The Virginia City Gallery of the West is located at the corner of Silver Street and South B Street in the Historic District of Virginia City, Nevada
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Virginia City Gallery of the West is dedicated to celebrating the spirit of the West through traditional and contemporary fine western original art. The artists featured, local and regional, represent the finest talents in painting, sculpture and graphics. The gallery is located in the heart of the historical mining community of Virginia City, Nevada; close to Lake Tahoe, Reno and Carson City. Virginia City boasts some of the most beautiful western high desert scenery along with quaint buildings on the boardwalk and Victorian homes dating back to the time of the gold and silver rush days when Virginia City was the Queen of the West. Your visit to Virginia City Gallery of the West will not disappoint. Give yourself the gift of original art to remember your Virginia City experience.
CURRENT DISPLAY
Sammy Bird
A Bucking Good Time
35 X 35 Oil Mixed Media
Alfred Momaday
Blue Horses
20 X 26 Gouache on Paper
Ila McAfee
Animation
21 ½ X 25 ⅞ Oil on Board
Photo Gallery
Jim Thomason
Full Corral
33 X 28 Oil on Canvas
Jim Thomason
Cody Rodeo
36 X 36 Oil on Canvas
Pablo Antonio Milan
Five Riders
30 X 40 Acrylic
PHOTO GALLERY
Maggie Bassett
Wild in His Eyes
Mixed Media Acrylic & Charcoal
22 X 28
Maggie Basssett
Winter Wolves
Mixed Media Acrylic & Charcoal
16 X 16
CURRENT ORIGINAL ART
Bailey Burton
"Meteor"
Wild Palomino Pinto Stallion
Sand Wash Basin Wild Herd
Oil on Canvas
30" X 40"
Bailey Burton
Alaskan Brown Bear Searching for Salmon
Acrylic on Canvas
36" X 48"
Photo Gallery
Jennifer Hawk
Long Horn Steer
Reclaimed Metal Art
Mixed Media
FEATURED WORK AT THE GALLERY
BONNIE MARRIS
"FIRE AND ICE"
OIL ON CANVAS 24" X 36"
AUTRY NATIONAL CENTER, MASTERS OF AMERICAN WEST
BOB KUHN WILDLIFE AWARD 2014
ARTIST CHOICE AWARD 2014
PATRON'S CHOICE 2014
ROY ANDERSEN 1930-2019
"LEARNIN' THE ROPES"
OIL ON CANVAS 30" X 40"
1989 COWBOY ARTISTS OF AMERICAN
OIL PAINTING SILVER AWARD 1999
DRAWING SILVER AWARD, 2000
ILLUSTRATOR FOR NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, TIME MAGAZINE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED.
HARRY ANDREW JACKSON 1924-2011
"INDIAN MOTHER & CHILD "
BRONZE 1980 26" HIGH
NATIONAL COWBOY HALL OF FAME
BUFFALO BILL MUSEUM
GLENBOW FOUNDATION
MONTANA HISTGORICAL SOCIETY WHITNEY GALLERY OF WEST ART
WYOMING STATE GALLERY
WOOLAROC MUSEUM
FORT PITT MUSEUM
NEIL BOYLE (1931-2006)
"FUN AND GAMES AT MAD MARY'S"
OIL ON CANVAS 24" X 36"
JERRY BLANK
"SASSY SALLY"
OIL ON CANVAS 24" X 30"
Robert Lougheed (1910-1982)
- "Heading Home With the Strays"
- Oil on Canvas 20" X 32"
- Cowboy at work
TERRY LEE
"BEARS AT PLAY"
OIL ON CANVAS 48" X 60"
Steven Saylor
“Beans & Whiskey”
Lithograph Print
Image size: 8" x 10" / Edition: 500 signed and numbered, 25 remarqued artist proofs.
This scene is from one of the annual fall cattle drives on the Allran Ranch. Model, Tim Spellman, and I were regular hands,
The location is Hooten Wells, Nevada and was originally a Pony Express stop in the high desert. The Pony Express was a system of mail delivery operating f
“Headed for the Railhead”
Lithographic print
Image size: 8" x 10" / Edition: 500 signed and numbered, 25 remarqued artist proofs.
This scene took place just past Fort Churchill, Nevada on one of the Allran Ranch cattle drives.
The rider on the hill is Jim Craddock, and the cattle are headed for the holding pens at the railhead in Weeks, Nevada. The cattle are feed and rested and put up there for t
“The Redeye Express”
Lithograph print
Image size: 8" x 22" - Edition: 500 signed and numbered, 25 remarqued artist proofs.
The concept for the Redeye was a bunch of dusty drovers coming into town for the first time in months.
Pockets full of money, the first stop was always the nearest saloon to wash down the dust.
The models are local cowboys and friends. I invited them all one evening to the f
Art from Sister Sa Ra and Sister Carol: Carmelite Monastery Reno, NV
