RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out a defamation lawsuit a Western art collector filed against a prestigious auction house and the owner of a Reno gallery who claimed an early 20th ...

The term "western art" might conjure up images of paintings by C.M. Russell or Frederic Remington — ultra-realistic paintings depicting cowboys, Native Americans, wildlife and landscape. But according ...

Down the hall from the rodeo and the petting zoo at the National Western Stock Show in Denver is one of the most prestigious Western art shows in the world. For over 30 years, cowboys on canvas have ...

Even when the summer temperatures get steamy outside the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, it looks downright chilly in Colorado artist John Encinias' award-winning landscape "On a Winter's ...

Conquering the West has always started with staking a claim, marking territory and squatting emphatically so that no one doubts ownership. It’s an act invented, for better and worse, by the first ...

Colorado's vibrant art scene is as varied and diverse as its residents. That is, there are art galleries for every taste and style. Of course there is a large Western community in Denver, proven by ...

In the heart of Trinidad, Colorado, a small town with a rich artistic heritage, the A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art is making waves with its latest exhibition, “Character in Context.” The ...

Like new buds on the trees and green grass on the hillsides, Western Art Week is something Montanans and western art enthusiasts across the nation eagerly anticipate each spring. The first of the ...

A painting of a pond of water lilies by French impressionist Claude Monet brought in roughly $24.1 million at auction in Beijing, the highest price for a Western artist’s work ever sold in mainland ...

Virtually nothing is known about the life of Cenni di Pepo, better known as Cimabue (c. 1240-1302), the Florentine artist often called the father of Western painting. A mere two decades after his ...