Much has changed since the founding of the Mountain Oyster Club in 1948, but much remains from its rich heritage. According to lore, among the holdovers from bygone days are “a colorful array of westerners that hold true to the club’s traditions…the custom woven carpet, good ‘ol boys in the bar willing to share a story or two, and your right to wear your blue jeans and park your pick-up or stock truck in the lot as well as the motto ‘cerveza y huevos para todos.’”
More than 200 contemporary Western artists will display their work at the historic home of the Mountain Oyster Club.
Another long-standing tradition, which took shape when its earliest members decided to decorate the club for the holidays with art from their private collections, is the annual Mountain Oyster Club Contemporary Western Art Show & Sale, which returns to Tucson, Arizona, for its 53rd year on November 20. Held at the club’s historic Pond Mansion, the event will showcase more than 200 emerging and nationally renowned painters and sculptors specializing in traditional and contemporary Western Art.
Steve Atkinson, High Country Treasure, oil, 30 x 24”
Elizabeth Sage, Morning Drive, oil, 18 x 24”
Out of nearly 1,000 entries, 300 works were selected for the show based on quality and expression of the Western spirit. Together, they will represent a vast array of mediums from watercolor to bronze, and subject matter spanning landscapes, wildlife, still lifes, figurative works and more.
Among the preeminent participating artists are John Fawcett, renowned for his traditional Western scenes; landscape artist François Koch; and bronze sculptor Bill Nebeker. They are joined by other notable Western artists, among them William Hook, Shawn Cameron, Bruce Cheever, William Haskell and Albin Veselka.
Jeremy Bradshaw, Knotty Napper, bronze, 5 x 20 x 11”The unique setting is one more reason to attend the show and sale. “It’s a dining club and not a traditional gallery so the atmosphere is quite different [for an event like this],” says art committee chair Laura Davis. The sale takes place over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres from 3 to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 20. Tickets must be purchased in advance and works will be sold in a fixed-price drawing. —
The 53rd Annual Mountain Oyster Club Contemporary Western Art Show & Sale
November 20, 2022
Mountain Oyster Club, 6400 E. El Dorado Circle, Tucson, Arizona 85715
(520) 623-3417, www.mountainoysterclub.com
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