Fall Arts Festival 2011

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September 7, 2011A special supplement to the Jackson Hole News&Guide

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J a c k s o n H o l e F a l l a r t s F e s t i v a l • s e p t e m b e r 8 t o 1 8

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Urges to preserve valley, be a part of it or remember the old days come out in Tetons art.

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COVER: Thomas Moran’s “The Tetons,” 1879. Graphite, ink, gouache on paper. Courtesy of Grand Teton National Park, National Museum of Wildlife Art.

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Horizon Fine Art Gallery

West Lives On

Trailside Galleries

Astoria Fine Art

Jackson Hole Art History

Wilcox Gallery

Art in the Park

Robert Dean Collection

18 Fall Arts Festival Calendar

9 Legacy Gallery

Adam Smith “Mystic Heights” acrylic. See Trailside Gallery on page 6.

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The fabric of Fall Arts Festival reveals the close weave of the community in Jackson Hole. So, too, does tragedy: On Aug. 9, the valley lost Huntley Baldwin, an artist and writer who insightfully captured the colorful threads of the Tetons with wit and paint. He contributed mightily to the joy of life in Jackson — the joy so keenly felt during Fall Arts — and he continues to brighten our world through memories treasured by all who laughed with him and through the three beguiling books he left with us: “Local Color,” “Letters from Jackson Hole” and “The Provence Book.” Artists like Baldwin and the many others profiled in these pages make Jackson Hole a colorful place to enjoy a fall festival, a full life.

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Creativefusion

Horizon hosts painting demonstrations, eclecticarray of art.

By Abbie Beane

K ay Stratman has found a way to combine two seemingly disparate passions stemming from opposite ends of the world: her backyard in Jackson Hole and her Asian-style artwork.

While her technique flows from the ancient art of Asian brush painting using Japanese shikishi board, watercolor paints and bamboo-handle brushes, her inspiration flows from local landscapes such as the Darwin Ranch in the Gros Ventre Wilderness.

Stratman will be one of two artists painting at Horizon Fine Art Gallery during the first weekend of Fall Arts Festival. On Sept. 10 and 11, Stefan Bateman, of Idaho, will also paint on-site. The second weekend, Sept. 17 and 18, the gallery will showcase a group of its artists’ paintings and dimensional work and host a Sunday brunch.

“There will be a great variety of styles, price points, colors, abstract wildlife art pieces and award-win-ning artists,” gallery owner Barbara Nowak said. “It’s fun to do a big group show with different bodies of work. We’re not a Western art gal-lery. What I love is this eclectic vari-ety of art.”

Stratman starts with blobs of watercolor, which she described as having the consistency of melted ice cream. She drops them onto a partially wet background, and the paint spreads to the moist areas.

“It’s what I call ‘controlled spontaneity,’” she said. “I juxtapose the colors, let the surface dry and then do

some brushwork for detail.”Stratman comes from a graphic design background.

After years of searching for her perfect medium, she became fascinated with Asian brush painting, partic-ularly the Chinese technique of ink painting on rice paper. She studied with several masters and found the form fused the studied aspect of graphic design with the spontaneity of painting.

“This style just clicked with me,” she said. “I explored several mediums after college, but I just hadn’t found anything that was ‘me’ until this.”

Stratman feels painting runs in her blood. Even in artistic lulls, her unconscious mind is always on painting.

At Horizon, Stratman will work alongside oil paint-er Bateman, a juxtaposition of painterly technique. Nowak described Bateman’s style as playing on the moody aspect of landscapes, on the contrast of dark and light areas. His subjects range from local terrain and wildlife to models posing inside historic build-ings in Montana.

The second weekend’s show, “Stairwell to Fall,” will feature work from Bateman and Stratman as

well as Lona Hymas-Smith, of Idaho, Dan Stoklasa, of Idaho, Amy Poor, of Oregon, Dean Bradshaw, of Utah, Marla Smith, of Arizona, Pete Zaluzec, of Chicago, and locals Sarah Rogers, Jill Hartley and Daro Flood.

Hymas-Smith creates detailed carvings of birds native to the Tetons.

“It is one of my very favorite ever places and very dear to my heart,” she said.

She primarily uses tupelo wood, which remains strong even when sliced thin. She occasionally carves oak and particle board into habitats for her birds, and

she also forges, brazes and solders brass and steel for structural support.

Hymas-Smith has wanted to be an artist for as long as she can remember. As a child, she carved mario-nettes out of driftwood with an unwieldy pocketknife. She still has a scar on her finger to prove it.

“There is just something so organic and comforting about creating art from such a basic, nurturing thing as a tree,” she said. “It’s sort of like the tree and I get to collaborate and share our gifts together. “

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Sarah Rodgers’ “Hollywood” is in the “Stairwell to Fall” show.

“Mountain Dawn Day” is by Kay Stratman, who will paint on-site at Horizon Fine Art Gallery on Sept. 10 and 11.

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Wyoming lightWest Lives On stages annual show for Christie.

By Dina Mishev

F or 11 years, painter Reid Christie has had a show at West Lives On Gallery during Fall Arts Festival. This year marks his 12th.

Christie’s show opens at West Lives On during Palates & Palettes on Sept. 9. Of course, the Cody-based artist will be here for the reception in his honor. Terry Ray, West Lives On’s owner, has described Christie as a “crowd favorite.”

“He likes meeting collectors as much as they like meeting him,” Ray said.

That’s not all West Lives On has planned for this Fall Arts Festival, though. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 18, the gallery is hosting an open house and brunch during the final art walk of the festival. The Wort Hotel is providing brunch fare as well as brunch-appropriate adult beverages.

Christie has been one of Wyoming’s best ambassadors for more than two decades. Having grown up in the Cowboy State, he paints the landscapes that have always surrounded him: the Tetons, Yellowstone National Park, the Absarokas.

Strongly influenced by the Hudson River School of painters — Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, William Hart, Washington Allston and Frederic Edwin Church helped define this romantic art movement of the mid-19th century — Christie pays particu-lar attention to light: how it reflects, refracts and passes in and around.

“The scenery in Reid’s paintings is beau-tiful, but it is the light that really draws peo-ple to them,” Ray said.

“Composition, design and lighting are integral in my work,” Christie wrote on his website. “I want my paintings to be never-ending symphonies through which the viewer’s eye keeps moving and never leaving.”

Although viewers’ eyes may keep mov-ing over one of Christie’s paintings, they are never overwhelmed. His paintings are not overdone with details. Speaking about Christie’s work two years ago (before another Fall Arts show), Ray said, “So many artists crowd their paintings with activity. These get difficult to look at after a while. Reid’s paintings are soothing. You want to

be in the middle of one.”Long one of West

Lives On’s most sought-after artists, Christie has seen his popular-ity continue to increase, particularly in the past few years. The National Cattlemen’s Association

named him Artist of the Year in 2006, ’07, ’08 and ’09. In 2008, he also was the Artist of the Year of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. In 2009, that same organiza-tion selected a painting of his as its Cabela’s Conservation Edition print.

Christie’s work is in collections through-out the U.S. Europe and Asia. He has several paintings in the permanent collection of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody. His pieces also are in the permanent collections of New York City’s Whitney Museum of American Art, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. His work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian and the U.S. Forest Service headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Christie’s show will remain up for the Sept. 18 brunch and gallery open house, when it will be joined by new pieces by many of West Lives On’s other artists.

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Reid Christie pays particular attention to light, as here in “Heading for Pierre’s Hole, 1832.”

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WedneSday, September 14POsTer siGninG WiTH DWAyne HArTyMeet artist Dwayne Harty, artist in residence at the Murie Center, and receive a personally signed poster of his featured painting, “Strength & Vulernability.” Learn about his journey in the last few years as he was involved in the “Yellowstone to Yukon: the Journey of Wildlife and Art.”Mountain Trails Gallery, 3 – 5pm. Open to the public. GAllery ArTWAlkJoin more than 30 Jackson art galleries for theThird Thursdays Art Walk (moved to Wednesdayevening for the week of the Fall Arts Festival).Enjoy fine art and experience the vibrant Jacksonart scene. Look for the Art Walk banners!Various locations – see gallery map, 5 – 8pm.Open to the public.

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Trailside adds a few twists to annual show.

By Dina Mishev

J ust because it’s as much a September tradition as the Fall Arts Festival itself doesn’t mean Trailside Galleries’ annual “Fall

Gold” show is predictable.In addition to spotlighting new pieces

by important gallery artists with a focus on wildlife art, this year’s “Fall Gold” includes a showcase of Kyle Sims’ paintings and a retrospective of the work of sculptor Veryl Goodnight.

Another change is in Trailside’s defini-tion of wildlife. This summer, the gallery brought two new artists on board. Joseph Sulkowski, who mixes his own medi-ums and oils using recipes developed by Rembrandt and Rubens, is considered one of the world’s top canine artists. And Sueellen Ross’ mixed-media, colored-pen-

cil portraits of dogs and cats are collected around the world.

“We’ve now got every kind of wildlife, from domestic to truly wild ones,” said Maryvonne Leshe, the gallery’s manag-ing partner.

“Fall Gold” hangs Sept. 12 through Sept. 24. The artists reception is 4 to 6 p.m. Sept. 17.

“‘Fall Gold’ is a wonderful tradi-tion for the gallery,” Leshe said. “We’ve found that, because of the show at the

[National] Museum [of Wildlife Art], there are so many major wildlife collectors in town. We really enjoy presenting some of the top wild-life artists to them in a gallery setting. Many of

the artists in our gallery are already in the collection of the museum.”

Artists displaying new work in “Fall Gold” include painters Tucker Smith, Dan Smith, Ralph Oberg, Bonnie Marris, Nancy Glazier and Adam Smith, and sculptors Gerald Balciar, Sherry Salari Sander and Kent Ullberg. In addition to Sulkowski and Ross, a third new artist is in the show:

Dustin Van Wechel. Sulkowski, Ross and Van Wechel all came to the gallery via its first miniatures show, held in July.

Because of the success of last year’s show for Kyle Sims, the gallery is again showcasing his work. Due to the demand for his paintings, all of his pieces will be sold by draw. The draw is being held dur-ing the show’s reception at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 17.

“His work is just so collectible,” Leshe said.

Veryl Goodnight’s showcase is a bit dif-ferent. This spring, the Colorado sculptor was honored at the Gilcrease Museum’s annual Rendezvous Artists’ Retrospective as the featured artist. The museum, in Tulsa, Okla., put together a 43-piece show of her work. This retrospective, with piec-es dating as far back as 1979, will make its way to Trailside during “Fall Gold.”

Goodnight is known for her sculptures of ranch women of the late 1800s and early 1900s, in addition to wildlife.

“The collection showcases both wildlife and figurative pieces,” Leshe said.

Beyond its esteemed roster of art-ists, Trailside features lauded leadership. In May, Leshe, who celebrates her 35th anniversary with the gallery this fall, was

named one of the 40 most prominent people who have shaped the Western art world by Southwest Art magazine.

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Watercolorist Dean Mitchell enjoys a showcase Sept. 17 at Astoria. Above is “Wintersunlight.”

The best for the festAstoria fetes five artists, welcomes new work by 30 more.

By Cara Rank

F ive artists are sharing the Fall Arts Festival spotlight at Astoria Fine Art. Greg Beecham, Ewoud de Groot, Dean Mitchell, Bart

Walter and Joshua Tobey are bringing their best new work to Jackson.

“It’s pretty exciting,” Astoria owner Greg Fulton said. “These are some of the most popular artists working right now. It made sense for us to focus on our very best work during the busiest weekend of the year.”

Then, to diffuse the limelight, Astoria is capping its Fall Arts festivities with a gallerywide celebration of its artists and their new works. On Sept. 17, the gallery hosts “The Best of Astoria” from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Many of the artists participating in the show will be present on the penul-timate day of Fall Arts.

To fete the five featured artists, Astoria is presenting them in pairs of different mediums. The first reception, from 3 to 5 p.m. Sept. 15, juxtaposes de Groot’s paintings with Tobey’s sculptures. Fulton describes both artists as young, contempo-rary up-and-comers.

De Groot, a native of the Netherlands, brings a series of his wildlife paintings, largely focused on birds from the northern hemisphere — Europe, Siberia and North America. He paints in layers of cold blue-greys and warm brown-greys.

Tobey, a New Mexico native, sculpts animals and birds in midaction: stretch-ing, scratching, soaring, sleeping, curled in a ball, wrestling a salmon or poised to pounce.

“We are going to see another 30 to 40 years production from these guys,” Fulton said. “They really are at about the same place within their careers. They are both established and successful, they’re young, and they have a contemporary edge.”

On Sept. 16, Astoria pairs more estab-lished artists: Beecham and his wildlife oil paintings with Walter’s bronze sculp-tures. Their reception runs from 2 to 4 p.m. Sept. 16.

“Bart is a top-tier sculptor, and Greg is really the same as far as wildlife paint-ing,” Fulton said. “The two pair perfectly. Both are consistently the best within their realm.”

Beecham has been painting full time for 32 years. His vision is to “sculpt with paint,” or to paint in such a way that there is not only the illusion of dimension but actual depth to the paint itself, according to his artist statement.

A Dubois resident, Beecham won the prestigious Prix de West at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 2008 and 2010, and was the Fall Arts Festival featured artist in 2008.

Walter’s creative career spans three decades. With work in notable public and private collections worldwide, he may be most well-known locally for “Wapiti Trail,” the string of elk at the entrance to the

National Museum of Wildlife Art.Walter travels extensively to study

his subjects and to render honest inter-pretations, from lions and chimpanzees in Africa to wildlife in North American. After gathering extensive field research, he returns to his Maryland studio to sculpt.

Astoria wraps its Fall Arts Festival celebration with a Sept. 17 reception for Dean Mitchell alongside its “Best of ” show.

“He’s one of the top watercolor artists in the U.S.,” Fulton said. “He’s as big as they come.”

Mitchell adds a unique dimension to the festival.

“Jackson seems a bit short on water-colors,” Fulton said. “The market is dom-inated by oils. This will be a great selec-tion of watercolors that is really going to stand out.”

Coinciding with the Mitchell show, Astoria expects to welcome the best works by 30 artists from its 50-strong stable.

“The challenge we set to everybody is to really have something unique and special,” Fulton said. “Sometimes that means museum-scale, large-scale works. Or maybe that’s just a unique composi-tion, something that is a little bit out of the norm.”

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Sport and speciesLegacy gathers thebest in sporting and wildlife art.

By Dina Mishev

R ather than crowd its Fall Arts Festival schedule with a multi-tude of shows, Legacy Gallery is focusing on one this year.

“Legacy of Nature” showcases the gal-lery’s top sporting and wildlife painters and sculptors.

The show also marks the official debut of sculptor Walter Matia at the gallery. Jackson art aficionados may be familiar with his work in the National Museum of Wildlife Art. The life-size sculpture of turkeys outside the museum’s front doors is his.

“We’ve been trying to bring him on board for some time,” said Legacy Gallery owner Brad Richardson. “His subjects are different from that of any artist we already represent, so we were looking to him to expand our offerings of sporting art and also to introduce our clients to yet another top-tier artist.”

A fellow of the National Sculpture Society and named a master wildlife artist by the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wisconsin, Matia stud-ied biology and art design in college. After, he went to work in the exhibits department of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. From there, he went to the Nature Conservancy, working as the nonprofit’s vice president in charge of land management.

With a thorough understanding of both wildlife and their habitat, Matia began casting bronze sculptures in 1980.

He started with bird life but has since expanded to sculpting sporting dogs and other mammals. In 1989, one of his piec-es, a fountain, was placed in the formal garden of Blair House, the president’s guest house, in Washington, D.C.

Matia will be on hand at the “Legacy of Nature” reception, scheduled for 1 to 4 p.m. Sept. 16.

He is only one of 13 artists exhibiting in the “Legacy of Nature” show. Other big names include Ken Carlson, Tim Shinabarger and painter Michael Coleman.

“Ken is considered by many to be the dean of living wildlife painters,” Richardson said.

Because September is one of Carlson’s favorite months to be out in the field doing research, the gallery will not know until the last minute whether he will make it to the show or not.

Regardless, the gallery will feature several of his pieces, including a paint-ing of an elk that will be sold by draw during the show’s reception.

Most wildlife artists know their subjects inside and out. In the case of sculptor Tim Shinabarger, that is literal.

A native of Montana, Shinabarger took to sculpting after an injury laid him in bed and away from him taxidermy business for several weeks. Out of boredom, he

picked up a piece of clay left over from a mount. He sculpted an elk head and, on a whim, had it cast. Several weeks later, a visiting friend asked to buy it. Shinabarger was soon sculpting full-time. By 1993, he was winning awards; he hasn’t slowed down since.

“Tim started his career with us and has continued to grow,” Richardson said. “He’s now recognized as one

of the premier sculptors of wildlife.” Shinabarger will also attend the Legacy of Nature reception.

The show isn’t exclusively made up of Legacy luminaries.

“What’s most exiting about this show to us is that we have extremely well-estab-lished artists whose work is already placed in great museums across the West along-side younger, up-and-coming artists,” Richardson said. “Chad Poppleton, Brian Grimm, Luke Frazier — we believe in these guys, and they’re coming up strong.”

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Conservation, promotion,mythology 3 currents that run through region’s art.

By Richard Anderson

T he art of the Tetons seeks a connection with viewers on one or more of three levels: the urge to act and preserve the area, the desire to be in or to possess a part of it, and the

yearning for the way things, maybe, once were. Throughout the course of Jackson Hole his-

tory, artists have created works to show people the wonders of the region and to implore them to help ensure these wonders survive for genera-tions to come.

They’ve created works to share these wonders with people far and wide, even to attract them here to see for themselves.

And they’ve created works to help people remember wonders we have lost.

Conservation. Desire. Nostalgia. Some artists have blurred the lines between categories, and individual motives may vary, but this trio of artist-audience dialogues holds up well across the past 140 years.

ConservationThe history of art in Jackson Hole and

Yellowstone began the same day as the history of conservation in the area — July 21, 1871 — when the 32-member party led by Ferdinand V. Hayden crossed the Gardner River and began to explore the realm that, nine months later, would become the world’s first national park.

Among the team were 34-year-old painter Thomas Moran and 28-year-old photographer William Henry Jackson. Their images of the Yellowstone were instrumental in convincing Congress and President Ulysses S. Grant to set aside the region as the world’s first national park, and they also helped set the standard for a genre that has made Jackson Hole one of the top-selling art markets in the nation.

Moran never made it to Jackson Hole, but he did travel to Teton Valley, Idaho, in 1879, where he painted the west faces of The Three Tetons a number of times. Another near miss was Carl Rungius, who did not paint in Jackson, but, start-ing in 1902, spent 10 summers in the Wind River Range where he camped, hunted, photographed and painted en plein air, turning out final works later in his New York studio.

At roughly the time of Rungius, a guide named Stephen N. Leek had as a client George Eastman, founder of Kodak. Eastman gave Leek a camera, which he focused on the land, animals and people of still-exotic western Wyoming. This included, in 1909, the Jackson Hole Elk Herd and the toll harsh winters took on it. By documenting the death of thousands of elk and the widespread suffering of the entire herd, he helped convince Congress to allocate $5,000 to feed the animals, and, later, to purchase land north of the town of Jackson that eventually grew into the 25,000-acre National Elk Refuge.

In 1927, Olaus Murie and his wife, Mardy, came to Jackson Hole to study the elk herd. Murie was a naturalist, and, like any good naturalist, he took copious field notes, including hundreds of sketch-es and watercolors. Keenly observed and full of character, his animal art served both as accurate visual notation and a hint at the affection he felt for the wild denizens of the area. Some of it ended up in his published works — like “Alaskan Bird Sketches” and “A Naturalist’s Portfolio of Field Sketches” — and in collections such as that of the National Museum of Wildlife Art and, of course, The Murie Center in Grand Teton National Park.

Eventually, people began to make money off art in Jackson, and it became a commodity, but artists today are still motivated by conserva-tion. Photographers Tom Mangelsen and Henry Holdsworth come to mind, as does Dwayne Harty, whose epic “Yellowstone to Yukon” project depicts the animals and land of North America’s largest, wildest intact (more or less) ecosystem.

DesireIn the late 1890s, Austrian-born painter John

Fery ensconced himself and his family on the shore of Jackson Lake for a full year, during which time he painted the range 35 times, according to Adam Harris, curator at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Fery later became a well-estab-lished artist painting scenes of the West for the

Northern Pacific Railroad, rendering the “won-derland” landscapes on huge canvases in what might have been the first marketing campaign tar-geted at East Coast adventurers.

Twenty or 30 years later, Harrison Crandall vis-ited Jackson Hole, inspired by the photographs of William Henry Jackson. After his first summer, in 1921, he moved his wife here and built a cabin on Jenny Lake. He earned his living, in part, by taking photographs at dude ranches of guests dolled up in Western regalia. He also lugged his gear high into the mountains to make some of the earliest images of the Teton backcountry and the men and women exploring there. His photos found their way all over the country and the world as post-card and souvenir prints. In 1929, Grand Teton National Park was created, and Crandall was “unofficial park photographer,” Karen Reinhart, curator of education and outreach at the Jackson Hole Historical Museum, said.

The painter Archie Boyd Teater was a contem-porary of Crandall’s. An oft-told tale describes his campsite and “gallery” on Jenny Lake, where he hung his airy, feathery work on the trees. When he was out in the field, he would leave a note for passers-by asking them to pin payment for what-ever painting they wanted to a blanket. Teater extended his reputation — and helped to spread the reputation of the Tetons — in the 1930s, when he took up formal study with the Art Students League of New York.

Conrad Schwiering’s arrival marks a turning point in Jackson arts. Born in Boulder, Colo., and raised in Laramie, where his father was a dean at the University of Wyoming, Schwiering studied art, including a stint at the Art Students League. Schwiering fell in love with the Tetons when he made his first visit with his father, and in 1947, at the age of 31, he and his wife, Mary Ethel, moved here and quickly went to work painting and sell-ing art of the Tetons.

“This was redneck Wyoming,” said Greg McHuron, a fellow Teton painter who was a close friend of Schwiering’s during the last dozen years of his life, “cowboy country, and here he’s married to the most gorgeous woman in Wyoming, and he’s out pushing paint around. He took static.”

Today, Schwiering is perhaps the artist most closely associated with the region. His first painting sold for $35, McHuron said, but he sold hundreds more, and today his work fetches tens of thousands of dollars in auction. In addition to selling his paint-ings in Jackson Hole — his first show was held in The Wort Hotel — he came to be represented by galleries throughout the country, including the Grand Central Art Gallery in New York.

“He made it cool and acceptable to be an art-ist in Jackson Hole,” Reinhart said. He also proved one could make a living at it. In his best paintings, one senses his love for the country. On the other hand, his mountain scenery can also feel ideal-

ized, nostalgic for a wildness that even in the ’50s and ’60s was in retreat.

A few other notable names from those decades include Grant “Tiny” Hagen, a naturalist, teacher and artist, among other things. Also Paul Bransom, who was born and raised in Washington, D.C., worked as an illustrator and freelance artist New York City and, starting in 1947, spent more than a dozen summers in Jackson.

In addition to producing some fine animal art, both are remembered for helping to create the Jackson Hole Fine Arts Festival, which, starting in 1962, put on classical music concerts (later to be known as the Grand Teton Music Festival) and organized art exhibitions and competitions. This fine art side of the festival spawned the Jackson Hole Art Association in the middle of the decade, which lives on as the valley’s visual arts nonprofit.

NostalgiaAnother key event at the time was the open-

ing of Dick Flood’s Trailside Gallery. While a few artists had had studios into which visitors could come to watch and buy, Trailside was probably Jackson Hole’s first bona fine art gallery, accord-ing to Flood’s son, Daro Flood.

Trailside originally opened in 1954 in Idaho Falls, but it moved to Jackson in the early ’60s, occupying a space on the Town Square that has since been absorbed by the retail store Wyoming Outfitters.

Trailside represented “everyone,” Flood said. Grant Speed (a Texas cowboy and rodeo rider turned sculptor), John Hampton (one of the founders of the Cowboy Artists of America), Joe Beeler and Charlie Dye (two other CAA co-found-ers) and Olaf Wieghorst (a Danish artist known especially for his equine art) are among the art-ists Dick Flood had autograph a buffalo shoulder bone — referred to by Daro Flood as “The Bone,” one of myriad relics and art items in the family collection. The senior Flood also sold works by C.M. Russell, Frederick Remington and many other well-known Western artists. He sourced the gallery collection from estate sales and wherever else he could dig art up.

“They thought he was out of his mind,” Daro Flood said of the town’s reaction to his father’s venture. But it turned out a lot of people liked the idea of bringing home a picture that reminded them of their Western travels.

Flood sold Trailside in 1967, and it has been passed along to a number of owners since, but it remains a stalwart of the Town Square gallery scene. And it clearly started a trend. Painter Jim Wilcox opened his Wilcox Gallery in 1969. And Daro Flood’s brother, Dick Flood III, opened Main Trail Gallery in the early ’70s, where one of his star painters was Western pop phenom Bill Schenck.

Jackson Hole was in a state of rapid change in the early ’70s, Flood said. Throughout the rise of

the dude ranch industry, tourists had clamored for cowboy hats and belt buckles. But then, seemingly overnight, to hear Flood recall it, the curio shops closed and were replaced by restaurants, clothing boutiques and other upscale shops.

Schenck, too, witnessed this phenomenon, and to a large extent it’s what he painted. Taking images from film or vintage photographs, or from his own photos of the land, he manipulated them, flattened them, colored them with bright, comic-book hues. His medium was irony as much as it was paint, and he managed to ask questions about what was real in the West even as he celebrated what was almost entirely fictional. He never painted the Tetons, but he sold a lot of work here. In the mid to late ’90s, however, the changes he saw became too much, and he exiled himself to New Mexico.

Motifs and motives

Western pop pioneer Bill Schenck created the image for the first Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival in 1985.

Thomas Moran’s monumental “Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone” helped create the national park.

Conrad Schwiering was one of the first to make a living as a Teton painter. Above is “Sleeping Indian,” which is part of the Bank of Jackson Hole’s Schwiering Art Gallery. It lives upstairs at the bank’s main branch.


the dude ranch industry, tourists had clamored for cowboy hats and belt buckles. But then, seemingly overnight, to hear Flood recall it, the curio shops closed and were replaced by restaurants, clothing boutiques and other upscale shops.

