growing capital of the world. Sisal, a type of Oil Oil agave, was used for the production of rope and 36” x 36” 18” x 24” many huge plantations were constructed to supply this product to the world. Many of these architecturally significant structures have been restored and revive the beauty of a bi-gone era. 46 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 47 SHERRY HARRINGTON ROBERT HARRISON Corn Blessings Bluebonnets in the Hill Country Oil on linen Oil 30” x 24” 36” x 48”

48 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 49 BRYAN HAYNES MATTHEW HILLIER Under the Cottonwoods Snowy at the Water’s Edge Acrylic on Canvas Oil 24” x 24” 24” x 36”

50 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 51 Mercado al Aire Libre ANNETTE HODGES HAROLD HOLDEN Swallowing His Head Acrylic Bronze 20” x 30” 26” x 26” x 15”

52 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 53 CHRISSunday in HUNT Sonora TERRY ISAAC Handsome Drake Bronze Acrylic 7” x 4” x 3” 13” x 8”

54 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 55 TD KELSEY On very rare occasions, perhaps one in one thousand, a Spanish fighting bull is spared The Man and leaves the ring alive. This only happens when the bull has fought tremendously and Bronze is so outstanding that the spectators insist his life is spared. The bull fighting committee GREG KELSEY 11” x 18” x 9” and the matador must also agree. Mr. Juan Pedro Domec has raised two of these bulls on Adventures of Dumbo & Jackass his ranch and now uses them for herd sires. We went to a pasture holding one of these Bronze bulls and some cows. 21” x 12” x 12”

56 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 57 MARK KOHLER Push Back Watercolor MARK MAGGIORI 30” x 30” The Journey West Oil 36” x 36”

58 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 59 JAN MAPES Relic Bronze CURT MATTSON 9”x 10”x 7” Dealin’ With The Bolter Bronze 35” x 25” x 23”

60 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 61 KENNY MCKENNA San Jose Oil VICKIE MCMILLAN 15” x 20” Winter Wanders Acrylic on board 10” x 8”

62 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 63 KRYSTII MELAINE DAN MIEDUCH Spirit Horse of the Siksika Dance by the Light of the Moon Oil on linen panel Oil 24” x 24” 18” x 24”

64 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 65 JAMES MORGAN BRENDA MURPHY Bobcat Portrait Always Ready Oil on linen Pencil on bristol 12” x 12” 8” x 10”

66 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 67 BILL NEBEKER Into the wilds of the early frontier in the American West came a ragtag Uncharted Waters assortment of brave and hardy loners who called themselves “mountain men.” Bronze They traveled the Rocky Mountains in search of adventure and beaver to trap 16” x 23”x 12” in these new lands. Some were taken into Native American tribes as, “blood GARY NIBLETT brothers,” and in turn made deals for wives to travel and work alongside them. Moment of Decision Belonging to a tribe offered a certain amount of safety and prestige. Together Oil on canvas they traveled new trails and waterways, always searching for better trapping. In 24” x 30” this sculpture, you find one mountain man and his Native wife. She is signaling to him another unexpected challenge, as they explore for new beaver trapping areas and obviously fight the rapids and rocks of these Uncharted Waters in unknown lands. 68 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 69 NOEFresh Bales PEREZ

Oil 10”x 20”

RALPH OBERG Superstitions and Saguaros Oil 10” x 12”

70 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 71 ROBERT PETERS Traversing Time Oil on linen 18” x 28”

HOWARD POST The Way Home Oil 24” x 30”

72 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 73 GRANT REDDEN PAUL RHYMER Aspen Pastures Wake Up America! Oil Bronze on wood 20” x 24” 24” x 25”x 9”

74 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 75 JULIA ROGERS Colorado Stronghold Oil on linen 8” x 18” GLADYS ROLDÁN-DE-MORAS Feria de Escaramuzas Oil on linen 22”x 41”

76 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 77 STEFAN SAVIDES BILLY SCHENCK Air Force One The Old Mission Gate Bronze Oil 33”x 16”x 29” 24”x 20”

78 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 79 SANDY SCOTT JASON SCULL Secret Omen Pastor Pequeño Bronze Bronze 14” x 18” x 9” 24” x 24” x 12”

80 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 81 KENT ULLBERG KELLY SINGLETON Sprig’s Landing Alaskan Bruin Bronze Oil 14” x 20” x 10” 24” x 36”

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MICHAEL OME UNTIEDT I am presently intrigued with studies Green Sumbitch of cowboys having to deal with unruly mounts while working cattle. I have KIM WIGGINS Oil no interest in “rodeo” style action, but Wild Horses in the Canyonlands 30” x 24” rather the horsemanship displayed Oil in earning an honest days wage! 30” x 40” Anyone who has attempted this work and found the “tools” limited will understand this painting.

84 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 85 Upcoming Briscoe Museum Programs & Events

Tuesday, April 11 | 5:30pm Tuesday, September 19 | 6:30pm Members Reception Voices of the West Distinguished with Billy Schenck LecturePhotographer Series: andLaura Author Wilson, INVITATION-ONLY EVENT $10 NON-MEMBERS | Tuesday, April 11 | 6:30pm FREE FOR BRISCOE MEMBERS Voices of the West Distinguished LectureContemporary Series: BillyWestern Schenck, Artist Friday, October 6| 6:00-8:00pm Yanaguana Indian Arts Market $10 NON-MEMBERS | Artist & Patron Reception FREE FOR BRISCOE MEMBERS INVITATION-ONLY EVENT

Monday, April 24 | 5:30-9:00pm Saturday, October 7 and Sunday, October 8 Briscoe Fiesta River Parade Party 10:00am-4:00pm TICKETED EVENT Yanaguana Indian Arts Market

Saturday, July 22| High Noon - 4:00pm Monday, October 23 | 6:00pm Briscoe Blast!: Briscoe Museum National Day of the Cowboy 4th Anniversary Celebration INVITATION-ONLY EVENT Thursday, September 14 | 5:30pm

That Day: Laura Wilson Photography Left: Photographer Laura Wilson in her studio Right: Laura Wilson, Cowboys Walking, J. R. Green Cattle Company, Exhibition Private Preview Party Shackelford County, Texas, March 13, 1997 INVITATION-ONLY EVENT

ZHANG XIANG September 15-December 10 That Day: Laura Wilson Eight Miles to Red River Oil on linen Public Photography Exhibition 32” x 40”

86 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 87 Cyrus Afsary Wayne Baize Cyrus Afsary studied Wayne Baize grew art under the strict up near Abilene, discipline of the Rus- Texas, around work- sian realist style of ing ranches, so he painting. He has won has firsthand knowl- numerous awards, in- edge of his favorite cluding gold and sil- subjects—the con- ver medals from the temporary cowboy National Academy and his livestock. At of Western Art, and 2017 an early age, Baize he was the first re- learned the value of cipient of the covet- a good horse, and he ed Lougheed Memorial Award. Afsary won the Painting helped break horses as a youth. Later, he and his brother Award at the Buffalo Bill Art Show in 2006 and shared in Arlon raised registered quarter horses. Artist Choice Award. In 2007, he was awarded the Best of Show at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, and, in Baize and his wife Ellen live in far West Texas on a small Night of Artists 2009, at the C., M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Mon- ranch out of Fort Davis where they raised four children tana, he received the staff choice award. In 2010, he was and run a small herd of registered Hereford cattle. awarded the Williams Award for Collectors’ reserve at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1995, Wayne was invited to become a member of the Masters of the American West Cowboy Artists of America (CAA). Being a member Afsary is an artist and a member of the Cowboy Hall of Participating of the CAA is the fulfillment of a dream, but it is also a Fame. He participates annually in the Prix de West, the challenge to always be improving his art. Baize has served at the Autry Museum as a director of the organization and as vice president in Los Angeles, and the Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale and president. He is currently serving on the CAA board. in Cody, Wyoming. Afsary was featured in the 2002 He has won a silver medal in drawing and the Cowboy Artist Gilcrease Museum Rendezvous. He is also a member of Artists of America Annual Sale and Exhibition Award, Best the Northwest Rendezvous Group. Portrayal of a Cowboy Subject, at the CAA Annual Show. HeThe has Cattleman, won numerous The American other awards, Quarter and Horse his art Journal, has been The Afsary and his work have appeared in numerous in American Art. featuredHereford in Journal, major magazines such as Western Horseman, Biographies publications,Southwest Art, including Western American Art Collector, Artist, Art of the West, and Who’s Who and Texas Monthly. He has a passion for his work, and the exceptional paintings he produces reflect that passion. His work is represented by Claggett/Rey Gallery, Vail, Colorado; Trailside Galleries, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Scottsdale, Arizona; Altermann Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Settlers West Galleries, Tucson, Arizona; Whistle Pik Galleries, Fredericksburg, Texas; and the Ponderosa Art Gallery, Hamilton, Montana. 88 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 89 Suzanne Baker Gerald Balciar Buckeye Blake Teal Blake The 30 years Gerald Balciar’s Buckeye Blake is an Growing up in his Suzanne Baker fascination with important painter father’s studio spent living and animals dates to who combines tra- looking at C.M. working with her his childhood in ditional with con- Russell paintings husband and chil- rural Wisconsin temporary styles and reading Will dren on ranches amid the dairy of Western art. He James’ books in- in California and farms and north captures the mag- spired Teal Blake Nevada and as a woods. Both art nificent American to pick up a pencil horse packer and and animals have West in a dramatic and start capturing guide in the high always been a part artistic style in his his own visions of sierra of California of Balciar’s life. He poster-like works cowboys and the have given her a portrays the gentle using brilliant, bold American West. good knowledge of horses and ranch life. These experi- side of nature in his marble and bronze sculptures. colors. His decorative shapes fueled by his personal ences, along with her avid love of photography, drive her self-expression give a unique impression of the West. He Blake has been painting professionally since 2005. He to document the many places, people, and situations of A consummate artist, Balciar is involved in all facets brings a fresh limitless portrayal to his viewers. has always liked to show what makes the traditional ranch life she has experienced. of creating bronzes, from making his own molds and West: cowboys who are not always clean shaven, shirts chasing his own waxes to welding and applying the patina Blake was born in California in 1946. His early life was that are not always creased, and horses’ manes that are She grew up among ranchers, adventurers, and artists in and finishing touches. His repertoire of work ranges spent traveling to rodeos where he saw the subjects that not always long. the foothills outside Sequoia National Park in California. from small scale creations to heroic and monumental he loves to paint firsthand. After moving to Nevada in his The community, her very talented mother, and numerous installations. In 1995, he carved an eighteen-foot-tall early teens, he began painting and selling his work. He Blake’s love for the tradition of ranching and cowboying college art courses were big parts of her art education. marble sculpture of a cougar from a single piece of is mostly self-taught, although his mother was an artist, is unparalleled. His portrayal of ranch life and the handful marble, which is installed at the National Cowboy & and he studied the works of Charles M. Russell, Maynard of people keeping it alive is authentic. He uses no models Baker’s work is represented by El Prado Galleries in Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Dixon, and other illustrators. Blake’s following in Nevada or costumes—he has simply been fortunate enough to Sedona, Arizona; Legacy Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, grew, and he began doing commissions for Scripps work and ride alongside his friends and muses. He is able Jackson, Wyoming, and Bozeman, Montana; and Sage He is a member of the National Sculpture Society, Allied Howard Publishing. In 1977, he moved to Montana with to capture his material and inspiration firsthand. Creek Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work has Artists of America, the Society of Animal Artists, and the his wife Tona and son Teal, where he continued his career appearedMountain Rider,in Southwest Range Magazine, Art, Art Cowboysof the West, and Indians,Rocky Northwest Rendezvous Group. painting and sculpting. His life-size bronze of Charles M. In 2014, Blake’s labor, talent, and accomplishments Western Horseman, Western Traditions: Contemporary Russell in downtown Great Falls, Montana, heroic-size earned him an invitation into the Cowboy Artists of Artists of the American West bronze of Kit Carson in front of the capitol building in America. He has been featured in such magazines by Michael Duty and Suzanne Carson City, Nevada, and a retrospective at the Buffalo as Western Horseman, Western Art & Architecture, Deats, and Art of the American West by Caroline Linscott Bill Historical Center in 1993 of his artistic works have Southwest Art, Ranch & Reata, and The Cowboy Way. In and Julie Christianen-Dull. Baker considers it a privilege made him highly collectible. One thing one can say about 2011, Teal created We Pointed Them North, an art show to take part in art shows such as Night of Artists at the Buckeye Blake: his work is a breath of fresh air conveying held in Fort Worth that celebrates the memoirs of Teddy Briscoe Western Art Museum and the first Cowgirl Up! at a glimpse into the West we all love. “Blue” Abbott. His painting Morning Gather was used for the Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg, the cover of Some Horses by Thomas McGuane. Arizona. Blake and his son Luca currently reside in Fort Worth, Texas.

