What do you guys have hanging on the wall?
(wishful thinking counts as well..)

The obligatory Mary Silverwood prints.
A nice Mary Russell Ferrell Colton print, would like some more of her stuff, first saw her in an exhibition in the museum in Wickenburg.
Various unknown local artists' desert scenes.
A desert scene my wife's aunt made for us after a visit.
Zapotec rug by an Arizona weaver Mel Mendez.

Forgot to include a desert mountain watercolor my wife's grandmother (who lived her whole life in Lousianna and hardly saw the desert) painted ages ago. The wife is not too fond of it but it's her grandmother so I make sure it stays hung up somewhere in the house.

My dad was an artist and did several watercolors and pastels of the desert southwest. I had taken him on a couple of road trips and have great memories of some of the scenes.

My brother had most of them as he had a house when dad died. I still have the special ones though.

my prized Terpning.
copy of course.

I have an old Heiser saddle. Great example of the saddlemakers art.....



And an old woodcarving picture of the legendary bucking horse Steamboat, from Cheyenne in 1917....

also have a couple of miniature wagons my dad built. A covered oak freight wagon and a feed wagon.

Sam;
Good afternoon to you sir, I trust this finds you and yours well.

If memory serves, one of the first interactions you and I had on here was on this very topic Sam - many years ago now I see....

Now if this works;


There's a print of this just above where I'm typing now.

A good friend of ours used to head down to Wyoming to chase antelope every fall - back before 9-11 and when it was easier for Canucks to cross the medicine line with guns. Anyway he picked it up for us at the Cody Museum.

Not that many years after that my good wife and I made the trip to Cody ourselves and then did it again when the girls were almost teens.

Where the time has gone I'm not able to ascertain Sam, but it's up and went for sure and certain.

All the best to you and yours this spring Sam - I hope the calving season was better for you than it was up here.

Dwayne

Charlie Russell

" Meats not Meat till its in the pan..."

A couple of desert scenes by Aiden Shade are my favorites.

An old kerosene lamp hangs in my kitchen. It came from the old whorehouse in Rawlins, Wyo from the turn of the century....

That somehow seem poetic, Hunts
Nice lamp by the way.

Have these:





I want these:

My only western art I bought it at a benifit auction.

Russell Chatham

We have a few bronzes I am fond of. Some CR Cheeks. A couple Scrivers. A few Russells. One old cast of a stagecoach with a team of 6 by Russell.

I have a couple limited Ace Powell prints complete with small original Ace Powell sketches. I got the original metal engraving that Powell did to create the prints as well.

We have a few limited prints of Jack Terry and G Harvey. Print or 2 and an original of Bill Rains.

Have a couple original CR Cheek oils. Also have a couple originals from an artist from Argentina. Name evades me right now. This guy's father was one of the more popular "western" artists in that part of the world.

We also have some Snidow prints and I think one original.

I have some handmade artifacts as well. Some nice leatherwork from Brazil. Some leather and rawhide from Argentina and a few knives from there as well. Some native baskets from Colombia and a few bark baskets from northern Saskatchewan.

If I were a rich man, I would have a LOT more!

Thomas Pollock - Three buffalo in the snow (South Dakota Badlands)

Larry D. Martin - "Early Snow" (South Dakota Badlands_

Charles M. Russell "Buffalo Crossing the Missouri"

Great replies, thank you for sharing!




Don, that really is real life western 'art'.



Dwayne, I remember that thread as well. Would have been 7-8 years ago?


There were some awesome paintings recommended.



Poobs, that is a favorite!

I prefer Fredric Remington & Charlie Russel. They are definitely my favorites out of a lot of great Western Artists.

The Wife has Charles Russell stuff on every wall in the house.
She also has most of Bev Doolittle's signed prints back before she went in demand.

As for me i have a Hornaday bullet poster on the wall in my shop.

Only print I have on my wall is a John Phelps.

I've got three nice framed Charlie Russel prints. Not even sure what they are named.

Wife hates them. Gave one to pop a couple years ago.

Wife decorates. If it was up to me, probably nothing. I do like the prints in this thread though.

Some nice paintings and artifacts on this post..Very much appreciated !

Had to look for this one. Didn't even realize the wife took it down and put it in the closet. Lol.


Besides the CR, just a couple local artist pieces and a photo of the old light house building and Rainer from here on the island.

A 1975 NRA series Gene Glasso ink drawing of a Bighorn Sheep head.
A younger hunters dream hunt.

And this AB Frost print.