Schenck, too, witnessed this phenomenon, and to a large extent it’s what he painted. Taking images from film or vintage photographs, or from his own photos of the land, he manipulated them, flattened them, colored them with bright, comic-book hues. His medium was irony as much as it was paint, and he managed to ask questions about what was real in the West even as he celebrated what was almost entirely fictional. He never painted the Tetons, but he sold a lot of work here. In the mid to late ’90s, however, the changes he saw became too much, and he exiled himself to New Mexico.

Contrast Schenck’s ironic take on the Old and New West with the utter sincerity of John Clymer. Clymer, who moved to Teton Village in 1970, took great pains to research and document with as much historical accuracy as possible the Native Americans, mountain men and pioneers of the West. He and his wife, Doris, spent the summers traveling, conducting research and gathering sketches. Then, in the winters, they would hole up in the village where Clymer would paint. He died in 1989, and his family donated his studio to the wildlife art museum.

In the early 1980s, Flood and Schenck struck upon an idea to push Schenck’s annual summer show later into the year.

“We said, ‘Let’s do it after Labor Day, after the tourists and kids are back in school’” Schenck said. “We knew the moneyed people would come

back in the fall after things settled down. … I think we took the rest of the gallery community by sur-prise, that we could do a show in September and actually have sales.”

The brainstorm led to the first Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival in 1985, for which Schenck cre-ated the poster.

Today, art depicting cowboys, Indians, wild-life and landscapes competes with contemporary takes on Western subjects at galleries like Martin Harris, Jackson Street Gallery (both now defunct) Diehl, Altamira and Tayloe Piggott (all alive and

well). Artists still are drawn to the Tetons, still inspired to create.

“I’m glad there’s still traditional art here,” said Ben Roth, one of the new generation of artists cre-ating in Jackson. “And I’m glad a variety of people come here and some of them gravitate to tradi-tional art. It so reflects what this place was or is or used to be.”

However, Roth prefers to look ahead. “There are things to learn from the past,” he said,

“but there are issues in the present to be solved. That’s where I am and what I’m going to explore.”

Dwayne Harty’s epic “Yellowstone to Yukon” project included “Mountain Goats” above.

Thomas Moran’s monumental “Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone” helped create the national park.

Conrad Schwiering was one of the first to make a living as a Teton painter. Above is “Sleeping Indian,” which is part of the Bank of Jackson Hole’s Schwiering Art Gallery. It lives upstairs at the bank’s main branch.


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Art reunionSculptor Sandy Scott shares showcase with gallery founder.

By Dina Mishev

C alling Wilcox Gallery’s annual “Wildlife and Wildlands” event a show is a bit of a misnomer. At the gallery that prides itself on its family of artists and collectors, it’s more like a reunion.

With nearly all of the gallery’s 40-some artists exhibiting new works, and perhaps a dozen stopping by, it’s no sur-prise collectors have learned it’s a good time to be in town.

“It’s fun for everyone,” said gallery manager Jeff Wilcox.The show goes up the night before Palates & Palettes

and hangs through the month, with a reception from 2 to 6 p.m. Sept. 17.

In addition to featuring new work by all of the gallery’s artists, “Wildlife and Wildlands” also delves more deeply into the work of one or two artists. This year’s showcased artists are printmaker and sculptor Sandy Scott and painter Jim Wilcox, who founded the gallery in 1969 and in 1987 won the Prix de West Purchase Award.

Scott, a former animation background artist for the motion picture industry, first turned to etching and print-making in the 1970s and then sculpture in the early 1980s. Today her bronzes of birds and other wildlife are in collec-tions around the world: the National Museum of Wildlife Art, the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tenn., the William J. Clinton Presidential Library, and the private collections of Margaret Thatcher and former President and Mrs. George H.W. Bush.

While Scott sculpts everything from horses to bears, pigs, African elephants, goats and dogs, the Wilcox showcase will predominantly feature Wyoming big game. Wilcox said he expects about 20 new pieces from Scott, none of which have been previously exhibited.

“At almost any given time, we have about 100 pieces of Sandy’s between our two locations,” Jeff Wilcox said. “Her new pieces will all be displayed at the downtown location, though.”

Jim Wilcox has been working on a lot of plein air pieces that will hang in the gallery’s downtown space,

Jeff Wilcox said. Jim Wilcox is a former Fall Arts Festival poster artist and

a Top 100 artist in the annual Arts for the Parks international competition nearly every year between 1987, the year the competition was founded, and 2006, its last year. He won

Arts for the Parks’ $50,000 grand prize in 1994. A member of the National Academy of Western Art, Wilcox also won the Frederic Remington Award at the annual Prix de West show in 2002 and 2007. The award is given for excep-tional artistic merit.

Wilcox’s work — most of it done en plein air, with the painting’s subject

directly before him, rather than from a photo in a studio — is known for its ethereal light and dreamy realism.

Wilcox and Scott will both be at the show’s reception.“We’ll actually have about eight artists that will be in the

gallery demonstrating during the show’s reception,” Jeff Wilcox said. “Throughout the festival, we’ll have artists pop-

ping in and out, too.”Both of the gallery’s locations — at Center Street and

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Grand collectionJackson Hole art scene grewout of and into park.

Amanda H. Miller

J oanne Hennes remembers Jackson and Grand Teton National Park before there were any art galleries.

She traveled to the Tetons with her husband every summer, hiked and painted, and carted her work back to Chicago to sell it.

Then, Ray and Vivian Lillie, who managed Jackson Lake Lodge in the 1960s, asked Hennes if she would like to sell her work there. That was the first semblance of a gallery in the park, Hennes said.

The Lillies displayed and sold local artwork, almost always featuring the stunning scenery that surrounded the lodge. Hennes said the lodge was the first “gallery” in Jackson Hole to sell local work.

Shortly after, in 1963, Trailside Gallery opened. Other galleries followed, until Jackson became known as the arts town it is today. Yet, despite the downtown density of galleries today, the valley arts culture grew largely from within the park.

The grandeur of the Tetons attracted great talents like Archie Boyd Teater, Conrad Schwiering and Jim Wilcox, all famous for their timeless Tetonscapes.

The mountains intoxicate artists eager to capture their multifaceted beauty on canvas.

“It’s a different view from every place you go,” Hennes said.

She has hiked nearly every trail and braved treacherous river crossings to see the stunning mountain range from new perspectives. She admits, though, she’ll never know all of its faces. The mountains have seasons and moods that change daily, hourly. Hennes never tires of exploring them.

Considering how the Tetons enrapture artists, it was only a matter of time before Grand Teton started build-ing a collection of indigenous inspiration.

The park began buying and even commissioning artwork in the early 1970s, when it acquired a Hennes painting called “Granite Giants.”

The federal Arts for the Parks program gained momentum in 2000. It invited artists who painted in national parks to compete in juried exhibitions. Winning pieces were purchased by the parks or their foundations.

“It’s amazing what we have in the way of a fine arts collection,” park spokesperson Jackie Skaggs said.

Well-known paintings now hang in lake lodges and visi-tor centers in the park.

Several works by Harrison Crandall, the park’s first official photographer and its resident artist from the 1920s until the 1960s, hang in the Jenny Lake Visitor Center, and one is displayed at the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center in Moose.

Jenny Lake Lodge is home to numerous works by local artists, including Hennes and Wilcox.

Hennes was commissioned to paint a series of local wildflowers for the themed cabins at Jackson Lake Lodge.

Despite the ample array of art in Grand Teton facili-ties, what visitors see today is a fraction of what has been procured over the years, Skaggs said.

The park owns so many pieces, it has developed a partnership with the National Museum of Wildlife Art through which the museum houses and protects a significant portion of its collection. Select works are brought out for special exhibitions or programs, like a Harrison Crandall presentation in July.

In addition to works featuring the Tetons, Grand Teton National Park holds an extensive Indian art collection,

In 1976, Laurence S. Rockefeller donated 1,500 items to establish an Indian arts museum at the Colter Bay Visitor Center. The David T. Vernon Collection features works created by Native Americans who traded their wares around Jackson Lake, said Dan Greenblatt, the Colter Bay district interpreter for the park.

To complement the collection, the visitor center hosts an artist-in-residence program featuring Native American artists.

“It goes back to when the museum first started,” Greenblatt said. “It’s evolved over the years, but the modern- day artist-in-residence program is a way to show people

that these art forms are still being practiced.”During Fall Arts Festival, Shoshone tribe members

Clyde Hall and Nancy Nacki will bead and do quill work through Sept. 11. From Sept. 12 to 18, Andrea Two Bulls of the Ogala Sioux tribe will demonstrate her beadwork and painting.

This year, the festival falls during the final weeks of the museum’s operation in its current form. On Oct. 10, it closes for restoration of the collection.

“These items have been on display for 40 years,” Greenblatt said, “and they’ve never been taken any-where for restoration.”

The collection is bound for the National Park Service Western Archeological and Conservation Center in Tuscon, Ariz., where each piece will be painstakingly examined and cleaned.

“They’ll go over them stitch by stitch, bead by bead,” Greenblatt said. “They may not repair the items, but they’ll do what they need to do to prevent further damage.”

The museum will reopen in May 2012 with an exhibit of Vernon Collection Indian artifacts that have never before been on display.

“This fall is the last chance to experience the Colter Bay Indian Arts Museum as it has been open to the public for 40 years,” Greenblatt said.

Hennes sold her 1971 painting “Granite Giants” to the park through the Grand Teton Natural History Association.

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With a glance, Indian jewelry expert can tell volumes about work.

By Amanda H. Miller

D o you know what kind of cot-ton your shirt is made from?

“You should,” said Bob Gonzales, famed Indian jew-

elry dealer and owner of Robert Dean Collection on West Broadway.

“If you bought it, you should know what it’s made from,” he said. “You should know what you’re buying.”

There are all kinds of cotton — Egyptian, pima, supima, upland and many others. But customers never seem to educate themselves the way they should, Gonzales said.

As with cotton, there are all kinds of turquoise — 150 different types, in fact — and yet, most people don’t bother to find out what kind they’re buying, Gonzales said. But they should, because not all turquoise is created equal.

Through years of study and practice, Gonzales has come to be able to tell instantly if a piece of turquoise is qual-ity or not. He can even tell what mine it came from and how hard it is.

“How do you know what dress you’re putting on in the morning?” Gonzales asks rhetorically. “You look at it. That’s how you know.”

Gonzales knows his Indian jewelry. He’s been dealing it since 1972, when he began selling pieces for Indian artists to boutiques, jewelry stores and depart-ment stores like Saks Fifth Avenue.

He got his start in Arizona and spent the early part of his career there. He moved to Jackson Hole in 1983.

“I always had a good eye for things,” Gonzales said. “I’ve traveled a lot. I’ve read a lot.”

He knows quality, and he works with only the top Indian jewelry artists, he said. He finds them or they find him. Regardless, he is a critical judge of their work.

Some of his favorite artists are Marco Begaye, Cippy Crazyhorse, Larry Golsh, Patricia Bedonie and Edison Cummings. He features all of their work in his gallery, as well as the work of 20 or more others. He likes Navajo jewelry best, he said.

“I like simple, elegant stuff,” he said.He holds up a Navajo piece by

Cummings, a younger artists who brings a contemporary take to tradi-tional styles. This piece features tur-quoise from the Lone Mountain tur-quoise mine in Esmerelda County, Nev.

“This is hard, probably a 4,” he said. “A diamond is a 9. Only a diamond can cut a diamond.”

Some turquoise stones are so soft they crumble when jewelers try to use grinders to shape them, he said.

He held up another piece, a chunky silver bracelet featuring simple, elegant designs. It’s a tufa cast, Gonzales said. That means the artists carved a design into a soft white limestone called tufa (similar to Yellowstone’s travertine) and poured the molten silver into it to form the design.

While mainstream jewelers experi-ment with new metals like titanium and platinum, Indian artists stick with the classic precious metals.

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Western Design Conference lecture, 2 p.m. at Center for the Arts. “Yellowstone to Yukon: The Journey of Wildlife and Art” with Fall Arts Festival artist Dwayne Harty. $15. WesternDesignConference.com. Western Design Conference Gala: Fashion and Jewelry Show, 6 p.m. doors open and 7:15 p.m. fashion show at the Center for the Arts. $125 box seats, $100 main floor, $75 balcony. 733-4900.

Kathryn Mapes Turner “By the Light of the Sun” opening reception, 5 to 8 p.m. at Trio Fine Art. 734-4444. TrioFineArt.com.

“Murder Rides Again,” 7:30 p.m. at the Elks Lodge. Through Sept. 9. $15 adults, $10 kids.

“Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” 8 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays at the Jackson Hole Playhouse. Rowdy Western romance. JHPlayhouse.com.

Friday, Sept. 9

Western Design Conference Exhibition and Sale, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the pavilion at Snow King Resort. Western furniture, home accessories and fashion. Through Sunday, Sept. 11. $15.

September Vhay, Lee Carlman Riddell, Jennifer Hoffman and Kathryn Mapes Turner give demonstrations, 3 to 5 p.m. at Trio Fine Art.

Palates & Palettes Gallery Walk, 5 to 8 p.m. downtown. Fine food and fine art at more than 30 galleries. Free.

Saturday, Sept. 10

Historic Ranch Tours, 3 p.m. buses

leave from Home Ranch parking lot. $50. 733-3316.

Kay Stratman and Stefan Bateman paint all day at Horizon Fine Art Gallery. Through Sept. 11. HorizonFineArtGallery.com, 739-1540.

“It Came from the Supervolcano,” 6 p.m. at the Factory Studios on Gregory Lane. FactoryStudios.org.

Tom Lucas and Gary Keimig reception, 4 to 7:30 p.m. at Grand Teton Art Gallery. 201-1172, GrandTetonArtGallery.com.

Erin O’Connor paints en plein air, 2 to 5 p.m. at String Lake in Grand Teton National Park. Part of the Artist in the Environment series. 739-3403.

Travis Walker, Tristan Greszko, Aaron Wallis and more make art, all day in Gaslight Alley. Through Sept. 11.

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Takin’ It to the Streets, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Juried art fair featuring 40 local artists. 733-8792, JHArtFair.org.

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Deb Penk and Sam Thiewes reception, 4 to 7:30 p.m. at Grand Teton Art Gallery.

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Dean Mitchell and Ewoud de Groot re-ception, 3 to 5 p.m. at Astoria Fine Art. 733-4016, AstoriaFineArt.com.

Jim Reid and Gayle Weisfield reception, 4 to 7:30 p.m. at Grand Teton Art Gallery.

“Organic Forms: Dale Chihuly and Tara Donovan” reception, 6 p.m. at Camille Obering’s home. 917-617-1207, [email protected].

Friday, Sept. 16

Western Visions Miniatures and More Show and Sale, 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. $75.

“Legacy of Nature” reception, 1 to 4 p.m. Wildlife and sporting art group show. 733-

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Greg Beecham and Bart Walter recep-tion, 2 to 4 p.m. at Astoria Fine Art.

Saturday, Sept. 17

“A Family Legacy” reception for sculptors Vic and Dustin Payne, 1 to 5 p.m. at Moun-tain Trails Gallery. 734-8150, MtnTrails.net

QuickDraw Art Sale and Auction, 9:30 a.m. on the Town Square.

“Best of Astoria” reception, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Gallery artists in attendance. 733-4016, AstoriaFineArt.com.

Jackson Hole Art Auction, 1 p.m. at the Center for the Arts. Register to attend: 866-549-9278, JacksonHoleArtAuction.com.

Wilcox Gallery open house, 2 to 6 p.m. artists demonstrate at galleries north of town. 6 to 8 p.m. taco bar at downtown gallery, ice cream bar at north gallery. 733-6450, WilcoxGallery.com.

“Fall Gold” group show, 4 to 6 p.m. at Trailside Gallery. Wildlife, landscape, figurative and Western art. 733-3186, TrailsideGalleries.com.

“Fall Round Up” reception, 5 to 9 p.m. at Galleries West Fine Art.

Sunday, Sept. 18Art Brunch Gallery Walk, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at downtown galleries. Featured shows at West Lives On, West Lives On Contemporary and Horizon Fine Art Gallery.

Joshua David Foundation Charity Auction, 2 p.m. at Turpin Gallery. 733-7530, TurpinGallery.com.

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COVER: “Strength and Vulnerability,” the featured artwork of the 2011 Fall Arts Festival, by Dwayne Harty

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A year ago, artist Dwayne Harty was only “vaguely familiar” with the iconic grizzly bear named 399. The bear, named for her ear tag,

had become a bit of a celebrity, often spot-ted in Grand Teton National Park with her cubs during the past few years.

Then the poster committee for the Fall Arts Festival asked Harty, 54, to paint the marquee 2011 poster and specifically to incorporate the famous bear (see cover).

As a classical landscape painter, Harty creates realistic and majestic paintings, said David Navratil, business manager at Mountain Trails Gallery, where Harty has shown his work in Jackson for about a year.

Navratil also was a member of the poster committee. At first the group considered requesting an elk or a moose, but when the idea of a bear, specifically 399, was pro-posed, it seemed a perfect representation for the festival, he said. The group wanted something that would resonate with people and represent the valley. The famed sow has fascinated visitors and locals alike.

Harty grew up in a farming and ranch-ing community in Canada, where he spent his free time outdoors. As a kid, he drew the animals around the farms.

When he was about 9 years old, he moved to Regina in Saskatchawan and started spending time at the natural his-tory museum, studying the landscapes and the wildlife displays representing the prov-ince. He also met staff artists and realized people could actually make a living doing what he loved.

Harty went on to study in New York City, where he discovered another muse: the American Museum of Natural History. While the city itself inspired Harty, he never lost his connection to nature.

“It’s a matter of heart,” he said. “It’s a mat-ter of soul. It’s, what do you love? What is it emotionally that stirs a person to a direction they find fulfilling? For me, it’s always been growing up on a farm — the animals and the land — and that’s never left.”

Harty also found mentors who helped support and inspire him to stay true to his original vision and voice as a painter, to embrace the landscape/wildlife niche.

Having attend several Fall Arts Festivals, Harty found the prospect of creating this year’s poster “nerve-racking,” but loved the

idea of rendering a grizzly, both because of the subspecies itself, but also because of 399’s enduring impact on the valley.

“Just the word ‘grizzly’ incites the imagi-nation,” he said. “The opportunity to see a bear is fantastic, but the opportunity to see a bear in a reasonable, safe viewing distance, it’s just so rare. It’s partially the rarity of the opportunity that people don’t want to miss, and they want to be a part of it.”

He realized incorporating the bear would attract attention but also would truly repre-sent Jackson Hole.

To create the 50-by-40-inch oil painting, Harty studied photos of 399 and watched nature videos, keen to capture the gestures

and the expressions unique to grizzlies.He worked in oil — his medium of choice,

although he occasionally uses watercolors. Oil paint offers a broader range of applica-tions and can therefore create more effects than watercolor, he said.

Once Harty had come up with the con-cept, the painting took about a month to complete. The finished product, “Strength and Vulnerability,” imagines the grizzly and her three cubs in the Tetons.

Harty will sign posters from 3 to 5 p.m. Sept. 14 at Mountain Trails Gallery. “Strength and Vulnerability” will be auctioned Sept. 17 during the QuickDraw Art Sale and Auction.

For the past year, Harty has been an art-ist-in-residence at The Murie Center, with a studio in the Center for the Arts, working on the large body of paintings the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative commis-sioned him to create for “Yellowstone to Yukon: The Journey of Wildlife and Art.” The sweeping exhibition, which explores the relationship between art and conser-vation, spent most of the summer at the National Museum of Wildlife Art.

Following in the footsteps of wildlife master Carl Rungius, Harty was charged with raising awareness, through his art, of the need to protect the continental corridor. At 2 p.m. Sept. 8 at the Center for the Arts, he will give a Western Design Conference lecture on his art and travels from Pinedale to the Arctic Circle.

Harty hopes to make Jackson Hole home. He likes the art scene, the people and the opportunity for endless inspiration in nature.

The other day, he watched from the road as a young grizzly bear tried to take down an elk, charging multiple times before accepting defeat.

“That’s a game stopper,” he said, still marveling at the chance to safely watch bears up close.

The ursus inhabitants of the valley have left a lasting impression on Harty. Although he might have only vaguely known of 399 a year ago, he is now work-ing on a large painting of grizzly 610, daughter of 399, with her cubs.

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Dwayne Harty, “Dall Sheep, Rams: Gates of the Nahanni River, Nahanni National Park Reserve, Northwest Territories”

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Holdsworth unveils new images of bears, wolves, elk and more.

By Jennifer Dorsey

Everywhere nature photographer Henry Holdsworth has pointed his camera of late, large carnivores and the animals they eat have been there doing something interesting.

It’s only fitting, then, that the Jackson Hole lensman will spotlight predators and prey at his Wild by Nature Gallery during Fall Arts Festival.

“There have been lots of bears and wolves in the news this past year,” Holdsworth said. “I’m going to go with that.”

His images include one of famed grizzly bear 399 nursing her three cubs (before she adopted one out to her daugh-ter, bear 610) at Pilgrim Creek in Grand Teton National Park. A photograph from another part of the park cap-tures the furry rumps of 399 and offspring in retreat.

“It was her first venture that spring into Willow Flats,” Holdsworth said. “She smelled something she didn’t like and hightailed it out of there.”

Of course, 399, 610 and their fellow predators were also the causes of plenty of anxiety out in the wild.

Holdsworth has observed elk ganging up to push wolves away, following bears to keep an eye on them and clustering in an open meadow to monitor wolves on one side and a bear on another.

Once, when 610 chased a group of elk at Oxbow Bend, the females herded their calves into the water and stood there, waiting out the hungry grizzly.

“Watching the hunt has been exciting,” Holdsworth said. “The behavior has been very interesting.”

Yellowstone National Park has, as always, provided unforgettable moments for Holdsworth.

He dreamed a black wolf jumped over his head. The next day, near Lamar Valley, he spotted the alpha male of the Agate Pack — a black wolf — chasing off another male. The Agate alpha repeatedly reared up to peer over the snowbanks at the retreating interloper.

“He looked like he was on a pogo stick,” Holdsworth said.

“I’d never seen one stand up before.”The epic 2010-11 snow year provided pleasant sur-

prises, too. One morning, Holdsworth and some of his photography students trained their lenses on a group of bison hunkered down in the snow. After half an hour, what the humans had thought was a large snowbank shifted and grunted as a buried bison turned to look at them.

Also in the show: great gray owls (predators, too) in flight and at rest, a

black bear homing in on succulent hawthorne berries along

the Moose-Wilson Road, a swan preening a cygnet perched on its back and a weasel at The Murie Center that hadn’t yet turned white for the cold season.

“I’ve never caught a brown one in the winter before,” Holdsworth said.

Holdsworth’s Palates & Palettes reception will be catered, as always, by Nani’s. Visitors to Holdsworth’s gallery then and throughout the festival will see tradi-tional photo prints as well as prints on canvas, which have a painterly quality.

Whether on paper or canvas, Holdsworth’s photos are wild by nature.

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Wildlife works vary widely in co-op’s juried show.

By Dina Mishev

C IAO Gallery is Jackson’s only artist cooperative, but that’s not the only reason it stands out. It’s also the valley’s only gallery to have a Fall

Arts Festival show in which participating artists are juried in.

“Artists know Jackson is a wildlife art mecca,” said gallery director Michele Walters, “and this is a rare chance for many of them to be able to show here.”

This year marks the fourth that CIAO has sought applications from wildlife art-ists across the country for its “Call of the Wild” show. After receiving some 50 appli-cations, a jury selected about a dozen art-ists to participate.

“We look for unique artists,” Walters said. “Artists could submit in any style and any medium, and we got applicants who did everything from representational to abstract. We’ve got painters, sculptors, pho-tographers and even a printmaker. It really is a show in which anything goes. It just has to be the artist’s interpretation of wildlife.”

The show goes up the evening of Sept. 8 and hangs through the month. The opening

reception is during Palates & Palettes, 5 to 8 p.m. Sept. 9.

In the jurying process, a winner was awarded as well as several honorable men-tions. This year’s first-place award went to Mary Blake for her bold watercolors of birds of prey — so bold, in fact, they seem like prints rather than paintings. As the winner, her work will remain in the gallery after the exhibit.

In second place, Cindy Walpole pho-tographs hummingbirds in all their vivid glory. Third place recognized Dale Hietala and his singular medium: wall hangings and paintings made of leather.

In years past, some juried artists have stuck around after the show.

“Scott Fabritz was part of the ‘Call of the Wild’ two years ago and is now a member artist,” Walters said.

Fabritz is based in Bozeman, Mont.

“Bob Coonts is another member artist that first came to the gallery via this show.”

Coonts lives in Fort Collins, Colo.Coonts’ work is “very [John] Nieto-

style,” Walters said. “He uses bright colors, and there is a lot of energy in the pieces.”

“The show has been a very good artist-recruitment method,” Walters said. “It’s not just the artists benefiting, but the gallery as a whole, too.”

The pool of applicants this year was just as diverse as in the past, with submissions coming from all over the world. About one-third of this year’s applicants have submit-ted work for past shows.

“This show, more than many others, really showcases different interpretations of an old-fashioned, traditional genre of art,” Walters said.

Having celebrated its fourth anniver-sary this July, CIAO recently underwent a big change: The gallery has been granted nonprofit status under the auspices of New York-based Fractured Atlas, a nonprofit serving artists and arts organizations across the country. Acting as a fiscal sponsor for aspiring nonprofits is one way it helps art-ists and arts organizations function more effectively as businesses.

One of the biggest benefits of its new nonprofit status is that CIAO can now participate in the annual Old Bill’s Fun Run For Charities. Held the morn-ing after Palates & Palettes, Old Bill’s is a run and fundraiser. Money donated to CIAO through Old Bill’s will be matched by an as-yet-unknown percentage. The fundraiser is the largest source of annu-al donations for many of the valley’s nonprofits.

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E njoy food for the body and soul — art is a feast for the eyes, after all — dur-ing Fall Arts Festival’s

opening gallery walk, Palates & Palettes, on Sept. 9. More than 30 galleries pair with eateries for an evening of fine art and fine dining.

There are no tickets necessary for the event and no one keeps tabs on where you’ve been or where you’re going. All you have to do to enjoy the event is wander from gallery to gallery, keeping both eyes and stomach open.

It’s not surprising Palates & Palettes is one of the festival’s most popular events.