90 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 91 Tom Browning Mary Ross Buchholz Nancy Bush Shawn Cameron Tom Browning has For over eighteen Nancy Bush, a na- Shawn Cameron’s met and surpassed years, art has been tive Texan, resides artwork reflects many of the goals Mary Ross Buch- in Fredericksburg, the ranch life she he set early in his holz’s devotion. Texas. Her work has has lived. She is career. This native Coming from a pi- been featured in considered an ac- Oregonian, born oneering ranching numerous art pub- complished profes- in 1949, started family, she offers a lications, including sional in the arena his profession- glimpse of her daily Art of the West, of Western art, but al art career as a ranch life with the Southwest Art, her roots run deep- fine arts painter in most primitive of Cowboys and Indi er than most. Her 1972. He has been mediums: charcoal Artist ans, American Art- ancestors traveled mentored by many and graphite. The Collector, American the Oregon Trail in of the top artists in his field, including striking beauty of her pieces with the softly rendered , and Western Art Collector. an ox-drawn covered wagon and then drove 200 head of 2015 COMMITTEE’S William F. Reese, Ned Jacob, and James detail captivates and intrigues her audience. Buchholz cattle south into Arizona. This began a ranching legacy CHOICE Reynolds. He has exhibited his work in strives to capture the authenticity of their way of life by Bush has participated in the Night of Artists show and that continues into the fifth generation. She gathers her AWARD Great Wonders WINNER numerous national museums and shows. gathering reference materials from the ranch, and as a other invitational shows across the country including resource material while her family and friends live and In 1994, Browning wrote what has been result, each piece she creates is a testament to her fami- the National Cowboy & Heritage Museum’s Small Works, work on ranches, and she later reviews it for her paint- considered as one of the best instructional ly’s ranching traditions. show in Oklahoma City. ings. booksPaintings. on painting, Timeless Techniques for Better Oil Her studio work is done using an indirect approach Her work has been exhibited at the Prix de West and He then went on to teach painting workshops Buchholz has participated in many exhibitions across Up! all over the country. After ten years of teaching and paint- the country, including Small Works, Great Wonders at to painting. She works in layers of paint, letting each Small Works, Great Wonders at the National Cowboy & ing, Browning won the prestigious Prix de West Award in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in layer dry before applying another. Building up layers of Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City; the Cowgirl paint and adding glazes during this phase increase the show at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum in 2009 and later that year was elected into the Cowboy Oklahoma City; Night of Artists at the Briscoe Western Artists Artists of America, in which he is still an active member. Art Museum; The Russell at the C.M. Russell Museum light and luminosity of the painting so that in the end, Wickenburg, Arizona; The Russell Exhibition and Sale at West Art Exhibition and Sale in Great Falls, Montana, and Cowgirl Up! at the Desert there is a suggestion of mood and moments of fleeting the C. M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana; Night of CaballerosWest, Brushstrokes Western &Museum Balladeers, in Wickenburg,Western Art Collector,Arizona. atmospheric dialogue. She uses her plein air studies at the Briscoe Western Art Museum; Heart of the HerArt workof the also West, has Southwest been featured Art in Reflections of the and photos to paint larger pieces in the studio, because at the Cowgirl Hall of Fame Masterpiece Show & Sale more time is available in the studio and the environment in Fort Worth, Texas; American Miniatures at Settler’s Horse. , and Western Horseman, is controlled. In the studio, she has the luxury of West Gallery in Tucson, Arizona; and the Miniature and as cover art for Western Horseman and America’s contemplation and studying at length the design and at the Phippen Museum in Buchholz is represented by InSight Gallery in how she wants to describe it to engage the viewer. Prescott, Arizona. A few of her honors from Cowgirl Up! Fredericksburg, Texas, and Legacy Galleries in Scottsdale, include the Governor’s Choice Award in both 2015 and Arizona, Jackson, Wyoming, and Bozeman, Montana. “I strive for my paintings to have a universal appeal 2016 and the Artist’s Choice Award in 2007. She was co- and not just a particular region. I feel it is about human featured artist at the C.M. Russell show in 2008. She has Art Collector. Buchholz says: “the eyes are my favorite part of an emotions in time and space represented by light, been honored by having her art featured on the covers animal. I feel like that’s where you’re able to see the life; darkness, warmth, cool, wet, and dry. These elements of American Cowboy, Western Horseman, and Western as people say, the eye captures the soul of the horse. I should evoke a very human response of how one feels Her work can be seen in Trailside Gallery in am blessed that what I enjoy drawing is right here, out upon viewing my work. If they connect that way, then I Jackson, Wyoming, and Scottsdale, Arizona. my back door.” feel my work is validated.” 92 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 93 Ken Carlson Caroline Korbell Carrington Cliff Cavin Tim Cherry A critical element Caroline Korbell Cliff Cavin was Tim Cherry started of Ken Carlson’s Carrington grew born in San An- over 20 years ago work is the first- up in a family that tonio, Texas, and on a path to discov- hand observation cherishes and val- has been painting er his expression in of his wildlife sub- ues the land and for over 40 years. art as it is related to jects. He states, wildlife of Texas. He has studied his first love, wild- “Field work never She spent much of under such no- life, and he contin- fails to inspire me.” her formative years table artists as ues that journey Each fall, Carlson in the Texas hill Warren Hunter, every day. His work travels to Alaska, country, where she George Hughey, depicts wildlife the Rocky Moun- began to create William Reese, and through the sim- tains, the western works of art. Over Wilson Hurley. His plest lines, shapes, prairies, the Canadian Rockies, or Tanzania time, the art became a passion and in turn led to her paintings have won numerous awards and are collected and designs that he can create without losing repre- 2011 to observe his animal subjects and their successful career as a landscape painter. both nationally and internationally in private and corpo- sentation, gesture, or attitude. He pushes the limits of LEGACY varied habitats. rate collections. He has exhibited in the United States anatomical accuracies to emphasize a stronger design. AWARD WINNER Carrington graduated from Texas Christian University and abroad and has participated in several cultural art He finds himself interpreting representational shapes Carlson was born and raised in in 1992 with a BFA in painting. She then spent time in exchanges, auctions, and benefits for charitable organi- and pushing them to boundaries of near abstraction. Minnesota, and he now resides in the hill New Mexico working alongside some prominent land- zations. country of central Texas. Following art school training, scape painters, including the late David Barbero. Over He casts his work primarily in bronze, but feels his simplest he began his career as a commercial illustrator in Minne- the years, she has experimented with many media, the Although equally talented in both oils and watercolors, and sometimes strongest designs are achieved when he apolis. In 1968, he put aside commercial work to devote basis of which is oil on canvas. She continues to paint Cavin focuses primarily on oil painting, particularly the is sculpting for high polish stainless steel and carving himself full time to painting wildlife subjects. landscapes scenes from the Western United States with landscape. The immediacy and directness of his work stone. His lines and shapes are kept to a minimum to a focus on Texas. emphasize the strength and grandeur of nature, while draw in viewers, causing them to become more involved In 2011, Carlson was the recipient of the Briscoe Western his use of color defines the gentleness and beauty he in the interpretation of his work. He finds this connection Art Museum’s Legacy Award for a lifetime of artistic Carrington states, “I am so privileged to be able to not finds in the natural world. These qualities, coupled with very inspiring. He hopes to create the best possible accomplishments. As a participant of the Prix de West only enjoy the outdoors and beautiful scenery found in his keen observation, create a clarity and sensitivity in sculpture by building strong designs through shape, line, at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, the Southwest, but I also get to immerse myself in the his work that truly express the emotional qualities of his texture, and color. Always pushing his artistic boundaries Carlson has been the recipient of the Frederick Remington images by capturing them on canvas.” environment. to achieve what has not been done before, he reaches Award for Artistic Merit and twice the recipient of the out and experiments with new designs and gestures to Pittman Wildlife Award. He was the recipient of the first create sculptures that are well orchestrated, balanced, Bob Kuhn Wildlife Award from Masters of the American emotionally interesting, stimulating, and lyrical. West at the Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles. In 2009, he had a one-man retrospective at the Cherry has exhibited his artwork in nationally renowned SteamboatContemporary Art Museum,Wildlife ArtSteamboat Retrospective Springs, Exhibit Colorado. and galleries and exhibitions across the United States and InSale 2015, he was a participant in The Best of the Best: Canada, winning many prestigious awards. He was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and raised in Nelson and at the Woolaroc Museum & Wildlife Preserve, Prince George, British Columbia. He now lives in Branson, Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Missouri, with his wife Linda and daughter Amber.

94 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 95 Michael Coleman Nicholas Coleman Shelia Cottrell John DeMott Michael Coleman Nicholas Coleman Sheila Cottrell grew To experience a was born and was born in Provo, up camping and John DeMott paint- raised in Provo, Utah, in 1978. hunting in the Chir- ing is to truly ex- Utah, and spent his Brought up in icahua Mountains in perience part of boyhood hunting, an artistic home, southeast Arizona. the great Amer- fishing, and trap- Coleman has Her dad raised his ican frontier. An ping throughout been painting and eight daughters like outdoorsman and the Rocky Moun- drawing for as long boys, teaching them storyteller of the tains, often taking as he can remember. to shoot, build fires, American West, a sketchbook with He has found much and hunt. He even- DeMott transcends him. His paintings of his inspiration in tually succumbed to the cliché of the are rich in detail his travels across the inevitable and Western artist. and muted in tone, true to the remote landscapes he North America, Canada, Europe, and became a Boy Scout leader for the next 20 years. 2015 chooses to illustrate. The Indian encampments, wildlife, ARTISTS’ even Africa. Hunting and fishing along Born in 1954 and raised on Southern California horse and hunting subjects portrayed in these magnificent ar- CHOICE the way, he enjoys exploring hidden A love of the history of the old West inspires most of ranches, he has worked and lived the life of his artistic AWARD eas are rendered to give the viewer a sense of gazing on WINNER streams and valleys looking for signs of Sheila’s paintings. Her family lived for several generations subjects and can speak the language of his experience. the past. wildlife. He gained an appreciation for the in Texas before traveling by covered wagon train in DeMott’s art involves countless hours of research. subtle details hidden in plain sight. In his the early 1900s to Arizona. She says, “I enjoy painting Through his study of tools, wardrobe, accoutrements, Coleman quickly became a prominent Southwestern own words, he wants to “preserve the heritage of the anything to do with the West, past and present, but and history, he is able to capture detail and authenticity artist when in 1978, at the age of 32, he was given his American West.” I especially love illustrating the tales of pioneering in his paintings. Whether it is the Plains Indians, a trapper, first retrospective at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. He adventures my family experienced.” cowboys, a grizzly bear in the wilderness, or simply the exhibited at the National Academy of Western Art and Coleman uses a traditional academic approach in his beautiful Southwestern landscape, DeMott can make the at Kennedy Galleries in New York. In 1999, he won the painting. Never formally trained, he looks to the masters She studied at the University of Arizona and Scottsdale viewer keenly aware of time and place. Prix de West Award at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame of old to inspire and guide his own career. His work Artists School, but considers her real painting education for his bronze moose, September, which has since been definitely has a feel of realism as he strives to make each to have started under the tutelage of James Reynolds. A “As a storyteller of the American frontier, Western art has added to its permanent collection. painting better than the last. There is a certain amount career highlight was a joint show with Jim at Claggett/ been an important part of my life, and I am proud to be of spontaneity and a slight impressionistic feel to his Rey Gallery. Sheila has exhibited in Cowgirl Up! shows for involved in the preservation of our great heritage,” he His artwork can be found at the Legacy Galleries in paintings that let the viewer participate in the work. eleven years and has been awarded the People’s Choice says. Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Scottsdale, Arizona; Coleman endeavors to create a connection between Award and the Governor’s Choice Award two times each. Southwest Art, Sporting Classics, Owings Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and J. N. his paintings and the observer by invoking a mood the She has exhibited in exhibitions at the National Museum His work has been published in Art of the West, Art-Talk, Bartfields Gallery in New York. A book about his work, viewer can walk into. In Nicholas’s words, “The work I am ofthe Wildlife Parks, Art’sthe Coors Western Western Visions, Art Maynard Exhibit &Dixon, Sale Arts for and U.S. Civil War Art. titled Under Eagles’ Wings: The Art of Michael Coleman, striving to produce is a kind of preservation. The West , and the He lives with his wife Cindy and their family on their was published in 2009. has always fascinated me. So many stories to tell!” National Oil Painters. horse ranch in Loveland, Colorado.

Settlers West Gallery in Tucson, Arizona, and Big Horn GalleriesWestern in Art Tubac, Collector, Arizona, Western and Cody, Horseman, Wyoming, Cowgirl, represent Shelia. Her work has been featured in Southwest Art, and True West and most recently in Cowboys & Indians. 96 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 97 Mick Doellinger Mikel Donahue Michael Dudash Barry Eisenach Mick Doellinger has Mikel Donahue C. Michael Dudash Barry Eisenach be- been focused on of Broken Arrow, was born in 1952 gan drawing at an sculpting animals Oklahoma, is best in Mankato, Min- early age. After 23 for over 35 years, known for his nesota. He eventu- years as an illus- but he has been impeccable depic- ally settled in the trator and graphic fascinated with tions of cowboy Green Mountains of designer, he fol- wildlife, nature, and life. His colored Vermont, where he lowed his lifelong art for as long as pencil drawings began his full-time desire to paint he can remember. and paintings career as an artist and sculpt. Hav- From his first terra- portray ranchers and oil painter in ing grown up in cotta sculpture of and their livestock 1977. Trained in the the West, he was an aboriginal that during the day-to- fine arts, he began naturally drawn to he completed at the age of eleven to bronzes of Europe- day ritual of sunup to sundown work on the ranch. As a career in classic illustration that won him portraying the lives and history of indigenous an red stag, North American moose, longhorn steers, and observed in Southwest Art, “A pensive, almost dream- NEW a prestigious and national reputation. After peoples and explorers of the region. Eisenach feels it is a FOR privilege to stand on the shoulders of the Western artists an African black rhino, Mick’s subjects span the globe like sheen emanates from most of Donahue’s canvases, a 2017 illustrating for 25 years, he felt the need for and show his varied interests. result of both his informed approach toward his subject a change, and he left his illustration work who have come before him and strives to make each new matter and his technical proficiency.” behind in 2002. Dudash became a full-time piece a little better than the previous one. Doellinger has spent his entire life working with and painter in the fine art world and moved out west. around animals, and this lifelong accumulation of hands- On October 13, 2016, Donahue was voted in as a new He was elected to membership in the Northwest on knowledge has given him unique insights into the member of the Cowboy Artists of America, an honor He began to sell his work through several prestigious Rendezvous Group in 2003 and is a juried Sculptor anatomy, movements, and behavior of his subjects. His many aspire to and few reach in their careers. Donahue’s Western galleries, and eventually he earned a place in Member of the National Sculpture Society. He has move from Australia to the U.S. in 2003 made it possi- numerous awards include the prestigious John Steven several museum shows and national auctions. Dudash’s been honored with several awards from each group. Art Classic, ble for him to transition from part-time artist to full-time Jones Purchase Award as well as First Place Drawing work has been featured in numerous publications, Eisenach’s work is included in numerous public, private, sculptor. He now calls Fort Worth, Texas, home. and New Entrant Awards for Shipping Day at the Bosque including Art of the West, Southwest Art, Western and museum collections. Art Collector, American Artist Magazine, The Artists’ the Academy of Western Artists’ Will Rogers Magazine Doellinger hopes viewers of his work will connect with Award for Artist of the Year, the prestigious Premier Plat- and Step By Step Graphics. Hundreds of his sculptures. He wants people to “feel the essence of inum Award and the William E. Weiss Purchase Award collectors and corporations have his paintings in their the animal,” to notice the subtle nuances of the shape, at the Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale. He has shown in the permanent collections, as does the Booth Western Art motion, or character in each piece. Prix de West at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and the Pearce Museum. He was selected by Museum. the C. M. Russell Museum to become a member of the His work can be seen in museums, galleries, and private Russell Skull Society of Artists in 2014. A true highlight collections around the world and in magazines such as His work is in many private collections and museums. in Dudash’s career was the invitation in October 2016 to Western Art & Architecture, Sporting Classics, Art of the It has also been featured on the covers and in articles become a member of Cowboy Artists of America. Westthe Southwest, and Cowboys & Indians. He has also been featured in Art of the West, American Art Collector, Southwest in two recently published books, Contemporary Art of Art, Western Horseman, American Cowboy, America’s Dudash lives with his wife Valerie and currently works Mammals. and The Contemporary Art of Nature: Horse,and The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal. out of his home and studio in the Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Donahue’s art is represented by Settlers West Galleries area. and Trailside Galleries.

98 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 99 Teresa Elliott Tony Eubanks Steve Forbis Luke Frazier Teresa Elliott is Tony Eubanks, Steve Forbis Luke Frazier grew an American con- a native Texan, focuses on up in a large temporary painter currently resides in depicting Na- family of brothers living and working Clifton, Texas. He tive Americans who loved hunt- in her desert stu- graduated from the as they live and ing and fishing in dio north of the Big University of North dress today. For- the mountains of Bend National Park Texas and did fur- bis feels that too northern Utah. His in Alpine, Texas. ther studies at the often, America's early forays into Art Center in Los native peoples nature instilled a She is best known Angeles. Eubanks have been forgot- kinship with the for oil portraits of is married and the ten, ignored, and wildlife and a Texas longhorns set National Geographic, Ladies Home fatherJournal, ofTV Guidethree taken for granted. passion for the against the vast western skies of the American landscape. grown daughters. His early professional career was as He “would like to look back and realize I was outdoors. As a child, he spent hours scribbling, sketch- NEW She has received many awards, including Best of Show an illustrator, working for such notable clients as Time, FOR able to see and record something very ing, and sculpting wildlife. Later, his formal art training at Night of Artists, Briscoe Western Art Museum; The , 2017 special about a culture that is forever took place at Utah State University, where he earned a BoldBrush Award sponsored by FineArtStudioOnline; Doubleday and NBC Television. changing and evolving.” His interest in the BFA in painting and MFA in illustration. Best of Show and five People’s Choice awards at the longhorn has given him the opportunity to Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale in Denver, Colorado; Currently, Eubanks paints primarily in oil, although he visit several historical ranches that were instrumental in Every year, Frazier travels from Alaska to Africa, painting Competition thirdInvitational place figurative in The Artist Magazine’s Annual Art also enjoys other media. His subject matter is divergent bringing purebred animals from northern Mexico into and photographing wildlife in their natural environments. ; Collector’s Choice for the American Art and includes cowboys, Indians, and landscapes. His south Texas and beyond, which led to the founding of “I’m always excited for a new adventure, seeking new at Saks Galleries in Denver, Colorado; and early years of illustration prepared him for the numerous the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association. country and searching for animals in their prime—hoping Artist’s Choice for Cowgirl Up! at the Desert Caballeros figurative pieces he does. to capture the nuances of the outdoor and sporting life Western Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona. She has also With an MA in anthropology from the University of Texas, and the overall emotional power of a scene.” His passion West, and Northwest Rendezvous received the Art Renewal Center’s International Salon Eubanks exhibits yearly in Prix de West, Quest for the Forbis began his career in art in 1969, with guidance for the outdoors, fly fishing, and hunting is apparent in Competition awards, including two Chairman’s Choice, . His work has been from G. Harvey, Dalhart Windberg, and many other fine his work. an honorable mention in figurative and three finalist publishedWest, Western in American Art Collector, Artist, Southwest Art, Art of the artists. Prismacolor pencils on paper are his primary positions in portrait and animal. Western Painting Today, and Art of the Rockies. medium as it affords the color and detail he requires. His work has been exhibited in Africa, New Zealand, Books featuring his work include The Haub Collection, His work has been inspired by artists such as George and throughout the United States in one-man shows She has exhibited a solo show at InSight Gallery in and The Best Oil Painting. Catlin, Carl Bodmer, and many of the Taos Founders. He and major art exhibitions hosted by museums such as Fredericksburg, Texas; National Museum of Wildlife Art in is inspired by those who depicted what they observed the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming; Jackson, Wyoming; the Butler Institute of American Art Painting Women firsthand and painted honestly about the subjects of the Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; in Youngstown, Ohio; and Beijing World Art Museum in their own time. Along with many individual collectors, the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Beijing, China. She has also participated in four Women his work is in several collections, including the Gilcrease Oklahoma City; the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma; invitationals at RJD Gallery in Sag Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma and New Mexico Museum of and the C. M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, Montana. Harbor, New York. In 2013, she exhibited at the Annual Oil Art, Santa Fe. He has participated in exhibitions at the Painters of America show. Affiliations include Oil Painters Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas; of America, Portrait Society of America, and Society of Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; Animal Artists. and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City. 100 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 101 Ragan Gennusa Bruce Graham Bruce Greene Bob Guelich Ragan Gennusa Bruce Graham is Bruce Greene is one Bob Guelich’s love lives in the Texas a Western art- of the legitimate and respect for Hill Country near ist known for his heirs to a cowboy nature are evident Dripping Springs. ability to capture kind of art legacy when one views A wildlife and dramatic light and that traces its be- one of his sculp- Western painter, color in his oil paint- ginnings to Charlie tures. Self-taught, he has worked by ings. Born in 1961, Russell. It is a lega- Guelich became commission for Graham had an cy that is tied hard attracted to the several years, and early connection and fast to a famil- medium of sculp- his paintings hang to cowboys and iarity and feeling ture because he in private and Western art. During for ranch life real- found that working corporate collec- the heyday of large ity and based on a three-dimensional- tions nationwide. Western cattle ranches, his grandfather owned the fa- bedrock of artistic accomplishment. ly better suited his creativity and love for animals. Birds 2016 mous Two Dot Ranch near Cody, Wyoming. As part of a MUSEUM and mammals are his favorite subjects. Studying the sub- PURCHASE Gennusa is well known for his Texas family with historical roots in the Big Horn Basin, Graham Way out in West Texas on historic ranches such as the JA ject in its natural habitat is a major part of each work. The AWARD WINNER longhorn paintings, some of which have was surrounded by the stories and artifacts of life on the and the Four Sixes, Greene has discovered and tapped result is that Guelich is able to transfer the precision of been special projects for the University of Two Dot. He was fascinated by his grandfather’s collec- into a deep reservoir of cowboy reality. He has enough the biological into a complete artistic impression. Texas, while others adorn private, corporate, tion of Western art, which included pieces by Remington, artistic inspiration to last a lifetime. and museum collections, including the King Ranch, the Russell, Bierstadt, and Moran. From an early age, Graham Guelich is a fellow of the National Sculpture Society, and Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America, and was inspired to make a life for himself that included both Greene has seen the sun come up between his horse’s he has received the organization’s gold and silver medals the Briscoe Western Art Museum. Because of their art and the Western lifestyle. ears on the backside of those big Panhandle pastures. It in annual exhibitions. He has also won the Award of Ex- historical contribution, especially to the state of Texas, is this privileged perspective that enables him to show, cellence medal and many other awards from the Society Gennusa has chosen to honor this incredible animal in Graham’s range of subject matter is unified by his use through his art, the authentic essence of the contempo- of Animal Artists. Guelich’s sculptures have been placed much of his work. of color and light. “At this point in my career, I’m driven rary cowboy. There will come a time when the cowboys in the Kansas City Zoo; the Fort Worth Botanic Garden; by the act of painting itself. Every day is a study in light, of today will look at Bruce Greene’s art and smile at the the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand The Texas State Legislature selected Gennusa as the color, value, and brush strokes. I’m inspired to carry on the memory of the way their world once was. Rapids, Michigan; Benson Sculpture Garden, Loveland, Texas State Artist 1985–1986. In 2005, he was the tradition of the artists who came before me—artists who Colorado; Rice University; University of Notre Dame; recipient of the Star of Texas Award from the Gillespie captured images of the West in bold and adventurous Greene was elected to membership in the Cowboy Art- Doane College; the Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, County Historical Society. The following year, he received ways.” ists of America in 1993 and served as president in both New Jersey; and the Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Min- the Ben Sheppard, Jr., Award from the Texas Historical 2002 and 2013. He has won numerous awards in drawing, nesota. Other monumental commissions include works Foundation for his outstanding achievement in historic Graham’s award-winning work has been collected by sculpture, and painting. He has twice won the Ray Swan- for the San Antonio Zoo, Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & preservation. He won the Briscoe Museum Purchase numerous corporations, including Bayer, Mars, Cargill, son Memorial Award and the Traditional Cowboy Artists Aquarium, and Houston Zoo. Award for 2016. King Ropes, and Apache Oil. Recent acquisitions by Association Award. museums include Whitney Western Art Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, and the Brinton Museum in Big Horn, Wyoming.

102 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 103 Enrique Guerra Abigail Gutting George Hallmark John Austin Hanna After graduating Inspired by her love Born and raised John Austin Hanna from Paier College of the American in north central grew up in Beau- of Art in Ham- West, Abigail Texas, George mont, Texas, and den, Connecticut, Gutting paints to Hallmark was has always had Enrique Guerra tell a story. Art has an architectural a passion for art. studied with Rob- always been an designer and His paintings have ert Lougheed and important part of commercial artist been exhibited at Tom Lovell in New her life. Her early before turning to the Salmagundi Mexico. Lougheed training began easel painting. Club in New York, is the artist when her artist He was voted the Trailside Galleries in Guerra admires mother, Susan official Texas State Jackson Hole, Wyo- the most because Gutting, trained at Artist in 1988. His ming, and his family the American Academy of Art in Chicago work can be found in many prestigious private and gallery, RS Hanna Gallery in Fredericksburg, Virginia. 2015 of his ability to transform an insignificant NEW PATRON’S subject into a truly brilliant work of art. FOR and allowed her daughter to work alongside corporate collections including Texas Instruments, the CHOICE 2017 her in the studio. She has studied at the AWARD Guerra works in both oil and bronze. Texas Capital, MBNA, and the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Hanna recently was honored with a feature article in the WINNER Most of his paintings depict the vast Frye Museum in Seattle, Washington, under D.C. Hallmark has work in several museums including December 2015 issue of Southwest Art. In “A Touch of desert and brush lands of northern Barbara Benedetti-Newton, Glacier National The Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia; Humanity,” Gussie Fauntleroy writes, “Hanna is especially Mexico and south Texas. He enjoys painting Park under Phil Starke, and the Scottsdale Artist School the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western drawn to places where his value of visual beauty inter- street scenes in semi-abandoned towns or capturing the under Ray Roberts, Bruce Greene, and Greg Beecham. In Art in Indianapolis; the Briscoe Western Art Museum; sects with his attraction to land and structures shaped West, Western Art Collector, Southwest Art, images of farmers with their livestock as they till their land. 2013, she was named one of Southwest Art Magazine's and the Autry Museum of the American West in Los by the human hand and often steeped in time: old rock Because he has spent the greater part of his life in these “21 Under 31 Young Artists to Watch.” Angeles. Hallmark’s work has been featured in Art of the walls, working farmyards, aging barns.” He enjoys scenes surroundings, this is the subject matter that continues and U.S. Art with humanity in them. “That’s one reason I love the area to captivate and shape the images of his work. Gutting inherited her love of art from her mom, who magazines. around Fredericksburg, with the old farms, although cultivated her growth as an artist. However, her love of Invitational Art Exhibition & Sale they’re disappearing fast.” Other places call to him for Guerra, who lives near McAllen, Texas, received a animals and the American West was fostered by working Hallmark is an annual participant in the Prix de West their glimpses into Texas history, including old sections commission to paint murals for the Mission Trail in San with her veterinarian father throughout her teens and at the National Cowboy of Houston or the Galveston waterfront, where pre-Civil into her early twenties. On occasion, she still has the Antonio and for the International Trade and Technology &for Western the West Heritage Art Show Museum and Sale in Oklahoma City, and the War buildings from the cotton-shipping era still stand. Building at the University of Texas—Pan American. He opportunity to work with her dad. The memories of those American Masters at The Salmagundi Club in New York, exhibits at Nedra Matteucci Fine Art in Santa Fe, New experiences are rich and contribute to Gutting’s vision New York. He participates in the Eiteljorg Museum’s Quest Hanna says his ideas for paintings come from things he Mexico, and at Nuevo Santander Gallery in McAllen, for her art. She looks forward to a lifetime of growth and , where he won the Artist has observed. “The subject pretty much selects me,” he opportunity as an artist. of Distinction Award in 2010; The West Select show at says. “It’s something that just hits me.” As an illustrator Texas. of the American West the Phoenix Art Museum, where he won the silver medal withand aCountry 20 year career in New York and Dallas, Hanna has She currently lives in the beautiful mountains of northern for oil painting in 2011; and the Autry Museum’s Masters worked for Ian Fleming and Warner Bros.; been pub- Idaho. She is represented by Coeur d'Alene Galleries and show in Los Angeles. lished in Automobile Quarterly, Car and Driver, and Town currently is showing at Bozeman Trail Gallery. ; and worked for Mercedes, Volkswagen, Hallmark is represented by Legacy Gallery, Scottsdale, Bell Helicopter, Lockheed Martin, Borden’s, Pearl, Coors, Arizona; McLarry Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Phillips 66, Shell Oil. His work can be found in books Insight Gallery, Fredericksburg, Texas. published by Harcourt Brace and World and McGraw Hill.

