At the Museum of Western Art
December 6, 2011 – April 30, 2012
Tuesday – Saturday 10 am – 4 pm

Tod Richardson, a sculptor from Carrizozo, New Mexico, has captured in bronze the wildlife he had studied for a lifetime. His love for the great outdoors began at an early age when he moved into a home near a taxidermist. Before his death in 1982 he sculpted a set of 20 North American big game species. Richardson’s “Split Second” depicts a red-tailed hawk descending on a covey of 18 bobwhite quails that are stricken with terror and confusion. This bronze best depicts the essence of the wild. This seldom seen wildlife bronze exhibit is part of the museum’s permanent collection and can be seen through April 30, 2012.

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Masterpieces from The Permanent Collection
 

The exhibition on view is The Legend Lives: Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection. This exhibition includes approximately 90 works of art by major American western artists, in particular Bill Nebeker’s, The Legend Lives, bronze sculpture, which is the logo of the museum.

The Museum of Western Art’s permanent collection is a testament to cowboy artists working from the mid 20th century to today. Major artists whose paintings and sculptures are included are Roy Andersen, Wayne Baize, Joe Beeler, Oscar Berninghaus, James Boren, Eanger Irving Couse, Fred Fellows, Bruce Greene, John W. Hampton, Fred Harman, Oreland Joe, Robert Lougheed, Bill Moyers, Bill Owen, George Phippen, Robert Pummill, Todd Richardson, Gordon Snidow, Grant Speed, and Fritz White.

Featured in the exhibition is Pummill’s painting of bachelor buffaloes splitting Charles Goodnight’s herd of cattle near Sweetwater, Texas. Installed with the painting are Goodnight’s travelling trunk, cooking pots, and a bronze of the famous cattleman by artist U. Grant Speed.