by admin | Dec 6, 2019 | Bob Bahr
by Bob Bahr The Colorado artist was set up on Wagon Box Ranch, down the hill from the barns, with a twisting view by the curve in Warm Springs Creek, a few miles west of Dubois, Wyoming. He was an accomplished sculptor, house builder, and draftsman, but on that day,...
by admin | May 2, 2019 | Bob Bahr
By Bob Bahr In April 2004, Michael R. Strobl, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, escorted home the body of a fallen soldier named Chance Phelps. Chance was killed in action near Ar Ramadi, in Iraq. (Firsthand accounts say that Phelps volunteered for the...
by admin | Jan 12, 2018 | Bob Bahr
by Bob Bahr In my research for a book on visual art in the Wind River Mountains, I am coming across many compelling tales of Wyoming and its early explorers. The story known as Colter’s Run has been told many times since 1809, when the actual events transpired....
by admin | Aug 11, 2014 | Bob Bahr
John Phelps is known for his knowledge of the West, in particular the gear of cowboys and Native Americans. He can tell you what saddle, gun, or headdress is appropriate for a given time period, and immediately identify a number of errors in a historical painting....
by admin | Mar 17, 2014 | Bob Bahr
Give these four SKB instructors two weeks, and they will teach kids with raw talent how to paint or sculpt. That’s the bottom line from the 2013 Western Art Academy, a 30-year-old program that utilizes SKB artists to teach Texas teens about the fundamentals of...
