Fine Western Art Collections
West Lives On Gallery

Whitney Hall

Raised on dirt roads and orange groves in Southern California, 24-year-old Whitney M. Hall works primarily in oils and soft pastels. The daughter of a fine artist, she spent most of her childhood with crayons and markers stuffed into her back pocket, drawing whatever animal would sit still long enough. She began her art education in illustration and has a strong background in graphic design, but her first foray into oils instantly converted her to fine art and she has pursued it as a career ever sense.

Since 2006 Whitney has extensively studied oil and pastel painting and human and animal anatomy through college courses and Watt‘s Atelier in Encinitas, as well as workshops and classes with local and nationally-recognized artists, such as Joe Garcia, Michael Steirnagle, Helen Shafer Garcia, Molly Lipsher, Jeff Watts, Dawn Emerson, and Robert Moore. In 2008 she moved to Bozeman, Montana, where she co-owns Cobalt Moose Art Studios with her mother, Terry Hall.
Artist Statement: Being raised in the country and now living just north of Bozeman, Montana, I love to paint the way light makes the normal things around us extraordinary. I love to look closely at things. By far the most inspiring subjects to me are animals, especially the dogs and horses that I see working with such dignified intensity. Each one I paint becomes a familiar character by the time I place that final stroke.

I am blessed to have the responsibility of being an artist and it is important that every painting to be a two-way conversation between you and me. I don’t see any point in merely standing in the street expressing myself, I want to sit down with you and communicate the wonder I have in the way dogs speak with their ears, in the way reflected light bounces up under hats, and in the way mountains are bluer when you look at them through yellow aspens. I hope to never reach the point where I assume I have learned everything.

"Colter"
oil • "16" x 12" • $990

"Copperdust"
oil • 20" x 16" • $1,950

"Overlook"
oil • 16" x 12" • $990

"Two Points"
oil • 10" x 8" • $750

"Napoleon"
oil • 9" x 12" • $850

"Till The Cows Come Home"
oil • 8" x 10" • $750

"September"
oil • 16" x 12"
$990

"Into The Sun"
oil • 12" x 16"
$990

"Brothers"
oil • 18" x 24"
$2,600

"Laredo"
oil • 9" x 18"
$990