Western Art & Architecture

The crates arrived before the architect did. At 8:30 on the morning of the photo shoot, American Women Artists (AWA) staff were unpacking paintings in a house made almost entirely of concrete and glass. The photographer, Luca Prodi, arrived shortly after. The homeowner, San Diego architect Matthew Segal, was at morning meetings. When he returned home around lunchtime, he foun...

If Cara Romero is not photographing with fire, she certainly is trying to ignite one. Romero is an artist-provocateur upending a tradition that has seen Native Americans and their images pushed into the pages of history. Her mission as a member of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe and a fine art photographer is to instead place Native Americans at the center of an evolving present....

There’s a lot of history in this land,” says interior designer William Peace about his clients’ home set between Livingston, Montana, and the north entrance of Yellowstone National Park. Surrounded by almost 60 acres of land that run alongside Mill Creek, the 25-year-old house and its accompanying 19th-century trappers’ cabin offer a relaxing escape for the California couple....

Byron and Keely Lewis had outgrown their 1930s Craftsman home, where they’d lived happily for 30 years. More precisely, their art collection had outgrown the house, Byron’s office, and the guest house next door — they had even lent art to museum shows. Once they realized they had more than 300 really important pieces of art, they knew it was time to move. Better still, it was...

Wandering is the word occupying much of David Griffin’s mind on this warm September morning.

“It always appeared to imply that you were wasting time,” he says. “You didn’t have a purpose or some intent, but as I discovered my particular way of finding images, finding things to paint, I discovered that really I’ve been wandering a lot my whole life.”