In your Christmas comings and goings, add these art-filled experiences to your schedule of holiday cheer.
Through January 2, 2022
Traditional Cowboy Arts Exhibition & Sale
Members of the Traditional Cowboy Arts Association (TCAA) are real cowboys who embody the best of cowboy traditions and are dedicated to preserving and promoting the skills of saddle making, bit and spur making, silversmithing, and rawhide braiding. The TCAA advances its mission to preserve and promote their disciplines and the role of these traditional crafts in the cowboy culture of the West with its annual show and exhibition showcasing the best examples of their art. The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, 405.478.2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org
Through January 8, 2022
Christmas From Charlie: Charles M. Russell Holiday Greetings
Artist Charles Marion Russell loved Christmas time. This encore Stark Museum exhibit features a selection of wonderfully illustrated holiday greetings the artist sent to friends. His words and pictures spread good cheer in the museum gallery. Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas, 409.883.3513, starkmuseum.org
Through January 8, 2022
A Century of California Women Artists
Commemorating the heritage, challenges, and accomplishments of members of Women Painters West for the last 100 years, this exhibition features 100 new contemporary works by current Women Painters West — comprising some 200 professional women artists working in all mediums — inspired by past member artists, as well as showcasing 25 original paintings by past members, on loan from Southern California museums and private collections. Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, California, 818.548.2051, brandlibrary.org
Through January 22, 2022
Borein and His Circle of Friends
John Edward Borein, acclaimed for his depictions of the American West, is one of Santa Barbara’s most important artists. Settling in Santa Barbara in 1921, he added to the city’s growing reputation as a significant art colony. Borein counted many talented artists as friends and colleagues, more than 20 of whom are represented in this show; among these are C.M. Russell, Carl Oscar Borg, Maynard Dixon, Frank Tenney Johnson, Colin Campbell Cooper, Thomas Moran, Alexander Harmer, and more. The exhibition also includes 25 restored watercolors by Borein. Santa Barbara Historical Museum, Santa Barbara, California, 805.966.1601, sbhistorical.org
James Swinnerton, Valley Cloud Shadows in Monument Valley, oil on linen, 30" x 39.5"
Photo credit: Santa Barbara Historical Museum
Through January 23, 2022
Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer
Famous for her paintings, Georgia O’Keeffe’s lifelong connection to photography has not been explored in depth until now. This exhibition of nearly 100 photographs from a newly examined archive — early family pictures, travel snapshots, and portraits by a cavalcade of photographic artists — reveal the American icon’s modernist approach to the medium. Complementing the photographs are paintings and drawings representing the full scope of her career. Be sure to check out the many O’Keeffe accessories at the MFA shop. Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, 713.639.7300, mfah.org
Georgia O’Keeffe, North Patio Corridor, 1956–57, gelatin silver print, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe. © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Photo credit: courtesy of the artist
Through January 30, 2022
Towns, Trains, and Terrain: Early California Prints From the Pope Collection
From maps and depictions of Gold Rush towns to the influx of train travel and urban scenes of San Francisco, this exhibition of 100 prints from the Peter T. Pope Early California Collection is a fresh look into Golden State history. Works by Edward Jump, Currier and Ives, Charles Braddock Gifford, the Nahl Brothers, and Britton & Rey provide a more intimate look into the little-told stories of building America’s most populous state. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, 916.808.7000, crockerart.org
Frances Flora Bond Palmer and James Merritt Ives, Across the Continent, 1868, lithograph, 17 1/2" x 27 1/8", Crocker Art Museum, gift of the Peter T. Pope Early California Collection, 2019.74.36.
Through February 13, 2022
Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France
In the first comprehensive examination of France’s stylistic impact on American painting of the period, this traveling exhibition features more than 100 paintings made between 1855 and 1913. In addition to the marquee artists, the show contains works by more than 35 other American artists, including John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Theodore Robinson, Elizabeth Nourse, Robert Henri, William Glackens, and others. After its run in Denver, the exhibition will hang in Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, March 26 – July 10, 2022. Denver Art Museum, Denver, 720.865.5000, denverartmuseum.org
Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Young Sabot Maker, 1895, oil paint on canvas, 47 3/8" x 35 3/8"
Photo credit: courtesy of Jamison Miller
December 3, 2021 – March 27, 2022
Andy Warhol: Lifetimes
This major international retrospective of Andy Warhol’s career makes its sole U.S. stop in Aspen, a city with long-standing connections with the pop artist and his work. The exhibition, which includes more than 200 works, looks at Warhol as an outsider and disruptor and focuses on the biographical underpinnings of his practice, specifically expanding on lesser-known aspects of his work and persona. Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, 970.925.8050, aspenartmuseum.org
Andy Warhol; Marilyn Diptych; 1962; acrylic, silkscreen ink, and pencil; 81" x 57"
December 4, 2021 – February 27, 2022
American Woodblock Prints
From landscapes to urban scenes, figurative to expressionist images, American artists’ 20th-century woodblock prints include a range of influences and reinterpretations. Showcasing the diversity of relief prints, this exhibition of more than 40 woodblock prints from Syracuse University Art Museum encompasses work from wood engravers inspired by European avant-garde images and Japanese woodcut designs to Jim Dine’s innovations in the 1990s and experimental printmakers who continued to push the boundaries of woodblock prints. Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, 715.845.7010, lywam.org
Betty Waldo Parish, Vineyard Haven, 1940, woodcut on wove paper
Photo credit: courtesy of Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
December 6 – 17
Cherokee Art Market
As the highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant remains a threat to public health, Cherokee Nation is again presenting its annual art market in a virtual format this year. Expect to find the same quality Native American artwork — including basketry, beadwork, paintings, pottery, sculptures, and textiles — as well as live cultural demonstrations and interviews with top Native American artists. cherokeeartmarket.com
December 9
Gold Palette ArtWalk: Scottsdazzle
This month’s festive art walk features strolling carolers, holiday musical performances, shopping opportunities, and other spirited activities. Main Street and Marshall Way, Scottsdale, Arizona, scottsdalegalleries.com
December 18, 2021 – February 27, 2022
Bill Anton Paints the West
Artist Bill Anton captures the passion, mystery, and grand wilderness of the West. With the cowboy as his subject, his brush tells stories of long days, hard work, and the power of man and beast set against the dramatic landscape. This retrospective of Anton’s work culminates in the museum’s presentation of a Lifetime Achievement Award to the artist at its annual ticketed “heART of the West Gala” on January 15, 2022. Anton is only the eighth honoree to receive the award. Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, Arizona, 928.684.2272, westernmuseum.org
Bill Anton, No Place To Be Shoeless, oil on canvas, 30.5" x 33.5"
Photo credit: courtesy of Janet Dowling Sands collection
December 18, 2021 – April 17, 2022
Sandy Rodriguez in Isolation
This exhibition by Los Angeles-based painter Sandy Rodriguez illuminates the complexity of art-making during a global pandemic. It features more than 30 landscapes, protest scenes, maps, and botanical studies, using Rodriguez’s hand-processed inks and watercolors, which she derived from plants and mineral pigments native to the Joshua Tree highlands region in Southern California. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 817.738.1333, cartermuseum.org
Sandy Rodriguez, Nocturne for Robert Fuller and Malcolm Harsch, 2020 – 21, hand-processed watercolor on amate paper, © 2020–21 Sandy Rodriguez
Photography: (Cover image) Bill Anton, Incoming Tide, oil on canvas, 40” x 48”
Photo credit: courtesy of private collection