What it’s actually like
Main Street’s Western galleries sell paintings of the frontier. Relévant Galleries, at 7165 East Main, sells photographs of it — staged, cinematic and very large. The room is built around David Yarrow, the Scottish photographer whose black-and-white images of big cats, elephants and bears, and of elaborately cast Wild West saloons and street scenes, have made him one of the best-selling fine-art photographers in the world. Prints taller than the people looking at them hang a few doors from bronze cowboys, and the effect is not subtle.
The Scottsdale room is about 3,000 square feet, polished and gallery-white, and it is the newest serious money on the block. Beside Yarrow hang Russell Young’s large silkscreen paintings of cultural icons — Brigitte Bardot, Audrey Hepburn, the darker side of American fame — and the bronzes of Gib Singleton, the sculptor whose work is in collections from the Vatican to MoMA. The group’s current program also features Ryan Jones and the late painter Earl Biss.
The staff are fine-art consultants rather than clerks, which is both the appeal and the warning: you will get an informed conversation, and you will be talked through an acquisition rather than a souvenir.
What to buy
A David Yarrow print. The reason the gallery exists. His wildlife and Wild West tableaux come in limited editions and several sizes, and the gallery’s family holds what it calls the largest collection of his work in the country.
A Russell Young. Bold, glittering silkscreens of icons; the room’s pop counterweight to the photography.
A Gib Singleton bronze. Gestural, elongated figures, often Western or spiritual in subject, from a sculptor with museum credentials.
Something from the back room. The parent company’s secondary-market division has placed work by Chagall, Picasso, Pissarro, Dalí and Warhol; ask, discreetly, if that is your level.
Parking, timing and the practical stuff
The gallery is on the south side of Main Street in the block just west of Scottsdale Road, between Simic Galleries and Esses Rare Objects D’Art, a few doors from DeRubeis Fine Art of Metal, across from Gebert Contemporary and within sight of The Legacy Gallery on the corner. The gallery itself points visitors to street parking on Main and nearby Old Town lots and garages; the free Civic Center garage off Drinkwater Boulevard is the reliable one, a flat five-minute walk east. The Old Town on foot note maps the grid and the Main Street Arts District guide covers the rest of the row.
Hours in the 2026 district guide are Monday to Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., later than most of the block. Thursday’s ArtWalk is the busy, social night; a private appointment, booked by phone or text, is the serious way to look at a Yarrow edition. The 2026 guide also lists a Relévant presence at Scottsdale Fashion Square, which is handy if you are already at the mall.
Eat while you’re there
Malee’s Thai Bistro is a few doors west at 7131 East Main. The Rusty Spur Saloon, in a 1921 bank across Scottsdale Road, is the real-life Wild West saloon after Yarrow’s staged ones, and the Sugar Bowl is a block north for a sundae under the pink sign. Los Olivos on Second Street has fed the neighborhood since 1947.
How it got here
Relévant is new to Main Street, but the family behind it is not new to the art trade. In 1967 Paul and Bonnie Zueger established the fine-art business that grew into AD Galleries, a privately owned group with a large Colorado presence — Aspen, Vail, Beaver Creek and Denver’s Cherry Creek — built on long-term relationships with collectors. Michael Olson and Lynnette Zueger-Olson carried it forward and expanded it into new markets.
In 2021 the family founded Relévant Galleries as a contemporary art house for artists whose work it considered culturally relevant, opening first in Denver. David Yarrow was the cornerstone from the start: AD Galleries had built what it describes as the largest collection of his work in the United States, and Relévant gave his cinematic photography a home of its own. Scottsdale was the second gallery. By spring 2024 the Old Town room had opened with a Yarrow exhibition as its grand-opening show, and its regional director, Justin Montgomery, told Luxe that Relévant brought a fresh perspective to an established art market.
That market is old. Main Street became a gallery street in 1968, when Troy’s Cowboy Art Gallery opened as its first, and the Thursday ArtWalk has run since 1975. In the 2020s the street’s block west of Scottsdale Road still holds Western heavyweights such as Legacy and the Scottsdale Art Auction alongside newer rooms, and Relévant fits the pattern of national and regional groups taking Main Street storefronts to reach the winter collectors who once came only for cowboy art.
The group’s other galleries are in Denver, Vail and Park City, and Michael Olson describes the business as rooted in relationships and in a responsibility to the art and the people who live with it. On Main Street, that means a photograph of a staged Western saloon selling a block from a real one.