JHFAF features 50+ select art galleries from across the nation showcasing important works by hundreds of respected artists. Ranging from contemporary to western and wildlife art, this curated boutique fair offers an amazingly expansive selection of fine art tailored to the acquisition trends and artistic tastes of this affluent and cosmopolitan community. Uncover precious treasures at every budget level.

Source: American Art Collector | August 27, 2019

More than 50 exhibitors will participate in the inaugural Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair from September 12 to 15.

Each September, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, has been a leading destination for fine art with its 35th annual Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival bringing together collectors and artists for an array of events. This year, happening concurrently with the festival is the first-ever Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair at Snow King Sports & Events Center. The fair, held September 12 to 15, will feature more than 50 national dealers that specialize in contemporary realism, Western art, abstract art and more.

Serge Marshennikov, Mountain Lake Blue, oil on linen, 18 x 26″. Courtesy T.H. Brennen Fine Art.

Exhibiting in this year’s inaugural event will be dealers such as Abend Gallery, Gallery 1261, GF Contemporary, Maxwell Alexander Gallery, Peace Water Collective, Rehs Contemporary, T.H. Brennen Fine Art, Wilde Meyer Gallery, and more. At their booths, the galleries will have curated exhibitions based on their specialities, providing buyers a diverse selection of artwork to choose from.

“We are proud to be able to present this inaugural edition of Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair,” says Rick Friedman, executive director of ShowHamptons, which produces the fair. “Our exhibitors will be showcasing important works that range across genres, providing visitors an opportunity to explore Western, Native American art and wildlife art alongside modern and contemporary artists such as Maynard Dixon, Andy Warhol, Ed Mell and Ed Ruscha.”

Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair opens September 12 from 3 to 6 p.m. with an opening sneak peek that provides collectors the first opportunity to purchase works. Show hours continue September 13 and 14 from noon to 6 p.m. and September 15 from noon to 4 p.m. The fair will collaborate with a number of local charities, museums and companies for special events and programming throughout its run. Notably, the Harvest Moon Art Benefit on September 13, from 6 to 8 p.m., will raise funds for the National Museum of Wildlife Art. —

Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair

When: September 12-15, 2019; September 12, 3-6 p.m., Opening Night Sneak Peek; September 14, 6-8 p.m., Harvest Moon Art Benefit
Where: Snow King Sports & Events Center, 100 E. Snow King Avenue, Jackson, WY 83001
Information: www.jacksonholefineartfair.com

Source: Travelpulse | August 23, 2019

PHOTO: Ansel Adams, Maroon Bells, 1951. (Photo via Seagrave Gallery)

When the 35th annual Jackson Hole Arts Festival takes over this cowboy-chic town in the shadow of Grand Teton National Park between September 4 and 15, the event will include the 21st Annual Museum Jewelry & Artisan Luncheon, the Western Design Exhibit + Sale, numerous gallery events, openings and artist talks, Taste of the Tetons—a celebration of food, wine, art and music on the lawn of the town square—a chamber music concert series, one of the nation’s finest Western art shows and sales and more. That’s just for starters.

Why does the already jam-packed 2019 Jackson Hole Arts Festival need a fine art fair to go along with everything else it has to offer?

“About 20,000 art lovers make a beeline to town to find and acquire new art pieces; we felt that we could contribute to the offering of art this weekend,” Rick Friedman, Executive Director of the Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair, said. “I am searching for ‘Parts Unknown,’ new untapped and art-conscious markets to help stimulate art collecting.”

The inaugural edition of the Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair, featuring 50 select galleries from across the nation, runs September 12-15. Artwork on view will lean heavily toward contemporary, but will also feature the Western, Native American and wildlife genres familiar to this Wyoming destination considered the cultural mecca of the Rocky Mountains.

“We have perhaps the widest-ranging display ever assembled in an art fair,” Friedman said

Friedman pioneered the concept of upscale regional luxury fine art fairs. During the past decade, he has successfully produced a series of such events in the Hamptons, Aspen, Colorado, Houston, San Francisco, Palm Springs, California and Silicon Valley. He has high expectations for this fair.

“If every visitor does not say ‘OMG’ when they enter, I will be heartbroken,” Friedman said. “We have converted a semi-pro hockey stadium rink (Snow King Sports and Events Center) to a dazzling, awe-inspiring, refined and museum-like center with thousands of gallery lights and hundreds of 10-foot high walls all featuring hundreds of respected artists from up and comers, to mid-career, to blue-chip and (visitors) can meet many of them personally!”