“Palates & Palettes has sales tied to it, and that is always wonderful, but we don’t head into it thinking of it as a huge sale evening,” said Mariam Diehl, owner of Diehl Gallery, where the reception for Canadian painter Sheila Norgate is the same night at Palates this year. “We think of it more as a giant social event and count on seeing everyone we know in Jackson over the course of the evening.”

The evening appeals to all. “Palates & Palettes has turned

into an event that locals and visi-tors both enjoy to the fullest,” said Mo Murphy of the Jackson Hole

Chamber of Commerce. Yes, there are people who come

mainly for the free food. Most, however, do appreciate that they can catch the best that galleries have to offer all in one night. Diehl Gallery is one of many downtown galleries hosting an artist recep-tion or show opening to coincide with Palates & Palettes.

“With Jackson being amongst the premiere art destinations in the country, Palates & Palettes kicks the festival off by featur-ing all of the creative and diverse galleries the valley has to offer,”

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take in tradi-tional wildlife and Western art at Trailside, Legacy and

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And you enjoy all this while nibbling on bites provided by the valley’s best restaurants. The gallery-to-restaurant pairings are creative and complementary (see sidebar).

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Artists to practice their crafts at Fall Round Up.

By Tram Whitehurst

Just as the farmers market allows shoppers to learn where their food comes from, the Fall Round Up at Galleries West gives collectors the

chance to see where art comes from.A Fall Arts Festival staple in its 10th year,

the Round Up shows off some of the gal-lery’s most popular artists, many of whom will be working on paintings and sculptures out in the open.

“It’s a great opportunity for everybody to come out and visit with the artists,” owner Debbie Bunch said. “It’s nice for people to be able to put a face and personality to a piece of artwork. Sometimes artists can start a painting in the morning, and by the end of the day it can be sold.”

The Round Up will run for the dura-tion of the festival, with a reception from 5 to 9 p.m. Sept. 17. Featured artists include D. Lee, Mary Ann Cherry, Kim Casebeer, Brandon Bailey, Kelly Dangerfield and E.C. O’Connor.

Lee, whose paintings focus on wild-life, horses and cattle, is one of the gal-lery’s longest-running and most popular artists. She’s been with Galleries West for nine years.

“She’s a fun gal,” Bunch said. “If you want

a good time, visit us when she’s painting.” Lee is scheduled to work in the gallery

on Sept. 15.Bailey, a much more recent addition to

the gallery, will have several new pieces featured in the Round Up. He recently was voted the People’s Choice winner at Cheyenne Frontier Days. His painting “Sweethearts of the Rodeo” was selected for the poster for next year’s Frontier Days.

“He’s an up-and-coming, wonderful art-ist,” Bunch said. “He’s gonna go places.”

Resident sculptor and co-owner R. Scott Nickell has already been working on a sculpture near the gallery’s entrance.

Seven weeks into the project at the time of writing, he’s clearly comfortable with the interactive nature of the work.

“People often come in and ask, ‘Will it bother you if I watch?’” he said. “Well, I’m

in the wrong spot if that’s the case.”The 24-by-19-inch sculpture depicts a

Native American shawl dancer in the mid-dle of a spin. Nickell recently was placing tiny red beads onto the clay, one by one, to give it texture.

Once the model is done, the clay will be cast into rubber, wax and ceramic molds, after which the bronze can be poured and the sculpture realized.

Creative crop

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Venture downstairs and find a Western art trove.

By Jennifer Dorsey

A bull elk puts its nose in the air. The rut is on, and this male is on patrol for interlopers that might want to lure his females away.

Nearby, a mountain man clad in fringed buckskin leads a team of horses across a stream, and a Native American and a Caucasian trader sit face to face for a bit of hard bargaining.

Elsewhere, a paddler canoes through rip-pling waters, and a fisherman sits on a rock, gazing at the Tetons while waiting for some-thing in the Snake River to bite.

Scenes of the West — animal and human, modern and old-time, industrious and recreational — fill Shadow Mountain Gallery at 10 W. Broadway.

The gallery has been part of the Jackson art scene since 1983. Located downstairs from A Touch of Class, it has a somewhat lower profile, literally, than its neighbors.

“It’s a hidden treasure,” owner Safaa Darwiche said of Shadow Mountain. “Our prices are very affordable. It is unique art.”

Among the artists whose work can be seen at the gallery is Aaron Yount, a wildlife painter who works in a realistic style. The aforementioned elk is one of his pieces, called “On Patrol,” as is “Pack Ice,” a portrait of three wolves tracking a scent on a frozen river.

Yount finds some of his inspiration in Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks. He has a family connection to Harry Yount, Yellowstone’s first park ranger, and was recently chosen to be the Marijane Singer artist-in-residence at the Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum in Oradell, N.J.

With its cozy setting, Shadow Mountain invites exploration. The canoer and angler were painted by watercolorist Jim Wilson, who has a batch of other paintings in the gallery, too.

Wilma Potter’s “Tetons: Idaho Side,” a painting of the Grand framed by two aspen trees, Mar Evers’ “Westside Jenny Lake’ and Richard L. Biddinger’s “Teton Crossings” offer perspectives on the local landscape. Jack Lee McLean’s portrait of the two traders, “The Party,” and the mountain man portrayed by Floyd Drown in “Journey” open windows to the past.

Shadow Mountain also represents sculp-tors working in wood and bronze, including William Holt and Gabe Gabels.

Throughout Fall Arts Festival, the gal-lery will be serving refreshments and hosting artists for demonstrations.

“It’s a festive time,” Darwiche said.

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Factory hosts mini-golf, art and bacon.

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A side from their ties to Jackson, the three artists whose work will live at Factory Studios throughout Fall Arts Festival

have little in common. But that’s the point. The show is the third installment

of Teton ArtLab’s “It Came From the Supervolcano,” an exhibit of diverse work being produced by local artists.

Travis Walker, the founder of Factory Studios and Teton ArtLab, said the ongoing series is meant to shed light on new work from valley artists.

“We try to find artists that we haven’t shown during the course of the year,” Walker said.

This iteration of “Supervolcano” will feature work from artists Kelly Halpin, Alexandra Rose Kornblum and Scotty Craighead.

Halpin’s drawings share a signature style, a mix of street art, cartoons and animation.

Kornblum, a student at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, Calif., has created a new body of work influ-enced by her urban surroundings. Her new series is a departure from her previous work, Walker said, which he described as pop landscapes.

“She’s got the city all around her and you can start to see that creep into her

paintings,” he said. “The hard edges, planes and architectural elements.”

Craighead’s contribution is more of a mystery. Walker said his work likely will involve bacon in some form or another as well as some glasswork.

“We’ll have art inspired by and using bacon,” Walker said. “I don’t know what’s going to happen.”

The show is slated to open at 6 p.m. Sept. 10 at Factory Studios.

In addition to the Factory show, ArtLab is hosting “Different Strokes,” a mini-golf course staged at the Pink Garter Theatre. The course will

open Sept. 9 as part of a post-Palates & Palettes party. Walker said the course has been updated from last year with new features.

Beyond mini-golf, the after-party also will include a concert

by a yet-to-be-announced musician.

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By Samantha Getz

Y ears ago, Ian McLennan trav-eled from Australia with his semipro basketball team to play a game in Jackson Hole. Taken

with the Tetons, he vowed to one day live here. Twenty years later, his dream has come true.

Having just joined the ranks of Jackson gallery owners, McLennan is making an impression.

Most people seem surprised when they walk into his West Broadway location. In only a few short months, he has transformed the Life is Good clothing store, formerly Harvest organic grocery, into Grand Teton Art Gallery.

“I’ve been working around the clock with this place,” he said.

Just because he’s new to the Jackson art scene, however, doesn’t mean he lacks an eye for talent.

“Even though I’m a new gallery,” McLennan said, “I do have good artists.”

Last year, he helped out with the Fall Arts Festival and began compiling a list of artists he wanted to represent. His

gallery is now home to 24 Western art-ists from across the nation.

“There’s something in the gallery for everyone, without being too eclectic,” he said.

McLennan sees his new business as more than “just another gallery” in town. It offers something new, he said.

“I’ve got another reason for people to come to Jackson to buy art,” he said.

For Fall Arts Festival, Grand Teton Art Gallery is staging three days of receptions. From 4 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 10, the gallery will feature the work of Tom Lucas and Gary Keimig. Deb Penk and Sam Thiewes will be celebrated from 4 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 14, and the final reception, from 4 to 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 15, will spotlight the work of Jim Reid and Gayle Weisfield.

In grade school, Jim Reid did caricatures of his teachers. He later channeled his creativity into retail advertising.

And yet, something was missing.“I decided I wanted to make more out of

it than just that commercial art,” Reid said.He began exploring his fine art capa-

bilities 30 years ago but adopted the title of full-time artist only four years ago. So far, he is relishing the freedom to pursue his passion and to work sans deadlines.

“I was just waiting all those years to be doing this full time,” he said

When he doesn’t have a paintbrush in hand, he most likely is holding a camera. He finds inspiration in the daily doings of cow-boys, the majesty of mountain landscapes and the rich fodder of Western culture.

“I try to be faithful to whatever inspires me to start the painting,” he said.

He channels his lifelong respect for cowboy culture into his oil paintings.

“I really get lost in [the paintings],” Reid said. “I try to bring out a reality, the animal, the gesture and the attitude of it.”

At age 11, Gayle Weisfield met her men-tor. Now, she pays it forward by teaching others how to paint with watercolors.

“If everyone saw the world through an artist’s eyes,” Weisfield said, “it would be a beautiful world.”

Weisfield describes her watercolor work as “conceptual realism.” She said she main-tains a recognizable subject, but also pays respect to the beauty of the medium.

“I feel it’s a lot more important to con-vey the emotional impact than create the scene,” she said.

Weisfield’s teaching takes her and her students to exotic destinations. She doesn’t consider them to be solely stu-dents; they are friends for life.

“I don’t necessarily promise to make you the best artists in the world,” she said, “but I promise to affect the way you see the world.”

A fresh face

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Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey, a stalwart at West Lives On Gallery, paints French dye on silk with rock salt at a previous QuickDraw.

Artists work fast before spectatorsat QuickDraw.

By Brielle Schaeffer

A rtists wielding paint-brushes and other tools will take over Town Square on Sept. 17 for

the 16th annual Jackson Hole QuickDraw Art Sale and Auction.

The 32 artists in the creative standoff will have 90 minutes to complete their masterpieces, which will then be auctioned off to spectators, Maureen Murphy, the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce’s events manager, said.

“I’m always in awe of what is produced,” she said. “It’s as good as what is in the galleries.”

Completed Q u i c k D r a w pieces sell for $500 on up to $4,800, Murphy said. Proceeds help pay for next year’s festival.

Dwayne Harty’s original paint-ing for the Fall Arts Festival post-er will also be auctioned at the QuickDraw sale. “Strength and Vulnerability” is currently on dis-play at The Wort Hotel, awaiting its starring role at the event.

Last year’s featured work, “Season of the Mountain Men,” an oil painting by Joe Velazquez, sold for $34,000.

While no theme is set for the QuickDraw, most of the art-ists choose landscape or wildlife subjects.

This year, 17 Jackson Hole gal-leries are represented by the 32 artists painting and sculpting on the square. The field includes res-ident and visiting artists, veteran QuickDrawers and first-timers.

Dustin Payne, a sculptor with Mountain Trails Gallery, is mak-ing his QuickDraw debut.

“I couldn’t be more excited about it,” he said.

Payne said he likes participat-ing in events like the QuickDraw

because he feels the art comes from a more natural place.

“A lot more kind of goes by feeling,” he said. “You don’t have time to get detail, but you have time to put in form.”

He’s not yet sure what he will sculpt at the event, but he might tack-le two bison fighting.

Payne grew up on a ranch, a formative expe-

rience that has rooted his imagi-nation in Western imagery.

“For some reason, I’ve always been real interested in Western history,” he said.

He comes from an esteemed line of sculptors: his grandfa-ther, Ken Payne, and his father, Vic Payne, founder of Mountain Trails Gallery.

Payne said he creates about 10 sculptures a year. His pieces usu-ally sell for $500 to $15,000, he said. Some take him two months, others just a few days.

But at the QuickDraw, he said, “you only have so much time.”

While some spectators may pony up top dollar for QuickDraw pieces, it costs noth-ing to watch the artists in action. The painters and sculptors start working at the stroke of 9:30 a.m., and the auction begins almost immediately after they stop painting.

“It’s by far one of my favorite events to plan,” Murphy said. “It’s just going to be a great day.”

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Fighting Bear preserves artifacts from the golden era of dude ranching.

By Angus M. Thuermer Jr.

There was a simpler time in Jackson Hole, when the full-on vacation didn’t include a spa, a concierge

and dining each night at a differ-ent restaurant.

Vacationing families would stay at a dude ranch, bunk in a cabin, saddle up for a daily ride and get their feet wet fishing for trout. There were no air condi-tioners, plastic drift boats, bun-gee trampolines, alpine slides or rock-climbing walls for the kids. Some call it the golden era of dude ranches, a period in the ’20s, ’30s and just before the war that predated the panel sta-tion wagon, the motor court, the Griswolds’ “Summer Vacation.”

About 30 dude ranches dotted the valley. They came in one style.

Terry Winchell, co-owner of Fighting Bear Antiques, is enamored of the period. It was an authentic time when few put on airs. Jeans and Western wear replaced work-a-day attire and washed over the distinctions one might draw among guests. All were equal in the trail-horse sad-dle. Mosquitoes bit regardless of one’s place in the social strata.

A ranch “constitutes a little world so different from the noisy and nervous agglomerations of the East that familiar problems drop away and one feels a new and tranquil personality beginning to assert itself,” a brochure advertis-ing the JY Ranch once said. “In a very short time, one ceases to care what’s going on in the outer realm of business and politics, while simple, elementary things acquire a new importance.”

Staying at a dude or guest ranch was an experience that

brought one as close to the land as one could get while still having a roof overhead. Woodsmen built dude ranch cabins and lodges from straight-growing lodgepole pine trees that stood nearby. They crafted furniture from that and other indigenous material, making durable and comfortable pieces with no pretenses of hiding their rough-hewn nature. Some hunted for ex-pressive trunks and limbs twisted by wind and weather, gnarled by blight into burls and knots.

Cabin and lodge interiors reflected the life outside. Big-game heads adorned the walls. For other decorations and material, ranch owners sought what was already

in the West — Native American artifacts, bead work, Navajo rugs and weavings that mirrored the Western palette.

Winchell sometimes bemoans the changes that have befallen Jackson Hole. Even some latter-day Griswolds who amble into

his store on South Cache every summer grumble about the modern buildings.

“ T h e y ’ r e disappointed

in our architecture,” he said. “A lot of people come to Jackson expect-ing the Old West. It might be fun to remind people around here about our dude ranching heritage.”

So he will, titling his annual Fall Arts Festival show “Recreating the West.”

“Originally, what you would see typically is [discarded] furni-ture they brought from the East,” Winchell said of dude ranch fur-nishings. “Then they got the guy who built the cabin to build the furniture. They’d build the cabin, then, in the winter, they’d move inside and do the furniture.”

One ranch boasted, “Our com-fortable cabins are furnished with lodgepole pine furniture.”

Families would return year after year, sometimes bunking in the same cabin every time.

“It was a life away from their other life,” Winchell said. The cabin “doesn’t have to be modern like their other house.”

Winchell and co-owner Claudia Winchell won’t be show-ing log cabins, though their store recalls the style. Instead, Fighting Bear will be the Ikea of the Old

West, displaying a collection that draws on the skills of famous Cody craftsman Thomas Molesworth and less well-known but equally talented furniture makers. Those include Decker Cedar, of Etna, a small town in Star Valley just south of Jackson Hole, and Bob and Jack Kranenberg, Jackson Hole carpenters who helped fash-ion the look of the valley with their fine, rustic but sturdy work. Photographer Harrison Crandall — who took Ansel Adams to the Snake River Overlook where he shot his iconic image “Tetons and the Snake River” — documented some of their work while running the trading post at Jenny Lake.

The Kranenbergs’ work began when Jack worked at the Square G Ranch east of String Lake. Bob (his given name was Clyde) rode box-cars and hitchhiked into the val-ley from Michigan, enthralled by postcards on which Jack described the West. He arrived in 1933 with 75 cents in his pocket and spent his first winter making furniture with Jack in a cabin Jack built on the Geraldine Lucas homestead near Jenny Lake. Albert and Lidia Baggey hired Bob on at the Square G, to build cabins and furnishings down to the smallest details. The famous knotty pine Million Dollar Cowboy Bar on Town Square is Kranenberg craft.

During World War II, Bob Kranenberg was a Sea Bee build-ing docks in the Pacific for the Navy. He returned to become a Grand Teton National Park trail-crew foreman. In later life, he returned to making lodgepole pine lamps. He could have writ-ten a book about his life, except, he said, “I can read writing, but I can’t write reading.”

As precious as his memories are the lasting pieces of furniture he crafted. Like those of Molesworth, Cedar and Jack Kranenberg, they represent the golden era, a time of simplicity, marked by earnestness, authenticity and durability with Western flair.

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The sculpture geneFather and son to spend a week working at Mountain Trails.

By Dina Mishev

V ic Payne grew up watching his father, Ken Payne, sculpt. And then Dustin Payne grew up watching dad Vic sculpt.

The eldest Payne has retired, but his son and grandson are still hard at work. From September 12 to 18, they’ll be sculpt-ing and answering questions at Mountain Trails Gallery during a showcase of their new pieces. The gallery, which Vic Payne founded, will host a reception in their honor from 1 to 5 p.m. Sept. 17.

“The work of the three of us is just a hair different from each other,” said Dustin Payne, who turns 30 this year. “People can tell a piece is a Payne sculpture, but there are some differences, although I can’t pin down exactly what they are.”

Between the three of them, said Kevin French, Mountain Trails’ director of sales, “they capture something unique about the American West.”

The Paynes’ showing of new work at Mountain Trails is almost as much a part of Fall Arts Festival as Palettes & Palates.

“We do our best to get them here during the festival,” French said. “They’ve earned it, and collectors want it.”

Between Vic and Dustin Payne, expect 10 to 15 new works. Some will be cast, others will still be in their clay form. Mountain Trails doesn’t often exhibit and sell precast pieces but does so for the Paynes because of the high qual-ity of their work.

For collectors, precast pieces offer the opportunity to reserve the cast number they want. A fondness for the number eight could be translated into reserving the eighth piece cast in Dustin Payne’s edition of 30.

Neither Payne does particularly small pieces. Vic Payne has done numerous monumental, life-and-a-half-size works that are on display around the country. The outdoor store Cabela’s is a particu-lar fan. Payne’s 20-foot-tall “When Eagles Dare” welcomes shoppers to the chain’s Hershey, Penn., store.

Recently the sculptor has begun focus-

ing on historical subjects.“Over the past few years, Vic has really

begun to embed historical details and accu-racy into his work,” French said.

A fairly new piece illustrates the story of John Colter’s escape from Native Americans.

“They’re not dry historical studies but, rather, art with historically accurate details,” French said.

There’s nothing dry about Dustin Payne’s work either. He’ll be unveiling “Bearing Down” during the Mountain Trails show.

“It’s a fun story,” he said. “A cowboy is lead-

ing a pack horse, and a bear is coming up the other side. All hell has broken loose. I like to use humor, for sure. I like to make people smile when I can.”

Payne, tapped as one of Southwest Art magazine’s “21 Under 31” artists to watch at the ripe age of 21 and invited to join the prestigious Western Artists of America at age 26, also tackles more serious subjects.

During the Fall Arts show, he’ll be working on a piece in which two Native Americans are stealing five horses.

“I don’t have a name for it yet,” Payne said, “but I’ll be working on it for some time to come, so I’m not in any hurry.”

–––––––––––––––––––––Mountain Trails Gallery

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Psychological as visualArtists consider the contours of subconscious landscapes.

By Katy Niner

S ome artists respond to what they see around them. Think land-scapes, cityscapes. Others turn within themselves. Like Raul

Diaz, James Drake and Peggy Preheim.During Fall Arts Festival, Tayloe Piggott

Gallery introduces an ensemble of artists, all of whom express the psychological through a variety of visual voices: sculp-ture, drawing, mixed media and video art. Their work invites responses as personal as the artists’ offerings. Preheim’s immaculate drawings meld child-hood and currency, Drake confronts inter-nalized borders, and Diaz opens portals to dreams.

Private, fragile and transcendent, the work arises from each artist’s inner well of memory and stirs a reciprocal rise in viewers.

“It’s art that forces you to interact with it,” said Carolyn Reeves, associate gallery director.

“Art Plus Communication with Space” opens Thursday and runs through Oct. 17. Reeves encouraged multiple visits. It takes time to digest and dialogue with such work, she said. The show requires time and intent to navigate.

In the gallery, New York artist Peggy Preheim’s twin sculptures “Peers” — two androgenous white clay busts with gold teeth and glass for eyes — sit low to the

ground atop short pedestals. The viewer must crouch down to observe them at eye level.

To encourage inspection of Preheim’s immaculate, minute pencil drawings, the gallery provides vintage magnifying glasses. Tiny in scale and subtle in sub-ject, her drawings say as much with their exquisite markings — inspired by vintage photographs and clipped currency — as they do with their vast expanse of blank paper. The terrain of isolation, such emp-tiness invites associations.

Meanwhile, video art by Drake is screened in such a way that the viewers must stop and sit for an intimate viewing. A Texas native, Drake explores borders — physical, national, socioeconomic. He inverts the trappings of privilege, such

as the chandelier on paper at Tayloe Piggott Gallery. The chande-lier’s crystals are pen-ciled then sliced out. Its delicate design smudged and taped together; its effect

simultaneously haunting and beautiful.Raul Diaz of Argentina carves wood-

en vessels, roughly hewn boats or seed pods, suggesting passage to somewhere. His bronze figures cower alone atop tall pedestals or within his boats. His quiet drawings and watercolor paintings shel-ter figures, vessels, dreams.

“As with all true visionaries, Diaz does not really live in the same world we do,” writes gallerist Jerald L. Melberg in the introduction to a Raul Diaz monograph. “But he gladly takes us through the portal with him, to a particular point. He then leaves us there, saying, ‘It is up to you, the individual viewer; bring your own set of experiences with you as you enter my

world, then interpret it how you will.’”Melberg’s description of Diaz and the

portal his art creates applies to all of the work chosen for “Art Plus Communication

with Space.” Less didactic, the work is about dialogue.

“It’s not said for you,” Tayloe Piggott, gallery owner, said. “It’s about you.”

–––––––––––––––––––––Tayloe Piggott Gallery62 S. Glenwood St.

733-0555TayloePiggottGallery.com

––––––––––––––––––––– In his watercolor paintings, like “Rosa Azul,” Raul Diaz opens portals to dreams.

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Painterly photographsHistoric printing processes lend nuance, depth to Jackson Hole photographer’s work.

By Kevin Huelsmann

T he choice of Japanese kozo paper or gampi or French cotton paper does not cross many collectors’ minds.

But for David Brookover, a seemingly simple decision about paper can make or break photograph. It can bring out the texture of an image or highlight the hues embedded in a scene. The wrong selec-tion can render scenes flat and lifeless.

Whether thinking in practical terms — making sure the print will last — or brood-ing over the artistic impacts, Brookover goes to great lengths to get everything he can from each piece of the development process. By doing so, he is able to tease out the nuances of his subjects.

“The negative is the written score and the print is the conductors’ performance,” Brookover said, quoting Ansel Adams. “You can nail the image, but it’s what you do after that really separates it.”

To set apart his own work, Brookover relies on an array of printing techniques and materials. He uses the historic bro-moil printing technique, creates platinum palladium prints, purchases some of his paper from a family in Japan and uses cus-tom, handmade frames. All of these care-fully-curated components help to evoke particular feelings and subtleties within Brookover’s photographs. They create rich tones and dramatic light.

He knows what paper to use when he wants to draw out the effeminate quali-

ties of a photo, a gender distinction the Japanese make. He understands which paper will absorb particular colors and what kind of materials will help convey the texture of a scene. “These are historically driven, not software driven,” Brookover said of the printing processes he uses.

The bromoil process, which harks back to the 1860s, was a way to develop

photos that was popular with pictorial-ist photographers. The process, which employs a labor-intensive application of lithographic ink, creates photos with soft features that resemble a painting. “You’re not looking at something on the surface, it has a certain depth,” Brookover said.

Some of the historical printing pro-cesses tap into a desire to reconnect with

the past, an urge Brookover has started to observe in viewers.

“People want to experience something that goes way back in their genes,” he said.

During Fall Arts Festival, Brookover expects to show off some of his new work from recent trips into Grand Teton National Park and other wildlife hotspots in the region. After spending years work-ing with large-format cameras and shoot-ing stunning landscapes, Brookover has switched to a digital camera and started focusing his lens on wildlife. “I wanted to do it, but not like everybody else,” he said of wildlife photography.

Instead of the documentary-style of some wildlife photography, Brookover’s pictures more closely resemble paintings.

The shift in his subject matter and tech-nique has required some adjustment.

“The 8-by-10 is so methodical,” he said, referring to the large format cameras he often uses. “You search for a day or two, set it all up and pray to God that it’s not going to be windy. You’re saying, ‘Please lay off the breeze, give me some clouds, please don’t let any light leak in the film holder.’

“Digital shooting is all about spontane-ity,” Brookver said, adding that he feels like he is using a computer now, not a camera.

Brookover plans to host a fundraiser at his gallery during Palates & Palettes that will benefit the Teton Raptor Center. During the fundraiser, photographer Irene Greenberg, of New York City, will be at the gallery to sign copies of her new, hand-printed book.

–––––––––––––––––––––Brookover Gallery125 N. Cache St.

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David Brookover’s wildlife images have a painterly quality, as in “One with the Setting Sun.”

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Fall colorsA creative lineage continues in historic Town Square cabin.

By Jennifer Dorsey

I n an old log cabin just off Town Square, Jeter and Jan Case carry on the artistic tradition of landscape and portrait painter Archie Boyd

Teater, albeit in a different form.While Teater used the little building

on North Cache Street as his studio, turn-ing out hangable art, the Cases operate JC Jewelers, offering wearable art in the form of hand-crafted jewelry.

Designer/goldsmith Jeter Case no lon-ger uses the cabin’s back room as his shop — he works off-site now, along with local designers Jeffrey Kaphan and Sage Craighead — but the creative spirit lingers.

“It’s got good ghosts,” Case said of the cabin. “It’s done quite well by us.”

For Palates & Palettes, JC Jewelers will serve drinks and hors d’oeuvres, and the Jackson 6, a homegrown Dixieland jazz band, will play.

