Thursday Sep 12th, 3:30pm

Aspens in Fall by Bert Geer Phillips, Oil on Canvas 20” x 24” Image Courtesy of Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson, AZ

The Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair (JHFAF) is proud to announce that Anne Phillips is the recipient of its inaugural Collector of the Year Award for 2019. Anne was chosen for this esteemed award as a member of JHFAF’s Collectors Circle; a group of notable VIP Collectors in the genres of Western, Wildlife and Contemporary Art. “Anne was selected for this honor by JHFAF’s Advisory Board because she is a deeply committed fine art collector”, says JHFAF producer Rick Friedman, “and one who contributes to her local cultural community. In addition, Anne Phillips is heir to an important legacy in a truly American fine art genre, the Taos School. It is wonderful to give our first Collector of The Year Award to someone who has a collection that bridges all the genres that JHFAF represents, and includes works by Native Americans and important American female artists. This is exactly the kind of collection we should celebrate right out of the gate.”

About Her Collection

Bert Geer Phillips (1868-1956), Anne’s great grandfather was a co-founder of the Taos Society of Artists, in 1898. A member of the now famed Taos Seven, Bert Geer Phillips established the Taos Art Colony and is known for his evocative paintings of Native Americans and the American Southwest. His works are sought after today and his great granddaughter Anne is the proud owner of a number of Bert Geer Phillips’ paintings.

Anne has built upon on her Taos School Legacy Collection with the addition of works by E. Irving Couse (1866-1936), the first president of the Taos Society of Artists and work by co-founder of the Taos School and celebrated portrait painter of Native Americans, Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953). Anne’s important American collection spans the late 19th century to now with works by Navajo artist and noted WWII code talkerBeatien Yazz (1928-2012) a.k.a “Little No Shirt”; the coveted New York based modern American landscape painter Eric Sloane (1905-1985), Gerald Curtis Delano (1890 – 1972); Raphael

Lillywhite (1891-1958); noted female painter Gene Kloss (1903-1996), whose works are in the Smithsonian collection; bronze sculptor and painter Ace Powell (1912-1978), and contemporary painters of the new west Larry Pirnie, Robert Moore and Kendahl Jan Jubb.

Anne Phillips epitomizes the art of collecting, with her passion, enthusiasm, and knowledge. She is a devoted supporter of the Missoula Art Museum, as well as Living Art in Missoula, Montana. As an active patron of notable fine art galleries and western art auctions, Anne serves as a paragon, and inspiration for other collectors. She is an articulate and frank spokesperson and one that everyone can relate to, whether they have her American fine art heritage or are just starting to collect.

Her advice to new collectors—“start with buying art you really like – (art) that has some meaning to you. Don’t make a purchase just because of a name.” – Unless of course your name happens to be Phillips, and you wish to preserve your great grandfather’s important American art legacy.

Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair is proud to honor Anne Phillips with its first Collector of the Year Award. This award will be presented on onstage by Rick Friedman, President of Show Hamptons, during the JHFAF Opening Sneak Peak, Thursday, Sept 12, 2019, at 3:30pm, at The Snow King Sports and Events Center in Jackson Hole, WY. The Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair will bring a bold new element to the art market in Jackson and draw seasoned collectors, as well as new collectors with fresh perspective on important genres in American Art, from contemporary and Native American art to new art of the west, with over 40 galleries bringing exciting offerings to enhance every collection. For tickets and information visit: https://www.jacksonholefineartfair.com/

Friday, Sep 13, 1-2pm
Booth 127

Presented by Andrew Smith Gallery. I want to capture the beauty of the landscape, the setting or rising of the sun, and the dust swirling as horses or cattle move across the terrain. I want people to see ranching as something different from the mythical image of the cowboy riding off into the sunset, brave, strong, and alone. There are also women doing half the work or even more.” Barbara Van Cleve – “Pure Quill: Photographs by Barbara Van Cleve”

About the Artist

“Barbara Van Cleve is the real deal. She has both the swagger and shyness of a true westerner. Her sense of the land and people combined with her sophisticated photographic techniques elevate her work into a special pantheon of legendary Western Landscape, Ranch, and Heritage Documentary Photographers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, notably L.A. Huffman, Evelyn Cameron, and Erwin Smith. Not only is she a brilliant photographer of the American West; she herself grew up in the saddle so that the authenticity in her work shows clearly from her lifetime of genuine experiences and insights. Unlike many tinhorn eastern photographers, who adopt the cowboy life as a romantic hobby, Van Cleve embraces the grit and substance of real western life. Her subjects are not sentimental objects, but rather friends and colleagues. Her black and white prints show more than any photographer of her generation, the true grandness and enthralling isolation and toughness of the American West.”  Andrew Smith, 2016

Barbara Van Cleve (b. 1835-) a lifelong resident of Big Timber, Montana is the primary Heritage photographer of Western Ranch life of the last 60 years.  World famous for her views of Ranch Women, Cowgirls, horse and cattle drives, the ballet of the rodeo, and her landscapes of the West, she recently sold her archive to the Montana Historical Society where it will be seen and enjoyed in perpetuity.

