Art credit (previous page):
Abigail Gutting, Battleworn, 2022, Oil on linen, 30 x 20 in. (detail)
MARCH
LIVE
MARCH 26 – MAY 7
Solitude, 2005 Bronze vessel 22 x 8 in.
We are pleased to welcome you to Night of Artists at the Briscoe Western Art Museum! This year's exhibition and sale presents nearly 300 new works, sharing the stories of the American West through the remarkable talent of 81 of today's leading artists. We are humbled by the fantastic works these artists are sharing with us. You will find the best of the best in Western art at this year’s event, and we cannot wait for you to enjoy the exhibition, auction, and sale.
As we celebrate our 23rd Night of Artists, we are proud to note that 2023 is the 10th anniversary of the Briscoe. The National Western Art Foundation started Night of Artists to raise funds to create the museum, but in true Western fashion, that effort didn’t stop once we opened our doors. Night of Artists is one of a kind and the only exhibition each year where the Briscoe Museum offers contemporary artworks for sale. Its storied success over the last 22 years–and the unfailing vision and dedication of our founders–is what brought the museum to life and helps us collect, preserve, and present the art, history, and culture of the American West. Each of our exhibitions and programs benefit from the success of Night of Artists, and the museum’s future shines bright thanks to all that Night of Artists makes possible.
It is you, our friends and fellow art enthusiasts, our dedicated and generous artists, our members, and our committed museum supporters that make the Briscoe a vibrant and dynamic steward of this art form that captures the spirit of the West. Your support is what raises the bar each year, making each Night of Artists more successful than the last. We wholeheartedly thank our Board of Directors for their guiding leadership and our presenting sponsors, the Klesse Foundation and The Plum Foundation | Debbie and John T. Montford, for their support and all of our dedicated sponsors for helping to make Night of Artists possible. Thank you also to the participating artists, museum volunteers, vendors, and staff who bring this event to life and help it grow year after year.
Moreover, thank YOU for being here, buying art to support the artists and the museum, and having fun with like-minded collectors. Life is indeed better with art, and it is even better, thanks to all of you.
Michael Duchemin, Ph.D.
Liz Jackson President & CEO Vice President
THE WEST STARTS HERE, AND WE WELCOME EACH OF YOU!
WESTERN ART TITLE SPONSORS
Klesse Foundation
The Plum Foundation | Debbie and John T. Montford
WESTERN ART PATRON SPONSORS
AT&T • Mr. and Mrs. Marrs McLean Bowman • Briscoe Ranch, Inc.
Jan McCaleb Elliott and Jessica Elliott Middleton
WESTERN ART COLLECTOR SPONSORS
American Lumber | Laura and Barry Hendler
Luther King Capital Management
Scott Petty Family Foundation
San Vincente Ranch, Ltd.
• Valerie and Jack Guenther
• Gates Mineral Company, Ltd.
• James McMahon
• IBC Bank.
• Jinny and David Mullins
• Denise Pride and Donald Gates Elliott
• Muriel F. Siebert Foundation
Courtney and Mark Watson, Jr. | The Watson Foundation
WESTERN ART UNDERWRITERS
Margaret and Dolph “D.B.” Briscoe IV
• Bonnie and John Korbell
• Robert Oliver
• Ruthie and John Russell
• Silver Eagle Beverages
• Capital Farm Credit
Linda Gail and Robert Dullnig | Dullnig Ranches
• Southwest Airlines
• Clint Orms Engravers and Sliversmiths
• Karen Hixon
• KreagerMitchell Attorneys at Law
Amy and Ken Maverick | Maverick Whiskey • Sanger & Altgelt • Tale to Tell Communications
• Texas Capital Bank
Western Art Collector • Williams-Chadwick Family Charitable Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation
McLean Bowman • Dolph “D.B.” Briscoe IV • Jay Clingman • Robert A. Dullnig
Erika G. González, MD • Henry B. Gonzalez III
• Brandon Grossman • Jack Guenther
Valerie Guenther • Jose “Che” Guerra • Barry Hendler • Derrick Howard • William “Bill” Klesse
Howard “Hal” Lennox • Nancy Loeffler • Jane Macon • Kenneth J. Maverick • Rob McClane
Jessica Elliott Middleton • Debbie Montford • John T. Montford • John Phillip Santos
Mike Sohn • Wesley “Reed” Williams • Sonya Medina Williams • Bradford Wyatt
Daniel Briggs • J.P. Bryan • Laura Gill • Marcie Ince • Mark Johnson • Janell Kleberg
Ricardo Romo • Lionel Sosa
Fully Clingman • Enrique Guerra • Mark Watson, Jr.
Art credits (next page, left to right):
Randy Van Beek, Tonkawa Camp on the Frio River, 2022, Oil on linen panel, 16 x 24 in.
Tony Pro, Buffalo Prayer, 2022, Oil on linen, 30 x 24 in.
Kenny McKenna, Morning Light on Concepción , 2022, Oil on linen, 14 x 24 in.
Established in 2017, the Briscoe Bison Society honors a solid commitment to Western art from our most passionate patrons who support the museum through their generous purchase of art. Admittance recognizes these collectors' dedication to the success of the Briscoe's mission in sharing the many diverse narratives in the great tapestry of the West.
Through the Bison society, members collectively appreciate Western art while developing relationships and strong bonds with artists, curators, and collectors who share their enthusiasm. We are delighted to recognize these art collectors' dedication to the success of the Briscoe's mission.
For more information, contact our Collectors Concierge, Julia Harmon, at collectorsconcierge@briscoemuseum.org.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Aresco
Ms. Barbara Shelby Baetz
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus T. Barrett III
Mr. and Mrs. John Bellinger
Mr. and Mrs Phil Berkebile
Mr. and Mrs. McLean Bowman
Mr. Stephen Bressler and Ms. Laree Perez
Mr. Daniel M. Briggs and Ms. Marcella Martin
Mr. and Ms. Robert Brock
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Bukowski
Dr. and Mrs. Carlos J. Cardenas
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Clark
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Collins
Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dietel
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Elliott
Mr. Caleb Elliott
Mr. David B. Elliott and Ms. Jessica Evans
Mr. Donald and Dr. Denise L. Elliott
Mrs. Jannifer M. Elliott
Mr. and Mrs. Jason Elliott
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Felberg
Mr. and Mrs. David Found
Mr. Jeff Gordon
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Guenther
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Guenther, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Jose M. Guerra
Dr. Dan Guerra
Ms. Pamela B. Havens
Mr. Bryan Helm
Mr. and Mrs. Barry Hendler
Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Hendler
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hendler
Mr. Rolla Hinkle III
Dr. Samuel Hunt
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Johnson
Ms. Laura Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Mark M. Johnson, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn W. "Chip" Justice, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Kampmann, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. William Klesse
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Knowlton
Dr. Roberta Krueger
Mr. Bradley Lacy
Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Le
Mr. Howard A. Lenox, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Lewis
Mr. Humberto S. Lopez
Mr. and Mrs. Lance Lubel
Mr. Jeff Lynch
Ms. Ann Marmion
Mr. and Mrs. John Marzolf
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff McManus
Mr. Larry Melsness
Mr. and Mrs. Coleman Middleton
Hon. and Mrs. John T. Montford
Dr. and Mrs. David C. Mullins
Mr. John L. Nau III
Ms. Susan Naylor
Mr. Ashton Newhall
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Nixon
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nunley
Mr. Robert Oliver
Ms. Kathy Oliver and Mr. Brian Chandler
Dr. and Mrs. William T. Oliver
Mr. Edward Parsons
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Pederson
Mr. and Mrs. Scott O. Petty, Jr
Ms. Anne Phillips
Mr. and Mrs. Brad Richardson
Ms. Lynn B. Richter
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Rosenstein
Mr. and Mrs. John Russell, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. McLean Russell
Mr. and Mrs. William Russell III
Mr. and Mrs. Nolan Ryan
Mrs. Cindy Schneider
Mr. Christopher Shields
Mr. Sam Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Stinson
Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Stumberg, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Ramkumar Wallooppillai
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Wells
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Williams, Jr.
Mr. Bradford Wyatt
STEFAN SAVIDES ( b . 1950)
Snake Eyes, 2021 Bronze 25 x 14.5 x 12.5 in.