The jewelry shop’s Fall Arts theme this year is “Fall Colors,” a nod both to the sea-son and current tastes. Citrine, lemon and green quartz, the rainbow of sapphires, brown diamonds and more bright gems fea-ture big in new pieces at JC Jewelers.

Yellow gold is also popular with jewelry buyers these days. With prices for the metal soaring, Case sees an opportunity to build lighter-weight, more intricate pieces that use less of it.

“We’re doing a lot of fun things with col-ors these days,” Case said.

JC Jewelers has expanded its offerings,

especially in sterling silver, by bringing in work by additional designers: Jennifer Bauser, David Tishbi, Holly Rittenhouse and Rebecca Overman.

Case of late has also been working on expanding his line of ready-to-wear wed-ding pieces in various styles, including traditional and modern, ornate and sim-ple, organic and classic.

“I just get more in love with it,” he said. “If there’s such a thing as important jew-elry, that’s it. I want to get more of a selec-tion in my cases so you can get a one-of-a-kind ring without having to get it built, although that process is fun, too.”

Case also enjoys working with custom-ers who are “redoing” their wedding sets, swapping out their original pieces for ones

that better suit where they are in life now.

The new rings “reflect their person-alities more than ever,” he said.

As he crafts ear-rings, necklaces and rings, Case always

keeps in mind that Jackson Hole visitors and residents love their outdoors activi-ties and don’t want their bling to break.

“I always try to build with a focus on wearability and durability,” he said. “You should be able to get your ski gloves on. And if you find yourself climbing with your ring on, it shouldn’t be a problem.”

JC Jewelers has been in business nearly 30 years, having started at a different loca-tion on Town Square.

While Case does the designing, Jan Case, his wife, is a certified gemologist appraiser, one of only 400 in the country, he said.

When they look for materials, he keeps an eye out for fun shapes and colors, while she focuses on clarity, quality and color.

“It works quite well,” he said.

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Meet artists, chat withgallery owners, sipBloody Marys.

By Cara Rank

V isitors to Fall Arts Festival will have two opportunities to stroll through Jackson’s more than 30 galleries during an art walk and,

later, a brunch.On Sept. 14, the monthly third

Thursday Art Walk moves to Wednesday for the festival. From 5 to 8 p.m., patrons can view art and talk with artists and gal-lery owners in a more casual setting.

“The galleries will open their doors, have food and wine,” said Maureen Murphy, events manager for the Jackson Hole

Chamber of Commerce.On Sept. 18, a second gallery stroll bids

farewell to the festival on its final day. The art brunch, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., invites patrons to take a last look at galleries’ Fall Arts shows. During the event, galleries serve brunch and Bloody Marys.

“It’s similar to Palates & Palettes,” Murphy said. “We just want to send off everybody who is leaving town. It’s one last chance to get into the galleries and buy art that you saw during the week.”

The plethora of Jackson Hole galleries make the valley one of the top five art mar-kets in the U.S., Murphy said.

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Open to interpretationShelly Klein, of Michigan, makes colleges that are simultaneously whimsical and thoughtful.

Artists make symbolsby stitch, by stamp,by collage.

By Katy Niner

T hree female artists. Three differ-ent mediums. Three perspectives on life.

For Fall Arts Festival, Susan Fleming of Workshop invited three of the artists she represents to share new work. Eliza Eddy brings her stitched symbols on linen. Molly Stratton shares stamped paper pieces. And Shelly Klein collages imagery on wood.

“Wood, Linen and Paper: Three Women, Three Mediums” opens with a Palates & Palettes reception from 5 to 9 p.m. Sept. 9. The show remains up through October.

Fleming left the show open to the artists, giving them full artistic freedom.

Stratton, whose Poppy fabric purses and bags already live at Workshop, explores works on paper. Truly multifaceted, the art-

ists from Bozeman, Mont., has a fine arts degree, her own design firm, and a port-folio that includes projects in packaging, accessories, furniture and lighting, in addition to graphic design. For the show, she punched metal letter stamps into paper, then added color, transforming words into graphic symbols.

Eddy, also of Bozeman, and of her “made by e.e.” line, stitches symbols on linen: a horseshoe for luck, a heart for love, an arrow for direction. She encapsu-lates her aesthetic as: “Love taking notice of objects and people. Love landscape. Her husband and daughters. Riding her horse Charlie. Making dinner for friends. All represented in her handiwork which celebrates life, love and tradition through symbols and wording.”

Klein, co-owner of K Studio in Grand Rapids, Mich., distills dark moments in life into mixed-media collages on wood panels. Her art is “whimsical and endear-ing, but thought-provoking at the same time,” Fleming said. She is interested in sadness, according to her artist statement.

“The only way to truly enjoy anything is to temporarily forget about any shame, heartbreak, guilt, regret or outrage asso-ciated with that thing,” she writes. “If we can ignore the sometimes unspeakable consequences of many of our actions, we can enjoy experiences as they happen. It’s a trade. It’s the way we buy happiness.”

Although sadness is never far away, never forgotten. It creeps back in. In her collages, she mulls the many mutations sadness can take: a dark cloud hovering over a couple, a balloon-bemused child.

“By exploring these themes visually, I hope to get closer to understanding where the balance should be,” she writes. “My goal is to connect with people about our shared and individual struggles with this heaviness.”

Each artist echoes Workshop’s mission of multifaceted creativity. Simultaneously a studio and a store, Workshop is ever evolving. Fleming seized the opportunity of Fall Arts to do something different, “to present different artwork and use the space in a different way.”

Fleming hopes to host more shows in the future —workshops, too.

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In the artist’s studioA dozen artists will open their work spaces. As a preview, step inside two of them here.

By Meg Daly

W hether an open light-washed layout or a design focused on display walls, the spaces surrounding

valley artists give insight into their creative processes.

During Fall Arts Festival, a dozen local artists working in a wide vari-ety of mediums welcome visitors into their studios. In years past, artists have opened their studios on a designated weekend. This year, the artists leave their doors open all festival long to visi-tors who call in advance and make an appointment.

A show of participating artists’ work, staged in the Lobby Gallery at the Art Association, features an accompany-ing list of contact information. The show and its local artists join in the Art Association’s festivities for Palates & Palettes on Sept. 9.

To pique people’s curiosity, two art-ists led preview tours of their studios.

–––––––––––––––––––––For a visitor to Amy Bright Unfried’s

home studio, the light is entrancing. The partial rotunda faces south and east. Large windows and a set of glass French doors frame the surrounding woods. On the July day I visited, mid-morning sunlight dappled the ground, and quaking aspens and pines stood at

attention like sentinels. But for the studio’s resident, func-

tionality is the main attraction. An accomplished sculptor — her work is on permanent display at the Center for the Arts and at St. John’s Episcopal Church and is also part of an exhibit in the Art Association’s Theater Gallery — Unfried likes the no-nonsense prac-ticality of her space. The light is lovely, yes, insomuch as it rakes across her works-in-process, revealing forms, giv-ing feedback on her work. A huge metal post in the northeast corner — the hub of six stained beams fanning out, spoke-like, to opposite walls — creates an

open floor plan that allows Unfried to move unfettered around her sculptures. The poured concrete floor, with in-floor heating, makes for quick cleanup and year-round comfort.

“The main thing is to have a space where you don’t have to clean it up,” Unfried said. “At first, I was afraid to get it dirty, but now I don’t have any qualms.”

This is Unfried’s 10th year in her studio, designed by Strout Architects along with the rest of the house she shares with her husband.

“I can’t imagine wanting anything different,” she said.

–––––––––––––––––––––Husband and wife Eliot and Natalie

Goss share a studio on their west bank property. Such close proximity could be a recipe for disaster for some couples. Not the Gosses: Their shared space is harmonious. Even their paintings complement one another, with Natalie’s subtle watercolors lining one wall and Eliot’s bolder oils patterning the other.

Their top priority when designing the studio: wall space to display their work. Eliot Goss, an architect as well as a painter, realized their studio plans three years ago. Before, the two artists had shared a 10-by-9-foot area that now serves as the foyer to the larger studio, whose layout, as Eliot described it, is a basic rectangle with a huge north win-dow and a smaller east window.

“North light doesn’t require controls and offers a cool light,” Goss said.

He barely notices the view, striped by cottonwoods in the foreground and anchored by Rendezvous Mountain in the distance.

What he does notice is how hav-ing more elbow room has changed his work. The walls are laden with 30-by-40-inch landscapes, all completed since the studio was built.

“It’s the best thing I’ve done,” he said. “I wouldn’t be doing these big paintings if I hadn’t built this studio.”

Being surrounded by his work, he said, “gives me a sense of where I’ve been and where I’m going.”

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By Cara Rank

If Zachariah Turpin were to characterize Turpin Gallery’s shows during Fall Art Festival, he would sim-ply say this. “We’ve got a lot going on.”

Between receptions for four of its top artists, a char-ity auction featuring work by every artist Turpin represents, and the addition of a second gallery, Turpin & Co. at 30 Center St., Turpin is busy during Fall Arts Festival.

“We represent many fabulous artists,” Turpin said. “We feel like we’ve pulled some of our very best to come and meet our clients and be available to visit in the galleries dur-ing the festival.”

Turpin & Co. opened in August with a different ros-ter of artists than those found at Turpin Gallery. The new gallery also features Zapotec rugs, custom-made Molesworth-inspired furniture, jewelry and giclee prints from Greenwich Workshop.

“Both galleries showcase work by many of the best artists working today,” Turpin said in an email. “Having a second gallery location so close to our flag-ship gallery allows us to bring an even more diverse and extensive collection of art to our clients in Jackson and around the world.”

On the first weekend of Fall Arts, Robert Tate will be on-site Sept. 9 and 10 at Turpin Gallery. Then, on the sec-ond weekend, artists Mitch Baird and JD Challenger will be on hand to talk about their new work and to meet gallery visi-tors Sept. 16 and 17.

“I feel like Mitch is right on the cusp of real greatness,” Turpin said.

Baird paints en plein air and focuses on local sub-ject matter, he said.

Of Challenger, Turpin said, “He’s a huge artist. If you are an aficionado in Indian subject matter, JD Challenger is on your radar.”

Many Jacksonites have seen his work and not even

known it. His painting — displayed in Turpin Gallery — graces the cover of the Jackson Hole phone book.

Michael Orwick, slated to appear Sept. 17 and 18, will spend most of his time in the new gallery. Ordwick cre-ates smaller pieces that attract collectors who want to take

home a piece of Jackson Hole.By featuring these four artists,

Turpin Gallery showcases its breadth.“They are very diverse in subject

matter, everything from portraits to landscape,” Turpin said. “The quality of the art is phenomenal. It’s a great opportunity to meet the artists and

to talk to them about their work and their inspiration.”In addition to hosting a separate reception for each of its

featured artists, Turpin is also celebrating its entire stable on the final day of the festival, when it throws its 18th annual Joshua David Foundation Charity Auction.

“Almost every major artist in the gallery will partici-pate,” Turpin said. “One hundred percent of the total

profits will be donated to a foundation that directly impacts kids overseas.”

The charity auction is a bit different than the average auc-tion, Turpin said. All proceeds will help children in China, many of whom were abandoned in orphanages because of some type of physical ailment, he said.

It’s a cause his family took up years ago after visiting the country, Turpin said.

It all started with one thought: “What if 100 percent of the money you spent buying fine art went to help kids,” Turpin said.

“It’s not like we are splitting this with anybody,” he said. “All my major artists have donated. It’s a nice selection and chance to find a piece that you love.”

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Turner tunes in tonatural world.

By Meg Daly

Most Tuesdays this sum-mer, Kathryn Mapes Turner packed a picnic dinner, load-ed up her easel, and drove

into Grand Teton National Park to meet other plein air painters for the Tuesday Night Sack Dinner club.

Turner, 39, led the charge of the ad hoc group by starting the evenings’ “yakking” and then turning their attention to the fluctuating moods of the Tetons at dusk.

Turner’s career is in bloom. An award-winning artist with national representa-tion, her recent accolades include the 2010 Contemporary Art Award at the American Academy of Equine Art, an award of excellence at the 2010 American Impressionist Society show and the Air Float award at the 2010 Paint America national contest.

Her current solo show, “By the Light of the Sun,” which runs from Sept. 7 through 24 at Trio Fine Art, features new impres-sionistic paintings of place and nature.

“Lately I’ve been obsessed with trees,” Turner said during a recent visit at her studio. “The relationship trees have with the landscape and with each other is sym-bolic of my relationship to the land and my interpersonal relationships.”

A personal vision is what Turner strives to bring to her paintings, particu-larly those set in her beloved home. As a Jackson Hole native, Turner feels it is her lifelong challenge to paint the Tetons in a way that is significant and unique. Her studio north of town looks out on the Teton Range.

“They are my constant companions, in

all seasons and all weather,” she said. “If I didn’t paint the Tetons, I’d be denying a huge part of my life. The challenge is how to paint them without being trite.”

Unlocking that vision unique to her comes through count-less hours spent in the field. For Turner, plein air painting is the seed of inspiration.

“When you are in a spot for a long time, your senses slow down,” she said. “You develop an intimate relationship with the place you are in.”

Turner’s internal attitude to making art is that of a Zen practitioner. Being in a

location, she is attuned to her surround-ings and mindful only of the moment.

“The discipline of study and observa-tion is what art is about,” she said.

Once back in her studio, Turner “sifts” through the informa-tion she has gathered in her paintings and sketches from the field. Sometimes an entire painting is finished outside. As often, the plein air piece becomes

a springboard in the studio. “Studio work is about distilling what

the viewer will see on the canvas,” she said. “You look at all the data and ask

what will serve the end.”Turner recognizes that her expectations

for her own work are rising. At the same time, she refuses to be pigeonholed into one particular, repetitive style.

Instead, she takes a leap of faith every day and gives way to the unfolding process of her art-making. She refers to herself as a vessel for the paintings to come through. This feminine metaphor is deliberate.

“Because I’m a woman, and women are always in flux, and because I’m from Jackson, and the landscape and seasons here are always in flux, my work necessarily is always changing,” she said.

Trio Fine Art will host a reception for Turner from 5 to 8 p.m. Sept. 8.

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Kathryn Mapes Turner sees symbolism in trees, as in “Aspen Grove” 16 by 20 inches.

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Trio Fine Art is now a foursome. All four artists will give demonstrations of their drawing and painting techniques at the gallery from 3 to 5 p.m. Sept. 9. Newest gallery member Jennifer L. Hoffman joins Trio founders Kathryn Mapes Turner, September Vhay and Lee Carlman Riddell for a free evening of on-site demos. Everyone is welcome.

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Four artists explore the West of history, today and Hollywood.

By Richard Anderson

At Altamira Fine Art this fall, four artists celebrate, lament, honor, pay tribute to, mourn and apotheo-size the West that was, the West that is and the West that really never existed.

Montana painter R. Tom Gilleon paints tipis, a common subject among Western artists. Yet he imbues them with a magical sense of light, life and, oddly, the peaceful still-ness of the museum or funeral home. Out on the open plain, alone or in groups of three, usually in the low-angle light of late day, his lodges may be occupied, or they may have been abandoned. It’s difficult to say. If they are empty, they have been vacated only recently. Or else time has stopped on that particular stretch of plains. Whatever the case, his tipis raise questions, pose mysteries and also respectfully demand privacy — no mean feat for a painting.

Gilleon also paints grain elevators — tall, hulking structures whose forms are as iconic, in their own way, as tipis — as well as “nines,” which are sort of collages of (nine) related images. Both tropes suggest a similar museum-quality taxidermy that remarkably manages to keep their subjects alive while recognizing their passing.

Gilleon, 70, has gone into semiretirement, according to Altamira owner Mark Tarrant. In fact, Altamira is his exclu-sive gallery these days. As a result, he paints fewer canvases but devotes more time to each one, Tarrant said.

For the Fall Arts Festival exhibition, Gilleon has invited Lakota artist Daniel Long Soldier to join him. Long Soldier will show ledger drawings, contempo-rary takes on a 19th-century adaptation of a traditional narrative form of painting depicting hunters’ and warriors’ feats.

Utah painter Jared Sanders, who recently turned 40, paints the broad sides of barns and farmhouses and other similarly square and humble structures, in addition to subtly illuminated landscapes. Like Gilleon’s, his canvases, which have grown huge in the past couple years, capture and preserve a rustic ideal once common throughout the West and the country, yet

increasingly rare as development razes such idylls. From a 21st-century perspective, one pauses to wonder if these Edens ever really existed as we remember them. This despite a bright palette and blocky, almost cubist brush-

work that feels subversively contem-porary, given the rustic subject matter.

Admired as a finely tuned tonalist, Sanders renders landscapes in muted pigments, using a purposefully limited range of hues to experiment with, and ultimately achieve, singular effects of light, atmosphere and pleasantly

ambiguous emotions.The fourth artist featured at Altamira during the festi-

val is Western pop innovator Bill Schenck, who enjoyed a one-man show earlier this season at the gallery and who

was a key player in the genesis of the first Fall Arts Festival in 1985. Schenck — who studied with Andy Warhol in the early ’60s in New York City — brings a selection of his “captioned” paintings to Altamira.

By taking stills from classic and obscure Western films, photos of the Southwest landscape and other captured material, some vintage, some contemporary, Schenck, again, preserves a sense of the West’s past while highlighting its mythic aspects. He half embraces the Hollywood image of the region, half defaces it with captions that sometimes are ironic, sometimes build ten-sion, always suggest a story, like a comment you might hear from a stranger two stools down at the bar.

Gilleon, Sanders, Schenck and other artists are expected to attend an Altamira reception during the Sept. 9 Palates & Palettes gallery walk.

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‘Master talent’ to show how she does it.

By Richard Anderson

Jackson Hole art browsers and buyers encounter a lot of plein air paintings in their perambulations through our many art galleries,

especially during Fall Arts Festival.But if they wander up to String Lake

in Grand Teton National Park on Sept. 10, they will have the opportunity to actually watch a painter work-ing en plein air.

Erin O’Connor — whom Plein Air Magazine named a “Master Talent” in its spring 2011 issue and who over the past seven years or so has been invited to paint at prestigious plein air events throughout the West — is the Grant Teton Association’s Artist in the Environment this month. She is the fourth and final artist in the summer series that also has brought Greg McHuron, Greta Gretzinger and Scott Christensen to the park to paint for who-ever wants to stop and watch.

“I did this a few years ago,” said O’Connor, who for the past decade has made her stu-dio and her living quarters in a small log cabin at the base of Teton Pass. “It’s kind of funny. You always get people saying, ‘My Aunt Gertrude paints’ or ‘I paint.’ And then there are those who catch you after you’ve put, like, 14 marks down and are disappoint-ed it’s not done. People crack me up.”

A keen and patient observer, however,

will learn a lot from O’Connor, especially if they wait to chat or ask questions between bursts of activity. An experienced teach-er as well as excellent painter, she has a way with words when it comes to talking about composition, color choices, how she achieves illusions of depth, distance and light, how the way we see affects the way she paints.

“The cool thing about teaching is you have to verbalize all the things you normal-ly do instinctively,” she said. “You have to constantly remind yourself why you do the

things you do.”String Lake is not

O’Connor’s first choice for a place to set up her easels and paint box.

“I like secret places,” she said. Her patrons like that about her work, too. “There’s a certain sense of discovery in seeing a painting of some place

you’re never going to get to.”She has, therefore, lugged her equipment

high into the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Wyoming, far down the canyons of the Southwest and deep into the deserts of California. As expert as she is at rendering the details of the landscape, her true talent may be her ability to imbue her composi-tions with that sense of solitude and peace for which we venture into such wild places.

O’Connor shows her work in Jackson at Galleries West. Her website, www.OConnorScapes.com, also displays a lot of her recent canvases.

She will paint 2 to 5 p.m. Sept. 10 in the park. Call the Grand Teton Association at 739-3403 for information.

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Trip gives Christenseninsight into harmony.

By Dina Mishev

Yes, Scott Christensen’s 6,000-square-foot studio and exhibition space is over Teton Pass, but the drive is worth it.

The studio and exhibition space is open by appointment throughout Fall Arts Festival, and Christensen, who won the Prix de West show’s highest award in 2000 when he was only 38 years old, is making himself as available as possible for collectors and visitors.

On display in his craftsman-style stu-dio are several huge canvases inspired by a 19-day trip he took to Russia last summer.

“The scale and size of the paintings I saw there blew my mind,” Christensen said. “They just painted as large as they wanted to. Looking at some of the pieces, I didn’t know there were studios that big when these paintings were done.”

Christensen, who was born and raised in Lander and only took his first art class when a collegiate football inju-ry sidelined him, spent time touring the Hermitage, the Russian Museum and the Russian Art Academy.

“Scott throughout his career has stud-ied the Russian masters,” said the stu-dio’s collector liaison Kristie Grigg, who accompanied Christensen to Russia. “This was a trip he had wanted to do for a very long time. He came back very inspired and enthusiastic.”

Christensen returned home with a fresh perspective on balancing compositions.

“I saw so many things, but the biggest thing I came back with was the careful balance the paintings struck between variety and harmony,” Christensen said. “The paintings I studied had so many lay-ers in them, none were one-trick pieces. A lot of work was done to make it look easy.

“But too much variety causes chaos,” Christensen said. “It’s a fine line to walk.”

The other balancing act in the Russian paintings: harmony versus boredom.

“Harmony is another thing paint-ings need to have,” Christensen said, “but too much of it makes a piece boring.

“The Russian mas-ters understood that variety is everything,

but too much won’t work,” he said. “I always knew this, but I didn’t really get it until I was there looking at the layers and layers of work put into each painting.”

After coming back, Christensen started working on some 70-by-70-inch paintings.

“These are probably bigger than any-one wants them to be, but I just couldn’t help myself,” he said.

“As he explained to me,” Grigg said, “it takes so much energy to paint that large. He said it’s like taking the bar exam every day, orchestrating that many square inches.”

These new large paintings are one part of Christensen’s wide oeuvre, on full view during Fall Arts.

As always, the subject matter is diverse: landscapes and wildlife from Russia, Switzerland, the California coast, Sea Island, Ga., and closer to home.

Call 208-787-5851 for an appointment at Christensen’s studio and exhibition space. The compound is located one mile south of Victor, Idaho, at the base of Teton Pass.

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Three Jackson Hole collectors talk about the artwork in their homes.

By Kevin Huelsmann

T here is no set formula outlining how to collect art. Some seek investments while others rely on visceral reactions. Some collectors exhaustively research spe-cific works, while others simply stumble upon them.

Each collector has his or her own idiosyncratic approach to buying art, including what to buy, where to buy it and what to do with it when it’s back home.

Below are profiles of three Jackson collectors — Judson Ball, Christian Burch and Babs Case — who opened up their homes to show off their collections and explain how they were assembled.

Judson BallBall has a simple, clearly articulated approach to buying art.

Whether it is a Hopi kachina doll, a vintage wine opener or a painting of a landscape, the longtime collector is looking for one thing: excellence.

“It’s thrilling to see the best that someone can do,” he said.

The process of each artist is of the utmost importance to Ball, who said he will take months or even years to research an artist before buying his or her work.

“When I look at art, I’m trying to see the emotion, the struggles, the originality and the personal message of the art-ist through the individual strokes and manipulation of sculp-

ture,” Ball said.When he and his wife, Sue, lived in Chicago, they collected

works by Picasso and pieces by German expressionist paint-ers and modernist artists in Chicago. The couple sold most of their collection when they moved to Jackson, starting aestheti-cally anew.

Though some vestiges remain from their Chicago col-lection, the Balls’ home now contains work from some of the titans of Western art: Bob Kuhn, Carl Rungius, William R. Leigh, Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt and Wilhelm Kuhnert.

Even when pursuing superlative Western pieces, Ball still looks for the struggle of the individual artist. In one room, he has a Bob Kuhn study of two elk, antlers locked, hanging above Kuhn’s completed painting of the same scene. The juxtaposi-tion illustrates Ball’s drive to understand the process of the art in his home.

“You can’t see who’s good and how they’re good unless you see how they got to be who they are, see their mistakes,” he said.

Walking through the couple’s home, one can see the breadth of their collection, from Mexican and Guatemalan masks to a collection of wine openers that date to the 1700s and one of the largest collections of Hopi kachina dolls in the world.

As clearly defined as his vision of what he looks for in art is Ball’s approach to collecting: First and foremost, he buys what he likes.

“I look at them all the time,” he said of the pieces in his home. “I don’t just walk by. I’m not buying it for an investment. I’m not buying it for anyone else, for any-one else’s edification except my own and my wife’s and

my children’s.”He takes his time and researches each artist extensively

before making a purchase. A common mistake of collectors, he said, is that they often buy on impulse, typically when bid-ding at an auction.

“The biggest problems collectors have is that they get moved by the moment,” Ball said. “They feel like, if they don’t buy the piece at that moment, they’ll never have another chance. Nobody paints only one painting.”

He also follows very practical guidelines. “Our rule is that if we can’t hang it, we don’t buy it.”

Christian BurchAt the end of a hallway in Burch’s condo hangs a decep-

tively simple sculpture: a block of wood suspended on the wall with an egg dangling from a string below. Most often, the egg sits atop the piece of wood so guests walking to the bathroom don’t knock it from the string.

“No one thinks it’s real,” said Burch, an author and art teach-er at the Jackson Hole Community School.

But it is. The egg is blown out, and inside the shell is a small note that reveals itself only when it is cracked open. One of the two eggs that have been broken — the sculpture came with replacements — contained a note that read: “We convinced her to stay.”

Like many pieces in Burch’s collection, Kara Roschi’s sculpture reveals a deeper meaning after inspection. It’s playful, but there’s an underlying sense of melancholy and longing.

The photographs and paintings — many of which were purchased at Jackson galleries and events — that adorn

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Judson Ball now collects Western art — fitting for a trustee of the National Museum of Wildlife Art.

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Christian Burch collects art rich with subjectivity and dichotomy.


Burch’s walls blur lines between fragility and beauty and the hint of depravity. Individual works can express vulnerability while at the same time conveying strength and power.

In the center of Burch’s living room wall hangs a surreal photograph by Chip Simon of a man on an old BMW motor-cycle. He’s wearing a bunny mask, a tuxedo coat with tails and tennis shoes. He is looking over his shoulder.

“It’s masculine, with the old BMW, the top hat, but it looks like he’s being chased,” Burch said, adding the fairy tale ele-ment also appeals to him.

