Americana, Cowboy & Southwest artists

Abigail Gutting

Hayden, Idaho

American West / Cowboy art

Participating artist in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s 2026 Prix de West, an invitational focused on art of the American West.

Adam Smith

Montana

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Raised in a family immersed in the wildlife art world, Adam Smith was nurtured on nature. “We always had a variety of animals in and around our house – from ducks, rabbits, parrots and iguanas to the more domestic horses and dogs.

Adonna Khare

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Adonna Khare is an artist from Burbank, California, mainly focused on large-scale pencil drawings. She received her Masters of Fine Art from California State University Long Beach.

Albin Veselka

Contemporary Western art

Selected artist in the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s 2026 Night of Artists, an exhibition and sale devoted to contemporary Western painting and sculpture.

Alfredo Rodriguez

Contemporary Western art

Selected artist in the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s 2026 Night of Artists, an exhibition and sale devoted to contemporary Western painting and sculpture.

Allison Leigh Smith

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Allison Leigh Smith was an artist from the start. Encouraged at an early age to pursue art as a passion and then a career, she graduated with classical training in fine art from The Columbus College of Art & Design and immediately was hired as an art educator at The Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio.

Amber Downs Blazina

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Growing up on the windswept prairies of eastern Montana on a secluded wheat farm, Amber formed a deep connection to the forces of nature, its landscape and the animals that dwell there. Amber was formally trained in graphic design at the Art Institute of Colorado, graduating in 2001.

Amery Bohling

Contemporary Western art

Selected artist in the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s 2026 Night of Artists, an exhibition and sale devoted to contemporary Western painting and sculpture.

Amy Lay

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Growing up in the shadow of the Eagle Cap Wilderness in Northeastern Oregon, Amy developed an intimate love and fascination for wildlife early on her family’s fifth generation mountain ranch. Once nothing more than a childhood dream, Amy largely credits her career to the wildlife she so often depicts in her work.

Amy Ringholz

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Coming from a family history rich with painters and creative artists and bringing a strong Midwest work ethic, Ringholz gravitates to art naturally. As a result, she brings a sense of boundless joy and energy to her work.

Andrew Denman

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

“In the increasingly crowded field of wildlife artists, Andrew Denman stands out for his distinctive look in addition to his masterful painting skill” writes veteran art writer and magazine editor Jennifer King in a 2008 editorial for Create Better Paintings.com. Denman primarily paints wildlife and animal subjects in a unique, hallmark style combining elements of realism, stylization and abstraction.

Andrew Peters

Council Bluffs, Iowa

American West / Cowboy art

Participating artist in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s 2026 Prix de West, an invitational focused on art of the American West.

Andrew Roda

Contemporary Western art

Selected artist in the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s 2026 Night of Artists, an exhibition and sale devoted to contemporary Western painting and sculpture.

Ann Hanson

Cowgirl / contemporary Western art

Cowgirl Up! artist presented by the Sigler Western Museum, whose program focuses on contemporary women artists working with Western subjects and traditions.

Anni Crouter

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Born in Chicago, but growing up in Flint, Michigan, Anni Crouter started painting and drawing before she could read or write. Soon after relocating to Michigan in 1965, this natural ability caught notice by her mother and both her grandmothers, who encouraged her to express herself.

Benjamin Wu

San Francisco, California

American West / Cowboy art

Participating artist in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s 2026 Prix de West, an invitational focused on art of the American West.

Bill Anton

Prescott, Arizona

American West / Cowboy art

Participating artist in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s 2026 Prix de West, an invitational focused on art of the American West.

Bill Nebeker

Prescott, Arizona

Contemporary Western art; American West / Cowboy art

Selected artist in the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s 2026 Night of Artists, an exhibition and sale devoted to contemporary Western painting and sculpture.

Bill Rice

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Bill Rice creates dynamic renditions of wild birds, capturing their distinctive beauty as well as their unique characteristics. He typically incorporates some aspect of the bird's natural habitat into each piece, a practice that contributes to the life and animation of his sculpture.