DAVE LAMURE, JR. ( b . 1963)
William Alther
Gerald Balciar
Teal Blake
Eric Bowman*
Mary Ross Buchholz
Nancy Bush
Shawn Cameron
Caroline Korbell Carrington
William Carrington
Cliff Cavin
Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey
Bruce Cheever
Nicholas Coleman
Todd Connor
Brent Cotton
Glenn Dean*
John DeMott
Mick Doellinger
Mikel Donahue
C. Michael Dudash
Barry Eisenach
Teresa Elliott
Luke Frazier
Brian Grimm
Bob Guelich*
Enrique Guerra
Abigail Gutting
George Hallmark
Sherry Harrington
William Haskell
Matthew Hillier
Donna Howell-Sickles
Chris Hunt
Greg Kelsey
Brenda Kingery
Mark Kohler
Joe Kronenberg
Dave LaMure, Jr.
Joshua LaRock
Bruce Lawes
Z. S. Liang
Jeremy Lipking*
Jan Mapes
Bonnie Marris
Curt Mattson
Kenny McKenna
Mark McKenna
Krystii Melaine
Brenda Murphy
Chris Navarro
Bill Nebeker
Ralph Oberg
Don Oelze
Chad Poppleton
Howard Post
Tony Pro*
Kevin Red Star*
Paul Rhymer
Gary Lynn Roberts
Alfredo Rodriguez
Julia Rogers
Gladys Roldán-de-Moras
Stefan Savides
Billy Schenck
Sandy Scott
Jason Scull
Kelly Singleton
Mian Situ
Adam Smith
Ezra Tucker
Echo Ukrainetz
Ron Ukrainetz
Kent Ullberg
Michael Ome Untiedt
Randy Van Beek
Dustin Van Wechel*
Jim Vogel
Kim Wiggins
Jeremy Winborg
Greg Woodard
Xiang Zhang
* New for 2023 Night of Artists
TICKET HOLDER EXHIBITION PREVIEW
10:00am - 3:00pm
Jack Guenther Pavilion
Night of Artists sponsors, underwriters, and ticket holders may preview artwork before the art sale and enjoy the museum galleries.
BRISCOE COLLECTORS SUMMIT: HEADIN’ IN
1:00 - 2:30pm
The Westin Riverwalk
The first session will explore the changing nature of the Western art market as it relates to long-time collectors who perhaps are reaching their zenith. As collectors begin “Headin’ In” from their journey, what should they expect when transferring or selling their collections?
BRISCOE COLLECTORS SUMMIT: HEADIN’ OUT
9:30 - 11:00am
The Westin Riverwalk
This session will explore the journey of “Headin’ Out” as novice buyers of Western art begin making the transition from buyers to collectors.
TICKET HOLDER EXHIBITION PREVIEW
10:00am - 3:00pm
Jack Guenther Pavilion
Night of Artists sponsors, underwriters, and ticket holders may preview artwork before the art sale and enjoy the museum galleries.
NIGHT OF ARTISTS AWARDS LUNCHEON
11:30am - 1:00pm
The Westin Riverwalk
Join us in celebrating this year’s artists and their exceptional talent. Keynote speaker: Briscoe President & CEO Michael Duchemin, Ph.D. Generously sponsored by Western Art Collector.
EXHIBITION PREVIEW, DINNER & LIVE AUCTION
5:30pm
Jack Guenther Pavilion
Let the excitement begin with cocktails and the Exhibition Preview, followed by a decadent seated dinner and the exciting Live Auction featuring 35 selected works of art from the Night of Artists Exhibition and Sale.
GRAND EXHIBITION OPENING, LUCK OF THE DRAW SALE & RECEPTION
5:30pm
Jack Guenther Pavilion
Celebrate the grand finale of the 2023 Night of Artists with the thrilling “Luck of the Draw” Sale of nearly 300 works of art. Throughout the evening, you will enjoy authentic Texas cuisine, live music, and dancing under the stars to one of country music’s rising young talents, Will Banister.
7:30 – Balloting stops for the “Luck of the Draw” Sale and bidders are drawn and posted.
7:55 – The second bidder whose name is drawn may begin confirming their purchases.
8:10 – All unsold artwork is available for purchase on first-come, first-serve basis.
Headin’ In or Headin’ Out? The Western Art Market in 2023
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023
1:00 – 2:30pm
Afternoon Session | The Westin Riverwalk
420 W. Market Street, San Antonio, TX 78205
The first session will explore the changing nature of the Western art market as it relates to long-time collectors who perhaps are reaching their zenith. How has the art market changed over the years? As collectors begin “headin’ in” from their journey, what should they expect as they begin to transfer or sell their collections?
Moderator
Michael Clawson, Editor, Western Art Collector
Panelists
Don Oelze, Artist
Abigail Kampmann, Collector
Kevin Doyle, Managing Director, Jackson Hole Art Auction
SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023
9:30 – 11:00am
Morning Session | The Westin Riverwalk
420 W. Market Street, San Antonio, TX 78205
HEADIN’ OUT
An art collection is an intentional accumulation of works centered around a theme. Finding a focus for a collection is often a process of trial and error. This is a great way to explore one's tastes and interests, but soon, a pattern begins to emerge. This session will explore the journey of “headin’ out” as novice buyers of Western art begin making the transition from buyers to collectors.
Moderator
Michael Clawson, Editor, Western Art Collector
Panelists
Mary Ross Buchholz, Artist
Robert Oliver, Collector
Beau Alexander, Maxwell-Alexander Gallery
MICHAEL CLAWSON Editor, Western Art Collector
Hailing from Phoenix, Arizona, lifelong journalist Michael Clawson is the executive editor for Western Art Collector, American Art Collector, Native American Art, American Fine Art and the podcast host of American Art Collective.
PANELISTS (FRIDAY)
DON OELZE Artist
Full artist bio on page 172
ABIGAIL KAMPMANN Collector
Dedicated Western art collector for over 25 years, Abigail Kampmann is CEO of Principle Auto Group in San Antonio, Texas. As a champion of the arts and culture in San Antonio, she is on the board of directors for the Alamo Trust and other notable art and science institutions.
KEVIN DOYLE Managing Director, Jackson Hole Art Auction
Accomplished auctioneer Kevin Doyle has served as the managing director of the Jackson Hole Art Auction since October 2021 and is responsible for leading day-to-day operations for all of the auction properties after spending two decades with Sotheby’s, based in New York.
PANELISTS (SATURDAY)
MARY ROSS BUCHHOLZ Artist
Full artist bio on page 148
ROBERT OLIVER Collector
Robert Oliver is an avid art collector and community leader from Cuero, Texas. As chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum, Oliver is credited as the lead stakeholder in establishing this thriving museum in 2000.
BEAU ALEXANDER Maxwell-Alexander Gallery
Beau Alexander, owner and gallery director of the notable and contemporary Western art gallery, MaxwellAlexander Gallery in Los Angeles, is a consultant to major public institutions and celebrity clientele. His passion is building collections for avid art enthusiasts and introducing first-time collectors to quality original art.
Each ticketholder receives an assigned bid paddle and ballot book for the opening weekend, Live Auction and Luck of the Draw sale events.
During the Live Auction on Friday, March 24, ticket holders are eligible to paddle bid on works by select artists.
Beginning on Friday, March 24, ticket holders may place fixed-price bids on art with bidding slips from their ballot books for the Luck of the Draw sale. This fixed price bidding concludes on the evening of Saturday, March 25, through a process designed and monitored for fairness. At its conclusion, up to two names will be drawn for the opportunity to purchase during the formal sale. Bidding slips are not a guarantee to purchase unless submitted as an absentee bid.
Absentee ballots for both sale events may be submitted until 12:00 pm on Thursday, March 23, 2023 via email: collectorsconcierge@briscoemuseum.org or fax: 210.299.4118, Attn: Julia Harmon/ Night of Artists Phone bidding for the Live Auction is also available.
An absentee bidding form is available on page 211.
All ticket holders enjoy complimentary valet parking on Friday from 5:00 to 10:00pm and on Saturday from 5:00 to 11:00pm.
For special room rates and accommodations, please visit briscoemuseum.org/noa.
Our priority is providing you with an exceptional viewing, bidding, and buying experience during Night of Artists . Our dedicated Collectors Concierge is ready to help you every step of the way.