In Jackson Hole, big spenders will have the opportunity to buy work from museum-stalwarts including Alexander Calder, Maynard Dixon, Elaine De Kooning, Thomas Hart Benton, Ed Mell and John Nieto.

Nieto, who died last July at age 69, will additionally be honored with the fair’s “Lifetime Achievement Award.”

One anecdote of Nieto’s prominence recalls that after participating in an exhibit at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the artist met with President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office and presented him with the painting Delegate to the White House. The painting hung in Washington for the duration of Reagan’s term in office and has now been included in his presidential library.

John Nieto gifting #President #Reagan with an original piece in 1982. “Delegate to the White House” now hangs in his Presidential Library. pic.twitter.com/DevTGXHfFW

— Nieto Fine Art (@NietoFineArt) August 31, 2017
“John Nieto is one of America’s most accomplished, dynamic and recognizable contemporary artists and we wanted to honor an artist that touched into several different genres,” Friedman said. “His legendary, brilliantly bold and colorful works bridge Western, Cubism, Native American, representational, Fauvist and Contemporary (art).”
Nieto isn’t the only legendary Western artist being celebrated.

“Maynard Dixon Museum Comes to Jackson Hole” brings 40 Dixon paintings along with important drawings and artifacts from the artist’s life to the fair. The exhibit is organized by Mark Sublette, who operates the museum along with the Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, both in Tucson, Arizona.

Sublette, a renowned authority on Dixon (1875-1946), will be signing copies of his recently published book, Maynard Dixon’s American West: Along the Distant Mesa, as well as giving lectures and leading guided tours of the Dixon museum display throughout the weekend.

PHOTO: Ed Ruscha, Cowboy Picture, 2013. (Photo via Imago Gallery)

A highlight of the exhibition is Dixon’s study for Shapes of Fear, one of his most important works; the oil resides in the Smithsonian’s permanent collection.

Sublette, whose fascinating “Art Dealer Diaries” podcast features his conversations with Western art gallery owners, artists and luminaries, will additionally be exhibiting with his gallery at the fair.

“As a gallerist for over 30 years, I have numerous clients in Jackson Hole and for years have been asked to find a way to share our art and artists with local collectors,” Sublette said. “This major art show provided that perfect opportunity.”

PHOTO: Sarah Winkler, Metamorphic Dreamscape. (Photo via K Contemporary)

Visitors wishing to get the jump on their collecting competitors can secure early access to the fair during the VIP “Sneak Peak” Thursday afternoon. Guests will be treated to wine, spirits and hors d’oeuvres while enjoying the first chance to see and purchase works. Additionally, Friedman will greet attendees with opening remarks and Nieto’s lifetime achievement award will be presented.

Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair has also partnered with the fabulous National Museum of Wildlife Art, located in Jackson Hole, for the Harvest Moon Art Benefit. The benefit will be hosted at the fair on Saturday night and feature a silent auction which will raise funds for the museum.

Located at the base of Snow King Mountain, the Snow King Hotel and Resort serves as the fair’s official hotel and offers attendees a special rate.

With epic scenery, iconic wildlife—the National Elk Refuge sits adjacent to town—a charming, walkable downtown, fine food, great art and perfect fall weather enticing the area’s aspen trees to transition their leaves from green to the sunburst yellow of a million stunning photographs, September in Jackson Hole beckons.

Barbara Van Cleve is 84, born and bred in Montana, and yes, she still runs cattle with the best. And she is a photographer with a passion to chronicle the ranching life she learned as a child.

“It was a lotta hard work,” she said. “But you know, that hard work was a part of the process. I knew, just as every ranch child knows, that their work is an essential part of what makes the ranch go.”

Her pictures are sometimes panoramic, sometimes personal: “Just about any ranch girl loves the horses. Or we did when I was growing up and we had a lotta horses.”

Two events shaped her life. At three, she got in a saddle for the first time; and at 11, her father gave her a camera. Since then, she’s mostly worked from atop a horse.

“I am height challenged,” Van Cleve laughed. “And I am not speedy. But being on horseback means I have an extra elevation, and I can move around the scene of what I’m trying to photograph.”

And sometimes she moves very, very fast.

“And when you’re galloping, what’s the moment when the shot’s gotta work?” asked correspondent Barry Petersen.

“It’s at the height of the gallop – not when they land, but when they go up,” she replied. “There’s just a split second of hesitation. And that’s where to get it.”