Several photographs created by a friend, Henry Dombey, who has since left Jackson, are among Burch’s favorites. In one, the photographer focuses on what appears to be the mirror of a bathroom medicine cabinet. For Burch, the details of the shot are what set it apart.

“I like the Golds foot powder and the stain on his shirt,” Burch said. “It makes him look kind of unstable. But I like his swarthiness, too.”

Below the bank of photographs and paintings sits a sculp-ture of a large ball and chain attached to a hand formed from clear resin. The striking piece, purchased at an art fair in Kansas City, Mo., is another one of Burch’s favorites.

“The artist produced it because he wanted to produce it,” Burch said, “and not because it’s what everyone wanted to buy.”

Though many of the pieces in Burch’s collection have personal ties — some were created by students, some were given to him as gifts — the provenance of others are just as mysterious as the subject.

Above his kitchen sink hangs a large painting he picked up at a thrift store. The canvas contains a swirling scene of a man

with headphones on, his surroundings morphing into differ-ent scenes.

“I bought it for $35,” Burch said. “I know nothing about it. The woman told me I could paint on it.”

In many of his purchases, Burch gravitates towards the unwanted, the discarded and the forgotten. The subject of the work is subjective.

“I like the idea of the outsider, the person who doesn’t quite fit in,” he said.

Taken as a whole, Burch said, his collection is an integral part of his home.

“It’s something I’m proud of,” he said. “It makes my house, my house. Everything has a personal connection.”

Babs CaseA recent young visitor to Case’s home declared within

minutes of entering, “This is one of the weirdest places I’ve been.”

The child was looking around Case’s living room, taking in the mirrored, scrawling piece by Robert Rauschenberg, the bold strokes of two paintings by Antoni Tapies, the found objects that make up Case’s own collages and assemblages, the piles of rocks and feathers and the stacks of art books.

“It’s kind of 3-D art,” Case, artistic director of Dancers’ Workshop, said of her home.

Case’s approach to collecting art seems instinctual. Her collection, chaotic and overwhelming, still feels carefully curated.

Cultural items, such as a Chinese raincoat or textiles from Chiapas, Mexico, hang next to work from world-renowned artists.

In her kitchen, a bust of Case as a child sculpted by her mother sits atop a curio that contains a bottle of hot sauce made by Rauschenberg.

“He was from Texas,” Case said. The hot sauce was his yearly gift to friends and family. “It’s so hot that you can’t eat it.”

For Case, the mix of styles and approaches is underpinned by a central theme: The work must evoke emotion.

“I buy art that moves me,” Case said. One of Case’s favorite paintings hangs in her small office,

just inside the front door: a print by Austrian painter Maria Lassnig of a naked, seated woman holding two guns — one pointed at her head and one pointed directly at the viewer. Its title, “Me or You,” makes the confrontation complete.

“It succinctly expresses an emotion that we all have,” Case said.

Another favorite artist of Case’s is Antoni Tapies, a Catalan painter whose work often incorporates mathematical equa-tions and symbols.

“I love the movement and the strength in his gestures,” Case said.

Materials often jump out at Case — rocks and spoons, discarded wire. Pausing on a tour of her home, Case picked up a small clump of fur left behind by her hefty black Newfoundland, Zeppo, and set it aside for some future work.

“This will be great,” she said, truly excited about the find. Though a dancer by trade, Case has spent her life around

art, making art. “My mom used to tell me, ‘If you’re bored, it’s your own

fault. The art supplies are in the corner.’ ”

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Three long-standing stores specialize in Indian jewelry.

Amanda H. Miller

A merican Indian jewelry glimmers in Jackson. The downtown studios that feature fine exam-ples of this variety of wearable art have been in business a long time. Here, each shares

insights on the art market and the artful merchandise.–––––––––––––––––––––

Terry Kennedy has found the beauty of Indian jewelry never goes out of style. That’s why his business, Raindance Indian Arts, has thrived through good times and bad for 29 years in the same Broadway location, he said.

A Wyoming native, Kennedy left the state as a teen-ager and went to Arizona, where he discovered silver and gold interwoven with colorful stones.

“It was the ’70s,” he said. “Turquoise and Indian art were really popular.”

Kennedy forged relationships with some of the Native American jewelry artists he liked best and sold their work to stores across the country.

After five years, he grew tired of being on the road and opened his shop in Jackson.

Kennedy understands and appreciates the jewelry.“After 29 years, I know what sells and what doesn’t,”

he said.–––––––––––––––––––––

When Gisela Siwek immigrated to the U.S. from Germany 37 years ago, she fell in love with Indian jewelry. She vowed to one day open a store.

“It was the handicraft,” Siwek said. “I loved the craft, and it was the silver and the turquoise.”

Several years later, she visited Jackson Hole and decided she wanted to live here.

Fusing her existing love for Indian jewelry and her new-found attachment to the Tetons, she opened Crazy Horse in 1978 in Gaslight Alley.

“It was an adventure,” she said.Siwek finds her pieces at trade shows and buys from

established artists and vendors who visit her shop.Artie Yellowhorse, one of Siwek’s featured artists, will

have a special show in the gallery during Fall Arts Festival.Yellowhorse, a respected Navajo jewelry artist, is known

for her silver and turquoise designs.“She uses high-quality stones,” Siwek said. “She selects

her stones very carefully.”–––––––––––––––––––––

A real estate appraiser, Gerard Kindt didn’t know much about jewelry when he bought Teton Art Gallery at the entrance to Gaslight Alley. He just knew the business was for sale at a bargain price.

Today, most items in the tiny shop are his own creations.“I just started doing it,” he said. “It’s been a big evo-

lution. I started doing really crappy work, and now it’s more refined.”

Kindt has owned the gallery for 17 years. In the begin-ning, he experimented with the tools he inherited and made some of his own designs, but stocked the store largely with pieces from vendors.

Slowly, he discovered his own creativity and began clear-ing out displays for his own work. He now cuts and shapes the stones himself, and creates each setting.

Today, the store is known for his turquoise and stone designs, as well as the soft metal Tetonscapes that Kindt makes into pendants and necklaces.

Jackson jewels

–––––––––––––––––––––Raindance Indian Arts

105 E. BroadwayRaindanceIndianArts.com

–––––––––––––––––––––Crazy Horse

125 N. Cache St.CrazyHorseJewelry.com

–––––––––––––––––––––Teton Art Gallery

47 W. Deloney Ave.TetonArtGallery.com –––––––––––––––––––––

Terry Kennedy of Raindance Indian Arts knows the market.Crazy Horse’s collection is curated by owner Gisela Siwek.

Teton Art Gallery owner Gerard Kindt creates the jewelry he sells, including these Tetonscapes.

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Artist concentrates on metal sculptures in his Victor studio.

By Richard Anderson

You don’t have to be a student of non-Euclidean geometry to like the sculpture of John Simms, although it might help a little.

Simms, who moved to Jackson Hole 45 years ago to ski and founded companies that revolutionized backcountry skiing and fly-fishing, said he was mostly bored in school, except for during two semes-ters of non-Euclidean geometry, a branch of mathematics that allows for twists and warps in space, probably most famous for the Mobius strip.

“I’ve always been very mechanically inclined,” he said. “I can look at something and know how it was put together.”

For the past 20 years or so, Simms has applied his mechanical and geometrical skills to metal sculpture. Most of his works are huge pieces that play with a mix of geometric and organic forms.

Many are kinetic, spinning in the wind. Others are massive pieces of rolled steel disguised as weightless curved forms that look as if they might blow away. A few are stylized representations of wildlife, like “Ursine Arrangement,” a cluster of forms that mimic a few postures of bears.

One of his best known pieces, called “Imploding Cube” — a three-dimensional representation of a four-dimensional cube, also known as a tesseract — was on display in the Shidoni Gallery and Foundry in Santa Fe, N.M., where Simms has displayed his work for the past two decades.

“A fellow from Indianapolis saw it and loved it and said he had to have it,” Simms said.

The piece has since found a permanent home at the Indianapolis Art Center, where it enjoys a prominent spot with its own reflection pool in the institution’s ArtsPark.

Simms is best known around Jackson for “Bison Bison,” the cheery buffalo sculpture on the Moose-Wilson Road composed of a circle and seven math-ematically related arcs.

“I had purchased six pieces of 5-foot-radius semicircles of rolled channel iron from a scrap yard in Idaho Falls,” he said. “I had them all laid out in my driveway. I was envisioning all sorts of abstract forms.”

He pulled out a 12-foot ladder to get a different perspective on the scraps of curved steel.

“I got up on it and I looked down, and I could just see this bison form,” he said.

“When I was inventing things, devel-oping products, I always had a real strong confidence in what I was doing,” he said. “I could see the finished product and knew how to get there.”

As a founder of Life-Link, Simms helped create the probe poles and res-cue shovels backcountry winter athletes carry today — or should. He also cre-ated Simms Fishing Products, a company that has shaped the way people now fish around the world.

He now concentrates on metal sculpture, which he does in a stu-dio outside of Victor, Idaho. A recent arrangement made with Altamira Fine Art in Jackson is likely to result in more commissions and the need for more time in his workshop.

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Gallery features jewelry from established artists.

By Tram Whitehurst

Two Grey Hills owner Gary Mattheis is hesitant to use the term “trunk show” to describe his plans for Fall

Arts Festival. After all, he is bringing work

by many of the “old masters” of Native American jewelry, some of whom were practicing their craft half a century ago. Their pieces can sell for as much as $50,000.

So “trunk show” just doesn’t seem to do their work justice.

In partnership with the Waddell Trading Company of Arizona, supplier of the artworks, Two Grey Hills will host the show Sept. 14 to 17. Mattheis has put on similar events in the past and has been encouraged by their success.

Two Grey Hills Indian Art, which has been in business for 35 years, takes its name from a trading post in the heart of the Navajo Nation. Mattheis still vis-its the area and others around the Southwest several times a year.

The gallery sells a range of Native American art, from weav-ings to jewelry, pottery to baskets.

“One of our big things is the knowledge of our staff,” Mattheis

said. “We know our stuff.”Books describing Native

American art and photos of the various processes are easily avail-able for collectors curious about where and how the pieces are made. Most of the art comes from communities of Native American artists, Mattheis said.

His selection of jewelry — the most popular pieces in the gallery — includes bracelets, necklaces, earrings and pendants made from turquoise mined in the Southwest. Although looks are important, when it comes to turquoise, it’s actually hardness that deter-

mines quality, Mattheis said. The harder the piece, the high-er the quality.

“There’s a big difference in the pric-

ing of turquoise,” he said. “If it’s inexpensive, it’s not good tur-quoise. But we have a range of styles and prices.”

Other popular items include hand-coiled Pueblo pottery from communities around New Mexico.

Instead of throwing pieces on a wheel and then firing them in a kiln, the artists piece together individual coils of clay. They then surround the piece with blocks of sheep manure, fire it over a primi-tive pit and paint it with the tip of a yucca leaf.

The gallery also carries a vari-ety of high-quality weavings, some large, loosely woven and

brightly colored, others small, tightly woven and naturally col-ored. Whatever the design, how-

ever, Mattheis worries that weav-ing is a dying art.

“Weavings are time consum-

ing,” he said. “There just aren’t many weavers left out there doing high-quality work.”

–––––––––––––––––––––Two Grey Hills Indian Art

110 E. Broadway733-2677

FineIndianArt.com–––––––––––––––––––––

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Painter Prugh embraces diversity, while sculptor Gaan imbues personality.

By Findley Merritt

V ertical Peaks Fine Art is known for its eclectic mix. A ballerina stretches next to a portrait of a sun-stained cowboy, while a horse sculp-ture gallops beside an ammonite necklace.

“It’s not all one genre,” co-owner Lynne Harrick said. “We put things in here that we like.”

During Fall Arts Festival, the gallery will feature two artists.

Jackson’s Peggy Prugh will share her paintings dur-ing Palates & Palettes, 5 to 8 p.m. Sept. 9.

And Vertical Peaks newcomer Tracey Gaan will bring her contemporary sculptures 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 10. Each will attend her reception.

Prugh, a friend of Harrick’s, began her career as an artist after she retired from teaching English for 30 years at Jackson Hole High School. Immediately after teaching her last class, she drove to New Mexico to take a watercolor class. That experience set the stage for her exploration of art.

While landscapes lure many valley artists, Prugh is drawn to a diversity of mediums and subjects.

With opaque watercolor paints, she explores the many facets of the modern woman, from a Spanish dancer to a woman lost in thought.

Pastels seem suited to quiet scenes, like a morning in Provence, a gliding sailboat or birds speckling a shoreline.

“It’s an oddity,” she said. “Not a lot of people do pastels in the val-ley because oil paint is king.”

In contrast, Gaan, a Washington native, began her creative journey as a child.

At 5 years old, she won an award at the Bellevue Art Fair for her two sculpture entries and continued on to win many local, state and nation-

al competitions.However, her bronze casting took a back seat while

she attended the University of Washington and then began a fam-ily with her husband.

It wasn’t until she overcame a battle with blindness — with the help of artificial lens implants and several surgeries — that her pas-sion for art was restored.

Gaan is known for her contemporary wildlife sculptures, like a hunter surveying with his dogs or

“African Slippers,” a train of marching elephants. She endows her sculptures with humor by exaggerating certain characteristics of her subjects: an elongated horse’s tail, a puppy’s pillowed feet.

“If art is too serious, it feels stiff to me,” she said in a statement. “Most animals have playful moments that show their personality and humor.”

At Vertical Peaks, Harrick considers Fall Arts an opportunity to introduce new artists, thereby helping them find their footing in the community. As such, the gallery will feature one or two additional artists alongside Gaan and Prugh.

–––––––––––––––––––––Vertical Peaks Fine Art165 N. Center Street

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Gallery rides in 3 Fall Arts arenas.

By Dina Mishev

Like Cayuse Western Americana itself, the gal-lery’s Fall Arts Festival schedule is packed.

Cayuse is participating in the Western Design Conference, hosting silversmith Susan Adams at the gallery and stag-ing an exhibition that celebrates Women of the West.

At the Western Design Conference, Cayuse will show work by Adams, Jack Walker, Clint Orms Engravers, Ricarda McCleary Clause and others. The conference runs Sept. 7 to Sept. 11.

“I didn’t show at last year’s due to everyone’s schedule conflicts,” Cayuse owner Mary Schmitt said, “so it’s almost like we’re starting afresh this year.”

Fresh start aside, Cayuse has Adams’ successful history to fall back on. Adams has won at least three awards at past conferences, including Best in Show in 2008.

“Susan really ... knocks herself out to make a pedestal piece she’s proud of,” Schmitt said. “She’s been attending the conference since before it moved here from Cody.”

Even though Adams loves attending the conference, “she doesn’t have it in her to shame-lessly self-promote,” Schmitt said, “So I do it for her.”

Clint Orms will likely have a pedestal piece, too, though he won’t attend the conference due to conflicts with another show.

Adams’ pedestal piece this year is a sterling silver Martini shaker. Schmitt said she was partly inspired by a private commission.

“The design came to her after a trip to an incredible junkyard near

her home in Virginia,” Schmitt said. “The place was sort of lost in time, with trees growing through cars. She went through it with friends and found some art deco hood ornaments,” which inspired the art deco Indian Chief’s profile incorporated into the shaker.

While several pieces of Adams’

work will be on display at the con-ference, even more will be back at Cayuse. Schmitt has had a show for Adams at the gallery every year since it opened in the mid-1990s.

In addition to larger silver pieces, Adams also makes jewelry, cleverly bridging traditional and contemporary. In the past, she has

done pieces based on spur rowels — the small, revolving wheel at the back of the spur. She researched vintage rowels, re-created them in silver and gold miniatures and then linked them together for dis-tinctive pieces of jewelry.

Lately, she has been experi-menting with repousse, a raised

design made by hammering a thin-ner gauge of silver or gold from the back. Mexican silversmiths used this technique in the 1940s, and it can be seen in different eras in Europe and North Africa.

Cayuse’s other show, Women of the West, “is a theme that comes up in my world quite a bit,” Schmitt said.

The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas, where Schmitt is on the acquisitions committee, decided to bring its board of directors and others to Jackson for a “thank you” trip during the Fall Arts Festival.

“I decided to honor them by putting together a small show of cowgirl artifacts for the public to see,” Schmitt said. Many of the 25 items will be for sale. The rest are from private collections.

“The cowboy period of Western history was among one of the shortest cultural periods in history,” Schmitt said. Its golden age was 1860 to 1940. “There really weren’t all that many cowboys, and therefore not very much cow-boy gear in the whole scheme of things. Cowgirls were even fewer. That said, putting together any size collection is quite a feat.”

The show includes photos of Alberta Claire, a Wyoming girl who, in 1912, embarked on an 8,000-mile horseback journey — riding astride, rather than side-saddle, no less! — to promote a women’s right to vote. There are also spurs, a bronc belt and cuffs, an early split riding skirt, beaded vest, hat and boots from the 1910-rodeo era.

From silver works to cowgirl spurs–––––––––––––––––––––

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Artist stages a retrospective of his equestrian and wildlife sculpture.

By Caitlin Clark

On the fringe of the festive events adorning downtown Jackson lies an art opportunity in Wilson. At Mortensen Studios, John

Mortensen shares his art and works in progress that he hopes speak to every-one who has spent time in Jackson.

Within his home/studio compound, his sculptures are set against an exqui-site Fish Creek backdrop. Rarely is art displayed in situ — in the exact envi-ronment that inspired it. This singu-lar symmetry is evident with one step onto the property.

“The landscape is definitely the backdrop for the inspiration and cre-ation of my work,” said Mortensen. “Without our peaks, forests, rivers and streams, our wildlife and ranch life would not exist.”

Weaving through grazing buffalo and thirsty cranes crafted in bronze, the wildlife works seem poised to move.

The intricate realism of Mortensen’s sculptures paired with the unadulter-ated nature that surrounds them blurs the boundary between imagination and reality. His art impresses as stand-alone works and when experienced as a whole.

In addition to sculpture, Mortensen makes furnishings and lighting. His imaginative Western intepretations of household items, from nightstands to chandeliers, turn practicality into panache.

His decorative works range in style from classic cowboy and wildlife accents to Native American flare.

Each piece is a wholly different homage to an aesthetic current run-ning through this part of the country.

Mortensen imbues everything he makes, from a piece of furniture to a life-size bronze, with its own individuality.

“As an artist, one is always looking for that special gesture or antic of the subject that creates the most powerful work,” he said.

His work is at once precise and uni-versal. It elicits an understanding of the relationship between subject and artist that is both cohesive and mysterious.

“I enjoy riding the trails under the Tetons and seeing wildlife from the back of a horse, quietly moving among them,” he said. “It is these intimate, momentary views of wildlife in their natural environs that spark the creation of new works.”

Intimacy is exactly what Mortensen captures, and what a visit to his studio embodies.

Visitors can see works in progress as well as a retrospective of over 30 years of equestrian and wildlife sculpture.

Mortensen’s work lives in Jackson Lake Lodge, the Wilderness Lodge at Disney World and private homes and commercial buildings throughout the country.

Sculptures in situ

–––––––––––––––––––––John Mortensen StudiosViewings by appointment

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Western Visions introduces the artists behind wildlife art.

By Sarah Reese

T he bull elk in Bart Walter’s “Wapiti Trail” bugles from atop a boulder at the entrance to the National Museum of Wildlife

Art, as if inviting passing travelers to stop and explore.

For anyone who has ever answered the bronze elk’s call, explored the museum and left hungry for more, this year’s Western Visions will be the place to be during Fall Arts Festival.

Western Vision introduces the art-ists behind the art, like Walter, this year’s featured sculptor. Visitors will have two chances to talk with Walter. On Sept. 15, he will give a workshop fol-lowed by a luncheon. Then, that night, he will be on hand at the 24th annual Wild West Artist Party.

Walker created three sculptures for the Miniatures and More Show and Sale, the signature event of Western Visions, which features more than 160 juried artists. The show spans styles, from traditional to contemporary, and sizes, from miniature to “more.”

Some of the partic-ipating artists — such as Walter and this year’s featured painter, Daniel Smith — enjoy the esteem of having work in the museum’s permanent collection. Others received invi-tations because they are of the caliber to one day be in the col-lection, Jennifer Lee, Western Visions and exhibitions manager, said.

With a long list of established artists who participate year after year, few spac-es remain for newcomers, Adam Harris, curator of art, said. To fill those openings, the selection committee seeks out works that are new and exciting, he said.

“We really want to encourage young-er artists,” Harris said. “We hope that through our selection process we’re able to do that, so you have in the show this great mix of experienced and up-

and-coming artists.”“Miniature” means

paintings must be lim-ited to 9 by 12 inches. About 50 artists have been invited to create paintings and sculp-tures that exceed the size limits, Lee said.

Instead of provid-ing an artist state-ment, each partici-pant answered three questions asked by the museum: How do you know when a work of art is fin-ished? What is your

favorite art-making tool? What is your preferred subject to create? This is the second year the museum has taken a Q&A approach to connecting artists to their work. The change proved so popular last year, organizers brought it back, Lee said.

“People really like to read about the

artist and learn about how or why they became an artist or their philosophy on their type of medium,” she said.

Artwork in the Miniatures and More Show and Sale is already on display. Admission to the show and sale on Sept. 16 costs $75.

For the first time in its 24 years, Western Visions is going digital, Lee said. The museum will be using a digi-tal bidding system, and participants can download Microsoft Tag Reader onto their smartphones to communi-cate information about events.

Before bidding, collectors can get to know artists in person at the Wild West Party from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Sept. 15. The presale fete gives visitors a chance to talk with Western Visions artists in a more intimate setting than the Miniatures and More sale, Lee said.

“It’s a really nice change to meet the artists and ask them why they painted this piece,” Lee said.

Admission Sept. 15 costs $200, which includes dinner and wine. Jackson 6 will play Dixieland jazz, and there will be a cash bar.

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Western Visions features a flurry of events leading up to the culminating Miniatures and More Show and Sale.

New this year, the museum hosts a Palates & Palettes preparty from 3 to 5 p.m. Sept. 9, featuring mini quesadillas and margaritas prepared by the Rising Safe Cafe.

The fifth annual Sketch Show and Sale and the second annual Original Prints Show and Sale opened in August and close Sept. 25.

On Sept. 13, join this year’s featured painter, Daniel Smith, for a glass of wine and a workshop from 5 to 7 p.m. Those with an eye for sculpture can join featured sculptor Bart Walter for a workshop and luncheon Sept. 15.

Women will have the first opportunity to view and purchase the wearable art in the Jewelry and Artisan Show and Sale during a luncheon Sept. 14 at Hotel Terra in Teton Village. The show then runs Sept. 15 and 16 at the museum.

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Intuition flies freeBack to a more ‘impulsive style,’ Norgate gets Diehl spotlight.

By Dina Mishev

T he show is called “Risk Everything,” but, by fea-turing the work of Sheila Norgate, whose last two solo shows here have sold out, it’s not a risk. It’s Diehl Gallery’s major Fall Arts Festival show.

“Risk Everything” hangs Sept. 9 through Sept. 30. Norgate will attend the opening reception from 5 to 9 p.m. Sept. 9 during Palates & Palettes. As always with Diehl Gallery, a portion of the proceeds from the show will ben-efit a local nonprofit, the Jackson Hole Land Trust.

Norgate, a native of Canada, fills her work with humor and motifs. To Diehl, she brings not only a completely new body of work but also a renaissance of her early, more intu-itive style of painting.

“My work the past few years got more conceptual,” she said. “For much of it, I had an idea about what I was going to do. I don’t sketch, but I arrived at the canvas with a rough idea of what I wanted. That wasn’t the way I had started painting. In this new work, I’m returning to my old style — impul-sive, intuitive, freer.”

By following her intuition, Norgate relinquishes control of the final composition.

“It’s riskier,” she said. “Sometimes I get started, and it looks like I don’t know what I’m doing, and then out comes something I had no idea was there.”

Norgate said she has gotten “fabulous feedback” from those who have seen the work.

“I found out that some people, including some of my dealers, had been quietly hoping I’d return to this more impulsive style,” she said.

The works are still a mix of Norgate painting around images clipped from posters or books. Rather than ani-mals though, the “Risk Everything” paintings feature vin-tage circus-poster images of women flying through the air attached by wires or ropes.

“For me, it’s about flying rather than hanging,” she

said. “It’s about giving up the bonds or constraints, or whatever metaphor you want to use, and letting go.”

Before, instead of flying, she plotted.On the evening of Sept. 14, Norgate’s solo exhibition

will share the gallery with new works by the five Diehl artists asked to participate in the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s 2011 Western Visions Miniatures and More

Show and Sale.Diehl’s “Western Visions Celebration

Salon” will spotlight Simon Gudgeon, Richard Painter, Les Thomas, Susan Goldsmith and collaborating artists Anke Schofield and Luis Garcia-Nerey.

This year marks the first Western Visions show for all except Gudgeon,

who was the event’s featured sculptor last year. “All of a sudden, we went from having one artist,

Simon, in Western Visions to having five,” gallery owner Mariam Diehl said.

“Historically, the gallery has always had artists in the show, but as we’ve become more contemporary and have fewer artists doing wildlife work, we’ve had fewer artists participating,” Diehl said. “So this is our return to the show, and I feel we’re returning full force with five amazing artists.”

To celebrate this feat, the gallery will host the Celebration Salon from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 14.

“Even though we have a full show up for Sheila, we still wanted to recognize these five artists, so we’re having a one-evening celebration,” Diehl said.

Richard Painter, known for charred wood panel works like “Sleeper,” makes his Western Visions debut this year.

Shelia Norgate “Dog Whispers” mixed media

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Detailed discoveriesPhotographer captures rare moments in naturenear home and far away.

By Kevin Huelsmann

F resh from a trip watching wilde-beests migrate across Kenya, globe-trotting photographer Tom Mangelsen will have a chance

to kick up his feet and simply hang out during Fall Arts Festival.

He is expected to be in his downtown gallery, Mangelsen Images of Nature, 6 to 9 p.m. Sept. 10.

The annual gallery walk during Fall Arts Festival affords the prolific pho-tographer some time to chat with area residents and visitors who are interest-ed in his work.

The night, and the opportunity to connect with viewers, is something Mangelsen enjoys and looks forward to, gallery director Dana Turner said.

“It’s always a wonderful party,” Turner said.

