Thomas Blackshear, Wild West Show, oil on canvas, 31 x 41, Autry Museum.
February 8, 2025 – March 23, 2025
The Autry in Griffith Park
Comprised of award-winning paintings and sculptures collected through the Autry’s Masters of the American West, this exhibition explores the role of romanticism in contemporary art. A style of art originating in the late 18th century that quickly spread across Europe and the United States, Romanticism emphasizes emotion, imagination, and immersion in nature as the source of beauty and truth.
In Western art today, Romanticism is associated with depictions of the natural world, noble creatures, and conjured histories. Come and experience the West as it has been imagined to be, but also as it is: a place indelibly shaped by the enduring appeal of its historical image.
Miniatures presented in this exhibition will be auctioned at our exclusive opening celebration Saturday, March 8, 2025.
Logan Maxwell Hagege, Time and Space, oil, 40 x 60, Autry Museum.
Thomas Blackshear, Wild West Show, oil on canvas, 31 x 41, Autry Museum.
Ed Mell, Cascading Canyon Storm, oil on linen, 40 x 48, Autry Museum.
Howard Terpning, The Force of Nature Humbles All Men, 2003. Oil on canvas. Winner of the 2004 Masters of the American West Award; Acquisition made possible in part by Cindy and Alan Horn, Michael Kammerer, Durwood and Darlene Barnett, Saralynn and John J. Geraghty, Roe and Beverly Hatlen, Mian and Helen Situ, Rosella and Carl Thorne, and Robert J. and Leslie Zasa. Autry Museum; 2003.106.1 © Terpning Family Limited Partnership LLP.
Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation · Chrystina and Jim Parks
Marilyn B. and Calvin B. Gross · Alan and Sandy Whitman
Sandy and David Berman · Lora and Robert Sandroni
Kath and Dr. Joe Anderson, Marian and Ted Craver, Victoria and Dorn Dean · Cathey and Donald Humphreys · Anne Phillips · Ginny Stevenson
The Autry Museum of the American West acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and So. Channel Islands). We recognize that the Autry Museum and its campuses are located on the traditional lands of Gabrielino/Tongva peoples and we pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors), ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.
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