104 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 105 Sherry Harrington Robert Harrison Bryan Haynes Matthew Hillier Sherry Harrington Born February Historical figures, Matthew Hillier specializes in oil 16, 1949, Robert Native Americans, was born and painting of Native Harrison is a self- and local characters brought up on American women taught artist who inhabit the sweep- the south coast and children. Trav- has been creating ing views of Bryan of England. After eling each year art since he was a Haynes’ New Re- art college in into the Navajo boy. Raised in San gionalist paintings. Wales, where he Nation, Harrington Antonio, Texas, The valleys and studied wildlife poses her models Harrison has be- mesas, bends and illustration, he in their traditional come well known curves of the New spent many years clothing. Spending for his paintings Mexico landscape as an illustrator time with the fam- of Texas. His work seem to shape the of books and ilies has brought her very special friendships. Along with hangs in the Presidential Palace in Mexico, the of- artist’s inspirations. Since graduating from the Art Cen- magazines before becoming an artist. He moved to the painting the Native American, Harrington very much fice of the University of Texas at San Antonio, and the ter College of Design in 1983, Haynes has exhibited his United States in 2000 and settled on the Eastern Shore enjoys calls for commission paintings of officials and Briscoe office in Uvalde. His work has been displayed artwork in New York, San Francisco, St. Louis, Kansas of Maryland, where he lives with his wife, the artist individuals. Painting the striking features of the differ- at the Witte Museum, San Angelo Museum of Art, City, and Santa Fe. Recent institutional commissions in- Julia Noffsinger Rogers, and family. He is a multi-award ent Native people and learning more about their history and the Buckhorn Museum. The Johnson family gave clude murals and large-scale paintings for The Kauffman winning artist in both America and Great Britain who is have long been her passions. Harrison a show at the Ladybird Johnson Wildflow- Foundation in Kansas City; the Missouri Botanical best known for his marine and wildlife paintings. He also er Center in Austin in 2008. In 2009, Harrison began Garden’s permanent collection in St. Louis; and the loves to teach and regularly leads workshops around the Past paintings have been chosen for cover art for two working on The Frio Canyon Collection of more than Westward Expansion Memorial Museum at the Gateway country. He has just been given the honor of being the children’sIndian books, Native Foods of the North American fifty paintings that were purchased by Governor Dolph Arch, also in St. Louis. featured artist at this year’s Waterfowl Festival. He is a and Native American Tribes. Harrington is Briscoe, Jr., to adorn the walls of his banks in Uvalde, member of the American Society of Marine Artists and represented by Big Horn Galleries in Cody, Wyoming, Leaky, Utopia, and Carrizo Springs, Texas, and also his “Haynes’ paintings feel familiar. His heroic history the Society of Animal Artists. He travels widely in search and in Tubac, Arizona. She participates in the Briscoe home and office. Harrison is represented by Cliff Logan works have been likened to the WPA style of the of subjects to paint. He has spent time in Southeast Asia Western Art Museum’s Night of Artists, Settlers West in Austin, Texas. 1930s as well as to that of American Dreamers Norman as well as Africa. He paints in oils. Galleries’ American Miniature Show, Trailside Masters Rockwell and Maxfield Parrish. Haynes (fairly) claims in Miniature Exhibition & Sale; Cowgirl Up! Art from the himself a descendent of Thomas Hart Benton and John Other Half of the West & Sale; at the Desert Caballeros Western Steuart Curry by calling his work Neo-regionalism. His Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona; the C. M. Russell Show paintings build upon the early-20th century Regionalism and the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of movement by including images, events and some Fame’s Heart of the West Art Exhibition and Sale in of the artistic innovations of the past 100 years. The Texas, where Harrington has received Best of Show. physiognomy of his figures calls to mind the strong, swaying bodies found in Benton’s Cradling Wheat (1938) and Curry’s The Mississippi (1935) at the St. Louis Art Museum. And like the figures in Benton and Curry’s paintings, each man and woman found in Haynes’ paintings is made noble in the face of an adversity that smacks of adventure.” Bryan Haynes is represented by Manitou Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 106 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 107 Annette Findley Hodges Harold T. Holden Chris Hunt Terry Isaac Annette Findley Primarily known A native Texan, Acclaimed wildlife Hodges is a native as a cowboy artist, Chris Hunt has artist Terry Isaac Texan, currently Harold T. Holden, or been demon- grew up in the living in Cleburne, “H,” as he is known strating raw ar- Willamette Valley Texas. She is mar- to most folks, has tistic talent from of Oregon, and it is ried and the moth- been capturing the a very young age there that he began er of two grown West in sculptures through drawings his love affair with daughters. and paintings for of anything that wildlife. Drawing over forty years. caught his eye. inspiration from Although Hodges While his work His artistic flame his own backyard never received a can be found in began to burn its and from the formal art educa- the Oklahoma brightest when he captivating vistas of the Northwest, he began to create tion, she has realized a high level of skill through read- State Capitol and on a U.S. postage stamp, his public joined the United States Air Force in 1993 and was sta- dramatic wildlife art. Now a professional artist for almost ing books, visiting museums, and studying with leading sculptures have kept him busy the last few years, with tioned in Spangdahlem, Germany, three hours from Paris 30 years, Isaac creates realistic wildlife art known for his artists. Most of her references for paintings originate in twenty-two monuments completed. In 2001, Holden and the Louvre Museum. attention to detail and the magical moments created Mexico, where her extended travels have allowed her to received the Governor’s Art Award from Oklahoma by the dramatic light nature provides. Isaac now calls closely observe details of everyday life in markets and Governor Frank Keating and has been honored with Growing up in a small farming and ranching community Penticton, British Columbia, Canada, home. Since moving street scenes. The Texas hill country is also a rich source the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma in Texas, Hunt had read about the Eiffel Tower and Paris, there, he has continued to create paintings capturing of subject matter. Although Hodges illustrates meticu- Sculpture Society. In 2005, he was selected as a France in textbooks, but not much more, so he did not unique characteristics of wildlife and their habitat. Isaac lous detail in her work, she never lets minutiae interfere Distinguished Alumni from Oklahoma State University, know what was in store when he decided to visit the travels the world to capture exciting images, but his main with the mood she seeks to convey. and in 2012, he was elected into membership in the City of Lights. When he paid his entry into the Louvre painting focus continues to be on North American birds Cowboy Artists of America. His most recent public work Museum, the sculptures by Michelangelo, Bernini, Barye and mammals. Hodges has received numerous awards in juried is his life-and-one-quarter–size monument of former- and Rodin, just to name a few, were more than he could competitions, but she does not place much emphasis on slave–turned U.S. Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves, in Fort have ever imagined. His experience of Europe and the Isaac’s formal art began with an interest in animation and them. She states that the collector makes the “ultimate Smith, Arkansas. Holden was featured in a one-man masterpieces that filled the Louvre and Rodin’s museum drawing cartoons. After art college, he was interested judgment and gives me the greatest reward for my retrospective in August 2010 at the Gaylord-Pickens left an impression on Hunt that made him dream of in children’s book illustration, but soon rediscovered efforts. I want my collectors to enjoy the painting and Oklahoma Heritage Center in Oklahoma City. He was artistic achievement. his childhood passion for wildlife. Since the mid-1980s, appreciate what I saw and how I interpreted it.” inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 2014. On he has created realistic wildlife art with a focus on April 22, 2017, he will be inducted into the Hall of Great After returning from his tour in the Air Force, Hunt particularity and dramatic light. He is inspired by large WesternersHarold T. “H” at Holdenthe National and Mike Cowboy Larsen & Western Heritage quickly transposed the inspiration he brought home into panoramas as well as close-up views and by subjects Museum and will be featured in Cowboys & Indians by Western art, wining best of show awards, people’s choice ranging from whales to hummingbirds. in April 2017 at the awards, and several best sculpture awards in shows and Gaylord Pickens Museum, both in Oklahoma City. Holden museums. Hunt’s work is included in major collections Isaac has created a dinosaur for Disney, written an art lives near Kremlin, Oklahoma, with his wife Edna Mae. around the country and has also been featured in such instruction book that has sold out twice, worked with publications as Cowboys & Indians, Western Art Collector, Ducks Unlimited on an ongoing basis, and sold original art and NSide Texas. in several museums and galleries. He has won numerous international art competitions and teaches workshops both in Penticton and around North America.