In the beginning of her career, gallery owners were skeptical: “When people think, galleries think, that a woman who was born and raised on a ranch, worked on the ranch, her photographs are not as valid as those taken by a man, that has been a burr under my saddle blanket, so to speak.

“I just say, ‘Well, that’s your problem. But let me tell you, I don’t think that person, that photographer has ever roped a calf, has ever dragged it to the fire, has ever branded it, has ever moved cattle, has ever done anything on the ranch.”

“You’ve done all of that?”

“Yeah, I have.”

She turned that irritation into inspiration, by turning her camera where few had ever focused – on ranch women.

nity of Jackson Hole!”

Van Cleve said, “I wanted to give these women a voice. They kept house, raised the kids, you know, cooked all the meals, all of that, and still went outside to help their husbands with the regular work.”

Now, she is both successful and honored, inducted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas, with the likes of Annie Oakley and country singer Reba McEntire.

And she shares her skills. At the Paws Up Resort, near Missoula, Montana, she teaches aspiring female photographers her secrets – secrets that will always be there in her pictures, captured by a woman who fell in love with the American West as a little girl, and is still saving those moments for all of us to keep.

Press Release | July 31, 2019

Sarah WInkler, Metamorphic Dreamscape, Acrylic on panel with Gold Mica, Iron Oxide, Marble Dust, 60 x 60 in. Courtesy of K Contemporary.

July 31, 2019 (Jackson Hole, WY) – Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair (JHFAF) is pleased to announce the exhibitors for its inaugural edition, hosted on September 12-15, 2019 at the Snow King Sports and Events Center (100 E Snow King Ave). Surrounded by the Teton mountain ranges, the city of Jackson Hole is an unparalleled, non-coastal art destination. The four-day fair will include works from 50 national and renowned exhibitors, carefully chosen for their curated booths which best reflect Jackson Hole’s distinctive American tastes. The galleries will be bringing in works by established, American artists from both Contemporary and Modern, as well as Western, Native American and Wildlife genres.

Fair Director Rick Friedman says, “We are so excited to provide the local arts community with such a wide range of significant Modern and Contemporary artworks, many of which have not yet been seen in Jackson Hole. With 50 exhibitors, we have a completely sold out show that demonstrates the respect and enthusiasm the international art world has for the Jackson Hole arts scene. The fair presents a fresh selection of over a thousand important pieces and I can’t wait for fairgoers to experience this unforgettable event”

Spanning from every region of the United States, the exhibitors hail from 29 different cities,including two local galleries, Tayloe Piggott Gallery and Diehl Gallery. The JHFAF exhibitors represent nationally acclaimed artists like Thomas Hart Benton, Emil Bisttram, Deborah Butterfield, Alexander Calder, Raymond Jonson, Jeremy Kidd, Elaine de Kooning and John Nieto and Ed Ruscha.

Recognized for its wildlife scene and natural beauty, Jackson Hole offers an unprecedented art experience for all. The town’s rocky landscape, Western charm, dedicated community and world class museums create a uniquely American art scene. JHFAF is pleased to present their roster of exhibitors for the inaugural fair:

2019 Galleries:
917 Fine Arts, Miami Beach, FL
Abend Gallery, Denver, CO
Addison Rowe Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Andrew Smith Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Bill Hester Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Bonhams, LA, NYC, London
Calabi Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
Childs Gallery, Boston, MA
Diehl Gallery, Jackson, WY
Elizabeth Gordon Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Faust II, Santa Fe, Scottsdale
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Gallery 1261, Denver, CO
Gary Snyder Fine Art, NYC, Bozeman
GF Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Green River Stone Company, Logan, UT
HG Contemporary Art, Flushing, NY
ILIAD, New York, NY
Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
J Klein Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
James Compton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
K Contemporary, Denver, CO
Kiechel Fine Art, Lincoln, NE
L.A. Design, Missoula, MT
Legend Nano Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
Mai Wyn Fine Art, Denver, CO
Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Matthew Rowe Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Maxwell Alexander, Los Angeles, CA
Maynard Dixon Museum, Tucson, AZ
Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
Mike Clark Fine Art, Billings, MT
Nieto Fine Art, Rockwall, TX
Patricia Qualls Contemporary Art, Carmel Valley, CA
Peace Waters Collective, San Diego, CA
Prescott Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Santa Fe, nM
Redfern Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Rehs Contemporary Galleries, Inc., New York, NY
Seagrave Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
Steidel Contemporary, Lake Worth, FL
Stevens Fine Art, Phoenix, AZ
Studio Greytak, Missoula, MT
T.H. Brennen Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY
Thomas Paul Fine Art, West Hollywood, CA
Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Waddell Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Walker Fine Art, LTD, New York, NY
Wilde Meyer Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Woolff Gallery, London, UK

About Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair
The Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair is the latest addition to the luxury, regional fairs produced under the leadership of Fair Director, Rick Friedman. Other fairs produced by Friedman include: the Hamptons, Aspen, Houston, San Francisco, Palm Springs, Silicon Valley and Philadelphia. JHFAF is excited to contribute to Jackson Hole’s vibrant arts community.