Ensuring your experience at Night of Artists exceeds expectations, Collectors Concierge Julia Harmon can provide personalized service for your artwork purchase. Whether you need help with absentee bidding, purchasing, payment, shipping, and/or delivery, we look forward to making your experience at Night of Artists a pleasure.
Julia Harmon Collectors Concierge210.507.4863
collectorsconcierge@briscoemuseum.org
The 2023 Rules of Sale can be found on pages 24, 62, and 210.
The Night of Artists Live Auction Sale will feature thirty-five lots of select works submitted by premier Western artists. The sale will commence immediately following dinner on Friday, March 24, 2023.
Please read all terms and conditions before bidding. By participating in the Night of Artists Live Auction Sale, you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions. The Briscoe Western Art Museum may amend these terms and conditions by posted or oral announcements during the exhibition and sale. The following applies to all such artworks offered in the Live Auction Sale on Friday, March 24, 2023.
The purchase price will be the hammer price plus a PREMIUM OF FIFTEEN PERCENT (15%) on any individual lot. The museum calculates the buyer’s premium separately for each lot.
1. Bidding on any lot in the Live Auction Sale indicates the bidder’s acceptance of these terms and all other terms at the time of sale, whether bidding in person, absentee, or by telephone.
2. The Briscoe reserves the right to purchase any artwork in the sale for the museum’s permanent collection.
3. The Briscoe is an agent for the owners of the artworks. The museum assumes no risk, liability, or responsibility for the authenticity or the authorship of any artwork included in the exhibition, sale, and catalog. Neither the Briscoe, nor the auctioneer, nor the artists make any representations whatsoever that the purchasers of an artwork will acquire any reproduction rights thereto.
4. The Briscoe will sell all artwork “as is, where is,” and neither the museum nor the participating artists may make any express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the properties or the correctness of the advertisements, catalogs, or any other media used to announce this sale or any other description of the physical condition, quality, importance, or size of the artwork offered.
5. All sales are final, and there will be no exchanges or refunds on artworks. The buyer assumes full risk and responsibility for the lot and will immediately pay the full purchase price unless museum management approves prior arrangements. In addition, management requires that the buyer sign a sales agreement.
6. The Briscoe reserves the right to postpone the Live Auction Sale or to withdraw any artwork before the sale. The museum will have no liability whatsoever for such postponement or withdrawal.
7. The Briscoe may offer some items with an unspecified “reserve,” which is the minimum price, below which the lot will not be sold. In no event will the reserve exceed the low estimate published in the catalog and elsewhere.
8. The Briscoe reserves the right to reject a bid in the event of any dispute between bidders or in the event of doubt as to the validity of any bid. The auctioneer will have final discretion to determine the successful bidder, cancel the sale, or reopen and resell the artwork in dispute. If any dispute arises after the sale, the museum’s sales record will be the final and conclusive record of the sale.
9. Unless announced otherwise by the auctioneer, all bids are per lot as numbered in the catalog. Successful bidders will pay for their purchases during or immediately following the auction. Art purchasers may make payment by cash, check, cashier’s check, or credit card.
10. Upon acknowledgement of the winning bidder by the auctioneer, the title to the artwork will pass to the bidder. The sale is complete when the auctioneer announces the sale by the fall of the hammer or other customary manner. The auctioneer retains all authority and discretion allowed by law.
11. If the purchaser does not comply with these conditions, the museum may, in addition to other remedies available by law, including without limitation the right to hold the property (a) cancel the sale and retain as liquidated damages any and all payments made by the purchaser, or (b) resell the property privately or at public auction on three days’ notice to the purchaser for payment of any deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, including handling charges, warehousing, expenses of the sale, commissions, reasonable attorney’s fees, any and all other charges due, and incidental damages.
12. If fire, theft, or any other reason whatsoever prevents the Briscoe from delivering any artwork to the purchaser, the museum’s liability will be limited to the sum actually paid by the purchaser.
13. These conditions of sale and any other applicable conditions, as well as the purchaser’s and Briscoe Museum’s rights and obligations herein, will be governed by, construed, and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas.
As a convenience to our clients, the museum furnishes presale range estimates for all artwork included in the Live Auction Sale. Bidders should consider these estimates approximate valuations only based on comparable auction values and recent sales, not as prices.
Under $2,000 $100 $2,000–$5,000 $250
$5,000–$10,000 $500
$10,000–$20,000 $1,000
$20,000–$50,000 $2,500
$50,000–$100,000 $5,000
Over $100,000 $10,000
The Briscoe Western Art Museum continuously looks for ways to improve and ensure your purchasing experience at the Night of Artists Live Auction meets and exceeds your expectations. Our Collectors Concierge, Julia Harmon, is available to provide collectors and art purchasers personalized service throughout the exhibition and sale. For more information on absentee and telephone bidding to art purchasing, payments, shipping, and delivery of your artwork contact Julia Harmon at:
(210) 507-4863 (voice) collectorsconcierge@briscoemuseum.org
Please see the Absentee and Telephone Bid Form for additional rules of sale and instructions. The form is on the last page of your catalog.
1. The purchase price will be the hammer price plus a PREMIUM OF FIFTEEN PERCENT (15%) on any individual lot. The museum calculates the buyer’s premium separately for each lot.
2. Payment for all sold artwork is due in its entirety on the night of the event unless prior arrangements have been approved by museum management. Checks are preferred and are to be made payable to the Briscoe Western Art Museum. Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover are also accepted. Credit card purchases are subject to a 3% service charge. The museum will also add state and local sales taxes to the purchase price when applicable. The museum will honor tax exemptions when verified. Art purchasers must present proof of exemption at the time of payment.
3. ALL ARTWORK WILL REMAIN ON EXHIBIT THROUGH MAY 7, 2023. The museum will contact the buyer within two weeks of the purchase date to outline pickup and shipping options. The art purchaser is responsible for all shipping costs and arrangements. The museum will pack all artworks free of charge.
All artwork will remain on display until after the end of the exhibition on May 7, 2023. Art purchasers receive a Shipping Agreement along with their receipts for successful sales. Please fill out those forms and return them to the museum. The Briscoe Museum provides packing free of charge. The museum strives to contact each art purchaser within two weeks of your purchase date to confirm pickup and shipping options. If you do not hear from the museum within that period, please reach out to arrange for the pickup or shipping of your artwork(s).
• Pickup and shipping of artworks will begin on May 22, 2023, for purchasers who submit the Shipping Agreement Form with complete payment information. The museum adds individual artwork to the shipping schedule once it receives completed shipping instructions. Failure to submit shipping instructions may result in delays in getting your artwork.
• Art purchasers can make appointments to pick up their artwork between May 22 and June 16, 2023, provided the museum has received a completed Shipping Agreement Form. A valid ID is required for all in-person pickups.
• Because the museum assists in making shipping arrangements, we can only provide estimates for shipping costs. The payment information provided on the Shipping Agreement Form will be billed for the estimated shipping charge based on the shipping method selected prior to the artwork being shipped.
• Be sure to check with your chosen shipping company regarding insurance coverage of the artwork while in transit. The Briscoe Museum DOES NOT insure the shipment of any art purchased through Night of Artists The museum is not responsible for damages incurred during the transit of artwork.
Email is the preferred form of correspondence for shipping arrangements. Please send email correspondence to the Collectors Concierge at collectorsconcierge@briscoemuseum.org or call 210-507-4863.
Pasture Sunrise, 2022
Oil on canvas
22 x 16 in.
$4,000 - $6,000
Sticking Close, 2022
Charcoal and graphite on gessoed ACM panel
36 x 17 3/4 in.
$10,000 - $12,000
The Gathering Storm, 2022 Oil on linen
36 x 24 in.
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JAN
Con Pasión, 2022
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 in.
$8,000 - $9,000
He Rode Alone to Meet the Rising Moon, 2022
Oil on linen
20 x 25 in.
$13,000 - $15,000
Edge of the Meadow, 2023
Oil on board
24 x 30 in.
$10,000 - $12,000
Beauty and the Beast, 2022
Oil on linen
26 x 36 in.
$12,000 - $14,000
Busted by the Wind, 2023
Oil on panel
28 x 44 in.
$20,000 - $25,000
Z.S. LIANG ( b . 1953)
Morning Hunt, 2022
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 in.
$33,000 - $43,000
LOT #17
ABIGAIL GUTTING ( b . 1984)
Vertical Lift, 2022
Oil on linen
40 x 30 in.
