Paper Money is a series of large oil paintings that depict a type of yellow paper money burned in traditional Chinese culture as a ritual offering to heaven and a medium to communicate with gods or underworld spirits. Stacked in tall, almost unwieldy piles, the depicted money becomes a meditation on the more...

This exhibition focuses on the collection of firearms that Tucson artist and collector Raymond Wielgus has created. As unique art forms, these firearms reflect Wielgus’s appreciation for craftsmanship, sculptural form, and a discerning aesthetic. They are modified according to a unique personal aesthetic: hand engraved, inlayed with gold, and their grips are of antique hand carved ivory. more...

Emil Bisttram (1895-1976) was a painter, teacher, and spokesman for the arts. He was born in Hungary and moved with his family to New York in 1906. As a young adult, Bisttram studied at several institutions in New York including the Art Students League and the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (now Parsons The New School for Design). It was more...

From the beginning of the 20th century, demand for original art to illustrate books and magazines grew dramatically, especially with the onset of improved printing and production techniques. In the 1920s and 1930s a few artists in the United States—where the demand for magazine illustration grew enormously—became household names through more...

This exhibition features the work of noted artists and artisans who lived and worked in northern New Mexico, especially around the art colonies of Santa Fe and Taos. Some of the most prominent New Mexico modernists are featured including Georgia O’Keeffe, Stuart Davis, Victor Higgins, Jozef Bakos, and B.J.O. Nordfeldt. more...

Peter Hurd (1904-1984) was raised in Roswell where his father worked a small ranch southwest of town. Roaming the countryside as a youth on horseback earned Hurd an intimate understanding of the hills, prairies, and arroyos that configured the surrounding landscape. These experiences helped shape his artistic sensibilities and cemented his personal bond with the landscape and people of New Mexico. more...

In 1898, a teenage Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945), captivated by the realism of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, “…imagined how wonderful it would be to make some device which had even the possibility of ascending to Mars.” more...

Aston, who was born in Iowa in 1918, developed a keen interest in the West during time spent on his family’s various ranches. When nearly forty, he began casting bronzes, using his collection as prop material for the creation of sculptures portraying poignant moments in the history of the American West. more...