Blair Buswell

Contemporary Western art

Selected artist in the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s 2026 Night of Artists, an exhibition and sale devoted to contemporary Western painting and sculpture.

Bonnie Marris

Northport, Michigan

Western Visions / Western wildlife art; Contemporary Western art; American West / Cowboy art

Bonnie Marris has been studying and painting wolves, foxes, dogs and horses since childhood. She remembers her family home as a refuge for anyone in trouble, human or animal.

Brad Rude

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Artist Brad Rude sees the world through the eyes of a Northwest artist who was born in Montana and has lived in Walla Walla most of his life. Brad is a storyteller.

Brandon Bailey

Contemporary Western art

Selected artist in the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s 2026 Night of Artists, an exhibition and sale devoted to contemporary Western painting and sculpture.

Bregelle Whitworth Davis

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Born in 1985, Bregelle Whitworth Davis was raised in a small town in Idaho. Being close to Jackson, WY and Yellowstone National Park she gained a great appreciation for fine art and the wonders of nature.

Brenda Murphy

Contemporary Western art

Selected artist in the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s 2026 Night of Artists, an exhibition and sale devoted to contemporary Western painting and sculpture.

Brent Cotton

the Bitterroot valley of Montana

Western Visions / Western wildlife art; Contemporary Western art; American West / Cowboy art

B R E N T C O T T O N is an award winning, nationally recognized artist living in the Bitterroot valley of western Montana. He prefers to paint in the Tonalist/Luminist style made popular in the late 1800's, seeking to create works that are mood- evoking and have a timeless quality.

Brett Allen Johnson

Lehi, Utah

American West / Cowboy art

Participating artist in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s 2026 Prix de West, an invitational focused on art of the American West.

Brett James Smith

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Smith is now considered one of the best painters in his field. Sportsmen nationwide collect his work because it is not only visually exciting, but also authentic, and it brings to bear his intimate knowledge of the sporting experience.

Brian Grimm

Western Visions / Western wildlife art; Contemporary Western art

Selected artist in the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s 2026 Night of Artists, an exhibition and sale devoted to contemporary Western painting and sculpture.

Britt Freda

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Britt Freda paints conceptual questions in layered wings of pollinating insects, dissolving animals, or abstract seeds. The subjects of Britt's paintings are the focal point for her questions about humanity and our relationship to nature.

Bruce Cheever

Western Visions / Western wildlife art; Contemporary Western art

Interested in art as a child, Bruce Cheever embarked on a career as a fine artist after spending many years as an illustrator. It was during those years that he discovered his affinity for tonalism and luminism.

Bruce K. Lawes

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Bruce K. Lawes, is an internationally collected artist with a passion for animal art and conservation.

Bruce Lawes

Contemporary Western art

Selected artist in the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s 2026 Night of Artists, an exhibition and sale devoted to contemporary Western painting and sculpture.

Bruce R. Greene

Clifton, Texas

American West / Cowboy art

Participating artist in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s 2026 Prix de West, an invitational focused on art of the American West.

Bryce Pettit

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Bryce grew up surrounded by nature. His deep love for the world around him and his desire to create art have always been closely linked.

C. Michael Dudash

Rathdrum, Idaho

Contemporary Western art; American West / Cowboy art

Selected artist in the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s 2026 Night of Artists, an exhibition and sale devoted to contemporary Western painting and sculpture.

Carl Brenders

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Carl was born near Antwerp, Belgium, in 1937. He has been drawing for as long as he can remember, and natural history was also an early interest of his.

Carol Heiman-Greene

Cowgirl / contemporary Western art

Cowgirl Up! artist presented by the Sigler Western Museum, whose program focuses on contemporary women artists working with Western subjects and traditions.

Caroline Korbell Carrington

Contemporary Western art

Selected artist in the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s 2026 Night of Artists, an exhibition and sale devoted to contemporary Western painting and sculpture.

Carrie L. Ballantyne

Sheridan, Wyoming

American West / Cowboy art

Participating artist in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s 2026 Prix de West, an invitational focused on art of the American West.

