Desert Caballeros Western Museum

photos by John Hazeltine

Wickenburg, AZ

928-684-2272

http://westernmuseum.org/

• A Brush With Reality - Detailing the West in Contemporary Art; essay by Susan Hallsten McGarry (7/10/08)
• "Creating an Iconography for a New State: The Arizona State Capitol Murals," from The Cowboy's Dream: The Mythic Life and Art of Lon Megargee; by Betsy Fahlman (6/7/02)
• The West's Best at Desert Caballeros Western Museum (5/20/02)
• "The Cowboy's Dream:" The Mythic Life and Art of Lon Megargee (2/11/02)
• In Celebration: A Century of Arizona Women Artists (12/4/00)
• Rising Stars 2000 -- Western Artists Worth Watching (9/12/00)
• Imageworks: Photography of the Southwest (6/13/00)
• The Other Side of the West (3/30/00)
• Hays "Spirit of the Cowboy" Collection (2/8/00)
• Arizona Highways: Celebrating the Legacy -- "Our Land, Our People" (2/8/00)
• Masters of Western Art, 1900 - 2000 (11/10/99)
• Navajo Weavings from the Getzwiller Collection (1/29/99)

Founded in 1960, "Arizona's most western museum," the Desert Caballeros Western Museum is a non-profit educational institution specifically created for the purpose of preserving and exhibiting the art and history of the rural Southwest and desert frontier. The museum is located at 21 N. Frontier Street in Wickenburg, AZ., about one hour's drive time northwest of Phoenix. Museum hours and fees available on Museum's website.

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