108 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 109 Greg Kelsey T.D. Kelsey Mark Kohler Kenny McKenna A self-taught artist, T. D. Kelsey grew Mark Kohler is Connection to Greg Kelsey was up on a ranch an award-win- the West came born in 1971 and near Bozeman, ning watercolorist early in Kenny raised in both Tex- Montana. He ro- and recipient of McKenna’s life. as and Oklahoma deoed in rough the Cowboy Art- He had family and now lives in stock events and ists of America’s in California, so Ignacio, Colorado. team roping and Founders Award his memories of Kelsey is a mem- then trained and and the Phippen trips from his na- ber of the National showed cutting Museum Foun- tive Kansas along Sculpture Society horses. He was a dation Award. “I Route 66 began and C.M. Russell commercial pilot want to document at the age of four. Museum’s Skull So- for United Airlines the independent Impressions of spirit and pride that the modern cowboy has inherited the mountains, red rock formations, and desert terrain 2015 ciety of Artists. A look at Greg Kelsey’s 2013 until 1979, when he resigned to devote COMMITTEE’S sculpture reveals his intensity for both 2014 himself to his art full time. Kelsey’s from his predecessors. It is uniquely American and wor- were in striking contrast to the rolling hills of Kansas. CHOICE COMMITTEE’S CHOICE thy of preservation.” AWARD form and subject. No matter what is be- work is in private and public collections AWARD WINNER ing portrayed, he believes that form is WINNER worldwide. He is an emeritus mem- During a music career spanning two decades, McKenna the most significant thing about a sculp- ber of the Cowboy Artists of America Kohler’s work is in private and corporate collections continued with his early interest in art. His first paint- ture. Kelsey states, “It is a powerful com- and fellow member of the National Sculpture acrossWestern the Horseman United States, Australia, and Germany. ing in 1966 established his medium in oil. The coast-to- Collector, Art of the West, Western Art Collector, 2015 He has been featured in Southwest Art, Western Art coast miles he traveled as an accomplished musician MUSEUM bination when form and subject are Society. He was honored with a rendezvous show at the PURCHASE both meaningful.” Melding sculptural Thomas Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he and provided direction for painting landscapes. AWARD . He has self-published a coffee- WINNER form with the powerful visions of West- has work on permanent display, and a one-man show at Country Cooking ern history and modern day cowboy the 21 Club in New York. He also has sculptures at the Pro table book titled Mark Kohler: Working Cowboys, and McKennaShow is a four-time Award of Excellence recipient living inspires Kelsey to create. He feels Rodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colorado; the C. his work has illustrated a cowboy cookbook titled Cow and 2010 featured artist at the NatureWorks Wildlife strongly that the story of Western life is worth telling in M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana; the National , which was awarded the Will Rogers , Tulsa, Oklahoma; and has twice received the an authentic way. Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming; the Ow- 2011 Medallion Award for Best Cookbook. His new Lead Steer Award at the Panhandle-Plains Invitational, ensboro Museum; St. Louis Zoo; the Thomas Gilcrease coffee-table book, titled hh, was released in late 2016. Canyon, Texas, among other prestigious awards. He has Kelsey has been honored with numerous awards, Museum; the Old Town Museum in Elk City, Oklahoma; participated in the annual Gilcrease Museum Show since including the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and the Briscoe Western Art Museum; and the Buffalo Bill 1995 and the Small Works Great Wonders Art Sale at Western Art’s Quest for the West 2016 and 2015 Cyrus Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. theWest National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum since Dallin Award for Best Sculpture and 2011 Purchase Award; 2011. He has participated in the Masters of the American and the C. M. Russell Museum’s Russell Fine Art Auction One of his sculptures was chosen by the National at the Autry National Center since 2013. 2007 People’s Choice Award. Museums that have Kelsey’s Sculpture Society for the Masterworks of American Southwest Art, work in their permanent collections include the Briscoe Sculpture 1875–1999 show at the Fleischer Museum in McKenna has been featured in Art of the West, Western Art Museum, the Eiteljorg Museum, and the C. M. Scottsdale, Arizona. Several of his monumental pieces and Western Art Collector. Gallery Russell Museum. Kelsey is currently represented by the have been placed in private companies and public representation is Collectors Covey, Dallas, Texas; Legacy Legacy Galleries in Jackson, Wyoming, and Scottsdale, facilities such as museums and zoos. Kelsey’s work is Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Jackson, Wyoming; Arizona; Settlers West Gallery in Tucson, Arizona; and available in very limited editions. Both finished castings Settlers West in Tucson, Arizona; and The Howell Gallery, Sorrel Sky Gallery in Durango, Colorado, and Santa Fe, and works in progress can be seen in the studio-gallery Oklahoma City. New Mexico. at his ranch near Guthrie, Texas. 110 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 111 Vickie McMillan Mark Maggiori Jan Mapes Curt Mattson A native Texan, Mark Maggiori’s first Seeds planted while Joy, excitement, Vickie McMillan views of America Jan Mapes was visit- and intensity mark creates breath- were framed within ing Santa Fe galleries Curt Mattson’s pas- taking wildlife the front windshield on her honeymoon sion for life and and nature paint- of a car traveling from took root and sprout- sculpture. It is his ings that advance New York to San Fran- ed after she ended love of the horse global conser- cisco. That trip, filled her short career as an and horsemanship vation causes. with majestic views earth science teacher that drives him. She draws upon of the national parks to help her husband Movement, texture, her extensive and timeless glimpses Jim work cattle and mass, and negative field study and of the West, resonat- horses on their ranch. space bring each award-winning ed throughout his life For over 30 years, she piece to life. His photography to create paintings that are and set into motion his great fascination has developed her skill in depicting the land and crea- work is unique in approach and execution. His pieces are NEW 2016 FOR both accurate and stylistic. Her unique PATRON’S with the West. Back in Paris, France, he tures that are an integral part of the Western lifestyle complimented by so many collectors who say, “You work 2017 style of impasto painting was developed CHOICE enrolled at the famous Académie Julian, she lives and loves. Her craft encompasses a variety of is so alive!” These pieces become a focal point in any AWARD over time to accommodate her disability, WINNER where Western greats Ernest Blumen- media, but typically it finds expression through bronze environment. And it’s no wonder, because the sculptor Essential Tremors. To create fine brushstrokes, she holds schein and Joseph Henry Sharp studied sculpture and oil paintings. brings award-winning excellence to his work. her breath while steadying one hand with the other. before they helped form the Taos Society of Artists. Maggiori was lured back to the United States Her work has caught hearts of many viewers all across His dynamic works of art have garnered many awards. She is active in many organizations that raise funds to thanks to his muse, creative equal, and wife, Petecia Le- the U.S., Canada, and overseas. Several sculptures Among these are the National Sculpture Society’s Elliott protect our parks, land, and animals while promoting fawnhawk. They journeyed through the West, and their have won awards at art shows, and some are part of Gantz Award; the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians wildlife conservation. She promotes conservation trips took him back to that original road trip two decades permanent museum collections. For several terms, her and Western Art’s Quest for the West Cyrus Dalin Award; through collaborative outreach art projects involving earlier. sculpture design has served the National Cutting Horse Phippen Museum’s Western Art Show & Sale’s Best of hundreds of people in the creation of one painting. Her Association as the official trophy. In 2016, she completed Show; and Allied Artists of America Silver Medal for works are seen in many museums including the Leigh Then, he made the decision to paint Western art. He her first large-scale monument, scheduled to be installed Sculpture. Yawkey Woodson Art Museum’s Birds in Art show, and his wife staked temporary claims in places such at the Murieta Inn in California. Wausau, Wisconsin. She is a Hunting Art Prize finalist and as Chloride and Kingman, Arizona, where the desert Mattson researches thoroughly before starting a new receivedSouthwest PleinAir Art, TheMagazin Artist’se’s bestMagazine, overall ArtistAcrylic Portfolio Award offered its stunning inspiration and Maggiori quickly In Mapes’ words, “I not only strive to paint or sculpt a work. He begins creating only when he is completely AcrylicNorthMagazine, Light Award. Richeson’s Books’ Her work Best 75 appears of Animals, AcrylicWorks in BirdsFine Art and 4 Connoisseur, Wildlife, began to produce some of the most audacious Western visual happening, but the story or momentary emotion, familiar with the subject. Whether contemporary or paintings of a new generation. In the space of just a or the ambiance of time and place. This connects me to historical, he intimately understands the nuances of his and few short years, Maggiori became one of the premier the glory and majesty of our Creator Lord.” subjects. Beyond that, his artistic training assures that his . present-day Western artists. His work brought many work is more than mere depictions. These compositional Artists new opportunities, including important solo and group elements come together to create artistic excellence shows, and a significant showing at the 2016 Night of rarely found in sculpture. Mattson has established low at the Briscoe Western Art Museum, where he edition sizes for each one of his sculptures. On average, won the Patron’s Choice Award. Maggiori has carved no more than 20 pieces are available of each work. This a unique place for himself within Western art, a place low edition size makes it a rare privilege to own a Curt where his work continues to provoke the minds of young Mattson sculpture. Viewers of his work can be sure they and old Western collectors alike. are looking at the true West. 112 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 113 Krystii Melanie Dan Mieduch James Morgan Brenda Murphy Born in Victoria, Dan Mieduch was James Morgan says Brenda Murphy’s Australia, Krystii drawing by the age “the most import- love for the West is Melaine announced of seven. During ant aspect of being evident in her sen- at age four that she his school years, an artist is being a sitively rendered was going to be an he took art classes keen observer. Na- drawings of horses, artist, won her first and began work- ture’s ever chang- Native Americans, art competition at ing in oils and wa- ing moods are a cowboys, and ranch seven, and was sell- tercolors. His fam- wellspring of inspi- life. She’s a multi- ing paintings at 14. ily owned a tavern ration. The goals award winning art- Following universi- and inn in a small for my work are to ist who achieved a ty studies in paint- town in Michigan. enjoy the process BFA from the Uni- ing and drawing, His father’s saloon was of painting and see- versity of Texas at Melaine enjoyed a successful career as a fashion designer Mieduch’s first “gallery” where he exhibited and sold his ing, to engage emotional participation from people who Arlington and then worked for years as a graphic designer specializing in bridal and evening gowns. wildlife paintings to patrons. This farming community view the painting, and to share the often overlooked, in- and illustrator. From this foundation, she moved on to es- gave him a deep appreciation for the beauty of the land, timate aspects of nature. I seek to achieve a balance be- tablish a career in fine art, exhibiting in top galleries such Returning to her lifelong passion for painting, she under- the light of early mornings, and the deep hues of sum- tween the subject and its environment. The excitement as Trailside Galleries in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Jackson, took five years of atelier study in traditional tonal realism mer sunsets. for me is constantly exploring new ways to interpret na- Wyoming; Settlers West Gallery in Tucson, Arizona; and focusing on portraiture. With her fascination for peo- ture. I am intrigued by the patterns and shapes found in Texas Art Gallery in Dallas, Texas. Murphy has received ple and animals, Melaine found inspiration in the Native Mieduch earned a BS in industrial design from the nature and concentrate on the effects of light on these numerous accolades for her artwork, including the 2003 Americans, cowboys, and wildlife of the American West. University of Michigan in 1969. Following graduation, elements and the resulting array of colors in nature’s ev- Patron’s Purchase Award at the Bosque Art Classic in In 2010, she and her husband moved from Australia to he was drafted into the U.S. Army Medical Corps. er-changing moods.” Clifton, Texas; the 2005 Patron’s Choice Award at the Spokane, Washington, to be closer to her favorite sub- Assigned to a medical company guarding the Panama Western Visionsshow at the National Museum of Wildlife Art jects. Using the rich colors and tones of oil paint in a Canal, Mieduch worked as an ambulance driver. During Morgan’s work is included in many private and public in Jackson, Wyoming; the 2006 Museum Purchase Award realistic, painterly style, Melaine portrays the people and this time, he was invited to be Command Artist for the collections, and he regularly participates in shows such at the Desert Caballeros Museum’s Cowgirl Up! show in animals who shaped the West in the past and who per- U.S. Southern Command, creating paintings for the as Prix de West at the National Cowboy & Western Her- Wickenburg, Arizona; and the 2008 Patron’s Choice WestMasters petuate its traditions. Department of Defense. This work documented civil itage Museum, Oklahoma City; Masters of the American Awardthe West, at theSouthwest National Art, Cowgirl Museum’s Heart of the engineering projects by the Corps of Engineers and the at the Autry Museum of Western Art; and American West Art Show and Auction in Fort Worth, Texas. She Melaine’s oil paintings are regularly featured in major Medical Corps to improve health care in civilian native Westfor the West at the The Salmagundi Club in New York City. He has been featured in major publications such as Art of museum exhibitions, including Masters of the American rural jungle populations in Panama. has received several awards such as the Autry Museum and Western Horseman. She , Autry Museum of the West, Los Angeles and Quest of the American West’s James R. Parks Trustee Purchase is represented by Trailside Galleries in Scottsdale, Ari- , Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Following his military service, Mieduch worked for several Award (2014), the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s zona, and Jackson, Wyoming, and also by Settlers West Western Art, Indianapolis. She has twenty-one paintings commercial art studios in Detroit, where he met his wife Western Visions Red Smith Artists’ Choice Award (2013, Gallery in Tucson, Arizona. in museum collections, continues to win numerous Rhonda. In 1975, Mieduch decided to turn his attention to 2007, 1996), and the National Cowboy & Western Heri- awards, and is featured in many magazine articles. becoming a Western fine artist. He focused on what he tage Museum’s Prix de West Robert Loughheed Memori- Born and raised in Texas, Murphy fosters a close Melaine is represented by Mountain Trails Galleries perceived as a simpler time—the early twentieth century al Artist Choice Award. Morgan is represented by Wood relationship with nearby ranchers who provide in Jackson, Wyoming, Park City, Utah, and Sedona, American frontier. The Mieduchs fell in love with the River Fine Arts, Ketchum, Idaho; Gerald Peters Gallery, inspiration, resources, and a valued critical eye to ensure Arizona; and Broadmoor Galleries in Colorado Springs, West and moved to Scottsdale in 1975, where they still Santa Fe, New Mexico; Simpson Gallagher Gallery, Cody, authenticity in her work. She and her husband Tom Colorado. She is a Master Signature Member of the live happily. Wyoming; and Trailside Galleries, Jackson, Wyoming. reside in Arlington, Texas, where she maintains a studio in American Women Artists. her home. 114 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 115 Bill Nebeker Gary Niblett Ralph Oberg Noe Perez Bill Nebeker is a Gary Niblett was Ralph Oberg grew skilled horseman, born and raised up hiking, camp- Noe Perez grew up a good roper, a de- in Carlsbad, New ing, hunting, and in Falfurrias, Texas. cent guitar picker, Mexico. After grad- climbing in the “My dad was a cow- and an avid hunter. uation, he attend- high mountain wil- boy, and worked These experiences ed the Art Center derness of Colora- area south Texas inspire him with School of Design do. He has traveled ranches wherever the stories he tells in California. He extensively across his help was need- in his sculptures. spent eight years the United States, ed. I used to fol- As a member of with the Hanna-Bar- sketching and pho- low him whenever the Cowboy Art- bera studios as a tographing, aiming I could, spending ists of America for background artist, to share his expe- long hours im- 39 years, Nebeker has dedicated himself to but continued to develop his own style. He riences through his art. Larger works are produced at mersed in and observing the brush country native to this portraying the American working cowboy NEW met his wife Monika while working for the 2016 his studio in Montrose, Colorado, where he and his wife, area. After earning a bachelor’s degree in engineering, FOR JAMES BOWIE and Native peoples with the respect and studios, and they were married in 1970. In painter Shirley Novak, live within sight of his beloved San I went to work and started painting again in my spare SCULPTURE 2017 AWARD honor he believes they deserve. 