Art Quilt Challenge Group February 14, 2015/due March 14 at Lyons Quilting

Challenge 47 American Western Art


Using the one of the Master Painters of the Old Wild West (Frederic Remington, Charles Russell, Albert Bierstadt or any other American Western Artist), select a painting to use as your inspiration. Try to create a quilt that would be an abstract of this painting. You could use Cubism with shapes to depict your Western Painting in abstract style. Or you could capture the feel of the old west by using the composition, quality of light, lines or the color palette. Be sure to show us the painting you used for inspiration.

Some descriptors for Western art: brooding spirit, natural beauty, beautiful light, expansive skies, lines depicting action, foreground/midground/farground composition

There are several local places to see Western Art:

• Frederic Remington and Charles Russell: Masterworks from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, will be on exhibit at the Longmont Museum through April 19, 2015.

• American Museum of Western Art/The Anschutz Collection in Denver http://www.anschutzcollection.org/museum/anschutz-collection/

• Leanin’ Tree Museum of Western Art in Gunbarrel http://www.leanintreemuseum.com/

 Charles Russell paintings http://www.charlesmarionrussell.org/

Frederic Remington paintings http://fredericremington.org/

Albert Bierstadt paintings http://www.albertbierstadt.org/

Remington

Remington

Russell

Bierstadt