Joint Western Art News

Knud Knudsen (1832-1915), View from the road between Gardshammar Summer Farm and Folgefonna Glacier, Hardanger, 1895, albumen print, 8¼ x 10½”. The Picture Collection, University of Bergen Library.

New photography exhibition opens at BYU Museum of Art

Now open at the BYU Museum of Art Provo, Utah, is Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography, an exhibition that will highlight late 1800s and early 1900s photography. The museum notes, “These photos capture the majesty of environments from New Mexico to North Cape, including the struggles of traversing newly encountered landscapes, the sacrifices of the photographers who braved them, and the efforts to use these landmarks to forge national identities.” The exhibition opened in January and continues through 2023. For more information about the exhibitions, visit moa.byu.edu.

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Ansel Adams (1902-1984), Sand Dunes, Sunrise, Death Valley National Monument, ca. 1948. Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. From the collection of Virginia Adams Mayhew.Ansel Adams: The Masterworks is a travelling exhibition created by the Booth Western Art Museum.

Two photographers featured in pair of exhibitions at the James Museum

The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art in St. Petersburg, Florida, is hosting two new photography exhibitions: Ansel Adams: The Masterworks and Clyde Butcher: America the Beautiful. Both open April 9 and continue through July 31. The Adams exhibition, a traveling exhibition created by the Booth Western Art Museum, will feature 32 black-and-white gelatin silver prints spanning four decades of photography. The Butcher show will highlight wild locations where few humans have ventured, “with images capturing remarkable solitude and wonder,” the museum notes. For information about the shows, visit www.thejamesmuseum.org.

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Edward H. Bohlin (1895-1980), brown and silver saddle, leather, sterling silver, gold overlay, stainless steel, mohair, wool fleece and wood, ca.1940s, Sid Richardson Museum.

Sid Richardson Museum presents works by saddlemaker Edward H. Bohlin

One of the most famous saddlemakers and silversmiths to work in the West, Edward H. Bohlin, is the subject of a new exhibition at the Sid Richardson Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. The exhibition, which opens September 24, will help celebrate the museum’s 40th year as a public museum. Among the items that will be in the exhibition are two Bohlin saddles with matching gear, as well as numerous photography and other items. Some of the material was acquired in exchanges between two prominent collectors: Amon Carter and Sid Richardson. Both collectors have museums named after their collections and they are both in Fort Worth. For more information visit www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org.

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Gus Foster, Taos Pueblo Christmas Eve, New Mexico, 198e, 315°. Courtesy of the artist.

Harwood Museum of Art presents panoramic photography of Gus Foster

Now open at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico, is the panoramic photography of Gus Foster. The show is a homecoming for the artist, who began the early chapters of his career in Taos, where he would take pictures with an antique Cirkut camera using black-and-white film. One of the highlights of the exhibition is the photograph Taos Pueblo Christmas Eve, New Mexico, shot in a remarkable 315-degree panoramic image. The exhibition will be on view through April 17. For more information visit harwoodmuseum.org.

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Works in progress by Stephanie Syjuco, vinyl with dye sublimation prints on aluminum, 2021. Courtesy of Stephanie Syjuco.

Amon Carter Museum of American Art deconstructs images in new exhibition

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, will present a new exhibition in which artist Stephanie Syjuco will create an expansive multimedia exhibition using works from the museum’s collection. Stephanie Syjuco: Double Vision is a site-specific installation that uses “digital editing and archive excavation to transform images of renowned works from the Carter’s collection and reconsider mythologies of the American West.” The artist will reframe iconic works by American artists such as Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Remington and others, and her work will highlight the constructed nature of historical narratives and reveal how these works and their presentation can perpetuate colonial lore. The installation will remain on view through January 2023. For more information visit www.cartermuseum.org.

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Otto and Florence Gray with the Oklahoma Cow Boys sitting in front of touring automobile. Unknown, circa 1930, silver gelatin print. Vernon E. Gray Collection, Dickinson Research Center, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. 1998.012.10.

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum explores travel in the West

The Old West is a story of many characters and settings, but a point that arises often in these stories is how those people found themselves in those settings in the first place. The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is set to explore that very subject with the now-open exhibition Mother Roads, which looks into how people traveled in the West. The exhibition, which opened on December 10, 2021, and runs through May 8, draws from the archival materials in the museum’s Dickinson Research Center and highlights many modes of transportation, from wagon train and horses to cars and trains. Visit www.nationalcowboymuseum.org for more information. —