Jade Tantillo Morrison brings new looks to the New West
With vintage looks, golden-hued light and remarkable detail in her figures, Texas painter Jade Tantillo Morrison is forging a path into the art world that leads through the West. Her works, many involving Western subjects in intimate outdoor settings, are evocative of another time and place at the edge of the viewer’s fingertips. “No-niche artist. My style of art is ever-evolving,” she writes online. “A personification of when you’re stuck somewhere in between riding a horse and hailing a cab. Southwest meets the East Coast—a clash between the modern and vintage worlds.”
For more information, visit www.jadetantillo.com.
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Nocona Burgess debuts new work in Taos, New Mexico
Comanche painter Nocona Burgess takes classic Western and Native American imagery and paints them through a modern lens. Here, in Jicarilla Future, he paints a subject from the early 1900s. The work will appear at La Luz de Taos in June at the Couse-Sharp Historic Site. “What was she facing with all the change going on? How different was her life going to be from the ones of her ancestors?” the artist ponders. “I wanted to be a part [La Luz de Taos] as a New Mexican painter and to be involved in the historical story of New Mexican painting and what brings us all here. It’s important to keep spaces like this for future generations to see and learn from.”
To purchase Burgess’ work, visit www.laluzdetaos.org/sale.
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Scott Yeager’s newest work takes place in the silence of nature
While painting the grandness of the wilderness, painter Scott Yeager also captures the stillness of it. His work first appeared in this magazine through Parsons Gallery of the West in Taos, New Mexico. Later it would appear on our May 2023 cover. In this painting, Deer Haven, Yeager paints a place he has visited numerous times to capture deer in their little hideaway. “On this particular day. the trees and light on the mountains in the distance created a composition that really caught my eye and needed to be captured in paint,” he says. Deer Haven is currently available through his studio and can be viewed on his website.
See more work at www.scottyeager.net.
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William Alther’s newest wildlife works wow collectors
After stunning presentations at several consecutive shows during Covid and the years that followed, William Alther showed he was an artist worth watching carefully. For anyone who took notice, and that was certainly Western Art Collector, the artist has not disappointed. Alther has a magnificent ability to capture natural wildlife scenes that are both subtle in their beauty and yet powerful in their presentation. Noteworthy is his ability to paint light in profoundly delicate ways. Here in Summer Rust, showing two sandhill cranes, Alther shows us he can expertly paint subjects great and small. The artist talks more about his work and career on our American Art Collective podcast, Episode 211.
View more of his work at www.williamalther.com. —
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