Art Events & Show Previews

Our Show Previews and Auction Previews offer in-depth coverage of the top art events happening in the West and beyond. Each month, the editors zero in on some of the most important openings, invitationals, exhibitions, auctions, fairs, festivals, and more around the country. We offer substantial information about each event, along with plenty of big, beautiful images of works that are in the show. Click on the links below to get great information on every event we’ve covered.

Laura Robb, Orange Poppies, oil, 10 x 8.

Show Preview | Holiday Small Works Show

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The Legacy Gallery’s 21st annual Holiday Small Works Show delivers diminutive artistic jewels sure to put a sparkle in the eyes of western art collectors and enthusiasts. The highly anticipated exhibition and sale, which opens on December 9 and runs through the end of the year, features 84 paintings and sculptures...

Adeleine by Peter Bucks.

Show Preview | Southwest Art Invitational

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Each issue of Southwest Art highlights as many important art events as space allows: gallery shows, auctions, plein-air events, museum invitationals, and much more, taking place around the West and beyond. In addition to those important collector destinations, we’re introducing one of our own. The inaugural Southwest Art Invitational, a digital...

Clark Kelley Price, Loyal Partners, oil, 30 x 24.

Show Preview | Cowboy Artists of America

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More than 100 works in oil, watercolor, acrylic, pencil, mixed media, and bronze from the 17 artist members—all leading figures in the western-art world—are on view at the Cowboy Artists of America annual exhibition and sale in Forth Worth, TX, on November 5-6.
Made in the U.S.A. by Marlin Rotach.

Show Preview | The River Flows

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The Phippen Museum, in Prescott, AZ, hosts an impressive watercolor exhibition based on the recently released book "The River Flows: Watercolors of the American West" that features 41 artists from past to present day. The 14 contemporary watercolorists are showcasing up to nine works each, some available for purchase, through February...

Martin Grelle, Warrior’s Horse, oil/acrylic, 24 x 14.

Show Preview | Martin Grelle

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When Texas-born-and-bred Martin Grelle talks about the art of painting, his subjects, and the West itself, the word “love” comes to him naturally, frequently, and wholeheartedly. So the title of his solo exhibition at The Legacy Gallery, For the Love of the West, seems a wholly appropriate expression of Grelle’s passions....

Billy Schenck, Evening Hours, 2011, oil, 12 x 10. Estimate: $4,000-$6,000.

Show Preview | Santa Fe Art Auction

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This year’s 29th annual Santa Fe Art Auction is held November 4-7 at the auction house’s showroom in the heart of Santa Fe’s historic Baca District. It features approximately 400 works of art by both historic and contemporary artists from consignments and collections around the world.
Don Weller, Parking Lot at Delle, watercolor, 12 x 12.

Show Preview | Small Works, Great Wonders

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The Small Works, Great Wonders show at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is just around the corner. This annual miniatures sale is organized by the same team that curates the museum’s prestigious Prix de West Invitational and, in fact, several artists are regular exhibitors in both shows.
John Moyers, Indigo and Bayeta, oil, 12 x 10.

Show Preview | Black Friday Exhibition

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Maxwell Alexander Gallery in Los Angeles has been holding a Black Friday Exhibition for the past eight years, offering collectors a rare opportunity to purchase small works by big-name artists for under $2,500 apiece. This year’s ninth annual exhibition and sale is held on Friday, November 26, and it takes place...

Douglas Aagard, Bear Ridge, oil, 24 x 36.

Show Preview | Douglas Aagard

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Douglas Aagard—a Utah-based artist who has been painting his observations of the western landscapes he loves for more than 20 years— has an exhibition of 13 new paintings opening on Friday, November 5, at Manitou Galleries’ West Palace Avenue location in downtown Santa Fe.