$10,000 - $12,000
Double Take, 2022
Oil on linen
24 ½ x 45 in.
$18,000 - $20,000
Sombras de San Miguel, 2023
Oil on linen
40 x 40 in.
$40,000 - $50,000
Follow My Lead, 2022
Dye on silk with Peruvian leather frame
21 x 51 in.
$14,000 - $16,000
LOT #23
DUSTIN VAN WECHEL ( b . 1974)
A Violation of Personal Space, 2022
Oil on linen
40 x 30 in.
$13,000 - $15,000
GLADYS ROLDÁN-DE-MORAS ( b . 1963)
Spirit of San Antonio, 2022
Oil on Belgian linen
24 x 36 in.
$18,000 - $20,000
Toilers of the Trails - Buffalo Days, 2023
Oil on linen
40 x 50 in.
$22,000 - $24,000
LOT #27
GARY LYNN ROBERTS ( b . 1953)
Teton Express, 2022
Oil on canvas
48 x 40 in.
$20,000 – $25,000
Frequent Flyers Club, 2022 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 in.
$28,000 - $35,000
LOT #31
RON UKRAINETZ ( b . 1949)
Eagles and Hawks, 2022
Polychromatic engraving on Claybord
36 x 24 in.
$10,000 - $12,000
LOT #33 GERALD BALCIAR ( b . 1942)
Surveillance, 2022
Bronze on walnut base
23 x 14 x 7 in.
$3,500 - $4,500
A New Era Begins: February 20, 1685 Robert Cavelier de La Salle Lands at Matagorda Bay with the First Anglo-Colonist in Present Day Texas, 2022 Oil on linen 36 x 48 in. $14,000 - $16,000
CHRIS HUNT ( b . 1973)
Counting Coup , 2022
Charcoal and pastel on paper
35 x 26 ½ in.
$10,000 - $12,000
The annual Night of Artists Luck of the Draw Sale features nearly 300 works of art by eighty-one premier Western artists on Saturday, March 25, 2023.
Please read all terms and conditions before bidding. By participating in the Luck of the Draw Sale, you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions. The Briscoe Western Art Museum may amend these terms and conditions by posted or oral announcements during the exhibition and sale. The following applies to all such artworks offered in the Luck of the Draw Sale on Saturday, Mach 25, 2023.
To purchase a particular work of art at the set fixed price, bidders must fill out the numbered ballot slip and place it in the corresponding ballot box next to the work of art.
7:30 p.m. Balloting stops. Two names are drawn and written on the ballot box. The first name drawn has twenty-five (25) minutes to confirm IN PERSON their intent to purchase and to sign the Sales Agreement, which is a binding contract. If an absentee slip is drawn, the absentee bidder guarantees the purchase. Once the museum confirms a sale, the artwork will be marked as SOLD.
7:55 p.m. If the first name drawn does not claim the artwork, the second name drawn has 15 minutes to confirm IN PERSON and sign the Sales Agreement. If an absentee slip is drawn, the absentee bidder guarantees the purchase.
8:10 p.m. All unsold artwork is available for purchase on a first-come, first-served basis. All unsold artworks remain for sale and on display until the conclusion of the exhibition on May 7, 2023.
Sculpture Editions. For sculptures with multiple editions that are available for purchase, the museum will confirm and record sales in the order of the names drawn until the edition sells out. The first confirmed art purchaser will receive the artwork from the exhibition. Additional confirmed purchasers will receive their editions directly from the artists within approximately eight weeks after the close of the exhibition on May 7.
1. Bidding on any artwork in the Luck of the Draw Sale indicates the bidder’s acceptance of these terms and all other terms at the time of sale, whether bidding in person or absentee.
2. The museum also reserves the right to purchase for its permanent collection any artwork exhibited.
3. All Night of Artists ticketholders receive a ballot book that contains unique ballot slips for each work of art in the exhibition. The Briscoe allows ONLY ONE (1) ballot book per ticketholder. Ticketholders have access to the exhibition prior to the sale on Friday, March 24, and Saturday, March 25, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.
4. The Briscoe is an agent for the owners of the artworks. The museum assumes no risk, liability, or responsibility for the authenticity or authorship of any art piece included in the exhibition, sale, and catalog. Neither the museum nor the artists make any representations whatsoever that the purchasers of an artwork will acquire any reproduction rights thereto.
5. The Briscoe will sell all artwork “as is, where is,” and neither the museum nor the participating artists may make any express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the properties or the correctness of the advertisement, catalog, or any other media used to announce this sale or any other description of the physical condition, quality, importance, or size of the artwork offered.
6. All sales are final and there will be no exchanges or refunds on artworks. The buyer assumes full risk and responsibility for the artwork purchased and will immediately pay the full purchase price, unless museum management approves prior arrangements. In addition, management requires that the buyer sign a sales agreement.
7. The Briscoe reserves the right to postpone the Luck of the Draw Sale or to withdraw any artwork before the sale. The museum will have no liability whatsoever for such postponement or withdrawal.
8. If the purchaser does not comply with these conditions, the museum may, in addition to other remedies available by law, including without limitation the right to hold the property, (a) cancel the sale and retain as liquidated damages any and all payments made by the purchaser, or (b) resell the property privately or at public auction on three days’ notice to the purchaser for payment of any deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, including handling charges, warehousing, the expense of both sales, commissions, reasonable attorney’s fees, any and all other charges due, and incidental damages.
9. If fire, theft, or any other reason whatsoever prevents the Briscoe from delivering any artwork to the purchaser, the museum’s liability will be limited to the sum actually paid by the purchaser.
10. These conditions of sale and any other applicable conditions, as well as the purchaser’s and Briscoe Museum’s rights and obligations herein, will be governed by, construed, and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas.
The Briscoe Western Art Museum continuously looks for ways to improve and ensure your purchasing experience at the Night of Artists Luck of the Draw sale meets and exceeds your expectations. Our Collectors Concierge, Julia Harmon, is available to provide collectors and art purchasers personalized service throughout the exhibition and sale. For more information on absentee bidding, art purchases, payments, packing, shipping, and delivery of your artwork contact Julia at:
(210) 507-4863 (voice) collectorsconcierge@briscoemuseum.org
ABSENTEE BIDDING SERVICES
Please see the Absentee and Telephone Bid Form for additional rules of sale and instructions. The form is on the last page of your catalog.
1. Once museum staff members confirm sales, the art purchasers are required to sign the Sales Agreement and take their copies of that agreement to the nearest Payment Station.
2. Payment for all sold artwork is due in its entirety on the night of the event unless prior arrangements have been approved by museum management. Checks are preferred and should be made payable to the Briscoe Western Art Museum. Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover are also accepted. Credit card purchases are subject to a 3% service charge. The museum will also add state and local sales taxes to the purchase price when applicable. The museum will honor tax exemptions when verified. Art purchasers must present proof of exemption at time of payment.
3. ALL ARTWORK WILL REMAIN ON DISPLAY FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EXHIBITION THROUGH MAY 7, 2023. The museum will contact each art purchaser by April 8, 2023, to determine the buyer’s preferences for pickup and/or shipping options. The museum will pack all artworks free of charge. Art purchasers are responsible for all costs associated with shipping and for all shipping arrangements.
All artwork will remain on display until after the end of the exhibition on May 7, 2023. Art purchasers receive a Shipping Agreement along with their receipts for successful sales. Please fill out those forms and return them to the museum. The Briscoe Museum provides packing free of charge. The museum strives to contact each art purchaser within two weeks of your purchase date to confirm pickup and shipping options. If you do not hear from the museum within that period, please reach out to arrange for the pickup or shipping of your artwork(s).
• Pickup and shipping of artworks will begin on May 22, 2023, for purchasers who submit the Shipping Agreement Form with complete payment information. The museum adds individual artwork to the shipping schedule once it receives completed shipping instructions. Failure to submit shipping instructions may result in delays in getting your artwork.
• Art purchasers can make appointments to pick up their artwork between May 22 and June 16, 2023, provided the museum has received a completed Shipping Agreement Form. A valid ID is required for all in-person pickups.
• Because the museum assists in making shipping arrangements, we can only provide estimates for shipping costs. The payment information provided on the Shipping Agreement Form will be billed for the estimated shipping charge based on the shipping method selected prior to the artwork being shipped.