Her heritage is rich with family history and firsthand experience.  Her family ranch, the Lazy K Bar was founded by her grandparents in 1880 on the east slopes of the Crazy Mountains near Melville, Montana.

Her father, Paul “Spike” Van Cleve, was a unique combination of writer, poet, Harvard scholar, and expert horseman.  The author of two best sellers, “Forty Years Gatherins” and “A Day Late and A Short” Spike had Barbara riding by herself at the age of 3.  Spike had her doing ranch work at the age of six helping at the corrals. At the age of 11 her mother gave her a box Brownie camera and a kit for developing film and making prints.  Since that time she has photographed, generally from horseback, often at a full gallop.

Along the way she earned an MA in English (Victorian) Literature at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., taught English Literature and Photography for 25 years at DePaul University, Loyola University and Mundelein College, all in the Chicago area.  In her spare time she worked for Rand McNally as a textbook photographer and established a very successful stock photography agency, spending summers and holidays back at the ranch.

Among many publications most notable are Hard Twist: Western Ranch Women” (1995) and “Pure Quill: Photographs by Barbara Van Cleve” (2016).  She has been in over 160 one person and group exhibitions and her work is widely collected by Museums, Archives and individuals.

Copyright 2019 Barbara Van Cleve, “Noon Break”, 1981

Saturday Sep 14th, 4-5pm
In the Theater

Moderator Hilary Pierce Hatfield

Curator and President of Art Collector’s Athenaeum, Tammi Hanawalt Ph.D., Associate Curator of Art at The National Museum of Wildlife Art and Mariam Diehl, Owner of Diehl Gallery, Jackson, WY and guest artists will talk about the evolution of the wildlife art genre and the next gen of contemporary artists who find content and inspiration in the natural world.

About Mariam Diehl

Mariam Diehl is the founder of the eponymous gallery, in 2001. Her gallery offers fine art and professional art collecting services for new and established collectors, both private and corporate. Diehl Gallery specializes in the acquisition and sale of contemporary art, with a focus on painting and sculpture.

In 2002, Ms. Diehl left New York and moved to Jackson Hole, where she became Director of the Jackson Hole branch of the Meyer Gallery, founded in Park City, Utah in 1965. For the next three years, Ms. Diehl oversaw all aspects of the gallery management.The gallery moved to its current location on Broadway in a newly renovated, contemporary space in the spring of 2008, where it was renamed as the Diehl Gallery. Since 2002, Ms. Diehl has worked as an art dealer. Her projects have ranged from high-end residential homes, to corporate offices, to development properties and hotels.

About Anastasia Kimmett

Anastasia Kimmett breaks through the traditional format of painting to develop a technique which combines emotion with intellect and abstract with design. Creating a series of inspired, impressionistic and abstract paintings, she then cuts them into small pieces, blends and arranges the unstructured clips to create scenes that are both structured and rhythmic.

Now as an emerging visual artist, she combines and pours the varied practices and theories of her multi-faceted background in the arts and design, into the creation of her paintings. She is based in Vancouver.

Dr. Tammi Hanawalt

Dr. Tammi Hanawalt is an Associate Curator at the National Museum of Wildlife Art (NMWA) in Jackson Hole, WY. She has a Masters of Art History degree from Arizona State University with an emphasis on Native American Art and a PH.D in Native American Art History and Art of The American West from The University of Oklahoma. She received the Madeline Colbert and Steed Fellowship from the University of Oklahoma in 2015-2016 and Journal of Surrealism and the Americas/ASU Art History Faculty Conference Grant from Arizona State University. Hanawalt recently co-curated the “Living Legends” exhibition at NMWA featuring the works of 39 artists who helped form the foundation of the museum’s extensive collection since its founding in 1984.

Friday Sep 13, 4-5pm
Booth 140

Capturing the color, excitement, vitality and romance of life in the West, Larry Pirnie exemplifies the spirit of Montana through his paintings. He has spent over three decades living and painting in Montana, yet he is widely known and collected throughout the country, because his art is unmistakably Pirnie.
As a boy, Larry met Norman Rockwell and acted on his recommendation to attend the Pratt Institute in New York. He worked in advertising for many years before giving up a corporate position to live his dream of being a cowboy artist.

About the Artist

He has often been a featured artist at the prestigious Western Masters art show associated with the C.M. Russell Museum, as well as the Rendezvous Royale at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Pirnie is also featured among an esteemed collection of contemporary trendsetters in Western Art at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, which houses the largest permanent exhibition space for Western art in the country. Pirnie has found joy in authoring a book to tell his story, and has collaborated with his friend, renowned cowboy poet Paul Zarzyski on other published works.