On Arizona
How do artists working in Arizona in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries fit into the greater American art historical scene? Many artists working in the west spent time in the art colonies of France and on the East Coast. They mingled in the same circles with a wide spectrum of artists, and their work reflected these influences. For instance, Howard Russell Butler traveled to Mexico and sketched and painted along side of the renowned landscape painter Frederic Church. And like Butler, some artists maintained bicoastal residences and made many trips through Arizona and other western states.
In other cases the artists who chose to reside in remote places isolated from the mainstream merely waited to be rediscovered.