Carrie Wild

Jackson, Wyoming

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Carrie was raised on a small horse farm in Southern Michigan where she learned to respect, appreciate and love animals from a young age. Her childhood was spent riding horses, exploring the forests in search of wildlife and competing in horse shows.

Cecilia McGuire

Cowgirl / contemporary Western art

Cowgirl Up! artist presented by the Sigler Western Museum, whose program focuses on contemporary women artists working with Western subjects and traditions.

Chad Poppleton

Western Visions / Western wildlife art; Contemporary Western art

Chad studied at Utah State University directed by Glen Edwards and graduated with a bachelor’s in Fine Art/ Illustration. Chad continues to study the classical tradition of Master impressionists and renaissance period work.

Charles Fritz

Billings, Montana

American West / Cowboy art

Participating artist in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s 2026 Prix de West, an invitational focused on art of the American West.

Charles Timothy Prutzer

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Charles Timothy Prutzer captures the wild. Working in watercolor, oil, and acrylic, his work shows remarkable range.

Chessney Sevier

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

A great source of Chessney Sevier’s artistic aspiration comes from her mother’s artistic example and the simple beauty of the Nebraska Sandhills where she grew up. On a rodeo scholarship, Chessney attended Chadron State College and later graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Fine Art in 1998.

Chris Bacon

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Meticulously rendered, luminous in subtle tone, imbued with great love, respect and knowledge of his subject matter, the paintings of Chris Bacon have won worldwide recognition and acclaim. Working with singular, highly disciplined focus, he travels, sketches, returning to his Burlington studio to create, over many weeks and often months, each of these intimately scaled works of art.

Chris Hunt

Contemporary Western art

Selected artist in the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s 2026 Night of Artists, an exhibition and sale devoted to contemporary Western painting and sculpture.

Chris Maynard

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Chris Maynard carves feathers into intricate art. He combines his artistic sense and scientific knowledge into a new art form.

Christine Debrosky

Cowgirl / contemporary Western art

Cowgirl Up! artist presented by the Sigler Western Museum, whose program focuses on contemporary women artists working with Western subjects and traditions.

Claire Brewster

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Claire Brewster has been living and working in London for over 20 years, but started life in the semi-rural county of Lincolnshire. Using old maps, atlases and other found paper and metal, she creates beautiful, delicate and intricate sculptures of flowers, birds and insects.

Clark Kelley Price

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Clark was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho in 1945. As a child he loved to draw.

Cole Johnson

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Cole Johnson has lived in upstate New York his entire life and now resides in Deposit, New York, and a small town in the Catskill Mountain region. Hunting, fishing, and spending time in the woods; have been the preferred activities most of his life.

Colt Idol

Whitefish, Montana

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

Lifetime Montana resident Colt Idol has always been enamored “The West” and all that it represents. After an injury-plagued high school and collegiate basketball career Colt decided to pursue art full time.

Connor Liljestrom

Western Visions / Western wildlife art

(b. 1995, Jackson, WY) Graduated with a BA in fine art from the University of Wyoming in 2019, where he gained recognition through scholarship award, portfolio review, and residency selection. Since, his works have sold out at solo exhibition and been collected privately both nationally and internationally.

Corey Garman

Cowgirl / contemporary Western art

Cowgirl Up! artist presented by the Sigler Western Museum, whose program focuses on contemporary women artists working with Western subjects and traditions.

Craig Tennant

Contemporary Western art

Selected artist in the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s 2026 Night of Artists, an exhibition and sale devoted to contemporary Western painting and sculpture.

Crystal Orlando

Cowgirl / contemporary Western art

Cowgirl Up! artist presented by the Sigler Western Museum, whose program focuses on contemporary women artists working with Western subjects and traditions.

Curt Mattson

Contemporary Western art

Selected artist in the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s 2026 Night of Artists, an exhibition and sale devoted to contemporary Western painting and sculpture.

Curt Walters

Sedona, Arizona

American West / Cowboy art

Participating artist in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s 2026 Prix de West, an invitational focused on art of the American West.