• Be sure to check with your chosen shipping company regarding insurance coverage of the artwork while in transit. The Briscoe Museum DOES NOT insure the shipment of any art purchased through Night of Artists The museum is not responsible for damages incurred during the transit of artwork.
Email is the preferred form of correspondence for shipping arrangements. Please send email correspondence to the Collectors Concierge at collectorsconcierge@briscoemuseum.org or call 210-507-4863.
SHAWN CAMERON (b. 1950)
Beneath an Evening Sky, 2022
Oil on canvas
CAROLINE KORBELL CARRINGTON (b. 1969)
Homer's Grandpa, 2022
Bronze 38 x 12 in.
NANCY DUNLOP CAWDREY (b. 1948)
Drama Queen, 2022
Dye on silk
Golden Light , 2023
Oil on linen
24 x 12 in.
Ota'taveenova'e - Blue Feather Woman, Cheyenne, 2022
Ride for the B rand, 2022
Bronze
24 ½ x 20 x 6 in.
Where Earth and Sky Meet , 2022 Oil on linen
Non Compliant, 2022
STEFAN SAVIDES (b. 1950)
Home is Where You Find it, 2022 Bronze
12 x 10 x 11 in.
KELLY SINGLETON (b. 1971)
Silence is Golden, 2022
Oil on linen
30 x 18 in.
Dance by the Light of the Moon, 2022
DUSTIN VAN WECHEL (b. 1974)
Trailblazer, 2022
Oil on linen
Art credit (previous page): Brenda Kingery (b. 1939), Sky Messages, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 in. (detail)
William (Bill) Alther’s work conveys his regard for the natural world. Born in 1959, he grew up in West Texas, and his abiding respect and fondness for all forms of life have only increased with time. He acquired a degree in wildlife biology from Texas A&M University and eventually worked in the zoology department at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science for thirteen years.
Throughout his life, he has been an active artist, drawing and painting. During his first ten years after college, he focused his artistic endeavors on wood sculpture. In his early thirties, he jumped back into two-dimensional work, spending the next few years painting in his free time and further developing his abilities. In 2004, he began painting full-time.
Alther participates in several prominent national shows each year and is associated with several established and respected galleries. His most recent notable honor came in 2018, when his fellow artists voted to recognize his work with the Red Smith Award at the Western Visions Show and Sale at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming. He is a member of the Northwest Rendezvous Group, Society of Animal Artists, and Oil Painters of America. His work is in the permanent collection of the Woodson Art Museum and in many private collections. Alther lives in Denver, Colorado, with his wife, Debbie.
Focusing on animals as subject matter, Gerald Balciar works in both bronze and stone. He prefers to portray the gentle side of nature in his sculptures. His repertoire of work ranges from small-scale creations to monumental installations. For reference, he works from his extensive library of wildlife material, which includes photos, magazine clippings, books, and numerous study casts and measurements. He also uses live models as an invaluable aid in his sculptures.
Balciar is involved in the creative process of bronze-making from beginning to end. He works his original sculpture in wax or clay and then makes his own molds and sends a finished wax to the foundry. Once the bronze is cast at the foundry, he does the welding and metal chasing and then applies the patina and finishing touches to each bronze.
His largest bronze sculpture is a 20-foot bronze moose, Centennial , which was installed in Mooseheart, Illinois, to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the Loyal Order of Moose in 1988. His largest marble carving is an 18-foot, 16,000-pound cougar, Canyon Princess , which was carved from a single piece of marble and is installed at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. The Colorado Yule Marble was quarried at 10,500 feet altitude near Aspen, Colorado.
Teal Blake grew up on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains in Montana. Looking at C. M. Russell works in his father’s studio and reading Will James books inspired him to pick up a pencil and start capturing his own visions of cowboys and the American West.
Blake has been painting professionally since 2005. He has always liked to show the traditional West: cowboys who are not always clean-shaven, shirts that are not always creased, and horses’ manes that are not always long.
His love for the traditions of ranching and cowboying is unparalleled. His portrayal of ranch life and the handful of people keeping it alive is authentic—no models, no costumes. Fortunate enough to work and ride alongside his friends and muses, he is able to capture his material and inspiration firsthand.
In 2014, Blake’s labor, talent, and accomplishments earned him an invitation into the renowned Cowboy Artists of America. He has also been honored with several awards, including the Joe Beeler CAA Foundation Award and First Place Watercolor at the Phippen Museum in Prescott, Arizona. His work has been featured in Western Horseman , Western Art & Architecture , Southwest Art , Ranch & Reata , and The Cowboy Way . Blake and his son currently reside in Fort Worth, Texas.
Eric Bowman was born in Pasadena and grew up in Orange County, California. Essentially a self-taught artist, he had a knack for drawing as far back as he can remember and launched into the world of freelance illustration in the 1980s.
While he enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist, it was a chance meeting with two prominent California painters in 1998 that set Bowman on a new journey into fine art painting. Since then, Bowman has developed a unique style that continues to evolve, deriving inspiration from sources both contemporary and historic.
As a painter, Bowman has exhibited in some of the country’s most prestigious galleries and museums, including the Autry Museum of the American West, the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, the Briscoe Western Art Museum, the Gilcrease Museum, the Kaiping Art Museum in Jiangmen, China, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, and the Salmagundi Club in New York City.
Bowman’s paintings have won numerous awards and recognitions and reside in private and corporate collections throughout the United States, England, Australia, China, Canada, and Mexico. Bowman has also been profiled in feature articles in Southwest Art , Art of the West , Western Art Collector , International Artist , Pratique Des Arts , Fine Art Connoisseur , and PleinAir .
For twenty-five years, art has been Mary Ross Buchholz’s devotion. She and her husband live and ranch in rural west Texas near the town of Eldorado. Coming from a pioneering ranching family, she offers a glimpse of her daily ranch life through her paintings, sculpture, and the most primitive of mediums, charcoal and graphite. Buchholz strives to capture the authenticity of their way of life by gathering reference material from the ranch, and as a result, each piece she creates is a testament to her family’s ranching traditions.
Buchholz relishes creating the portrait, whether the subject is an animal or person; she enjoys subtly rendering the details, the different textures, and the individual characteristics of her subjects.
“The eyes are my favorite part of an animal. I feel like that’s where you’re able to see the life; as people say, the eye captures the soul of the horse. I want my pieces to not only look real, but to feel real. I’m always mindful of the subject’s personality and hope each piece is portrayed with honesty and simplicity. I am blessed that what I enjoy drawing is right here, out my backdoor.”
Buchholz is an award-winning artist who participates in many museum shows across the country. She is represented by InSight Gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas.
Nancy Bush works in layers of paint, letting each layer dry between applications. This buildup of layers and glazes increases the light and luminosity of the painting, suggesting mood and moments of fleeting atmospheric dialogue.
“I strive for my paintings to have a universal appeal and not just reflect a particular region."
My paintings are a visual language with a message brought to life on canvas using my own personal emotions and experiences. Hopefully, they convey more than just technical expertise—they must contain a part of my soul, spirit, and personal reflection of my intention.”
Bush’s work has been featured in Art of the West , Southwest Art , Cowboys and Indians , American Art Collector , American Artist , and Western Art Collector
She has participated in Night of Artists and other invitational shows across the country, including the National Cowboy & Heritage Museum’s Small Works, Great Wonders show in Oklahoma City, American Art Invitational Small Gems show in Denver, and Quest for the West at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis.
Nancy Bush is represented by InSight Gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas, and other galleries around the country.
Shawn captures moments in the lives of those who live and work on ranches. Hers was a world apart. From a young age, life around her was filled with talk of cattle, weather, the smell of horse sweat and leather, the sound of hooves before dawn, the weariness of long days…and a sense of purpose. Problems were solved, and lessons were learned. So it had been for generations, and so it remains. With no memory of the beginning, she continues to record ranch life as it unfolds through paint and canvas. She strives to grow artistically as she uses the gift of observation God gave her to capture the beauty of fleeting moments.
Her subjects are real, and their stories are true. Her art has been featured in magazines and graced covers such as Western Horseman, Western Art Collector, and American Cowboy She has participated in several major museum art shows, including Prix de West Invitational, Night of Artists, the C. M. Russell art auction, and Cowgirl Up! Among her recent honors is the 2020 “Cowgirl Up” Museum Purchase at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona.
