cowgirl up

The Cowgirl Up! Quick Draw & Auction Fundraiser will be returning to the Desert Caballeros Western Museum this Sunday, March 27. For the popular “Quick Draw” event, the Cowgirl Up! artists have only 90 minutes to paint, draw, or sculpt an original work of art. These pieces will then be auctioned to benefit the artists and...

Desert Caballeros Western Museum’s female-highlighting art show Cowgirl Up! held part of its virtual art exhibition on COWGIRL‘s Instagram Story just a few weeks ago. Now, they’ve named their Artist’s Choice Award winner: Harper Henry. Harper Henry, painter of Devotion (below, on Instagram), is an Idaho-born contemporary artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree...

In 2006, Desert Caballeros Western Museum embraced a revolutionary idea: Cowgirl Up!, an annual exhibition showcasing the brightest contemporary female artists working in the Western genre. In 2020, they’re taking Cowgirl Up! to a whole new level with a virtual art exhibition and sale. In the male-dominated world of Western art, Cowgirl Up! turned the...

Stop feeling deprived, hungry, and tired… Cowgirls, now’s your chance to feel and look your best, so you can spend more time riding and less time worrying about the gym or meal planning. Andrea Otley created the Cowgirl Up Diet after struggling with sugar cravings, binge eating, and a stubborn scale. Andrea lives in a...

That’s the town motto of Wickenburg, Arizona, home to the Desert Caballeros Western Museum and the annual Cowgirl-Up! Art from the Other Half of the West, Invitational Show & Sale, (now in its eighth year.) Wickenburg is an authentic wild west enclave a mere fifty-four miles from Phoenix but a world away. This historic mining town...

Capturing the grandeur and grit of the west with spectacular realism, contemporary expressionism, or a style somewhere in between, The women of the western art world keep the romance of the cowgirl lifestyle alive in galleries, homes and museums worldwide. Here, our 2016 collection of innovators, traditionalists, and living legends as diverse as the west...