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SHOW PREVIEW
PAUL CALLE’S LIFE OF
EXPLORATION: FROM THE
MOUNTAINS TO THE MOON
When: February 19-October 20, 2019
Where: Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West,
3830 N. Marshall Way, Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Information: 480) 686-9539, http://www.scottsdalemuseumwest.orgTo the Moon
Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West opens a retrospective for Paul Calle.
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n 1969, sketch artist Paul Calle drew three men as they
ate breakfast and then got ready for work. These would
have been ordinary and innocuous events had the three
men not been Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael
Collins as they were preparing to board a rocket headed
to the moon. Years later, after a rewarding career as an
illustrator, Calle turned his attention to another kind of
explorer: fur trappers and traders on the American frontier.
Both aspects of Calle’s career—illustration and his later
easel work in the Western world—will be featured in a
major retrospective titled Paul Calle’s Life of Exploration:
From the Mountains to the Moon, which opened February
5 at Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West in
Scottsdale, Arizona. The title and show were conceived
by Tim Peterson, the Massachusetts collector who’s vast
and diverse collection of Western art has been on long-
term loan at the museum. Peterson discovered Calle’s
artwork through prints and reproductions, which planted
the seeds for his entire collection.
“Growing up in the Midwest, I did a lot of hunting and
fi shing, and Paul’s mountain men had such a vibrant and123