I met a much older gentleman hunter dressed just like this dude as he was exiting, and I was entering a corn field. He was dressed nearly exactly this way with the knee high boots and coat. He looked to be in his late 70's at the time, this was in the early 1990's. I love to hunt cornfields, but ya gotta know how,

We stopped and exchanged some polite conversation, and I was just taken with him, he looked like he stepped right out of the 1920's. Very thin and lanky, tall. Seems his wife was sick and couldn't handle a steady diet of ground beef any longer, so he was out just trying to kill him/her a pheasant to help her diet.
I wish I would've spoken to him longer. It was a blustery day, and he pulled his hanky out of his back pocket to wipe his red nose and laugh warmly. He had the shirt buttoned up all the way to his neck, and a string tie on. Old double barrel shotgun. He was terrific.

It is one of my most cherished hunting memories.

A few of Bev Doolittle's early prints like Woodland Encounter and Two Indian Horses. Lots of late 1800's maps of the Colorado portion of the Wheeler Survey, a couple of McCarthy prints, a few local area artists in western South Dakota, Posters of art events that depict western themes. A Gary Carter print, and stuff like that. Indian artifacts found on private property in Colorado and South Dakota.

When CMR illustrated letters were less than $10K I didn't have the money. Now they are through the roof and I don't have the money. Some things never change.

The flags given by th US Army at the death of my DAd and my FIL.

I have several good western wildlife prints in my den.

I like this one.
Things getting a little "Western".

I have one picture taken from the refinery managers office of our place in Odessa before I commenced the demo of the facility. It is on a wall at the place in Idaho. Signed, dated, etc... No photo though. My colleague at the same facility had a great collection of Terry Redlin's stuff. I enjoyed his Redlin works.

I have several Robert Bateman prints, all signed by the man himself after I had lunch with him several years ago.
As well a few generic paintings. There are also a couple of paintings my wife inherited when her folks passed that were acquired when they were posted to Germany in the late 1950's
of the Swiss Alps.
There is also a photo of the farm house my Mom grew up in that is well framed.

Geezus...do you HAVE to be cooler than everybody ALL the time????

huntsman22 these wagons are the best. I love all the art but just knowing your dad made these makes them even more amazing in my book. Your place is incredible. -tnscouter

My brother still has a Heiser that I grew up riding - and his sons grew up riding. Still in good shape.

I've got a couple of limited edition prints, done by a local artist named Dino Cornay - a VERY good artist. One features an acquaintance and his pinto gelding.

(Our Heiser is a center-fire rig, however)

We have two Heine Hartwig original oils of Native American villages, one a prairie scene, the other a mountain scene. We hit a few jackpots back in the 1980's and spent it on one of the Hartwigs at the casino art shop. When we got it home it looked lonely, so we called back and bought the other. Being that I have Native American ancestry from my mother's French Canadian side, they appealed to me, and my wife said both evoked a sense of spiritual freedom that appealed to her. The only other related art we have is an original Ansel Adams photograph of a redwood forest scene that was gifted to my wife. I wish I had more.

Did you shoot that elk with that Red Label?

A few shots from the game room.














KC

A few more.











KC

Fun thread, Sam, and very cool stuff, Huntsman.

We just have a few old prints at the hunting shack.
My favorite, of those, is called "A Break at Dawn" by Philip R. Goodwin.

Here's the FB page of a friend of mine, who I think does some pretty good western art: https://www.facebook.com/artworkbyernest/

Click for a couple of examples:
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Steve.

My favorite is what I believe to be an original oil painting by Buck Teeter. I'm far from an expert so who knows. I bought it at auction probably 12 years ago near Durango, CO. I'll try to get a pic later.

From the Taos Society of painters, William R Leigh.
(My pocketbook is a little light to actually have any of these on my wall.)

Leigh loved drama. He also did some amazing things with color during a particular period of his career.

G. Harvey - Dallas 1908

I've got a couple Charlie Russell prints, a Remington print, and my favorite, "Chief" by Robert Bateman (worth looking up, it's an incredible bison bull).

I also had a "Tex and Patches" print from an old Colt ad, that somehow got misplaced somewhere.


That's all I got...........

I have a few Don Greytak prints hanging around as well as a couple original Leonard Lopp oils. Lopp painted a lot of Glacier Park scenes and I've been fond of them since I was in my teens.

Very interesting, thanks for all the good posts!


My dad turned me onto a place in MT that is selling signed prints by a 'local' artist.

I recently bought this one. Need to find a place that will frame it...

Nothing too dramatic and the horse on the far right is a twin to mine so I like it.

Oh yeah... I do have one piece of modern western art. It was going to get throwed in the trash and I kinda took a shine to it, and rescued it to hang in my mudroom.









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Alamosa:

That painting of the woman is reminiscent of a Frazetta painting. I like.

The painting of the Hopi Mesas (second Mesa I think???) recalls an earlier time. The pueblos don't look like that now. But you can tell that at one time they did.

KC

Anything Picasso or Chagall. ;-{>8

There were a dozen or so painters that made up the Taos Society of Artists.