The gallery plans to display new pho-tographs from Mangelsen’s recent excur-sions in Grand Teton National Park. Images of the Tetons’ beloved grizzly 399 and her cubs will grace the walls. In “The Queen’s Legacy,” the famous bear is sniffing the air, a gesture mimicked by her offspring as they trail their mother.

Another new picture, “Eyes of the Grizzly,” shows Mangelsen’s attention to detail and ability to pick up every last one. The photograph is a tight close-up of a large blond grizzly. Viewers can delve deep into every detail: the bear’s penetrating eyes, the blade of grass in its

mouth, the twig stuck in its fur.Early one morning in the park,

Mangelsen captured a stunning scene: a grizzly walking across the shallows of the Snake River, shrouded in early morning mist, on the trail of an elk carcass on the opposite bank.

Mangelsen will also share “Teton Gold,” a new photograph of vivid yellow flowers set against a Tetons backdrop.

Though much of his recent work is root-

ed in the valley, the gallery also has new images from his native Nebraska. The pho-tographer regularly returns home, some-

times taking time to visit with noted anthro-pologist Jane Goodall.

On one recent trip, Mangelsen pho-tographed sandhill cranes. The image, slated to be on display during Fall Arts, shows

several cranes taking flight from a larger group roosting on the Platte River. The scene is cast in soft grays, the product of

a late-spring snowstorm. Scenes from Mangelsen’s trip to

Kenya last year also are bound for the gallery’s walls.

Mangelsen visited Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. One image from the trip shows wildebeests migrat-ing south toward the Serengeti. An aca-cia tree looms in the foreground as the day’s last light casts rays of gold against an expansive blue sky.

The new photographs will be on dis-play alongside Mangelsen’s vast body of work at his multistory gallery one block north of Town Square.

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Self-taught geniusHeather James introducesthe oeuvre of Earl Cunningham.

By Katy Niner

Self-taught modernist Earl Cunningham realized in his art an American Eden that evaded him in life.

Born in 1893 near Boothbay Harbor, Maine, Cunningham left home at age 13 to become an itin-

erant peddler. He made his first $5 by selling a painting on scrap wood.

As an artist-tinker, he adventured to new places, acquired new skills and met new friends like Captain Foster, skipper of J.P. Morgan’s yacht. Thus began his lifelong love of sail-ing. He worked as a seaman on large schooners carrying coal and cargo up the Eastern seaboard. Wanderlust would forever tinge his perspective on the world and his place in it.

In 1949, Cunningham settled in St. Augustine, Fla., and founded Open Fork Gallery, a curio shop and art gallery. A curmudgeonly storekeeper, he kept his paintings in a locked back room opened only for a select few. With age, Cunningham grew distrustful and paranoid, which drove him deeper into his creative Eden.

Transcending the inner turmoil of his life, he achieved harmony and hope in his art. Art historian Robert Hobbs, who has written extensively on Cunningham, likens his practice to Tibetan monks’ mandalas, ritual creations that, in the making, mediate between the conscious and the unconscious, the self and the greater whole.

Cunningham expressed emotion through strong color and skewed scale. A natural colorist, he choose vivid hues, often using commer-cial house paints. Through his art, he presented history anew, albeit nostalgi-cally. Norse explorers, Native Americans and birds figure prominently in his paintings. The sea pervades, symbolic of freedom, and its harbors suggest safety. His long-planned but never-acquired houseboat appears often.

Carefully composed, his coastal landscapes explore symmetry and achieve balance by flattening elements — clouds, houses, trees — into patterns. His dreamscapes thus became predictable, unfolding as the inevitable reality

he imagined them to be.Cunningham painted on Masonite, which lends a pol-

ished sheen to his paintings. He then worked the surface, scratching through paint to underscore forms, combing in shapes, laying on impasto for bark, inviting places for the underpainting to peak through.

His saturated palette and paint-erly technique earned him the title of “American Fauve” and a connection to French Fauvists like Matisse. His color mastery also recalls the post-impres-sionist style of Van Gogh, the French symbolist movement of artists like Gauguin and the tonalists, Hobbs wrote.

In 1961, Cunningham sent a paint-ing to Jacqueline Kennedy. It now hangs in the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston. Cunningham took great pride in the fact that “The Everglades” lived in the Kennedys’ collection.

Cunningham hoped to house his Edenic oeuvre in a

museum. Although unable to realize this plan in his lifetime — he committed suicide in 1977, at age 84 — his dream is now a reality at the Mennello Museum of American Art in Orlando, Fla.

In 1969, Marilyn Mennello purchased a marine paint-ing from Cunningham himself. After his death, she and her husband Michael, set out to find and collect as many of his paintings as they could. They now hold the majority of his 405 known works, a selection of which Heather James Fine Art is hosting.

Heather James Fine Art curator Chip Tom considers Cunningham’s work quintessentially American and likens his genius to that of France’s Henri Rousseau.

On Sept. 8, the Jackson gallery opens “Earl Cunningham: American Fauve,” a gathering of 30 of his pieces. A portion of the proceeds from the show will benefit the Mennello Museum of American Art endowment. The show remains in Jackson through Oct. 29 and then travels to gallery own-ers James Carona and Heather Sacre’s other gallery in Palm Desert, Calif.

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Illuminating exhibitArt advisor finds living with a show all summer opens new windowson important works.

By Katy Niner

Camille Obering has spent the summer living with the work of two leading contemporary art-ists — Dale Chihuly and Tara

Donovan — in her west bank condo.She knows each piece intimately now:

the luminosity of Donovan’s paper-plate orbs, the translucent depths of Chihuly’s glass vessels.

In building the show “Organic Forms: Dale Chihuly and Tara Donovan,” Obering tied the two artists’ work by the thread of nature. Now, she sees their dynamic inter-action with light as an extension of that organic connection. These are forms that respond to rays as a living organism might.

On Sept. 15, Obering is hosting a recep-tion for the show, starting at 6 p.m. For her address, contact her at 917-617-1207 or [email protected]. Otherwise, “Organic Forms” is open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week by appointment.

The domestic staging of the show harks back to a time before the prolifera-tion of galleries, when artists would show their work in apartments as an alterna-tive to a formal exhibition space, Obering said. Gertrude Stein famously turned her Parisian apartment into a salon for work by Picasso, Matisse and Cezanne — art no gallery would show.

Seeing the seven sculptures in Obering’s home gives collectors a better sense of what a piece might look like in

their own space, how the nestled folds of Chihuly’s “Liqueur Green Persian Set with Chinese Red Lip Wraps” interacts with a bookshelf beside it. A less con-trolled environment, the domestic stag-ing offers a fuller expe-rience of the art.

Both artists work to understand and honor nature.

Chihuly, leader of the glass arts move-ment, has been using blown glass to explore color and form since the 1960s.

“He is a pioneer, breaking down bound-aries between what is considered craft and fine art,” Obering said.

“He has transcended those stereotypes and been extremely influential for his

contemporaries and future generations of glass artists.”

Chihuly allows hot glass to find its own shape through gravity. Thus, his vessels channel the grace of organic life. “Norse

Blue Macchia with Cheer Yellow Lip Wrap” unfolds as a sea creature or flower would.

The work in “Organic Forms” fuse influences spanning Chihuly’s ill-ustrious oeuvre. The geometric markings

and vivacious colors of “Jungle Green Soft Cylinder with Sulfur Yellow Lip Wrap” and “Pine Green Soft Cylinder with Deep Blue Lip Wrap” reflect his enduring interest in the baskets of the Northwest Coast Indians.

Donovan, recipient of a 2008 MacArthur

“Genius” Grant, takes commonplace mate-rials — plastic buttons, paper plates, tape, toothpicks, disposable cups — and puts them together “en masse,” Obering said. Transcending their original state, the sculp-tures evoke biomorphic forms.

“Donovan’s sculptures seduce viewers to take a closer look,” Obering said, “only to surprise them at how the object has transcended its medium.”

In “Bluffs,” thousands of plastic buttons, stacked atop each other echo stalagmites or mountain bluffs. Donovan works with a material for a certain period of time and, once satisfied with her exploration of it, never returns to that material again. “Bluffs” is one of her last button pieces.

Donovan sees in a simple paper plate — with its scalloped edges — a whis-per of movement that can be amplified when amassed. Her “Untitled (Paper Plates)” gracefully grows in ways sug-gesting globular crystalline, cellular growth, even coral reefs.

Living with the paper plates, Obering has delighted in their surprising response to light. She expected the buttons to shim-mer, but not the plates, as they do at sunset. Night too, finds them radiating.

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Jackson embraces public art, welcomes three new installations.

Meg Daly

P ublic art is popping up all over Jackson. Rather than just playful decor, many of the public art proj-ects are evidence that we are part

of a larger national phenomenon called “creative placemaking.”

Cities across the country are leveraging the arts to help shape and revitalize their char-acters. As National Endowment for the Arts chairman Rocco Landesman says, “Art works across America to help shape communities where residents want to live, work and play.”

In Jackson, where “sense of place” is already a strong value, public art has been warmly received. The next six months will see the installation of three significant pub-lic art projects: the new Home Ranch build-ing, the North Highway 89 underpass retain-ing walls and the bike racks at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Not surprisingly, all

three incorporate images of wildlife, albeit in inventive ways. All three also support non-motorized transportation, by bike or by foot.

“Public art is important on so many lev-els,” said Jane Lavino, curator of education at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. “It can serve as a unifying force in a community, and it definitely energizes public spaces. In a space vibrant with public art, people stop, question, interact, converse and become gen-erally more ‘present’ in that space instead of just walking through it.”

Colorado-based sculptor Don Rambadt created a three-part design for the new

North Highway 89 pathway underpass that gives cyclists and pedestrians safe passage beneath the busy road and leads them up to the wildlife museum’s new sculpture trail. The tunnel gateway provides what Jackson Hole Public Art Initiative Director Carrie Geraci calls “the ‘wow’ element.”

The underpass wings will feature an Aspen grove made from mirror-polished stainless steel, a surface so smooth it will literally reflect the surrounding scenery of the National Elk Refuge. As viewers exit the tunnel on the museum side, they will be greeted by a string of ravens in playful chase along the long northwest retaining wall. Ultimately, when visitors leave the museum and descend toward the underpass, they will pass a wall that depicts six major plant com-munities found on the refuge.

Rambadt finds public art allows viewers to interact with art on their own terms.

“One could contemplate a particular piece every day if they chose to,” he said, “and each experience would be a little dif-ferent, depending on the surrounding atmo-sphere and their own frame of mind. There’s no set times to view it, no admission to pay, and the viewer can get as close to the work as they care to without fear of setting off an alarm or raising an eyebrow.”

Geraci said Rambadt’s thoughtfulness impressed the selection panel. He immediate-ly recognized the raven as “an iconic creature in our community,” she said.

Already at the museum are six new bike racks designed by Jackson artist Ben Roth. The metal racks take the shape of a fox, a raven and a black bear — silhouettes he sketched while perusing the museum’s collection.

“For an artist to go sketch from the muse-um’s collection and then create art from art is very witty,” Geraci said. “I’m excited to see young people pull up to the racks on their bikes. It will be a memorable, whimsical experience.”

Jackson artist John Frechette has been working closely with Carney, Logan and Burke Architects on the public art component of the Home Ranch public restroom facility under construction at the corner of North Cache Street and East Gill Avenue. Frechette is cre-ating colorful DNA “maps” of a grizzly bear and a bison from fused glass bricks that will be built into a metal screen wrapping around the facade of the building.

“I’m still in a state of awe about John Frechette’s walls,” Geraci said. “The goal was to identify the building as different, and it will be. The colored light filtering through the glass and touching people will be amazing.”

A smaller public art project, The Poetry Box, has been quietly dispensing free poems by local and regional poets this summer. Also designed by Frechette, the box travels between various local venues. It’s been in residence at Teton County Library, the Center for the Arts and Valley Bookstore, and now it resides at Shades Cafe.

Frechette feels public art enhances community.

“It’s important that people see art in their everyday lives, not just confined to galleries,” he said.

The Jackson Hole Public Art Initiative administered all of the aforementioned projects. Geraci believes public art is an essential tool in telling the evolving story of Jackson Hole.

“Public art is part of designing civic spaces that are interesting and memorable and that build community and educate visitors about our core values,” she said.


John Frechette’s glass piece for the new Home Ranch building represents mapped bear DNA.

Art meets place

Ben Roth fashioned animal silhouette bike racks for the National Museum of Wildlife Art.


Western fixture explores contemporary art.

By Dina Mishev

A bastion of Western art, West Lives On saw collectors’ growing interest in the contempo-rary work it showed. So, when space in the new Wort Plaza opened up, the gallery seized

the opportunity to explore contemporary Western art. West Lives On Contemporary opened in early July.“Our collectors had been showing interest in the few

contemporary artists we carried in West Lives On,” said Terry Ray, owner of both galleries. “When the space next door to West Lives On opened up, we thought we’d expand our contemporary offerings. West Lives On has always been pretty traditional.”

West Lives on Contemporary is making the most of its first Fall Arts Festival. On Sept. 18, it’s hosting an open house with new work by all its artists and brunch pro-vided by The Wort Hotel.

Already, the gallery has a strong stable of artists, several of whom moved from the original gallery into the extension.

“Nancy Cawdrey was one of our top sellers [at the original gallery],” Ray said. He expects her to be the same at the new gallery.

Sculptor Robert Ball also moved into the new gallery. His wildlife are whimsical rather than scientific.

“I believe animals are similar to people in that each is an individual in their appearance and behavior,” he wrote in his artist statement. “I try to bring that out in my work by focusing on their body attitude and facial expression.”

Cawdrey’s subjects are wide-ranging — from chick-ens to bison to bears — but her palette is focused on bright colors.

“Nancy’s style, from her colors to her doing so much of her painting on silk, is totally unique,” Ray said. “People have tried to imitate her, but no one has.”

Other West Lives On Contemporary artists include Carol Hagan and Jenny Foster.

Self-taught, Hagan discovered painting after her son was born in 1987.

“I was searching for an occupation that would allow me to stay at home and raise my child and still make ends meet,” she wrote on her website.

Hagan, too, uses vibrant colors in her paintings of wild-life, horses and landscapes.

“My paintings come from my heart,” she wrote. “They are a contemporary expression of my subject matter, both through my choices of vibrant color and textures that I use.”

Foster’s paintings are primitive yet contemporary. She describes them as “purposely reckless.”

“Too much attention to the realistic aspects of the sub-ject takes away the energy and charm of my style,” she wrote in her artist statement. “[My] goal is to create pieces that speak to the heart immediately.”

Oftentimes, Foster’s work makes people smile. Most of her animals have spiderlike legs stretching across the can-vas and are colored in ways you’d never find in nature: a purple pony, a turquoise duck. You wouldn’t be surprised to find a painting of Foster’s next to “joyful” in the dictionary.

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Alley artStreet art coming tocanvases live inGaslight Alley.

By Abbie Beane

O ften outshined by Western art, Jackson Hole’s up-and-coming contemporary artists are staging a twist on the traditional artist

demonstration. Expect large canvases, loud colors and uncon-ventional materials.

During the first weekend of Fall Arts Festival, Tristan Greszko, Travis Walker and Aaron Wallis — the artists behind Teton Artlab, a nonprofit dedicated to the education and exhibition of emerg-ing artists — will spend two days outdoors working on 3-by-7-foot canvases in Gaslight Alley. Stencils, paint, graffiti, photography and mixed media will all come into play. Organizers hope to enlist as many as six artists for the Sept. 10 and 11 event and to showcase as many styles as possible.

The demos are the doing of John Frechette, owner of MADE, a retail outpost for function and wearable art.

“The question was how to get involved

in the festival in a fun way without tra-ditional palettes,” Frechette said. “The festival provides opportunities for peo-ple with galleries, but how do we high-light local and contemporary and non-traditional art? So I rallied the troops in Gaslight Alley.”

The artists will work during the day, under no time limit, and their work will remain up all weekend. All of the art will be for sale, with all of the proceeds benefiting the local artists.

“We’ll be figuring out how to do con-temporary art, or street art, on a canvas rather than on a wall,” Frechette said.

Greszko, Walker and Wallis plan to create one collaborative canvas as well as three separate

pieces. Greszko is known for his adven-ture photography and mixed-media work. Walker creates contemporary landscapes of quintessential Jackson scenes, including buildings, streets and alleyways co-existing with nature. Wallis recontexualizes hip-hop celebrities like Public Enemy and Slick Rick amid religious iconography.

“We’re going to leave it open, do our own thing, come out with some surpris-es,” Walker said. “We don’t want to plan the work too much. It doesn’t work well that way.”

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Departing from its wildlife and landscape norm, Jack Dennis’ Wyoming Gallery will feature a figurative painter as its artist-in-

residence during Fall Arts Festival. Albin Veselka, 31, of Rexburg, Idaho, will

greet visitors during Palates & Palettes on Sept. 9 and also do an afternoon demonstra-tion Sept. 10.

“He’s extremely talented,” gallery direc-tor Corinne Elliott said. “He’s young and going places.”

Despite his current focus on the figure, Veselka’s work cannot be confined to a spe-cific genre. Early on, he gained recognition for his impressionist landscape and wildlife paintings. Since then, however, he has tran-sitioned to figurative and expressionist art.

“Composition is really important to me,” he said, “and I can do that more freely with models. I enjoy people and the process of getting to know the person.”

Veselka originally intended to become an architect until a college trip to the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Being in the pres-ence of paintings by Carl Rungius, Bob Kuhn, Ken Carlson and Thomas Moran proved life changing. After his epiphany at the museum, he started his formal art train-ing at Brigham Young University, Idaho.

Since, he has participated in many Western art shows. His art is for sale at The Hole in the Wall Gallery in Montana and The Mountain House Gallery in Idaho.

“I see something beautiful in my sub-ject, and that’s why I paint them,” he said in a statement. “I strive to communicate that beauty to my audience, and when I achieve that goal, it creates a type of visual music that makes life good.”

Veselka likes to work surrounded by peo-ple. His studio is always open to the public, and he invites people to come through as

he paints. Last year at Wyoming Gallery, he painted on the deck and welcomed ques-tions from spectators.

“He’s a lot of fun to have in here,” Elliott said.

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Fashion, furniture designers find inspiration at annual conference.

By Sarah Reese

F rom the Rhinestone Rembrandt to the woman voted best country chic designer by the editors of Vogue and Elle, fashion artists find fulfilment at

the Western Design Conference.The conference’s annual Fashion and

Jewelry Show encourages artists to experi-ment and evolve, said Celeste Sotola, whose Montana Dreamwear line of wearable art won Best Fashion Collection and Best Art to Wear at last year’s conference.

“It’s not a trade show,” Sotola said of the conference. “It’s not a show about what’s the newest thing in style, what’s the new color for the fall, what’s the hot new finish for furniture. It’s none of that.

“It’s the West, but it’s living and it’s relevant and it’s vibrant and it’s juicy and it’s full of love,” she said. “The people that do this, they have love. It’s not manufactured in another country and then shipped back here. ... You can’t get that anywhere else.”

Such is the ethos of the Western Design Conference, known as the world’s pre-eminent exhibition of Western furniture, fashion and accessories. The conference stokes Western creativity by showcasing one-of-a-kind, muse-um-quality, functional art by top designers, artists, artisans and architects.

Founded 19 years ago in Cody, the confer-ence moved to Jackson in 2007 with its acqui-sition by Powder Mountain Press LLC.

This year’s conference, staged Sept. 8 through 11, features more than 100 exhibi-tion venues at the Exhibit and Sale, $22,000 in awards, lectures on aesthetic topics, and a glamorous gala kick-off Fashion and Jewelry Show at the Center for the Arts.

The Sept. 8 gala begins with the live model jewelry show and champagne reception at 6 p.m. Then, the conference debuts its new Winners Circle Art Auction to support its awards fund, event manager Allison Merritt said. Five of the conference’s previous award winners have donated new works for the auc-tion. Items include a rifleman’s frock by Supaya Gray Wolfe, a small side table by Lester Santos, a necklace by Susan Adams, a miniature love seat for children by John Gallis, and a man’s and a woman’s hat by Sotola.

Also at the gala, the conference announces its Design Excellence Awards.

After the auction and awards, the fashion show begins with music by Santos, a wood-worker, and metalworkers JT Craft and R.C. Merrill, performing together for the first time, Merritt said.

Having participated in past fashion shows, Sotola finds the atmosphere nurtures creativity.

“I’ve been to the conference three times,” she said. “Every year, my design expands by more than double from the year before, and it’s because there’s a feeling of being told you have permission to create, to come up with what-ever you can think of.”

Her modern interpretations of Western fashion draw from her background in French couture and her research of early American and Native American clothing.

Montana Dreamwear was recently named

best country chic designer at the 2011 Dressed to Kilt fashion show in New York City.

While Sotola is relatively new to the con-ference, Nashville, Tenn., designer Manuel will be returning for the first time since it moved from Cody. He looks forward to rejoining the talented pool of designers.

“You see the talent that is going up, and when you look at me — I’m going up,” the sep-tuagenarian designer said, joking.

With clients such as Johnny Cash, Elvis, the Lone Ranger, Madonna and Jack White, Manuel is often called the Rhinestone Rembrandt.

To the Western Design Conference, Manuel brings his United States collection of red-white-and-blue-studded jackets, a project he began in the mid-1990s as an expression of gratitude for the oppor-tunities he has enjoyed.

To suss out each state’s character, Manuel traveled the country and talked to people, learning what they found most interest-ing about their states and whether any iconic land-marks or people should be included in the jackets, his daughter, Jesse-Justin Cuevas, said.

Like most of his creations, each of the 50 bolero-style jackets is handmade. He set every rhinestone by hand and hand-stitched all of the embroidery, Cuevas said.

The collection will emerge from storage for the first time in several years during the Western Design Conference. Fifty models wearing the 50 jackets and 50 pairs of boots created by Tres Outlaws Boot Co. will walk the runway during the Fashion and Jewelry Show.

Manuel’s jackets also will be on display dur-ing the Exhibit and Sale, which runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 9 to 11, at the Snow King Pavilion. Visitors to his booth — shared with Tres Outlaws — will find two racks of clothes for men and women and a bevy of clutches, wallets and belts, all as glitzed up as his clothes, Cuevas said.

As the Rhinestone Rembrandt moniker suggests, Manuel is revered for his rhinestone

mastery. Yet, he won’t take credit as a pioneer.“I’m sure rhinestones have existed for years

and years,” he said, “but if you want to talk about a person that went bananas with it, that was me. You can blame me for that one.”

He recognizes they aren’t for everyone. He prefers to limit the embellishments on his own clothing to embroidery, he said. And he never put Johnny Cash in rhinestones.

“His character is so different,” he said. “His charisma was amazing. His nose was enough. He didn’t need a rhinestone on top of his nose. He was the man. The man in black. I just dressed him in black.”

He’s humble about his high-profile clients.

“If you have a candy story, you get to know all the kids in town,” he said.

While the celebrity of some of his clients might pique the public’s interest, the majority of the people he makes clothes for are private individuals from all different walks of life, he said, from ranchers to lawyers.

When he sets out to create custom pieces for clients, he studies their characters and observes their tastes as they browse his shop in Tennessee, he said.

Manuel fell in love with tailoring when his brother challenged him to make a pair of jeans when he was 7 years old. He arrived in Los Angeles, Calif., in the 1950s, working for tailors and costumers, he said. He opened his own shop in West Hollywood, and relocated to Nashville in 1989.

“I’m so thankful, and I feel so privileged that so many wonderful people come and shop here,” he said of his store.

For those keen to learn more about Manuel, he will hold a question-and-answer session at 1 p.m. Sept. 10 at Snow King. On Sept. 8, this year’s Fall Arts Festival artist, Dwayne Harty, will present a lecture titled “Yellowstone to Yukon” at 2 p.m.

Admission to the Exhibit and Sale costs $15 and offers entrance into the talks with Hardy and Manuel.

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Supaya Gray Wolf’s rifleman’s frock is one of the items in the Winners Circle Art Auction, to be held Sept. 8.

Celeste Sotola of Mountain Dreamwear created this hat.

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Restaurants, chefs serve smallplates at Taste of the Tetons.

By Mark Wilcox

T he old saying goes, “The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.” If that’s true, Taste of the Tetons should enfold the valley in love Sept. 11.

With 25 local restaurants and caterers putting out tapas-like miniature meals, there is a lot to love for the 8,000 to 10,000 people expected to attend the event. From savory to sweet, the small plates represent the culinary best of Jackson Hole.

Tickets cost $1 each. Each vendor sets the price for its plates, with most in the two- to three-ticket range. Attendees then craft their own culinary adventure by flit-ting from vendor to vendor or setting up camp at their favorite booths. People often spot a tidbit carried around by another attendee and get excited about it, asking where to find it. A festive feeding frenzy ensues.

Maureen Murphy, events manager for the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce, said Taste of the Tetons fits in well with Fall Arts Festival because cuisine is a well-represented and -respected art form in the valley.

“We have good representation from all our local fine restaurants,” she said.

The Sunday event coincides with Takin’ it to the Streets, a street art fair of local wares. It also overlaps with the Jackson Hole Rotary Supper Club’s Wine Festival and Auction, which applies the same taste-tick-et system. On top of everything else, Pickin’ in the Park stages live country and western music throughout the day, an Old West tip of the 10-gallon hat.

It all combines to create an artful, joyful day.“There’s stuff going on everywhere,” Murphy said.And that’s just the way the vendors like it. Last year,

Executive Chef Steven Murphy of Gamefish at Snake River Lodge prepared 1,200 2- to 3-ounce mint-pesto-rubbed lamb chops and still managed to go home with-out a doggy bag.

“Didn’t have a one [left over],” he said.Though the chamber splits the revenue with the ven-

dors, Murphy said he and the other chefs don’t do it for the money but rather, for the exposure.

He said many of the 400 or so people he served last year visited him at Gamefish soon after the event.

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Local players to strum, sing for Teton tasters.


W hile the Jackson Hole Cowboy Jubilee takes a year hiatus, people can still enjoy music amid the creative fare of the

Fall Arts Festival at the free Pickin’ in the Park concert Sept. 11 on Town Square.

The event, dovetailing Taste of the Tetons, features western music and poet-ry performed by favorite Jackson acts. The live entertainment will complement the hustle and bustle of the culinary event.

“I consider us the glue that just sort of holds it all together,” said Kathy McCann, Pickin’ in the Park organizer and performer.

People will be able to sit and listen at bistro tables set up around the square while savoring the small plates prepared by area chefs.