Caroline Korbell Carrington grew up in a family that cherishes and values the land and wildlife of Texas. She spent many of her formative years in the Texas Hill Country, where she began to create works of art. Over time, art became a passion that has led to her successful career as a landscape painter.
“I am so privileged to be able to not only enjoy the outdoors and beautiful scenery found in the Southwest, but I also get to immerse myself in the images by capturing them on canvas.”
Carrington graduated from Texas Christian University in 1992 with a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting. She spent time in New Mexico working alongside prominent landscape painters, including the late David Barbero. Over the years, she has experimented with many different media, the basis of which is oil on canvas. She continues to paint landscape scenes from the western United States with a focus on Texas.
Caroline Korbell Carrington works alongside her husband, sculptor William Carrington, in their home studio in San Antonio.
William Carrington received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Southwest Texas State University in 1989. He worked for several years as a production artist at Giles Design Studio in San Antonio, where he later did freelance work for various studios. He attended Trinity University, where he earned a master of arts in teaching degree. He went on to teach elementary education for thirteen years and later elementary art. After much contemplation and long conversations with his wife, the artist Caroline Korbell Carrington, he decided to pursue sculpture full time. He currently is entering the twelfth year in this endeavour and has realized that sculpting is what he was meant to do.
William Carrington is an avid lifelong outdoorsman. Coming from a ranching family, he spent a great deal of time hunting and fishing. Over the years, he has gained in-depth knowledge of wildlife and wildlife behavior. In his work, he captures the gestural qualities of animals. Carrington also spent years in the outdoors, cleaning and butchering game. He states, “By butchering game, one gains a keen knowledge of the animal’s physical characteristics and muscular structure.” He puts this knowledge into his work, striving to depict the animal’s movement from within. He currently works out of his 'home' studio in San Antonio.
Cliff Cavin, a native of San Antonio, is a landscape artist who has been painting professionally for over forty years. His focus is on views of the American West, especially Texas and New Mexico. He has well over fifty professional exhibits to his credit, most recently a one-man show at the Museum of Western Art in Kerrville, Texas, that included forty-five works.
Cavin has also participated in shows such as the annual Briscoe Western Art Museum Night of Artist Exhibition & Sale; The Russell at the C. M. Russell Museum; the American Plains Artist Museum Show , and the Oil Painters of America National Exhibition . Additionally, he has had exhibitions at the Nave Museum, the Harlingen Public Library, the Southwest School of Art, and the San Antonio Art League.
His paintings have won numerous awards and are represented both nationally and internationally in private and corporate collections, including Valero Oil, M. D. Anderson Hospital, Jefferson State Bank, Baylor Scott & White Health, and Cibolo Creek Ranch.
Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey’s heritage stems from three generations of Texans from Erath County. Making her home for the last forty-two years in northwest Montana, she has been influenced and inspired by Glacier National Park and “Big Sky Country.” Having studied in France and Britain for eight years in her early career, she brings something fresh to her contemporary silk paintings, which are influenced by British watercolorists and French oil painters. She is known for her work on silk and in oil and watercolor.
“I was a 17-year-old art student in Paris, France when I first saw Toulouse Lautrec’s work in person: big, bold, filling the space, painting from a place of strength. That is who I wanted to be as a person and an artist. All these years later, I try to do just that in my studio every day.”
Cawdrey was the Featured Artist in 2014 at the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival and is a founding member of the C. M. Russell Museum’s Russell Skull Society. She regularly exhibits in the Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale in Cody, Wyoming, and Cowgirl Up! at the Desert Caballeros Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona.
Interested in art as a child, Bruce Cheever embarked on a career as a fine artist after spending many years as an illustrator. It was during those years that he discovered his affinity for tonalism, luminism, and realism. Cheever’s atmospheric and bucolic landscapes are suggestive of the Renaissance era. His passion for the landscape is driven by a neverending search for beauty.
Cheever’s studio paintings take shape from the inspiration he gathers from his travels. Whether painting a rural scene in the American West or a pastoral European landscape, he has developed a painting style that is uniquely his own.
Born in 1958, this Utah artist points to his education at Brigham Young University and a professional career as an illustrator as his prime training ground in both observation and discipline. Cheever has had the opportunity to travel to many parts of the world to capture the beauty of the landscape in his paintings. His love of the Western American landscape, figurative work, and still life has been a hallmark of his success.
Nicholas Coleman was born in Provo, Utah, in 1978. He has loved the American West since boyhood. Growing up in Utah was instrumental in his artistic education. Coleman finds enjoyment in hiking and scouting for game in the nearby hills and mountains of the Wasatch Front. Visually stunning, the landscape of Utah has grand vistas, with hidden waterfalls, rivers, creeks, streams, and wildlife. Coleman’s work emphasizes the key elements of a good story: scene, structure, event, and plot. Every intentional brush stroke builds a story that evokes the common narrative of struggle, fortitude, and resilience through both characters and the characterization. Much of this is a result of his upbringing under his father, famed Western American artist Michael Coleman.
Coleman’s work emboldens free-spirited imagination, while his cultural outreach encourages his followers to experience the West for themselves. This desire to push his audience to explore the raw landscapes in their own lives emanates from his core belief that those who cherish Western landscapes will, in turn, come to protect them. Coleman is known for his efforts to increase access to America’s wild places, but accessibility to art is a recurring theme in his approach to his clientele as well.
Montana painter Todd Connor began capturing beloved Western landscapes, wildlife, and themes in pastels and oils at an early age. After serving as a Navy SEAL, he earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in illustration from the Pasadena Art Center College of Design in 1999. He then moved to Montana to pursue his lifelong passion. A highly successful show in Bozeman a year later secured Connor’s artistic future, and he has never looked back. Over the past two decades, his art has been featured in numerous exhibitions, shows, auctions, and galleries throughout the country and in magazines and newspapers, including Southwest Art , Western Art Collector , Art of the West , and Big Sky Journal . Connor’s work is currently available at the Dick Idol Signature Gallery in Whitefish, Montana, and Settlers West Fine American Art Gallery in Tucson, Arizona, in auctions, and by commission.
Brent Cotton is an award-winning, nationally recognized artist who lives in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana. He prefers to paint in the tonalist/luminist style made popular in the late 1800s, seeking to create works that evoke a mood and have a timeless quality.
An avid outdoorsman, Cotton can often be found standing in one of the local rivers with a fly rod in his hand or at the oars of his drift boat. The close proximity to some amazing blue-ribbon trout streams is one of the many reasons he and his family make their home in the Bitterroot Valley. This passion has led Cotton to focus on sporting art, particularly fly-fishing, in his work.
He is the recipient of the 2018 Wilson Hurley Award for Best Landscape at the Prix de West Invitational at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City and the 2019 Victor Higgins Award for Best Body of Work at Quest for the West at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis.
His work can be found in many private and corporate collections throughout the country.
Cotton is represented by Trailside Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Huey’s Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Mockingbird Gallery, Bend, Oregon; and Samarah Fine Art, Whitefish, Montana.
Glenn Dean’s childhood interest in art matured into a love of painting landscapes by his early twenties. Exposure to the California and Western landscape painters of the early 1900s greatly influenced the young artist and directed the course of his career.
Largely self-taught, Dean understands that time in the field and in the studio are equally important. While working in his studio, Dean is able to paint larger compositions based on field studies and other references.
He has twice been honored as the cover artist on Western Art Collector magazine and has been featured in several books and national magazines, including Western Art and Architecture , Art of the West , Southwest Art , and American Artist . Dean has won a number of awards, including the Henry Farney Award for Best Painting, the Artists' Choice Award and the Victor Higgins Award of Distinction for the Best Overall Body of Work at the Eteljorg Museum's Quest for the West exhibition.
Other awards include the Gold Thunderbird Award (Best of Show) at Maynard Dixon Country; the first-ever Emerging Artist Award presented by Art and Antiques magazine; and the Grand Prize and Artists’ Choice Award at the inaugural Tucson/Sonoran Desert Museum Plein Air Invitational.
Dean and his wife, Suzanne, currently live in Cambria, California.
To experience a John DeMott painting is to truly experience part of the great American frontier. An outdoorsman and storyteller of the American West, DeMott transcends the cliché of the Western artist.
