Home to the West
The Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale is a premier annual event and gallery exhibition held in conjunction with the National Western Stock Show, a renowned nonprofit organization in Denver, Colorado.
Every January, this highly anticipated exhibition showcases one of the nation’s most impressive collections of contemporary Western art. From traditional to contemporary, the exhibit celebrates a diverse array of styles and mediums, spotlighting both celebrated masters and rising stars in the Western art world. It’s a must-see event for art enthusiasts and collectors alike.
Logan Maxwell Hagege (b. 1980) is an Ojai, CA based contemporary artist with modern visions of the west. The paintings of Hagege exhibit all the hallmarks of his classical art training from an academy in Southern California, a modern-day atelier, in which students refined their skills by drawing and painting live models every day for years.
Yet, it is in the artist’s departures from strict realism where his work now draws its strength and where his vision is fed by a heady mix of nature and imagination. A power born of observation, recollection and creative inspiration imbue Hagege images of the American Southwest. He is arguably one of the most adept artistic narrators telling and re-telling a modern story of a hauntingly beautiful desert land.
Hagege’s mature style, which he terms “stylized realism,” has made him a master of geometric design where angles and edges are softened by the curve of billowing clouds. His signature clouds often mimic the shapes of the blanketed figures in the foreground, creating visual roadmaps for the viewers, further adding to the design, and narrative of each composition.
What is seen in Hagege’s paintings are the elements of a region and its inhabitants that may go all but unnoticed by the casual observer. His mastery of light is faithful to colors and shapes that exist in nature but whose forms and hues have been stripped to their essence to reveal and to celebrate their complexity. The artist is directed by an inner voice that speaks of a kind of artistic alchemy in which the purity and perfection of nature can be referenced – in paint – for an eternity. There is no mistaking an Hagege image, just as there is no equivalent for the emotion it can evoke.
“It’s my vision of the world; that’s where it starts and that’s where it ends,” he says.
An inventive yet disciplined artist, Hagege is an accomplished musician, former competitive surfer, a husband and a father. Today, Hagege travels extensively to cultivate inspiration and to deepen his relationship with his subjects and with the culture of the land. He produces field studies on location near a home in remote northern Arizona where the landscape – in the form of red cliffs, towering clouds and cerulean sky – is among his guides. Those works inform the pieces he later creates in his studio in Ojai, California.
In a mark of the artist’s mounting critical and commercial success, Hagege’s works are part of the permanent collections of such ranking institutions as the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, California; the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia; the Cal Poly Pomona University Collection in Pomona, California; the James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art in St. Petersburg, Florida; the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and the Scottsdale Museum of the West in Arizona, among others.
Select Museum Collections:
Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West, Scottsdale, AZ
The James Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
Briscoe Museum of Western Art, San Antonio, TX
Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA
Cal Poly Pomona, Don B. Huntley Gallery, Pomona, CA
Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art, David City, NE
January 7th, 2026 – Blue Jean Preview and Award Ceremony
January 8th, 2026 – Winter West Symposium and Red Carpet Reception
Edward Aldrich
Maura Allen
William Alther
Bill Anton
Brandon Bailey
Carolyn Barlock
Nancy Bass
Duke Beardsley
Thomas Blackshear II
Teal Blake
Jeffie Brewer
Gordon Brown
Sophy Brown
Nocona Burgess
Shawn Cameron
Jill Carver
G. Russell Case
Nancy Cawdrey
Raj Chaudhuri
S.M. Chavez
Len Chmiel
Scott Christensen
Don Coen
Nicholas Coleman
Maeve Eichleberger
Teresa Elliott
Sushe Felix
Tracy Felix
Dan Friday
Danny Galieote
Terry Gardner
Whitney Gardner
Valerie Gobeil
Lisa Gordon
David Griffin
Starr Hardridge
Stephanie Hartshorn
Quang Ho
Tony Hochstetler
Donna Howell Sickles
Jennifer Johnson
Ott Jones
David Kammerzell
Greg Kelsey
Rick Kennington
Mark Kohler
Josh LaRock
Amy Laugesen
Amy Lay
Jivan Lee
Leon Loughridge
Drew Macias
Kim Mackey
Jan Mapes
William Matthews
Curt Mattson
Logan Maxwell Hagege
Chris Maynard
Joseph McGurl
Jay Moore
J. Chris Morel
James Morgan
Greg Newbold
Ralph Oberg
Michael Ome Untiedt
Brad Overton
Chad Poppleton
Howard Post
Paul Rhymer
Mary Ross Buchholz
Jared Sanders
David Santillanes
Billy Schenck
Matt Smith
Jill Soukup
J. Ken Spencer
Elsa Sroka
John Taft
Craig Tennant
Karmel Timmons
Joshua Tobey
Ouida Touchon
Ezra Tucker
Barbara Van Cleve
Albin Vaselka
Travis Walker
Kevin Weckbach
Skip Whitcomb
Carrie Wild
Jeremy Winborg
Kathy Wipfler
Greg Woodard
John Woods
Star York
Dan Young
Dennis Ziemienski
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