2019 Sponsors: Bonhams Auction House, Family Management Corporation, artnet

The Opening Sneak “Peak”
Thursday, September 12, 3-6pm

Show Hours
Friday, September 13, 12-6pm
Saturday, September 14, 12-6pm
The Harvest Moon Art Benefit | 6-8pm
Sunday, September 15, 12-4pm

General admission tickets are $25 pp and can be purchased online or at the door.

Fair Contact
Nanci Meyer, Show Manager/Operations 631-283-5505

Media Contact
Lainya Magaña | A&O PR 347.395.4155 lainya@aopublic.com

Press Release | July 10, 2019

Held Concurrently with the 35th Jackson Home Fall Arts Festival

July 9, 2019 (Jackson Hole, WY) – Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair (JHFAF) is pleased to announce its first edition on September 12-15, 2019 at the Snow King Sports and Events Center (100 E Snow King Ave). JHFAF brings more than 45 national exhibitors to the region, representing some of the nation’s most sought-after artistic talent. JHFAF is excited to contribute to Jackson Hole’s already vibrant arts community, bringing along new audiences, collectors, artists and exhibitors.

JHFAF is hosted concurrently with the 35th year of the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival, an event that has helped turn the town into a premiere art destination in the West. Inspired by Jackson Hole’s dynamic and collaborative cultural community, JHFAF is working with local charities, museums and companies to create special events and programming. Notably, JHFAF is honored to partner with the award-winning National Museum of Wildlife Art on several initiatives including the Harvest Moon Art Benefit. The benefit will be hosted at JHFAF on Saturday, September 14th with the goal to raise funds for the museum.

Rick Friedman, Executive Director of ShowHamptons, says, “We are proud to be able to present this inaugural edition of Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair. Our exhibitors will be showcasing important works that range across genres, providing visitors an opportunity to explore Western, Native American Art and Wildlife Art alongside modern and contemporary artists such as Maynard Dixon, Andy Warhol, Ed Mell and Ed Ruscha. We’re excited to be able to connect the fair’s artists, exhibitors and audiences with the local community of Jackson Hole!”

As an effort to encourage variety of the works exhibited at JHFAF, visitors will not find any solo artist presentations. Art will range in genre, style, medium and price. Exhibitors at JHFAF were chosen for their ability to bring works that fit the artistic aesthetics of the Jackson Hole community. As the fair continues to add additional exhibitors to its roster, select highlights of participating galleries include Addison Rowe Fine Art, Diehl Gallery, Imago Galleries, Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, Maxwell Alexander Gallery, Redfern Gallery and Tayloe Piggett Gallery.

Located at the base of the magnificent Teton Mountains, Jackson Hole is a town with a history of groundbreaking firsts and an emerging art scene. Widely known as a resort destination and a retreat for outdoor enthusiasts, Jackson Hole is a one of a kind location to host an art fair. With this in mind, JHFAF provides collectors and exhibitors with a compelling place to engage with contemporary art. JHFAF is thrilled to have the opportunity to contribute to the community by bringing this inaugural fair to town.

About Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair
The Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair is the latest addition to the luxury, regional fairs produced under the leadership of Fair Director, Rick Friedman. Other fairs produced by Friedman include: the Hamptons, Aspen, Houston, San Francisco, Palm Springs, Silicon Valley and Philadelphia. JHFAF is excited to contribute to Jackson Hole’s vibrant arts community.

2019 Sponsors: Bonhams Auction House, Family Management Corporation, artnet

The Opening Sneak “Peak”
Thursday, September 12, 3-6pm

Show Hours
Friday, September 13, 12-6pm
Saturday, September 14, 12-6pm
The Harvest Moon Art Benefit | 6-8pm
Sunday, September 15, 12-4pm

General admission tickets are $25 pp and can be purchased online or at the door.

Fair Contact
Nanci Meyer, Show Manager/Operations 631-283-5505

Media Contact
Lainya Magaña | A&O PR 347.395.4155 lainya@aopublic.com