Raised on Southern California horse ranches, he has worked and lived the life of his artistic subjects and can speak the language of his experience. DeMott’s art involves countless hours of research. Through his study of tools, wardrobe, accoutrements, and history, he is able to capture detail and authenticity in his paintings. Whether it is the Plains Indians, a trapper, cowboys, a grizzly bear in the wilderness, or simply the beautiful Southwestern landscape, DeMott can make the viewer keenly aware of time and place.
“As a storyteller of the American frontier, Western art has been an important part of my life, and I am proud to be involved in the preservation of our great heritage,” he says.
DeMott’s work has been published in Art of the West , Art-Talk , Southwest Art , Sporting Classics , and U.S. Civil War Art. He lives with his wife Cindy and their family on their horse ranch in Loveland, Colorado.
Mick Doellinger strives to capture “the essence” of an animal, and he hopes viewers will connect with his sculptures in some way.
“For me, it’s less about creating a perfect replica of the animal and more about sculpting a narrative or moment in time.”
Doellinger has spent his entire life working with and around animals in some capacity, and he believes his time in the field studying the subjects and environments they occupy is critical to his creative process. This life-long accumulation of hands-on knowledge has given him unique insights into the anatomy, movements, and behavior of the animals.
“My earlier work was much more literal, but over time, I’ve preferred to not overwork the clay. With this looser style, collectors will continue to notice something they hadn’t seen before, even if it’s just a partial fingerprint or smudge. These slight ‘imperfections’ are a reminder of the hands-on sculpting process, kept frozen in the finished bronze.”
Although he’s been sculpting for most of his life, Doellinger continues to be inspired by new possibilities and feels his best years are still ahead of him.
A multiple award-winning member of the Cowboy Artists of America, artist Mikel Donahue is best known for his impeccable depictions of cowboy life. His drawings and paintings depict ranchers and their livestock during the day-to-day ritual of sunup to sundown work. What may seem mundane chores are captured and translated through his artistic style into moments of meaning and reflection.
Born and raised in Tulsa, Donahue learned about life on the ranch from his paternal grandfather, who raised cattle in northcentral Oklahoma. His maternal grandfather exposed him to Western art at an early age. Fascinated both by life on the ranch and iconic Western artists, Donahue has become a perfect amalgam of his influences. He breeds racing quarter horses with his wife Christie on their place outside Broken Arrow while pursuing his art.
Some of his awards include the 2017 Cowboy Artists of America’s Silver Medal in Water Solubles, the 2018 Silver Medal in Other Media, and the 2019 Gold Medal for Drawing, Gold Medal for Mixed Media, and Silver Medal for Water Solubles. His work was included in the Society of Animal Artists’ select traveling exhibition, Art and the Animal , in 2019–2020. He is represented by Broadmoor Galleries, Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Settlers West Fine American Art Galleries, Tucson, Arizona.
Michael Dudash was born in Mankato, Minnesota, and eventually settled in the Green Mountains of Vermont in 1977. Trained in the fine arts, he began his career in classic illustration, which won him a prestigious and national reputation. In 2002, after illustrating for twenty-five years, he left his illustration work behind for the the fine art world and moved out west.
He began to sell his work through prestigious Western galleries and eventually earned his place in the best Western museum shows and national auctions, including the Prix de West Invitational at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City; The Russell at the C. M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana; Night of Artists ; Quest for the West Art Show and Sale at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis; the Scottsdale Art Auction; and the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction.
Dudash’s work has been featured in Art of the West , Southwest Art , Western Art Collector , American Artist , and The Artists Magazine . His paintings are in the permanent collections of the Booth Western Art Museum, the James Western Art Museum, and the Briscoe Western Art Museum. In 2016, he became a member of Cowboy Artists of America.
Michael Dudash lives with his wife Valerie in the Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, area.
Barry Eisenach began drawing at an early age, and after twenty-three years as an illustrator and graphic designer, he followed his life-long desire to paint and sculpt. Having grown up in the West, he was naturally drawn to portraying the lives and history of the indigenous peoples and explorers of this region. Eisenach feels it is a privilege to stand on the shoulders of the Western artists who came before him. He strives to make each new piece a little better than the previous one.
Eisenach was elected to membership in the Northwest Rendezvous Group in 2003, is a fellow of the National Sculpture Society, and has been honored with several awards from each group. His work is included in numerous public, private, and museum collections.
Teresa Elliott is an award-winning artist living and working in Texas. She holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Kansas and has received numerous awards from organizations such as the Briscoe Western Art Museum; the Portrait Society of America, Tallahassee, Florida; the Art Renewal Center, Port Reading, New Jersey; and the Coors Western Art Exhibition and Sale at the National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado. She has exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; MEAM European Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, Spain; the Salmagundi Club in New York City; and the Beijing World Art Museum in China. Collectors include Nolan Ryan, the Bass family, and the National Western Stock Show.
Elliott’s West Texas studio sits on a bed of ancient lava rock overlooking a vast old ranch. The wandering javelina herds, deer, and turkey are frequent visitors, reminding her of John Muir’s observation: “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it connected to the rest of the world.”
Luke Frazier began sculpting and drawing at a young age, encouraged by his father. The two embarked upon many memorable road trips into the deserts of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, where they treasurehunted for arrowheads, interesting stones, shed antlers, and lost artifacts. Frazier vividly recalls camping under the stars, huddling by campfires, and listening to his father’s stories of days gone by.
Frazier’s paintings inspire viewers’ imaginations by hinting at messages visually and emotionally. His rugged and mature style skillfully captures the anatomy and presence of the subjects he paints. Preferring early morning or evening light, he creates scenes from his memories and experiences in the woods, in the mountains, and on the water.
Luke received his formal art training at Utah State University, where he earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting and a master of fine arts degree in illustration.
“I want to offer up the natural world from a different point of view, whether that be bombastic, nostalgic, or subtle. I am in awe of the beauty in nature, from the grandiose, to the smallest, exquisite detail—the handiwork of The Almighty.”
Brian Grimm paints from the heart of a true outdoorsman. He translates his experiences in nature to oil on board. His sensitive uses of light, color, texture, and painterly brushwork are hallmarks that resonate with his collectors. Grimm makes frequent trips to study, photograph, and sketch the animals he paints. Plein air landscape studies are crucial to the honesty of his work.
Born and raised in central Texas, Grimm had a pencil and brush in his hand at an early age. A fortuitous introduction at age sixteen to artist Ken Carlson led to a mentorship that had a profound influence on his choice of subjects. He earned a commercial art degree from Austin Community College in 1992 and worked as a graphic designer in Austin before turning to his true calling as a fine art painter of wildlife.
Grimm is represented by InSight Gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas, and Legacy Gallery in Jackson, Wyoming, and Scottsdale, Arizona. He has been featured in Art of the West, Southwest Art, Western Art & Architecture, and Western Art Collector. Grimm participates in shows at galleries and museums across the country. In 2011, he was honored to exhibit in Wild West: Beauty and the Beast at the Rockwell Museum in Corning, New York, alongside the works of Ken Carlson and Carl Rungius.
Bob Guelich’s love and respect for nature is evident when one is viewing one of his sculptures. Self taught, Guelich was attracted to the medium of sculpture because he found that working three-dimensionally better suited his creativity and love for animals. Birds and mammals are his favorite subjects. Studying the subject in its natural habitat is a major part of each work, with the result that Guelich is able to transfer the precision of the biological into a complete artistic impression.
Guelich is a fellow of the National Sculpture Society, and he has received that organization’s gold and silver medals in annual exhibitions. He has also won the Award of Excellence medal and many other awards from the Society of Animal Artists. Guelich’s sculptures have been placed in the Kansas City Zoo; the Fort Worth Botanic Garden; the Frederik Meijer Garden and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Benson Sculpture Park, Loveland, Colorado; Rice University, Houston, Texas; University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana; the Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, New Jersey; Doane University, Crete, Nebraska; and the Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota. Other monumental commissions include works for the San Antonio, Omaha, and Houston zoos.
Enrique Guerra studied at Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut. After graduation, he apprenticed with artists Robert Lougheed and Tom Lovell in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Guerra creates art in both oil paintings and bronzes, drawing inspiration from the vast deserts and brushlands of Northern Mexico and South Texas. He enjoys painting street scenes in semi-abandoned towns or capturing images of farmers with their livestock as they till their land. Because he has spent the greater part of his life in these very surroundings, this is the subject matter that continues to captivate and shape the images of his work.
