A Jewel in the Desert - The Desert Caballeros Western Museum
June 13, 2010
We were awed by the diversity of art and history enclosed within the beautiful Wickenburg Desert Caballeros Western Museum. It features both permanent and changing exhibits. In 2007-08 theMuseum received the coveted Museum of the Year award.
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The popular 5th Annual "Gowgirl Up! Art from the Other Half of the West" exhibit, which ran from March 26 through May 2 of this year, was now closed. It featured more than 50 women western artists from across the country, including Shawn Cameron, Rox Corbett, Sheila Cottrell, Lisa Danielle, Linda Carter Holman, Marti Miller Hubbell, Judith Moore-Knapp, Sue Krzyston, Linda Loeschen, Louisa McElwain, Darcie Peet, Cynthia Rigden, Sharon Standridge, Kathryn Stats, Sherry Blanchard Stuart, Karmel Timmons, and Brigitte Woosley. We're sorry we missed it. Next year, it's a must-see!
The upper level of the Museum includes: a store loaded with souvenirs, books, and keepsakes; a diorama of Wickenburg in the Hall of History; the Hays Spirit of the Cowboy Collection containing everything from chaps, hats, lariats, and spurs to guns, bridles, bits and saddles; the American Indian room; the Mineral Room; the Changing Art Gallery, and, the Aiken W. Fisher Gallery with art from early explorer artists (i.e. Remington and Russell), landscape artists, Taos artists, and founding fathers of the Cowboy Artists of America.
Moving down to the lower level, you'll view: an early Wickenburg street scene (c.1905); period rooms, ranch life, and the Changing History Gallery, which currently displays "Snapshots from Early Twentieth Century Arizona: A Postcard Legacy," a collection of fantastic vintage postcards from Jeremy Rowe.
Curator Mary Ann Igna was interviewed by Western Art Collector in March 2010, and is intrigued by the thought of doing an exhibition of the beautiful weather and clouds of the Southwest. I'm excited by this idea. I hope she'll consider my favorite western artist Tim Cox. His clouds are breath-taking, especially in "Between Heaven and Earth!"
Admission is nominal, the Museum is service dog and wheelchair-accessible, and there's no better spot to stay cool and enjoy what the West was and is today!
We finished our trip with a delicious Mexican food lunch at Anita's Cocina, just east of the Museum.
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