If you didn't know too much about Western art but wanted to find some interesting artists the Taos Society would be a good start.

I commissioned a painter named John DeFrance to paint this for me. This cell phone picture doesn't do it justice, from my kitchen, it looks like a photograph

I have a few R H Palesnske prints and a couple of Phillip Goodwin's of hunting scenes. GW

pic of my late father in law he worked with me into his late 80s, grew up in uvalde tx. i think this works as a piece of art, had a lot of respect for him.

In addition to the requisite C M Russell fascination, I need to add that we have a couple of bonzes by a very talented sculptor from Plentywood MT.

One is a pair of paddlefish and the other a running pronghorn.

https://www.michaelwestergard.com/biography/

A friend of mine, Duke Sundt, is a fantastic western sculptor!
Whose work I can't afford.

Great idea for a thread. I enjoyed it. Thanks.

This is a print that I bought about 20 years ago for $100 I looked it up recently and think its worth about $500 now.
It's in a real nice frame in the house.

Michael Gentry- Warrior of Mystery.

I have a large print of this Remington, and have seen the original in the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth.



I've always thought that Remington & Russel significantly influenced American culture, with their dynamic scenes of the West. The cameras of the day could not capture action, so their paintings & sculpture captured the public's imagination, which in turn inspired filmmakers, who created the classic Western movies.

Then there was Georgia O'Keefe, who has always been a favorite. She was a tremendously influential painter, and probably influenced much of today's Western art.

I saw this at Jeff's house.

The painting of the woman is beautiful.

That's a nice Gary Carter print Sam. He did a lot of scenes from Yellowstone park.

Photobucket is down right now so I'll wait til tomorrow to post pictures. We are big lovers of Larry Zabel and a few others.

Here are a few on our walls. Please pardon the glare on some.

And one more to help me remember my Blue Heeler who loved to be around cattle. I had her for 15 years.

Very neat artwork, fun to see what you guys enjoy.

Thanks for posting!

I've got a couple of Kelly Donovan's pieces in my house.

I have a couple Russell and Remington prints. Also a few Russell calendars that I just open to whichever month it is..laffin. Also have a few old tin signs for Winchester, Marlin and Remington that are kind of neat and fun to have.

Ben, sounds like the 2011 Girls of Hooters calendar out in the garage.....grin

We have a few pics of grandkids, that about it. Got rid of all the deer heads. Just don't like crap on the walls.

then get some decent deer......

Yes he does. It is required of all charter members of the VBTE.

SamOlson: I have grown to REALLY enjoy the art of Nancy Glazier - her renditions of Varmints, predators and game animals makes me swoon!
I have framed prints and artists proofs done by her of Rock Chucks, Lynx, Fox, Bobcats, Coyotes, Elk, Mule Deer and Whitetailed Deer.
I enjoy her work so much that it is kind of a shame as I don't consider, anymore, buying anyone else's work!
Sadly my politics will not let me purchase any of her Wolf paintings.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I use to be a dealer for Michael Gentry art. These are some I kept for myself

The ol lady got a call yesterday from the antique/junk store.
Acrylic, so had just started painting (switched to oils and got way better fast).
Pretty bad really, composition and other is atrocious. plus I really don't even remember this........35 or so yrs ago.

Kinda cool though.......it showed up. At least it's now out of the public eye.

The link won't open?


Funny this thread comes up as yesterday I finally got my Carter print up to get framed.

Framing is as much as the damn print!

Added:

That is a wild bull!

If a get another 7mm mag synth will probably paint a better bull pic on the stock.
Gave up art many moons ago, ink/pencil was easy.........paint was kind of a pain. But once you learn THE paint, it too gets boring, unless you have super patience and do that hair by hair thing like Bruce Summerfield and others do (Bruce is gone, was a nice guy).
My aunt does some Indian stuff. Lemme hit the web, some have probably seen one of her paintings.
Has one in some park/museum out west somewhere LOL

I can barely draw a stick man. But I love me some good artwork.

C.M. Russell "Waiting for a Chinook"

Eh, you can do it

Was a book yrs ago called "Drawing on the right side of the brain".

If wanting to do photo realism, your eye is a camera, so just draw what you really see.

Technical, but not creative.

I like the strange out there art, or super photo realism (like high def- hair by hair paintings).

Indian maid and buffalo herd.

Don't know if it still there,but there was a small Western Art museum near the Brown Palace in Denver. I'd go about every two years an druel. It had most of the famous western artist and most were originals.

This little building was the size of a small house,tucked in between the sky scrapers. Supposedly it had once been a brothel and had a tunnel under the street, to the hotel so gentleman could get their gals discretely

REDNECK ART----


-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3pz2VgIM7E

I have a couple of signed Largo sculptures. Inherited both and one is a very limited edition that my Pop bought and I know he paid way too much for it.