Just a few of the pieces the Savoy had on display this visit:
Kevin Kehoe: Western Book Club — this is a 30” x 50” oil on linen, acquired in 2016 for the Booth Western Art Museum’s Permanent Collection. Kevin wrote about it that the painting is from his Western Therapy series that “celebrates social distancing before social distancing was a requirement. It’s all about finding a place to exhale, where a real book replaces Facebook. A place where you and your dog are a book club of two. It’s about losing yourself so you can find yourself. It’s about nature re-introducing you to yourself…“
Here are others in that series at the artist’s website.
The Booth Western Art Museum is also located in Cartersville. It was opened in 2003 and is a 120k sq ft space featuring contemporary Western artwork and a Presidential gallery. We don’t have a lot of really large spaces dedicated to Western art in the southeast so this is special.
Cubeworks: 1946 Mercury Woody Wagon made up of Rubix cubes with epoxy resin
and here, with a 1946 Mercury Station Wagon
Billy Schenck‘s The Big Wait. He lives in Santa Fe and is a World Champion Ranch Sorting winner.
Laurie Stevens‘ Motel Galata is a 48″x36″ oil on canvas, also from the Booth’s permanent collection. She lives and works in Montana.
The Motel Galata is an actual business in Galata, Montana. Here’s a pic.
Would enjoy seeing her take on the Lookout Mtn Tourist Lodge sign in Chattanooga — I took this pic in 2010:
