Exhibitions
Booth Artists’ Guild Annual Exhibition
May 16 – August 13, 2023
This juried exhibition features the work of painters and sculptors who are members of the Booth Artists’ Guild, a group that meets monthly for educational programs. Opening reception May 18, 2023.
© Bart Lindstrom, San Jacinto Morning, 2023, oil, 22 x 23″
Many Metals, Many Fires: Strauss, Ivy, Rogers
March 25 – August 27, 2023
This exhibit features three contemporary American metal sculptors and challenges them to use their creativity, and metal(s) of choice to interpret the American West and other subject matter. Opening reception March 25, 2023.
© James Ivy, Old Money, 2022, fossilized clams, moose hide & stone, 25.5 x 23 x 21”
Barbara Van Cleve: Women of the West
April 15, – October 15, 2023
Barbara Van Cleve: Women of the West consists of 78 black and white photographs taken from 1986 – 2014 as Barbara travelled to ranches across the West. This exhibition explores ranch life through the work of women, and serves to show that no task was kept from them, as all hands are needed — from sewing to branding, a women’s work on a ranch is simply what needed to be done. By featuring the work of women ranchers, Van Cleve wishes to share their stories and add to the story of the West, which sometimes centers on the men. Van Cleve has published several books on ranch life, including “All This Way for the Short Ride” (1997) with poet Paul Zarzyski. Barbara was inducted into the Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas in 1996 following her publication of “Hard Twist: Western Ranch Women.”
©Barbara Van Cleve, Mary Bailey Davis, Spring Branding a Fine Two Legged Loop, CS Ranch, Cimarron, New Mexico, 1986, pigment print, 13 x 18 3/4”, Booth Western Art Museum permanent collection, Cartersville, Georgia