1973, Niblett left commercial art to focus Juan Mountains. time. Most recently, I have attended workshops with Ron WINNER exclusively on Western art and three years later Rencher and Michael Workman. I really enjoy plein air Nebeker was honored in January 2017 was voted into the Cowboy Artists of America. He Oberg’s work is in numerous private and corporate painting and pursue the practice whenever I can. I feel with the Desert Caballeros Western Museum’s returned to New Mexico, where his work continued to collections. Awards include the 2015 Wells Fargo that is the best way to study the landscape and bring HeART of the West Lifetime Achievement Award. He gain national recognition. Award, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming; that knowledge to my studio paintings. also won the Express Ranches, Great American Cowboy 2014 Patron’s Choice and 2006 Collector’s Choice, Award at Prix de West at the National Cowboy and His work has been exhibited all over the world, including Maynard Dixon Country, Mount Carmel, Utah; 2014 Gold “One of the reasons I am drawn to this area is because Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. His seven- the Grand Palais, Paris, France, and the Amerika Haus, Medal for Painting, California Art Club Members Show, its beauty is not immediately apparent. I have to paint foot bronze statue, The Eyes of Texas, is in the Briscoe Berlin, Germany. He has also exhibited in Moscow, Taiwan, Los Angeles; 2012 Trustee’s Purchase Award, National here because this is where I live; it is what I know best. Western Art Museum’s McNutt Sculpture Garden. Beijing, China, and the prestigious Royal Watercolor Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming; and 1988 By attempting to capture the essence of this landscape, I Society, London, England. Niblett’s work has been William Weiss Purchase Award, Buffalo Bill Historical hope to honor not just the landscape, but also the people Nebeker is represented by Broadmoor Gallery, Colorado included International Fine Art Collector, Time, Saturday Center, Cody, Wyoming. Oberg’s exhibitions include who make this area their home.” Review,Magazine Springs, Colorado; Mountain Spirit Gallery, Prescott, Ar- and New Mexico Magazine. He was honored as Prix de West, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Traditions—Contemporary Artists of the Lone Star izona; Southwest Gallery, Dallas, Texas; Texas Treasures theNew 1990 Look Distinguished at the Old West Calendar Artist for New Mexico West Museum, Oklahoma City; Masters of the American Perez’sState work is in many private and public collections Fine Art Gallery, Boerne, Texas; and Trailside Galleries, , and a book of his work titled Gary Niblett—A , Autry Museum of Western Art, Los Angeles; Los across the country and is included in the book Texas Scottsdale, Arizona, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming. His was published in 1990. One of Angeles County Natural History Museum; the Haggin work is in the permanent collections of several muse- his large oil paintings hangs in the state capitol building Museum, Stockton, California; and the International , published in 2010. In January 2013, his work was ums including the Desert Caballeros Western Museum, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Center for Wildlife Art in Britain. Oberg is a member includedTexas Regionalism in the show Restless Hearts: Contemporary Wickenburg, Arizona; Eiteljorg Museum of American Indi- of the Society of Animal Artists, Plein Air Painters at the San Angelo Museum of Art, San West, Southwest Art, Sporting Classics, Western Art ans and Western Art, Indianapolis; the National Cowboy He and Monika have lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in of America, the Northwest Rendezvous Group, and Angelo, Texas. His work is represented by William Reaves Collector, Western Art and Architecture and Western Heritage Museum; Palm Springs Art Muse- their adobe-style home since 1980. California Art Club. His work has appeared in Art of the Fine Art in Houston, Texas. um, Palm Springs, California; Pearce Museum, Corsicana, Texas; Phippen Museum, Prescott, Arizona; Phoenix Art and Wildlife Art Museum; and The Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York. magazines. 116 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 117 Robert Peters Howard Post Grant Redden Paul Rhymer Robert Peters’ ca- Howard Post is an Grant Redden was Paul Rhymer comes reer as a profes- impressionist who born and raised from a family of sional artist has portrays the con- in southwest artists and has spanned nearly temporary West Wyoming. Grow- drawn and painted thirty-five years. in a modern fash- ing up on a sheep his whole life. After He is presently a ion. He is known and cattle ranch, receiving an asso- regular participant for his paintings he learned to love ciates degree from in prestigious mu- of cattle, cowboys, the life and life- a local college in seum exhibitions rodeo arenas, and style of the rural 1984, he accepted such as Masters ranch life execut- West. Horses were a job at the Smith- of the American an integral part of sonian Institution West, Prix de West ed with a unique , aerial perspective his family’s opera- doing taxidermy and Quest for the West. In 2011, he was the recipient of and with sun-drenched hues. He was born and raised tion, including camp horses, pack strings in the summer, NEW and model making and retired in 2010. In the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western on a ranch near Tucson, Arizona, where his family raised and work horses to pull camps and feed the livestock in FOR the late 1990s, as a result of having done so Arts’ Victor Higgins Award for the best body of work rodeo stock. In time, Post became an Arizona High heavy winters. Naturally, they are a major part of his art. 2017 much three-dimensional work in his museum exhibited at the Quest for the West. His paintings are School All-Round Rodeo Champion, a member of the job, he began to gradually transform his own widely collected, and he has presented numerous solo University of Arizona rodeo team, and eventually a Primarily self-taught, he has had the opportunity to be artwork from painting and drawing into sculp- shows at notable galleries. His paintings are also includ- competitor with the Professional Rodeo Cowboys mentored by many generous masters and has studied ture. Being an avid birder, waterfowl hunter, and taxider- ed in the permanent collections of several museums. Association. After completing BA and MA degrees in the work of past masters such as Sorolla, Sargent, Zorn, mist gives him constant anatomy and behavioral learning fine art at the University of Arizona, Post taught there and Von Zugel. experiences that inspire his sculpture. At the start of his career, Peters worked for 12 years as for two years. Post worked as a commercial artist an independent freelance illustrator in New York City. until 1980, when he decided to paint what he knew best, Becoming a member of the Cowboy Artists of America Rhymer’s work has been exhibited in such prestigious art He is a member of the Society of Illustrators, and his Arizona’s ranch traditions. He draws from a collection was a great honor. The CAA has a rich tradition of creating shows such as the National Sculpture Society, the Society award-winning paintings were featured on the covers of of several thousand slides and from imagination, and he art that celebrates the Western life authentically, at a of Animal Artists, and Birds in Art. His wildlife sculpture magazines such as US News and World Report. Peters starts a canvas without preliminary sketches. His work is quality level that requires dedication and commitment. is at the National Zoo and National Museum of Natural created paintings for the national advertising campaigns defined by orderly, strong shadow patterns cast by the Redden hopes he can measure up to the higher History, both in Washington, D.C.; the Denver Zoo; Leigh of corporations such as 7UP, IBM, Audi, Intel, Revlon, TV figures of cattle, cowboys, trees, or fences. atmosphere that these artists work in. This aspiration Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin; Guide, and others. His illustration experience gave him a will make him stretch and step up to a higher level, both The Hiraim Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, New Jersey; solid foundation for his current work. Many of Post’s paintings are in public, corporate, and as an artist and as a man. The culture in this group of and public buildings and parks and private collections private collections. In 2010, he received the Victor artists is both demanding and nurturing. Already he is throughout the U.S. He is on the board of directors for Publications that have featured Peters’ landscape Higgins Work of Distinction Award at Quest for the living up to the demands, winning two medals in 2013. the Society of Animal Artists paintingsEquine Image, are Art Persimmon of the West, Hill, Southwest Cowboys Art,and WesternIndians, West at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and He received a Gold Medal in Oil Painting and the Silver Invitational Art Exhibition Art Collector, Western Horseman, Western Art, Indianapolis, and the Express Ranch Great Medal for Water Solubles. In 2014, Redden added an and Wildlife Art. The American Cowboy Award in 2010 at the Prix de West additional Gold Medal in Oil Painting. In 2016, he won the U.S. State Department selected several of his paintings at the National Cowboy Stetson Award and the Gold Medal in Oil Painting at the for Art in the Embassies exhibitions. & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. His CAA show. work San Tan Valley was chosen by the Western Art Peters currently resides in Prescott, Arizona, with his Association at the West Select for the permanent wife and two children. collection of the Phoenix Art Museum. 118 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 119 Julia Rogers Gladys Roldán-de-Moras Stefan Savides Billy Schenck Growing up on the Gladys Roldán- Stefan Savides One of the origina- Chesapeake Bay de-Moras is of- is one of the for- tors of the Western on the Eastern ten known for her tunate few who pop art movement, Shore of Maryland paintings that spot- knew his calling Billy Schenck incor- has had a strong light Spanish cul- from early child- porates techniques influence on ture, including cou- hood and has from photorealism Julia Rogers. Since rageous, gallant never strayed from with a pop art sen- her mother was an Mexican escaramu- his lifetime love sibility to both ex- zas artist and her daringly riding of birds and art. alt and poke fun at father was a horses sidesaddle Like many accom- images of the West. sportsman and in a rodeo-style plished sculptors, Schenck is known wildlife enthusiast, festival, roman- Savides began by for utilizing cine- it is not surprising that she began drawing landscapes tic flamenco señoritas clad in exuberant Andalusian working as a taxidermist, Over the years, he gained in- 2014 matic imagery reproduced in a flattened, PATRON’S and animals at a very young age. She majored in fine dresses, and old-fashioned, delicate damsels in ternational recognition, all the while engaging in carving, CHOICE reductivist style in which colors are dis- art in college and has never stopped studying since. intimate, exquisite poses. After living in San Antonio painting, and sculpting. It was a little over a dozen years AWARD played side by side rather than blended WINNER Over the years, she has worked in several media and has for over twenty-five years, she finds great inspiration in ago that Savides, who was looking for new challenges, or shadowed. In the August 2014 issue of gradually developed her distinctive style. She also paints depicting her love of Spanish culture. “I try to paint turned to sculpture full time. Sculpting in bronze is a Southwest Art Magazine, his work was de- a wide variety of subjects. “I think it’s important to the beauty around me,” says Roldán-de-Moras, “I am natural progression from taxidermy because it provides scribed as “a stance…a pendulum between the romantic expand and try new things and push myself into inspired by turn-of-the-century Spanish painters.” a lasting expression of his knowledge of avian anato- and the irreverent.” different areas.” Painting en plain air, figurative work, and my and design. While his work would be considered portraiture are part of her discipline. Her extensive Her talent has landed her work in many private and representational, he captures the essence of his Schenck’s artwork is now in 48 museum collections, in- travel is documented in her work. She has traveled all over public permanent collections at the national and subjects without the overworked detail that is so cluding the Smithsonian Institution; Denver Art Museum; Europe, Africa, and the Americas. international levels. Roldán-de-Moras’ striking, romantic common. Savides is a signature member in the Society and the Autry Museum of the American West, Los An- art has been reproduced in several publications such as of Animal Artists and an elected member of the National geles; His work is also held in private collections such as “I’ve had many periods of growth that can be attributed Fine Art Connoisseur, Art of the West, Southwest Art Sculpture Society. the estate of Malcolm Forbes; Laurance Rockefeller; the to trips I have taken.” Wildlife has been very inspirational Magazine, American Western Art Collector, Western estate of Fritz Scholder; and Sylvester Stallone and cor- to her work and has become a personal favorite. “Seeing Art and Architecture, Architectural Digest European porate collections that include American Airlines, IBM, animals in their natural environment and witnessing their Edition, San Antonio Express-News, Western American Sony, and Saatchi & Saatchi. Schenck has been honored natural behavior in person changed the way I painted.” Literature, Art Business News, El Dictamen de Veracruz, with over one hundred solo shows in the U.S. and Eu- There have been many trips to several countries in and La Voz Latina. rope Career highlights include the Denver Art Museum’s Africa: Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia, 2011 Western Horizons; the 2013 Utah Museum of Fine Art’s exhibit and Namibia. “You can go again and again and never see West; Bierstadt to Warhol: American Indians in the the same thing. Something amazing happens on every and Masters of the American West at the Autry trip.” Museum of the American West.