“It’s just a wonderful day,” McCann said. Teton talents like the Miller Sisters,

Mike Hurwitz, Tom and Melissa Georges and Mike Calabrese are slated to perform. Davy Gravy and the Biscuit, McCann’s band with her husband, will also play, as will Hootenanny favorite John Sidle.

“He’s one of these guys that has a rep-ertoire that will go around the world a

few times,” McCann said. The event excites listeners and per-

formers alike. With the good food and western music, “you can’t really go wrong,” said Karee Miller Jaeger who plays with her sister, Candice, as the Miller Sisters.

Their dad is a fiddle player, so they

grew up listening to old folk tunes, blue-grass and western music.

“We thoroughly enjoy playing that stuff and listening to it,” she said.

On Sept. 11, the sisters will play such classics along with their twangy, rocka-billy originals.

To add to the entertaining mix, several

cowboy poets will share their verse about “life on the range,” McCann said.

“They’re not singers, but they have an authenticity about it,” she said, “authen-ticity about the land and the ranching and the lifestyle.”

Many of the acts participating in Pickin’ in the Park have played past Jackson Hole Cowboy Jubilees. Staged nine Fall Arts Festivals in a row, the jubilee is taking a year off for lack of funding.

McCann, also a board member of the Cowboy Jubilee, said the event became cost prohibitive this year without donor support to help offset the high rental price of the Center Theater.

“We would have to raise the ticket price to cover it, and then we would lose the locals,” McCann said. “How many of us working stiffs can afford that just for a night of entertainment?”

Undaunted, she plans to return next year.“We feel if we save our money this

year and not do the big concert, people will still donate to the Cowboy Jubilee through Old Bill’s [Fun Run], build it up and have a concert next year.”

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Cowboy Crooner Mike Hurwitz, of Alta, is one of a half dozen soloists and ensembles booked to pick and sing during Taste of the Tetons on Sept. 11 in Town Square.

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Local artists, crafters enjoy exclusive venue.

By Findley Merritt

T he Art Association of Jackson Hole is on a mission with its Takin’ it to the Streets art fair: to spotlight local creativity.

“The goal is to expose the commu-nity to a wide variety of art,” said Amy Fradley, the nonprofit’s art fair director. “I’m providing venues to those artists.”

For the 12th annual Takin’ it to the Streets, 48 artists from the area were chosen to display their fine art and crafts from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 11 on Town Square.

The outdoor event coincides with Taste of the Tetons, a pairing that invites people to sample local chefs’ culinary creations while browsing local artists’ for-sale creations.

“It’s an interactive and social event,” Fradley said. “The whole concept is that everybody sort of knows each other.”

Returning artist and jewelry design-er Susan Fleming said Takin’ it to the Streets is one of her favorite shows.

“It gives locals and tourists a chance to see what’s happening in the valley during a time that’s focused on the arts,” she said. “It’s pretty much a hand-made show.”

This year features fresh talent, like Ben LaBrecque, a glass artist from Victor, Idaho. Edward Edmiston, of Jackson, is bringing his hand-turned wooden bowls, and Jason Williams, also of Jackson, is sharing his photography. Another addition: the Art Association’s fiber demonstration booth.

Familiar faces are also part of the mix, including Sarah Tams of Route 13 jewelry. Joyce Batson of The Mad Hatter and Carey Ininns both create hat collections. Lisa Bishop makes Western interior accents under her home-based label, Wyoming Buckshot. Also fixtures of the September art fair: Fred Kingwill and his watercolor paintings and the Teton MudPots ceramic artists.

“The artists are really well-support-ed by the community,” Fradley said. “They’re very happy to be in the fair.”

Some are working artists, while oth-ers explore art as a hobby.

Fradley crossed her fingers that Mother Nature will cooperate this year (not so in years past, when it snowed). Regardless,

artists are intrepid. Rain or shine, they’ll encircle the square in creativity.

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Has time tempered the controversy of Andrew Wyeth and his perspective?

By Richard Anderson

T o the 21st-century eyes taking in the works by Andrew Wyeth at the Art Association, it is dif-ficult to comprehend how the painter could have been considered “controversial” in his day.

What’s so controversial, after all, about rural landscapes, weather-beaten farm buildings or inscrutable Yankee faces? Many of the Pennsylvania-born artist’s subjects are so hum-bly aloof, they almost ask to be passed over. What arrests are the emotions roiling just beneath the surface and the classical sense of composition, perspective and light as refined as any Vermeer.

But it was exactly that classical brand of realism that crit-ics of the time reacted to. Since the turn of the 20th century, art had been responding to the rapid changes of the modern age — the mechanization of everyday life, the dehumaniza-tion of the individual, the escalating horrors of two world wars. The times demanded that serious artists plumb the darkest corners of the human condition and psyche, and to do so required that they break with long-held conceptions of representation and beauty.

By the time Wyeth was in ascendance — in the 1940s and into the ’60s — much of representational art was dismissed as “illustration,” and generally anything that smacked of tra-dition was derided as hackneyed, out of step with the reality of the times, decadent. In the age of Gorky, Pollack, Bacon, Rothko, De Kooning and their abstract expressionist ilk, a painter like Wyeth was an anachronism and had no place in the New York gallery scene.

The writer Robert Hughes — who in the 1970s and ’80s enjoyed a high profile as art critic for Time magazine — rarely missed a chance to dump on Wyeth or on the hordes of “midcult” appreciators who worshipped Wyeth and his “dream of vanishing moral rectitude” over others Hughes deemed more deserving of adulation, most notably “the other Andy,” Warhol. (He may have softened in his criti-cism, according to Peter Marcelle, who with Jackson native Camille Obering, co-curated the Art Associaton’s Wyeth show, and who was able to convince Hughes to write the forward to the catalog of a larger Wyeth exhibit staged this fall in Palm Springs, Calif.)

Michael Kimmelman, writing in The New York Times on the occasion of Wyeth’s death, at the age of 91, in January 2006, rehashed the squabble succinctly: “Because of his popularity, a bad sign to many art world insiders, Wyeth came to represent middle-class values and ideals that mod-ernism claimed to reject, so that arguments about his work extended beyond painting to societal splits along class, geographical and educational lines. One art historian, in response to a 1977 survey in Art News magazine about the most underrated and overrated artists of the century, nomi-nated Wyeth for both categories.”

Jackson Hole — with its galleries full of regional, rep-

resentational art — might be exactly the mid-culture audience Hughes was so clearly frustrated with when it came to Wyeth’s popularity. It also seems like a great place to revisit the “controversy” through a small sample of works by Wyeth — with a few paintings by his father, N.C. Wyeth, and two by his son, Jamie Wyeth — which hangs through Sept. 30 at the ArtSpace Main Gallery in the Center for the Arts.

As soon as they enter the gallery, Anyone slightly familiar with Andrew Wyeth will recognize his style in the all-subsuming nature, the sparse Yankee economy, the whistful solitude. Those elements are apparent even in his pencil sketches.

But close inspection reveals surprises. The first shock is how loose and free Wyeth could be, at least when it came to watercolor. Consider “Fording Place,” a farm across a stream, slightly obscured by branches in the foreground,

“Big Mac,” a busy work of an apple in the crook of a tree, or “Betsy,” which sneaks up on a woman sitting alone on a bench swing. In all of these paintings, the abstract strokes and speckles and lines resolve into a clear and fully com-posed image in a way that is nothing less than magical. And the power and expression of many of those strokes and speckles and lines is undeniable.

Abstraction. Expressionism. Probably, Wyeth was bet-ter tuned to the artistic vibes of his time than some give him credit. What’s more, he seemed to get more in tune as the years passed. “Marshall Point Light,” from 1946, a Maine lighthouse on a craggy shore with winds crashing and wind gusting, is a pretty conventional painting. And “Dogwood at Valley Forge,” completed in 1941, is, frankly, fussy and hol-low. But the watercolors from the 1960s on have wildness in them, even madness.

Marcelle described how Wyeth would wander the woods of Chadds Ford, Pa., or the heath of Cushing, Maine, stalking the sublime, dowsing for some Thoreauvian truth, lost in his own visions of the world. Then, chancing upon something that resonated with him, he’d rush to commit it to paper in a frenzy of creation. These watercolors — “Fording Place,” especially — exemplify what the artist is all about, Marcelle said: design and abstraction, spontane-ity and refined composition. “It’s not about subject,” he said, “it’s about emotion.”

With just 21 images to take in and ponder, the Art Association manages to pique interest, whet appetites and suggest how much more of Wyeth’s world there is to explore. It’s an appropriately grand and ambitious show for the nonprofit to present during Fall Arts Festival, and it should attract a crowd for the Sept. 9 Palates & Palettes Gallery Walk.

But be sure to go back for more after the mobs have gone away and spend some time with this small sampling from America’s most overrated and most underrated artist.

Contemplating Wyeth

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Andrew Wyeth “Sundown” watercolor on paper


Paintings and sketched by Andrew Wyeth are on exhibit in the Art Association’s ArtSpace Main Gallery through Sept. 30.

A line runs through itTwo distinct Wyoming artists share spacein Theater Gallery.

By Katy Niner

L ine links the drawings of David Klaren and the sculptures of Amy Unfried,

distinct bodies of work that currently share the Art Association’s Theater Gallery at the Center for the Arts.

“Orchestrated Line,” up since August, closes Sept. 12. The Art Association is hosting a reception for the show during Palates & Palettes on Sept. 9.

Amy Bright Unfried, of Wilson, sculpts bronze trees formed from sticks and branches she finds on walks, topped with

abstracted birds she loves to spot in nature: stellar jays, goldfinches, ravens, red-tailed hawks. Each sculpture, impressionistic in style, feels theatrical. One sculpture ges-tures as if lifted by a spring breeze.

Working closely with a foundry in Bozeman, Mont., she developed an adap-tation of the lost-wax casting process that

manages to preserve the knotted intricacies of the wood armatures.

After a career in finance and econom-ics, Unfried set out to find a new vocation. An aptitude test told her she must do something

in three dimensions, which sparked experi-ments that ultimately led her to sculpture.

She spent several years studying sculp-ture at State University of New York, Purchase, and several more at the National

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Rotary’s Wine Tasting and Auction a festival staple.

By Johanna Love

Have you ever tasted a Meritage?If not, you’re in luck. The blend

of red grapes grown on U.S. soil is one type of wine that will be served

in a large white tent Sept. 11 on Town Square.The Jackson Hole Rotary Supper Club’s

7th annual Wine Tasting and Auction is set for noon until 5 p.m. A commemora-tive tasting glass will cost $5, and tasting tickets cost $1 each. Those 21 and older can spend all afternoon sampling and selecting favorites from dozens of bottles. Local and regional wine purveyors will offer tastes of everything from Beaujolais to Zinfandel.

“When we first partnered with the cham-ber six years ago,” Patty McDonald, Supper Club president, said, “we thought it would be great fun to have a fundraiser during Fall Arts Festival. Little did we know we’d be establishing a signature event that would continue to grow in popularity each year.”

The event is held the same Sunday as Taste of the Tetons, so folks can wander from the wine tent to find gourmet food pairings, or shop for locally made items at the 12th annual Takin’ It to the Streets art fair, juried by the Art Association.

Tasting is just part of the experience at the event, said co-organizer Sandra Dartus-Horwitz. There also will be the opportunity to bid on unique excursions, collectibles, services, meals and more.

Featured items will include a winter weekend stay for two at Triangle X, a set of Swarovski silver and diamond earrings and bracelet, a week in New Orleans at Hotel de la Monnaie, golf and snowmobile outings, dinners, fine art and photography.

The wine tasting and auction are the Rotary Supper Club’s major fundraiser of

the year, providing funds to help rebuild the elk antler arches on the Town Square and supporting the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce’s year-round marketing efforts.

Proceeds also go back to the commu-nity to fund reading and literacy programs, the new Jackson Hole Children’s Museum, Jackson Hole High School Interact Club’s international service project, and an inter-national student exchange. It also allows the club to assist with Rotary’s continuing work to eradicate polio worldwide and to support the locally run Trailblazer Foundation, a nonprofit that builds wells, schools and irri-gation systems in rural Cambodia.

The wine tasting has served as a springboard for the Supper Club’s other ventures, such as WinterFest, McDonald said, which the club initiated in February, “an event that has great potential to stim-ulate winter tourism.”

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Tours open window on working the land.


At the heart of Jackson Hole’s history are the ranches and ranchers that wrangled the wild land.

While operations have evolved with technology, cattle farms still play an important role in the vitality of the valley.

The Sept. 10 tours of the Walton and Snake River ranches provide a glimpse into two of the area’s notable ranches, their his-tories and how they are maintained today.

“It’s a behind-the-scenes opportunity to talk to people who operate ranches in Jackson Hole,” said Barbara Hauge of Snake River Ranch, established in 1929 by Stanley B. Resor, her grandfather.

This year, for the first time, the tours start at the Walton Ranch near Wilson. Never before have people been able to roam that property, Hauge said.

The Snake River Ranch tour will include stories about the days before electricity but also will offer a look at modern ranching.

“We’ll talk about innovations just in the last recent years,” Hauge said.

Snake River Ranch is a yearling operation. The beef raised there is all-natural, with no hor-mones and antibiotics, ranch manager Lance Johnsen said. The ranch also is certified for its humane treat-ment of animals.

“They have a good life,” he said of the cows.

Tour participants will see some of the thousands of cows raised on the ranch and moved by real cowboys, Johnsen said. All of the cattle moving is still done by horseback.

The tours will be followed by an outdoor

feast at Snake River Ranch, with cocktails and live tunes by Jackson Hole Cowboy Jubilee musicians. The Jackson Hole Cowbelles, a group of cattle women from the area, will serve a beef dinner.

For Hauge, being a steward of ranch-ing and its history is significant.

“The public likes the landscape, the animals need the open land-scape, and the cattle are uniquely suited to har-

vesting the grass themselves and offering the public something it wants,” she said.

Tour tickets cost $50 and are available at the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce in advance.

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Rising Western art auction poised to top itself.

By Dina Mishev

Maryvonne Leshe says this year’s Jackson Hole Art Auction is shaping up to be the

best one yet.“I say it every year, but this year

I really mean it,” she said.The fifth annual Jackson Hole

Art Auction — presented by Trailside Galleries of Jackson and Scottsdale, Ariz., and Gerald Peters Gallery of Santa Fe, N.M. — starts at 1 p.m., Sept. 17 at the Center for the Arts.

The auction’s 249 lots can be previewed at the center the day before and the morning of the auction. The preview is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 16 and from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 17.

“This year, we have a much greater number of important paintings by deceased masters,” said Leshe, managing partner of Trailside and the auction.

Many of the lots represent the very best of artists’ work.

“We have work by many of the same artists as we have had in the past, but the quality of each piece we have is very exceptional,” auction coordina-tor Lucy Grogan said.

Since its founding in 2007, the Jackson Hole Art Auction has been a success. In its first year, it surpassed expectations with total sales of $8.4 million and a standing-room-only crowd. Every year since has been similar.

“While we’re still a young auction, we have estab-lished our event as one of the most important in the country, particularly in its offerings of contemporary and historic Western art, as well as wildlife,” Leshe said.

Grogan said Jackson’s auction is smaller than the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, which takes place in Reno, Nev., and is the country’s largest Western fine art auction.

“But at this point, that’s our choice,” she said. “We have the opportunity to get bigger, but we like the size we’re at now. It’s accessible and fun.

“Our goal is to keep the actual auction under four hours,” Grogan said. “Otherwise, it starts to drag,

and people get tired.”There is little fear the auction

will drag this year, not with lots like the 40 pieces from the estate of Emily Frew Oliver, including sculptures, drawings, watercolors, etchings and oil paintings.

The Frew family owned the 4 Lazy F Ranch in Moose from 1927 until it was transferred to the National Park Service in 2006. Frew married Henry Oliver and began operating the 4 Lazy F as a

dude ranch in the 1950s.

O l i v e r was known as a discern-ing collector. In Pittsburgh, where she

also lived, she was president and founding member of the Women’s Committee of the Carnegie Museum. Artists represented in her estate’s auction lots include Taos painters like Olaf Seltzer and Edward Borein and Montana icon Charles M. Russell.

Major pieces outside the Oliver Estate include works by living artists William Acheff, Clyde Aspevig, Ken Carlson, Martin Grelle, G. Harvey, Kenneth Riley, Mian Situ, Howard Terpning, Morgan Weistling and Z.S. Liang.

However, works by deceased

artists are expected to be the top sellers. “Marie Dorion — Winter Refuge,” a 40-by-30-inch oil by John Clymer, is estimated to sell for between $200,000 and $300,000. Maynard Dixon’s “Cowpuncher” and Frederic Remington’s bronze “Bronco Buster” are expected to sell for $400,000 to $600,000 each.

The auction isn’t all sky-high prices, though.

“A handful of pieces, including some from the Oliver Estate, will be sold without a reserve,” Grogan said. “Those instances are really exciting and often allow new col-lectors to start their collections and get their hands on pieces they otherwise wouldn’t be able to.”

Also exciting this year is the number of works on the mar-ket for the first time. Brownell McGrew’s “Going on a Visit” was purchased directly from the artist over 50 years ago and has been in the same family ever since. It will be up for auction this year.

In years past, the auction has welcomed in-person and tele-phone bids. New this year is the opportunity to watch and partici-pate online through Artfact.com. Even with the online option, how-ever, Grogan expects several hun-dred bidders to attend the auction.

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“Going on a Visit,” an oil on board by R. Brownell McGrew (1916-1944), is expected to sell for between $250,000 and $350,000 at auction.

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Mystery, romance take to valley stages.

By Kelsey Dayton

Solve a caper and find romance, all while staying seated.

Two productions — a dessert theater show and a classic rowdy

Western musical — are on town stages dur-ing Fall Arts Festival. Different themes and styles means there’s a show for everyone.

Murder Rides AgainJackson Community Theater invites

audiences to help catch the killer between bites of peach cobbler during its produc-tion of “Murder Rides Again” at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 7 to Sept. 9 at the Elks Lodge, 270 W. Broadway. Tickets cost $15 for adults and $10 for kids. The play, about 90-minutes long, appeals to all ages.

“It’s funny, it’s silly, it’s slapstick,” said Jill Callaway of Jackson Community Theater.

The show, a takeoff on the old “Gunsmoke” series, travels back to Wild West, when cattle ranchers and sheepherd-ers feuded. A gunslinger arrives in town and starts shooting all things sheep-related. The marshal steps in, someone dies and another arrives to avenge the death. Who did it? That’s for you to find out.

The saloon-set story stars a deputy, a

schoolmarm, a gambler and other Western types. The cast invites audience members to offer their theories on who committed the murder. The soundtrack features music from popular TV Westerns like “Rawhide” and “Bonanza,” and it all takes place over dessert, which is included in the ticket price.

“It’s wacky,” Callaway said. “It’s the Old West, and that’s what people come here to see.”

Tickets are available at Valley Bookstore or at the door.

Seven Brides for Seven BrothersThis Broadway take on the ancient

Roman tale the rape of the Sabine women has become the signature show of the Jackson Hole Playhouse. The historic the-ater first brought it to life in 1984 and has since reprised it multiple times.

The story tells of grizzled woodsman Adam and his bride, Milly, who arrives at her new rustic home to find Adam’s six unruly brothers. At a dance, the brothers decide they, too, want to marry and abscond with townswomen. Appalled by their lawless-ness, Milly detains the brothers in the shed while she and the young women wait in the cabin until the snow melts and a preacher can come and legitimize the marriages.

The musical features rowdy dance numbers and lively Western brawls, but most important are the seven romances and the happy ending.

The show takes place in the historic play-house at 145 W. Deloney Ave. Audiences can enjoy dinner before the show in the adjoin-ing Saddle Rock Saloon, where the cast dou-bles as servers and entertainers.

The show begins at 8 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays through Oct. 1. Tickets range from $19 to $52, depending on age and if dinner is included. Tickets are available at the theater or at www.jhplayhouse.com.


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Treasures abound atBy Nature Gallery.

By Sarah Reese

W alking into By Nature Gallery feels like entering a paleontology museum.

The difference: Nothing is a cast and everything is for sale, gal-lery director Doug Bradstreet said.

“Most museums show casts,” Bradstreet said. “We show originals.”

Ever notice the dark lighting in museums? he asked.

Most people don’t know they’re looking at a cast, which, in the case of a Tyrannosaurus rex, can cost millions of dollars less than an original.

Inside the brightly lit By Nature Gallery, Bradstreet will answer ques-tions about the fossils, minerals, mete-orites and other treasures on display during Fall Arts Festival.

“We hand-pick every single item, even in our kids area,” said Bradstreet, who has a master’s degree in gemology and has been collecting fossils for 30 years.

Picking up a 1-inch ammonite, an extinct sea creature with a spiral shell, Bradstreet said he might sort through 10,000 fossils to find 400 or 500 for the gallery. He does this because he wants to make sure every item By Nature sells is the best, he said.

Every specimen in a display of hand-picked megalodon teeth features intact enamel, serration, roots and gumlines front and back. The megalodon, an extinct shark that lived from 28 million to 1.5 mil-lion years ago, was the largest to ever swim the seas.

Megalodons had five rows of teeth that ranged from 1 to 9 inches in size, Bradstreet said.

The mineral vivianite created a blu-ish-green hue on the fossilized teeth featured at By Nature, Bradstreet said.

“This is about as good as they come,” he said. “And it’s all natural. All we’ve done is clean them.”

The same goes for all the other items in the store.

During the festival and throughout the year, the gallery highlights fossils that come from regional sources, he said.

A palm fossil and several fish murals from a quarry near Kemmerer might sell before the festival, he said, but he hopes to procure more.

Embedded in an 8-by-4-foot block of limestone, the palm lived 55 million to 50 million years ago, Bradstreet said.

In another slab of limestone, fossils of mioplosus, diplomyst, knightia and priscacava create a fish mural.

“This was a very tropical area,” Bradstreet said of Wyoming. “This is where salt water met fresh water, and it created a very unique environment for these fish.”

One of the store’s most popular attractions is a geode splitter, a curious machine built by a valley blacksmith. For $20 to $40, cus-tomers can buy a geode and turn the steering wheel to Bradstreet’s old 1977 Corvette to put pressure on the rock until it breaks into two halves.

“There’s always a treasure inside,” Bradstreet said. “You never know what’s going to be there.”

From a $3 ammonite to a $400,000 dinosaur skull, there’s something for everyone at By Nature Gallery, he said.

Massive tables made from petrified wood and crystals that weigh several hundred pounds catch the eye, but the store also carries boxes made by Indiana artist Stephen Rapp, jewelry, leaf art, bookends, paperweights, crys-tal sculptures, stone carvings and high-end minerals.

A wide selection of minerals and other items in the kids section is a must-see for budding geologists.

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Nature as artistBy Nature Gallery features ancient fossils as well as minerals, meteorites and more.

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Large-format camera,silver halide paper bring subjects to life.

By Dina Mishev

F ew photographs better show the old adage “a picture is worth 1,000 words” than the large-format imag-es of self-taught professional pho-

tographer John Richter.Words could try to catch up with the

eloquence of his photographs by saying how his images glow from within, appear to be backlit, have depth or seem ripe for viewers to step right into them. Still, you won’t get it until you actually stand in front of one of the giant photos at Richter Photography.

Richter — whose work has appeared regularly in Patagonia’s catalog since 2002 and who was the featured artist at the 2008 Vail Arts Festival — shoots using a large-format 4-by-5 camera, allowing him to, among other things, create exceptionally large images of the landscapes he loves without losing sharpness and details.

It’s not just the large-format camera that makes Richter’s images so powerful, though. He has them printed on silver halide paper.

“I’ve always been interested in show-ing my work in the most compelling way possible,” Richter said. “I’m not about just hanging a picture on the wall. That’s flat and static. The paper I use gives life to each image and brings viewers right into it. It’s like you’re looking at the world through my eyes.”

Richter began using silver halide paper three years ago.

“Only a few individuals at the very top end of the market use this paper,” Richter said. “It has a pure silver base, so there’s inherent value in that. It also has the lon-gest archival lifespan of any color photo-

graphic paper ever produced.”Richter and his family moved to

Jackson last summer after 15 years in Telluride, Colo., where he had previously had a gallery.

“The landscapes of this area are inspiring, and there’s a lively art market,” Richter said.

The Jackson gallery opened last July. Richter discovered large-format cam-

eras only a few years after taking up pho-tography when he was 18 years old.

“Today’s large-format cameras are pret-ty much based on a 120-year-old design,” he said. “Its simple design and rugged construction make it ideal for landscape photography, yet it’s slow to work with. One must have completely mastered all the technical aspects of photography to be successful with it.”

A photographer must also be patient and have a perfectionist streak.

“In contrast to shooting digital cam-eras, I don’t have the advantages of being able to edit in the field or preview an image in the field,” Richter said.

He can carry only a few film plates with

him at a time.“Because of these limitations, my com-

positions are very well thought-out and have a lot of work put into them before film is ever exposed,” he said. “That mindset gives my final compositions a much more refined angle. Viewers tell me they see something really different in my images.”

While the gallery is heavy with Teton and Yellowstone landscapes, Richter trav-els throughout the West taking pictures. This spring, he hit 16 states in two months.

On Sept. 8, the first night of Fall Arts Festival, Richter will unveil a new image or two and be in the gallery to answer ques-tions about his work. The reception is from 4 to 8 p.m. Guests will receive a signed note card featuring one of his images.

Powerful pictures

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John Richter “Aspen Skyward”

Academy of Design’s School of Fine Arts in Manhattan. Since 1994, she has main-tained her own studio. She moved from Westchester County, N.Y., to Wyoming in 2001. Previously focused on the figure, she discovered her new muse on walks through the Wilson woods.

David Klaren, born and now based in Pinedale, did a series of drawings — graphite on paper and ink on vellum — for the Art Association show. His draw-ings are meticulously done, all by hand, without masking. Although his cross-hatchings appear chaotic, they coalesce to create a reverse silhouette of images inspired by art, nature and icons.

“I enjoy exploring the tenuous balance between locking the image in a surface of heavily worked graphite or ink and its disintegration toward the edges of the paper or vellum,” Klaren wrote in his art-ist statement.

By creating white silhouettes against black backgrounds, Klaren inverts per-spective and subverts the images’ famil-iarity. Through this visual subversion, he comments on politics and history, as in “Cathedral” the silhouetted ruins of the World Trade Center.

Klaren studied at Sheridan College and Montana State University and earned his from Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. After co-own-ing a gallery in Delray Beach, Fla., he moved back to Pinedale in 1995.

