Christine Rogel

Sep 6, 2024 | westernartandarchitecture.com | Christine Rogel |Wend Agency

A New Mexico ModernistOccasionally, the phone rings, and it’s a call you’ll never forget. For artist Kim Douglas Wiggins, that call came one day in 1998. On the other end of the line was John Geraghty, a trustee of the Autry National Center for the American West, who had helped establish the organization’s Masters of the American West art exhibition and sale earlier that year. “He said, ‘Doug, I wanted to do something new here with Masters of the American West,’” Wiggins recalls.

Jul 4, 2024 | westernartandarchitecture.com | Christine Rogel |Wend Agency |In August |Editor's note

Editor’s Note: Exploring Western AestheticsWelcome to another issue of Western Art & Architecture, where we celebrate the vibrant and evolving world of Western art, architecture, and design. This issue shares stories that highlight the exceptional talent and creativity of artists and architects who are shaping the visual and cultural landscape of the American West.

May 2, 2024 | westernartandarchitecture.com | Christine Rogel |Wend Agency

Into the West | Oil | 20 x 16 inches

May 2, 2024 | westernartandarchitecture.com | Christine Rogel |Wend Agency

Logan Maxwell Hagege | High Desert Trail | Oil on Linen Laid to Gatorboard | 10 x 9 inches | Courtesy of John Moran Auctioneers

Nov 7, 2023 | westernartandarchitecture.com | Christine Rogel |Wend Agency

The Wilds of WatercolorIn my home office, hanging square in the middle of a wall crowded with beloved paintings and photographs, is a poster from the 1994 Telluride Bluegrass Festival. I first saw this poster when I was a little girl, maybe 6 or 7 years old, inside the festival’s merchandise tent and appealed to my father, thumbing through CDs nearby, to buy it and take it home. I was mesmerized by the poster’s cowboy.