A genuine cowboy himself, Schenck is a ranch-sort- ing world champion and the proprietor of the Double Standard Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, his home for the past two decades. 120 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 121 Sandy Scott Jason Scull Kelly Singleton Kent Ullberg Born 1943, in Jason Scull, born in Kelly Singleton cre- A native of Swe- Dubuque, Iowa, 1958, grew up on ates paintings that den, Kent Ullberg Sandy Scott the fringes of the reflect her love for is recognized as lives in Lander, south Texas brush wildlife and the one of the world’s Wyoming. Sur- country in a farm- places they inhab- foremost wildlife rounded by moun- ing and ranching it. Her paintings sculptors. He stud- tains, lakes, and family. His ances- are the result of ied at the Swedish streams, Scott tors were early many hours spent University College is an avid out- settlers who observing and pho- of Art in Stockholm doorswoman arrived in Texas tographing wildlife, and has worked at and licensed pi- in the mid-1820s, followed by many museums in lot who lives the where they ranched, more hours behind Germany, the

life she depicts. Trained at the Kansas raised families, fought wars, and carved out a place in the NEW her easel, where she strives to breathe life Netherlands, France, Africa, and 2014 City Art Institute, she worked as an an- American West. This heritage has framed and influenced FOR into her subjects. 2010 Denver, Colorado. After living in LEGACY 2017 LEGACY AWARD imation background artist for the mo- his sculpture since he began pursuing art. AWARD Botswana, Africa, for seven years, he has WINNER tion picture industry at the beginning Born and raised in Maryland, Singleton has WINNER made his home permanently in Corpus of her career. A Fellow of the National A member of the Cowboy Artists of America, Scull held a lifelong passion for art and nature. Christi, Texas. He also maintains a studio Sculpture Society, she has won many first attended Texas A&M University, where he studied Her talent was recognized and encouraged early on. in Loveland, Colorado. awards for sculpture and etching, and her work is animal science before returning to the family ranch to She received her formal education from the Maryland Ullberg is a member of many art organizations and included in the permanent collections of many museums. work with his father raising registered Hereford cattle. Institute College of Art, where she graduated with a BFA has several prestigious awards. In 1990, his peers In 2014, the Briscoe Western Art Museum presented Scott In 1986, he returned to college to pursue a degree in in illustration. She has furthered her training by taking elected him a Full Academician (NA), thus making him with the Legacy Award for Lifetime Achievement. She architecture, only to be sidetracked by art classes and a workshops with artists she admires. the first wildlife artist since John James Audubon to is being honored with a retrospective in 2016 that will desire to paint. A chance trip in early 1987 to the Cowboy receive one of the greatest tributes to American art. His travel to several museums including Brookgreen Gardens, Artists of America Museum in Kerrville, Texas, gave him Singleton makes frequent trips into local and national memberships include the National Sculpture Society; Murrells Inlet, South Carolina; and the National Museum an opportunity to attend a sculpture workshop. He has parks of the western United States to observe and pho- the American Society of Marine Art; the Allied Artists of of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming. “The most profound been pursuing this art form ever since. His work can be tograph wildlife. These trips provide inspiration for new America; Nature in Art in Sandhurst, United Kingdom; realization of my life is that there are people I have never found in private, museum, and corporate collections work. She feels that such experiences are the best part and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum met who live with my art, and therefore I share with them throughout the United States, Canada, and England. of being a wildlife painter. She hopes that her excitement in Oklahoma City, which awarded him the Prix de West, a personal, if not intimate, relationship,” Scott said. for the natural world shines through in her art and that it the foremost recognition in Western art. Best known Scull has completed several monumental sculptures, also conveys the importance of preserving nature. for his monumental works executed for museums and including a sculpture of early Texas Ranger John C. “Jack” municipalities across the globe, Ullberg has created Hays located on the Hays County Courthouse lawn in San She is a Signature Member of the Society of Animal the largest bronze wildlife compositions ever done. Animal Marcos, Texas; an equine group of three running horses Artists, which has presented her with several awards. His Fort Lauderdale, Florida and his Omaha, Nebraska and a colt for Gaylord Hotels in Grapevine, Texas; and NoteworthyMiniature exhibitions include Birds in Art; Art and the installations span several city blocks. Both earned him Classic most recently, a life-size Spanish colonial vaquero and ; Small Works, Great Wonders; American Art in the coveted Henry Hering Medal Award from the National longhorn cow and calf for the city of McAllen. ; The Scottsdale Salon of Fine Art; The Bosque Sculpture Society in New York City. His most recent ; and Art of the Animal Kingdom. Singleton and monumental installation is Snowmastodon, a life-size Scull and his wife Dianne make their home near Kerrville, her husband Jimmy reside in Havre de Grace, Maryland, bronze mastodon that was installed outside the Denver Texas. with their boxer, Bodie. Museum of Nature and Science in September 2013. 122 BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | 2017 Night of Artists 2017 Night of Artists | BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM 123 Michael Ome Untiedt Kim Wiggins Xiang Zhang Born and raised Kim Douglas Born in the year of in rural south- Wiggins grew up on the Horse, Xiang eastern Colorado, a ranch in southern Zhang (pronounced Michael Ome Un- New Mexico. His “Shong Zang”) tiedt maintains a mother was a rodeo grew up in China. studio in Denver. cowgirl with a love After graduating Through the color, for art. His father from the Central brushstrokes, and was an art dealer, Academy of Drama symbolic sub- writer, and noted in Beijing, where ject matter of his photojournalist. he was strongly paintings, he ex- At a young age, influenced by the amines the human Wiggins had the 19th century Russian predicament and its connections to the opportunity to meet artists like Thomas Hart Benton, masters, he received his MFA from Tulane 2016 2014 landscape, relying on a lifetime steeped Alexandre Hogue, Peter Hurd, Georgia O’Keeffe, and University in New Orleans. Upon moving to COMMITTEE’S SAM HOUSTON CHOICE in the traditions and history of the Amer- William Lumpkins. Wiggins’ painting interests and sub- PAINTING Texas, Zhang combined his love for AWARD AWARD ican West. Traveling widely, he is known ject matter are diverse, with a heavy influence from painting horses and portraiture to develop WINNER WINNER as a painter who sees with a Westerner’s American scene, modernism, and Hispanic folk art. His his special style of Western art. Zhang is an eyes. He was recently made an honorary vibrant landscapes of the Southwest remain his predom- American Associate Living Master of the Ranger Captain with the Former Texas Ranger Founda- inant mainstay. His passion for the American West and Art Renewal Center. In 2016, Zhang was awarded the tion, Fredericksburg, Texas, for his historical paintings of belief that the artist is the soul of a society drives him to Committee’s Choice Award for Two-Dimensional Art. the Texas Rangers. He was awarded the 2014 Art Com- chronicle elements of our culture through his vision. mittee’s Choice Award at the Briscoe Western Art Muse- Based on Zhang’s observations on working ranches, um’s Night of the Artists art show. His work can be viewed Wiggins has exhibited with the National Society of his work reflects the symbiotic relationship between at Settlers West Gallery, Tucson, Arizona; WhistlePik American Impressionists; the Other Side of the West; the the cowboy and his horse. Using scintillating colors Galleries, Fredericksburg, Texas; Sanders Galleries, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; the and bravura brushwork to capture the drama of ranch Tucson, Arizona; and Illume Gallery of Fine Art, Salt Lake Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, Georgia; the life,de Westhe has created a definitive style that has catapulted City, Utah. National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming; the him to new heights in the art world. Zhang’s work has National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma been exhibited in prestigious national shows such as Prix City; and the C. M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, Montana. at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage His work is included in several permanent collections Museum, Oklahoma City and Autry Museum of the including the Museum of New Mexico; American Museum American West’s Masters of the American West. Along of Western Art, the Booth Western Art Museum; the withContemporary numerous Artistsone-man of the shows, American his workWest, hasArt ofbeen the Roswell Museum & Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico; and featuredWest, Southwest in publications Art Collector, such andas WesternFine Art Connoisseur.Traditions, the Autry Museum of the American West.

Wiggins and his wife Maria are raising their family of five He currently resides in Dallas, Texas, with his wife Lily. near Roswell, New Mexico. He is represented by Manitou Zhang is represented by Southwest Art Gallery in Dallas, Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Texas, and McLarry Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Cyrus Afsary ...... 12, 87 Ragan Gennusa ...... 6, 38, 100 James Morgan ...... 64, 113

Wayne Baize ...... 13, 87 Bruce Graham ...... 39, 100 Brenda Murphy ...... 65, 113

Suzanne Baker ...... 14, 88, 128 Bruce Greene ...... 40, 101 Bill Nebeker ...... 9, 66, 114

Gerald Balciar ...... 15, 88 Bob Guelich ...... 41, 101 Gary Niblett ...... 67, 114, 136

Buckeye Blake ...... 16 89 Enrique Guerra ...... 42, 102 Ralph Oberg ...... 68, 115

Teal Blake ...... 17, 89 Abigail Gutting ...... 43, 102 Noe Perez ...... 69, 115

Tom Browning ...... 18, 90 George Hallmark ...... 44, 103 Robert Peters ...... 70, 116

Mary Ross Buchholz ....19, 90 John Austin Hanna .....45, 103 Howard Post ...... 71, 116

Nancy Bush ...... 20, 91 Sherry Harrington ...... 46, 104 Grant Redden ...... 72, 117

Shawn Cameron ...... 21, 91 Robert Harrison ...... 47, 104 Paul Rhymer ...... 73, 117

Ken Carlson ...... 22, 92 Bryan Haynes ...... 48, 105, 139 Julia Rogers ...... 74, 118

Caroline K. Carrington . . 23, 92 Matthew Hillier ...... 49, 105 Gladys Roldán-de-Moras 75, 118

Cliff Cavin ...... 24, 93 Annette Hodges ...... 50, 106 Stefan Savides ...... 76, 119

Tim Cherry ...... 25, 93 Harold Holden ...... 51. 106 Billy Schenck ...... 77, 119

Michael Coleman ...... 26, 94, 129 Chris Hunt ...... 52, 107 Sandy Scott ...... 78, 120

Nicholas Coleman ...... 27, 94 Terry Isaac ...... 53, 107 Jason Scull ...... 79, 120

Sheila Cottrell ...... 28, 95 Greg Kelsey ...... 54, 108 Kelly Singleton ...... 80, 121

John DeMott ...... 29, 95 TD Kelsey ...... 55, 108 Kent Ullberg ...... 81, 121, 131

Mick Doellinger ...... 30, 96 Mark Kohler ...... 56, 109 Michael Ome Untiedt . . . 82, 122

Mikel Donahue ...... 31, 96 Kenny McKenna ...... 57, 109 Kim Wiggins ...... 83, 122, 139

C. Michael Dudash ...... 32, 97 Vickie McMillan ...... 58, 110, 129 Xiang Zhang ...... 7, 84, 123, 128

Barry Eisenach ...... 33, 97 Mark Maggiori ...... 8, 59, 110

Teresa Elliott ...... 34, 98 Jan Mapes ...... 60, 111

Tony Eubanks ...... 35, 98 Curt Mattson ...... 61, 111

Steve Forbis ...... 36, 99 Krystii Melaine ...... 62, 112

Luke Frazier ...... 37, 99 Dan Mieduch ...... 63, 112

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