Category: Gallery

Best Western: Couer d’Alene Art Auction

| May 6, 2011 | 0 Comments

Beyond the blinking slot machine lights at Reno’s Silver Legacy Resort Casino, a Maynard Dixon landscape sells for $750,000, while a carved statuette of Pocahontas by woodworker Samuel Anderson Robb goes for more than $64,000. This is the Coeur d’Alene Art Action, where Western art aficionados gather—many in Stetsons and boots—to spend millions on depictions […]

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Best Way to Watch Artists at Work

| May 6, 2011 | 0 Comments

A picture may be worth a thousand words but meeting its maker merits even more. Consider the difference, for example, between simply browsing South Lake Tahoe painter Dave Russo’s work and listening to the artist talk about how he honed his craft studying with Pablo Picasso in Paris. Or the difference between simply gazing at […]

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