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Joanne Hennes Artist of the Tetons

View her latest oils, watercolors, limited edition prints and giclées.

5850 Larkspur Drive | Jackson Hole Golf and Tennis Estates

Monday - Saturday 9am - 6pm | Please call for directions. 307-733-2593

These and other works can be viewed on our website www.joannehennes.com

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paintings by Conrad Schwiering, Archie Teater and George Catlin.

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RARE welcomes work by promising young painter, also hosts show of modern masters.


A juxtaposition of modern mas-terworks with paintings by an emerging Russian artist makes for a fascinating Fall Arts

Festival at RARE Gallery.In collaboration with Rick Armstrong

of RARE, Alexander Fedorov, 21, of Lesnoy, Russia, began painting watercolors of old buildings around Jackson.

“I liked him and his passion for paint-ing,” Armstrong said. “I felt like I wanted to do something to expose his work.”

Fedorov’s vivid, realistic style seemed suited to a documentary series. And his academic interest in architecture — his focus of study at Ural State Academy of Visual Art and Architecture in Russia — made him uniquely suited to document-ing standout structures.

“The whole idea behind this show is disappearing iconic images of Jackson Hole and Wyoming,” Armstrong said. “As time passes, there’s a chance [these build-ings] won’t be there anymore.”

Sites like the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, the Ranch Inn and the sad-dlery are all immortal-ized in Fedorov’s highly detailed pieces.

A perfect bluebird sky serves as a backdrop for each building.

“They’re beautiful,” Armstrong said. “I

can’t be more pleased.”Fedorov came to Jackson last summer

as a seasonal worker, washing dishes at Dornan’s. He fell in love with the area.

“We don’t have the buildings and signs as pretty as here,” he said of his native Russia.

Fedorov painted on location, often sitting outside each edi-fice for hours studying the structures and translating them to paper.

Sometimes he starts by sketching.

Other times, he bypasses pencil altogeth-er and goes straight to paintbrush.

“It’s more interesting to paint without pencil,” he said.

For RARE, he has made 18 paintings. Armstrong expects most of the work to sell before the show opens.

“I may end up with all those because I like them so much,” he said.

Armstrong believes Fedorov’s art career will take off in the coming years. He has enough talent to become part of art history, Armstrong said.

“I think this is going to be a long, long story,” he said about Fedorov. “This

is just the start. ... It’s beautiful to see him at this age at the level he’s already painting.”

As a counterpoint to Fedorov, RARE also will host a masters show of blue-chip art by Picasso, Renoir, Rembrandt and Monet, among others.

“I’m really trying to offer diversity that no one else has,” Armstrong said. “There will be pieces available that aren’t in any other parts of the world.”

The show features seven works by Picasso — including original etchings, lithographs, color crayon drawings and mixed-media works — as well as pop art by Andy Warhol and a 1656 etching by Rembrandt.

“Crazy, right?” Armstrong said. “They’re what I think will be museum pieces 100 years from now.”

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galleries&museumsj a c k s o n h o l e

1 AltamiraFineArtDuke Beardlsey, James Pringle Cook, Glenn Dean, John Felsing, R. Tom Gilleon, Logan Maxwell Hagege, Rocky Hawkins, Donna Howell-Sickles, Andrée Hudson, Steve Kestrel, Ted Knight, Louisa McElwain, Arlo Namingha, Dan Namingha, John Nieto, Marshall Noice, Howard Post, Amy Ringholz, Mary Roberson, Mark Rohrig, Jared Sanders, Bill Schenck, Theodore Waddell, Greg Woodard, & Dennis Ziemienski. 172 Center St., [email protected], 307-739-4700.

2 ArtAdvisorRecognized, independent art advisor, Robert Moeller, advises both beginning and experienced collectors in every aspect of the formation and maintenance or disposition of their art collections. Conducts all matters of research and connoisseurship, and oversees the acquisition, conservation, insurance, installation, valuation and sales of works of art. P.O. Box 4399, Jackson, WY 83001, 307-733-9143, 917-992-5839, [email protected]., www.theartadvisor.com.

3 ArtAssociationofJacksonHoleDedicated to shaping a vital, creative community by providing resi-dents and visitors alike with a wide range of art experiences. Located in the heart of the Tetons, the Art Association is one of the leading community arts organizations in the American West. Our galleries present art for discussion, inspiration, and provide opportunities for hundreds of artists to exhibit, network, discuss and sell their work. 240 S Glenwood St, 307-733-6379, www.artassociation.org

4 ArtEffects/HerizRugsExtraordinary selection of fine, tribal, nomadic, western, silk/wool blends and antique rugs in the intermountain region. Beautiful exotic furniture selection. Our rugs are handmade by master weavers with natural dyes and one-of-a-kind pieces. We buy, sell, trade, clean & repair. Plenty of parking available. Complimentary shipping within the continental U.S. 120 W. Pearl St. 307-733-3388.

5 AstoriaFineArtAstoria Fine Art was created around three principles: Quality, Variety, and Service. Astoria showcases work by today’s top artists and tomor-row’s rising stars working in all genres. Astoria also offers consult-ing services to help you find that rare or special piece. For some-thing new, something exciting, something better... Come to Astoria. 35 E. Deloney Ave. 307-733-4016. www.astoriafineart.com.

6 AsymbolGallery(asymbolgallery.com) is an online gallery conceptualized by pro snow-boarder Travis Rice and artist Mike Parillo. The asymbol gallery features a collection of iconic photographs and art pieces from the snow, surf and skate worlds. Each image is offered in a limited-edition run of archival-quality, signed and numbered prints exclusively worldwide through asymbolgallery.com. Most of Asymbol’s gallery pieces are on display at the Asymbol Imaging print shoppe, located in unit 514 behind Enclosure rock gym on Deer Drive, open Mon-Fri 10am-6pm!

7 Boyer’sIndianArtsSince 1962 Boyer’s has been supplying the discriminating buyer with quality Indian arts and crafts. We have an extensive collection of Navajo, Hopi and Zuni jewelry representing high quality craftsman-ship and materials. You will also find very fine selections of Navajo sand paintings, Acoma and Santa Clara pottery from the Southwest, Hopi Kachinas and hand-woven Navajo rugs. Member of Indian Arts and Crafts Association. 30 W. Broadway. 307-733-3773.

8 ByNatureGallerySpecializing in the finest quality fossil, mineral and meteorite specimens from around the world. We offer fossils from local Kemmerer as well as the very rare Tyrannosaurus Bataar from Mongolia and a fun kids corner with fossils and minerals for all ages. Jewelry, gifts, and a broad variety of petrified wood is also available. Open daily. 86 East Broadway on the Town Square. 307-200-6060. www.bynaturegallery.com.

9 TheBrookoverGalleryFeaturing over 60 platinum/palladium, silver gelatin and bromoil prints, the Brookover Gallery is steeped in tradition and is recognized by fine art collectors around the world as the definitive, must see photography gallery in Jackson Hole. In addition, we offer a limited selection of large format 8x10 color images. With historical, time hon-ored printing methods and handmade paper formulas dating back to the 1st century, is it a museum or gallery? We’ll let you decide. 125 N. Cache St. 303-732-3988. www.brookovergallery.com.

10 CayuseWesternAmericanaSpecializing in high quality cowboy and Indian antiques. Great selec-tion of chaps, spurs, beadwork, textiles, and antique and new hitched

horsehair items. Vintage buckles, early western and Native American jewelry, old photography, art, prints, and lithos are featured and historic Jackson Hole, Teton Park and Yellowstone items. Exclusive local representative for Clint Orms buckles and Susan Adams cowgirl jewelry. 3 blocks north of the Wort Hotel (across from Nani’s). 255 N. Glenwood. 307-739-1940.

11 ChristensenStudioScott Christensen is a gifted painter with the curiosity of a scholar and an uncommon past. Raised in Wyoming, he was exposed to the great outdoors at a young age. After a football injury left him unable to compete and recalling his love of the outdoors; he then made the unlikely career choice to become a landscape painter. 208-787-5851 www.christensenstudio.com

12 CowboyArtistsofAmerica /PhoenixArtMuseumMark your calendar for the 46th annual sale and exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum October 21, 2011. The art event is the premier Western American art sale and exhibition in the country. See nearly 100 never-before-seen paintings, drawings and sculptures. Sale is a ticketed event. Call 602-252-8382, or visit www.thewestselect.com.

13 CrazyHorseIndianJewelryEstablished in 1978. A magnificent selection of authentic Southwestern Indian jewelry. Additionally offering fetishes, rugs, baskets, pawn jewel-ry, and beadwork. Experienced and knowledgeable service. Open daily 10am - 6pm in Gaslight Alley, next to Valley Bookstore. 307-733-4028.

14 DanShelleyJewelryOriginalsWyoming’s Finest Jewelry experience since 1976! This extraordinary gallery features wearable works of art from contemporary expressions in precious metals & unique gems, pearls & elk ivory to distinctive wed-ding sets. Of course, skillfully detailed Teton & wildlife originalsare another specialty of the talented duo, Dan Harrison & Shelley Elser. This designer team transcends the ordinary. A visit to their exceptional gallery should not be missed. Downtown Jackson, 125 North Cache St.-in Gaslight Alley. 307-733-2259. www.danshelley.com.

15 DaviesReidWe are dedicated to creating beautiful one of a kind rugs. We make Western, Contemporary, and Traditional rugs, using only the best high mountain handspun wool, all organic dyes, and the most talented and creative weavers. We also carry exotic jewelry, architectural elements, home decor, textiles, and antique carpets. We are committed to quality of craftsmanship and ethical business practices both here and abroad. We are located on the town square and have stores in Sun Valley ID, Park City UT, Boise ID, and Paia Maui. 307-739-1009.

16 DiehlGalleryDiehl Gallery is dedicated to the promotion of national and inter-national contemporary art. We specialize in world-class contem-porary painting and bronze sculpture. Gallery services include collection development and curation, and on-site consultation. 155 W. Broadway Avenue. 307-733-0905. www.diehlgallery.com.

17 FightingBearAntiquesEstablished in 1981, specializing in quality 19th and early 20th cen-tury American furniture. The gallery is nationally recognized for its authentic Mission and Thomas Molesworth furniture, early Navajo rugs, Native American beadwork and Western Americana. Located 4 blocks south of the Town Square at 375 S. Cache. Open Mon-Sat 9:00-6:00, Sun by appointment only. 307-733-2669. www.fightingbear.com.

18 GalleriesWestFineArtThe home of resident sculptor R. Scott Nickell, Galleries West Fine Art offers fine representational works of art communicating unique views of the West and the broader American experience, including landscape, wildlife, Native American, and historical genres. The gallery represents established and nationally recognized artists along with carefully selected up-and-coming talent, info@gallerieswestjackson-hole. com www.gallerieswestjacksonhole.com, the gallery is open late during the summer. 70 S Glenwood St. 307-733-4412.

19 GrandTetonGalleryBringing something new and exciting for Jackson Hole, Grand Teton Gallery offers the works of nationally and internationally known paint-ers, sculptors, and photographers specializing in traditional and con-temporary western art. A few artists include: Chester Fields, Guadalupe Barajas, DeMott, Rickards, Cooke, Lucas, Keimig, Middlekauff, and Penk. Located one block west of the town square, diagonally across the Wort Plaza, Grand Teton Gallery provides a warm and friendly atmo-sphere for your viewing pleasure. 130 West Broadway, 307-201-1172 or Ian 307-413-8834 www.grandtetongallery.com

20HeatherJamesFineArtHeather James Fine Art offers a rare look into art history’s past and present. Focusing on a wide breadth of genres, including cul-tural art and antiquities, Impressionist and Modern, Post-War and Contemporary, American and Latin American Masters, Old Masters, cutting-edge Contemporary and Photography. The gallery showcases blue chip and cutting-edge contemporary art, while still maintaining a respect for the integrity of antiquity and classical masterpieces. Heather James Fine Art, 172 Center St, 307-200-6090, www.heatherjames.com

21 HennesStudio&GalleryVisit this beautiful gallery overlooking the Tetons, 7 miles north of Jackson at JH Golf & Tennis Estates, 5850 Larkspur Dr. (see map). For over 40 years, internationally known artist Joanne Hennes has been capturing the rugged Tetons, native wildlflowers and wildlife in oils and watercolors. Also displayed are silk paintings, graphics and Hawaiian landscapes and seascapes. Meet the artist - open 9-6 Mon-Sat, Sunday by appointment. View our work in town at Lila Lou’s - corner of Glenwood & Pearl. 307-733-2593. www.joannehennes.com.

22HorizonFineArtGalleryWe showcase the finest in Western, Contemporary and International art thus portraying all the facets of the West and beyond. From the stark beauty of the desert, to the calm of the coastline; from the bustling energy of the city; to the mystery of foreign lands, we offer collectors a unique visual festival of color and originality for the dis-cerning eye. Horizon Fine Art: Enhancing the traditional introducing the innovative. 30 King St., Ste. 202, 307-739-1540.

23IngridWeberStudioIngrid has been creating custom jewelry since 1986. Specializing in reworking bead jewelry, creating new designs, and jewelry repair. Ingrid’s jewelry is featured in Jackson at Amangani, Thoenig’s Fine Jewelry and The Pendleton Shop; and in Driggs at Guchie Birds. Classes available. Please call Ingrid for an appointment. 307-733-0761.

24JacksonHoleArtAuctionTrailside Galleries and Gerald Peters Gallery will present the fifth annual Jackson Hole Art Auction in Jackson, Wyoming on Saturday, September 17, 2011. The much anticipated event will be held in the Center Theater at the Center for the Arts. The Jackson Hole Art Auction focuses on important works by the Taos Society of Artists, Contemporary Western Masters, as well as historically recognized art-ists of the American West. A portion of the proceeds from the auctionwill benefit the Center for the Arts. 130 East Broadway – 866-549-9278 – www.jacksonholeartauction.com

25JacksonHoleGalleryAssociationThe Jackson Hole Gallery Association is dedicated to supporting the artistic and cultural heritage of the greater Jackson Hole area. The local galleries proudly present a broad range of work from “old masters” such as Charles Russell and Frederic Remington to internationally and nationally know contemporary artists. Fine western, wildlife abstract and southwestern art; photography, sculpture, pottery, handcrafted furniture, weavings and exqui-site Indian art collections, including rugs and handmade jewelry. Jackson Hole offers a selection of art rarely duplicated. www.jacksonholegalleries.com

26JacksonHoleHistorical Society&MuseumExplore the history museum’s inaugural exhibition, “Playing Hard: Labor and Leisure in Jackson Hole”. The museum captures the spirit of the early days of Jackson Hole, Teton and Yellowstone regions. The new exhibits highlight how yester years’ necessary activities have evolved into today’s recreation. 225 North Cache, 307-733-2414.

27 KismetRugGalleryAntiques to contemporary, small to oversize, soft pastels to vibrant jewel tones, modest to generous budgets- Kismet has a rug for you. We have an extensive collection of outstanding Herizes, Serapies, fine Killims, Sultanabads, Gashgaies, Caucasions, Kashans, Kermans, Qum, Tabrizes, Sarouks, Bijars, turn of century tribal pieces as well as fine collectable pieces. Open Mon-Sat, 10-6, Sun 11-4. One block off the Town Square. 140 E. Broadway. 307-739-8984.

28LegacyGallerySpecializing in fine quality original oil paintings, watercolors and bronze sculptures. Featuring impressionistic and traditional Western works as well as wildlife and landscapes by prominent contemporary and past masters. The gallery, whose heritage is one of personalized service and traditional values, provides exceptional assistance to both novice and seasoned collec-tors. 75 N. Cache St., on the NW side of the Square with another location in Scottsdale, AZ. Open daily. 307-733-2353.

SEPTEMBER 8 - SEPTEMBER 18

FEATURING THE ARTWORK OF:

CHLOE HEDDEN • JUDITH DRAGONETTE

JERIANNE SABIN • SHANNON TROXLER

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Sue Tyler “Teton River Light”

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29 Mangelsen Images Of Nature GalleryRepresenting exclusively the work of acclaimed wildlife photographer Tom Mangelsen. Dedicated to the preservation of Nature and the respect of wildlife, Mangelsen has traveled all over the world to bring back unique portraits of wildlife and stunning sceneries. The gallery also offers posters, books, screensavers, videos and note cards featur-ing his work. The #1 gallery in Jackson. 170 N. Cache, 307-733-9752. www.mangelsen.com

30 Master’s StudioJackson’s largest supplier of antique prints and maps of the area featuring Moran, Remington, Audubon, Stanley, Carey and others. Offering museum quality custom framing at reasonable prices. Art supplies for the working artist, including Winsor & Newton, Sennelier, Grumbacher, Golden Arches, and Oriental papers. Open Mon-Fri 9:00-5:30 Sat 9:00-1:00. 984 W. Broadway. 307-733-9387.

31 MerLoMerLo, An Artists’ Gallery is located in the beautiful Teton Valley at 175 North Main Street, Driggs Idaho. As a contemporary fine art gallery we showcase the exceptional talent of artists who draw their inspira-tion from the dramatic beauty of the Tetons. The current show “Rock – Paper – Scissors” brings together sculpture, ceramics, works on paper and fiber arts. 208-201-8812. merloart.com

32 Mortensen StudiosLocal Jackson artist, John Mortensen, creates beautiful bronze sculp-ture and fine Western furnishings.Visit the studio and sculpture garden along Fish Creek. 5525 W. Main St. Wilson. 307-733-1519. www.mortensenstudios.com.

33 Mountain Trails GalleryLeading The West-Mountain Trails Gallery has long been recognized as one of the premiere fine art galleries of the West. We proudly rep-resent many of today’s most renowned contemporary and western artists. The gallery features a diverse mix of representational, impres-sionistic and contemporary paintings. We also offer a wide variety of sculpture, furniture and contemporary Native American artifacts. A wide variety of subject matter is offered, including Western, figurative, wildlife, still-life and landscapes.

34 National Museum of Wildlife ArtOverlooking the National Elk Refuge, this architecturally stunning building houses the nation’s premier collection of fine wildlife art. With more than 5,000 items in the collection and changing exhibi-tions, there’s always something new to discover. Featuring Robert Bateman, Albert Bierstadt, Rosa Bonheur, William Merritt Chase, Bob Kuhn, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Carl Rungius. Children’s gallery. Museum Shop. Rising Sage Café. Open Daily. 3 miles north of town. 307-733-5771. WildlifeArt.org.

35 Raindance GalleryA specialty fine art gallery that features wildlife, landscape west-ern and bronze art, created by world renowned artists. Featuring a variety of artists in each genre, including the Latham family, Scott Lennard and the Teton and Jackson Hole paintings of local artist, Dave NcNally. We also carry fine handcrafted Native American jewelry. 165 North Center Street. 307-732-2222.

36 Raindance Indian ArtsOwner Terry Kennedy, a Wyoming native, has been in this same loca-tion for 31 years. Raindance specializes in fine Native American art, including jewelry, pottery, rugs, kachinas, and the largest selection of fetishes in the intermountain west. Fine handcrafted art from the Zuni, Navajo, Hopi, Santa Clara, Jemez, and Acoma pueblos is fea-tured in our store. 105 East Broadway. 307-733-1081.

37 Rare GalleryFocused on bringing world renowned diversity in art to Jackson through paintings, sculptures, photography, multi medium, and designer jew-elry, RARE Gallery is the place to satiate your thirst for the finest things in life. You will find the most prolific contemporary artists of the “New West” and important artists of 20th and 21st century alongside highly awarded jewelry designers. Experience a taste of what is cutting edge in the art market today! 60 E. Broadway 2nd floor - next to Snake River Grill, 307-733-8726. raregalleryjacksonhole.com

38 Richter Fine Art PhotographyRedefining Photography as Art! Acclaimed landscape photographer John Richter showcases a collection of large format images so colorful and vivid, one must experience them first hand. Using only the finest archival materials, even the discerning collector will enjoy theses pho-tographs for a lifetime. Experience for yourself at 30 King St. Jackson WY. 307-733-8880 or online at www.johnrichterphoto.com

39 Robert Dean CollectionFor 27 years in Jackson having the highest quality of authentic American Indian jewelry. Representing renowned award-winning artists Cody Sanderson (2008 Grand Prize Winner of the Heard Museum Show), Ric Charlie (2007 Grand Prize Winner of Santa Fe

Indian Market), Cippy Crazy Horse, Earnest & Veronica Benally, Larry Golsh & Edison Commings. Also custom leather belts & wallets by Bill Ford. 160C W. Broadway. Open Mon.-Sat. 10-6pm Sun. 11pm-5pm. 307-733-9290. www.robertdeancollection.com

40 Santa Fe Art Auction, Gerald Peters GalleryThe Southwest’s largest auction of classic Western American art cel-ebrates its 18th annual auction. Saturday, November 12, 2011, at the Santa Fe Convention Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For auction inquiries please contact Santa Fe Art Auction Limited, Co. or visit www.santafeartauction.com Santa Fe, NM 505-954-5858.

41 Shadow Mountain GallerySince 1988, offering quality collectible art for the discerning client. Emerging and established artists both locally and nationally known who paint, sculpt, and make prints from realism to impressionism in landscapes, wildlife, Western and Indian art. We serve clients world-wide. Located below A Touch of Class, 10 W. Broadway at the Square. 307-733-3162. 800-726-1803. www.topgifts.com

42 Tayloe Piggott GallerySpecializing in contemporary painting, photography, sculpture and limited edition prints. We also showcase hand-blown glass and unique designer jewelry. Our mission is to assist clients with the intri-cacies of buying contemporary art. Our staff has the knowledge and expertise to help facilitate acquiring art as an investment or finding the right piece for one’s home. It is our hope to bring fresh vision to an already sophisticated arts community and further the appreciation of contemporary art. Our curator is available for private home art consultations and art collection management. 62 S. Glenwood St. 307-733-0555. www.tayloepiggotgallery.com.

43 Trailside GalleriesTrailside Galleries is the collector’s first choice for fine American art, specializing in works by leading contemporary Western artists. A hal mark of excellence since 1963, the gallery actively represents the finest painters and sculptors in the United States and regularly features an impressive collection of Western, impressionist, landscape, still-life and wildlife art as well as works by deceased masters. Additionally, Trailside Galleries is home to the annual Jackson Hole Art Auction held in September. Located just east of the Town Square at 130 East Broadway. Open Mon-Sat 10:00-5:30. 307-733-3186. www.trailsidegalleries.com.

44 Turpin GalleryIf you are looking for a piece of original art that makes a spectacular statement you will want to visit Turpin Gallery, located at 150 Center Street. Turpin Gallery features a wide venue of original paintings, over one hundred bronze sculptures, a large selection of Molesworth inspired custom furniture, and hand carved wood sculptures. 307-733-7530.

45 Two Grey HillsFor 35 years, Two Grey Hills Indian Arts has featured distinctive Southwest Native American jewelry by Navajo, Hopi, Zuni and Santo Domingan artists. Their museum quality Navajo rugs, Pueblo pottery and hand-made Southwest Indian baskets will please the most discrim-inating buyer. 110 E. Broadway 307-733-2677. www.fineindianart.com

46 Vertical Peaks Fine ArtThis exceptional new gallery is pleased to present contemporary art and sculpture created by an exciting array of nationally and internationally recognized artists, as well as rising artists. We specialize in Western landscapes, wildlife, bronze, American impressionism and modernism, all in a variety of media. 165 North Center Street 307-733-7744.

47 West Lives on Gallery Traditional and ContemporaryBoth galleries have an impressive collection of fine art reflecting the rich heritage of the American West. Featuring Western, wildlife and landscape art in original oils, acrylics, watercolors and bronze. We represent over 100 regional and local artists. Our knowledgeable staff will work with you to locate that special piece for your home office. Both galleries are located across the street from the Wort Hotel. Traditional Gallery, 75 N. Glenwood - Contemporary Gallery, 55 N. Glenwood. 307-734-2888 www.westliveson.com

48 Wild HandsConsidered one of Jackson’s most unique galleries, Wild Hands is off the beaten track, but definitely worth the short stroll. Featuring an eclectic selection of fine art and hand-crafted furniture, the gal-lery also has an extensive collection of pottery, jewelry, blown glass and wrought iron accessories for the home. Whether decorating a new home or remodeling an older treasure, Wild Hands is worth a look-see. Located 3 blocks off the Town Square at 265 W. Pearl. Open every day. 307-733-4619. www.wildhands.com.

49 Wilcox Gallery & Wilcox IIJackson’s largest, now in its 41st year. Featuring original paintings, prints, sculpture, fine crafted wood, jewelry and pottery by nation-

ally known artists. Two locations - the original, 2 miles north of the Town Square on Hwy 89, is spacious & exciting. 733-6450; Wilcox II is located at 110 Center St. Open 10-6 Mon-Sat. 307-733-3950. www.wilcoxgallery.com.

50 Wild By NatureVisit our gallery of fine art photography featuring local wildlife and land-scape photographs by Henry H. Holdsworth. Nationally recognized for his work with publications such as National Geographic, Sierra, Birder’s World, National Wildlife, and Wildlife Conservation, Henry’s unique and striking images are available in limited edition prints, notecards, and books. Located 1 block west of the Town Square. 307-733-8877. 888-494-5329. 95 West Deloney. www.wildbynaturegallery.com.

51 Wild West Designs15,000 sq. ft. extravaganza on 3 floors comprising a stunning array of unique Western lodge and home furnishings. Specializing in world class “custom” antler lighting and furniture. Also, featur-ing Western furniture by regional artisans and Western memora-bilia including original paintings, antique movie posters and cow-boy autographs of Gene Autry & Roy Rogers. 140 W. Broadway (West of Mt. High Pizza), Jackson, WY 307-734-7600. Open daily www.wildwestdesignsinc.com.

52 WRJ HomeWRJ Home offers a sophisticated selection of high quality furnishings, lighting, decorative objects and antiques from the 18th century to con-temporary. Also offering selected works from local artists and items from the collections of Hollywood Legends and Music Icons. 57 South Main St., next to Sun Dog Café, Victor, ID. Mon-Sat, 10am-6pm, extended sum-mer hours or by appt. 307-200-4881. www.wrjassociates.com.

52 Wyoming GalleryOffering the finest in landscape, wildlife and sporting art, we feature local and national artists in a variety of media. Our gift gallery offers home accessories including furniture, books, frames, crystal and much more. Located upstairs in Jack Dennis’ Sports on the Town Square. For more information, call 307-733-7548 or visit www.jdwyominggallery.com.

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