In 2016, Guerra installed a life-sized sculpture titled El Caporal in the sculpture garden of the Briscoe Western Art Museum. The commissioned work features an early Spanish settler as he drives two longhorn cows yoked together with a rope. Guerra’s research revealed the specific way in which ropes with wooden bobbins were used as a yoking mechanism to secure wild cattle as they were driven between destinations.
In 2019, Guerra completed a sculpture of Juan Seguin that is now installed at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.
Guerra lives on his family’s cattle ranch near McAllen, Texas. His work is featured annually at the Night of the Artists at the Briscoe Western Art Museum.
Abigail Gutting portrays the culture and wildlife of the American West in her paintings. Her early training began as a young child when her artist mother, Susan Gutting, trained at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, allowed her daughter to work alongside her in the studio. She has also studied via workshop instruction throughout the Western United States, including at the Scottsdale Artists’ School in Arizona. Her work has been featured in Southwest Art , Western Art and Architecture , Art of the West , Western Art Collector , and Fine Art Connoisseur
While Gutting inherited her love of art from her mom, her love of animals and the American West were fostered by the time she spent working with her veterinarian father throughout her teens and into her early twenties. The memories from those experiences are rich and contribute to her vision for her art. She looks forward to a lifetime of growth and opportunity as an artist.
Gutting currently lives in the beautiful mountains of northern Idaho. Her work is represented by Coeur d’Alene Galleries, McLarry Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Bozeman Trail Gallery in Sheridan, Wyoming.
George Hallmark’s creative career has spanned nearly five decades, progressing from architectural designer to commercial artist to renowned oil painter. His subject matter is primarily architecture, focusing on structures most often found in Mexico, France, Spain, Italy, and the American Southwest. Known for his precise delineation, he gives each composition an infusion of layers of light and elements of the natural world. His brushstrokes deftly capture the quiet moments of everyday life, offering a glimpse into exquisitely calm settings and beautiful surroundings.
Hallmark’s paintings are in museums and private collections worldwide, including the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, the Briscoe Western Art Museum, and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis. He has also been featured in Art of the West , Southwest Art , U.S. Art , Western Art and Architecture , and Western Art Collector . In addition, he participates annually in the Prix de West Invitational at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Masters of the American West at the Autry Museum of the American West, Quest for the West at the Eiteljorg, and the American Masters Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in New York City.
Hallmark’s work is represented by Settlers West Fine American Art Galleries, Tucson, Arizona.
Sherry Harrington, a native Texan living in central Texas, specializes in oil paintings of Native American women and children. Harrington travels each year to pose her models in their traditional clothing. She has been visiting families on the Navajo Nation reservation and Plains Indians in other Western states for the past twenty years. Collecting traditional clothing and accessories and spending time with these families have brought her very special friendships. Posing children who have grown up, attending their weddings, and meeting their children have been humbling. Painting the striking features of the different Native peoples and learning more about their history and culture have long been her passion.
Harrington also very much enjoys the calls for commissioned portraits by government and corporate officials along with custom portraits of individuals. Her paintings have been chosen for cover art and featured in several children’s books, including Native American Foods of the North American Indian, Native American Tribes, and Life in a Plains Camp. Harrington has been featured in articles in national art magazines, including Art of the West, Western Art Collector, Southwest Art, and Cowboys and Indians. She is represented by Big Horn Gallery in Cody, Wyoming, and Tubac, Arizona.
William Haskell aims to create something that is uniquely his own. His work is based on the natural abstraction he sees around him, the places he has experienced, and the emotions he has felt.
He also wants his paintings to reflect the vibrant colors and the energy of the West. They are both fictional and real. He blends the angles of cubism and modernism with the sensuous flowing forms of regionalism and surrealism to form a cohesive painting that gives viewers their own experiences and stories. His work consists of many symbolic elements such as the monsoon rains that he views as optimism or tornados that represent the changes that occur every day in our lives. His small houses not only represent our human footprints, but also are contrasted with the power and grandeur of nature. Haskell wants the viewer to enjoy the energetic movement of each painting.
Matthew Hillier was born and brought up on the south coast of England. After attending art college in Wales, where he studied wildlife illustration, he spent many years illustrating books and magazines before becoming an artist.
He moved to the United States in 2000 and settled on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where he lives with his wife, the artist Julia Noffsinger Rogers, and their family. He is a multi-award winning artist in both America and Great Britain who is best known for his marine and wildlife paintings. He also loves to teach and regularly leads workshops around the country. He has been a featured artist at the Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland. He is a member of the American Society of Marine Artists and the Society of Animal Artists.
Hillier travels widely in search of subjects to paint. He has spent time in Southeast Asia as well as Africa. He paints in oils.
Having grown up on a ranch in North Texas close to the Red River, Donna Howell-Sickles developed her affinity for nature and animals at an early age. She graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting and drawing in 1973.
While she was in college at Texas Tech University, an antique postcard of an unidentified cowgirl she found sparked her interest. The original cowgirls were America’s first female professional athletes, women of skill and daring who defied conventional wisdom by following their hearts. In her artwork, she retells women’s stories and myths using the cowgirl as a medium.
Along with winning numerous awards, HowellSickles has been published in countless articles and many books. Greenwich Workshop published a book about her artwork, Cowgirl Rising , in 1997. In November 2007, HowellSickles was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas, in honor of her body of work. Filled with bright colors and spirited cowgirls, her distinctive artwork can be found in nine museum collections and has been included in many exhibitions across the country.
Donna Howell-Sickles and her husband John Sickles live in Saint Jo, Texas.
Chris Hunt is a nationally recognized artist who specializes in bronze sculpture and charcoal and pastel drawings. His realistic portrayals of past and present figures bring their unique stories to life with remarkable detail and drama. He has a breathtaking flair for capturing and evoking emotion in every work, ranging from the noble and striking Native American and the historic vaquero to the hard-working American cowboy.
Hunt’s work has been sought by individual collectors, corporate installations, TV personalities, and heads of state. He has won several Best of Show awards, People’s Choice awards, and Best Sculpture awards in shows and museums. He also has been featured in publications such as Cowboys & Indians, Western Art Collector , and NSide Texas
A self-taught artist, Greg Kelsey was raised in both Texas and Oklahoma and resides in Ignacio, Colorado. Kelsey is a member of the National Sculpture Society and the C. M. Russell Museum’s Skull Society of Artists.
An honest look at Kelsey’s sculpture reveals his intensity for both form and subject. No matter what he is portraying, he believes that form is the most significant thing about a sculpture. Melding sculptural form with powerful visions of Western history and modern-day cowboy living inspires Kelsey.
Kelsey has been honored with numerous awards, including the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s Night of Artists 2015 Purchase Award; the 2015 Cyrus Dallin Award for Best Sculpture at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art’s Quest for the West in Indianapolis; and the 2007 People’s Choice Award at The Russell at the C. M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana. Kelsey’s work is in the permanent collection of the Briscoe Briscoe Western Art Museum; the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art; and the C. M. Russell Museum.
He is represented by the Legacy Galleries in Jackson, Wyoming, Bozeman, Montana, and Scottsdale, Arizona; Settlers West Fine American Art Galleries in Tucson, Arizona; and Sorrel Sky Gallery in Durango, Colorado, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Brenda Kingery is a Chickasaw artist from Oklahoma whose whose work has been described as narrative symbolism. Kingery holds fine arts degrees from the University of Oklahoma and attended post-graduate programs at the University of Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan. She taught art for the University of Maryland in the Far East division.
Kingery is the founding member of Threads of Blessing, an organization that teaches textile design in Honduras, Mexico, Haiti, and Uganda. She was appointed by the president of the United States to the board of the Institute of American Indian and Native Alaskans Cultural and Arts Development.
Recently, the Chickasaw Nation inducted Kingery into the Chickasaw Hall of Fame. Exhibitions of her work have been held at the Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, Massachusetts; Orenda Art International, Paris, France; Mississippi Museum of Modern Art, Jackson; Museum of Contemporary Native American Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Salon d’Automne, Paris, France; Chickasaw Cultural Center, Sulphur, Oklahoma; Choctaw Cultural Center, Calera, Oklahoma; Briscoe Western Art Museum; Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; and Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West.
She is represented by Orenda Art International, Paris, France; Calloway Fine Art and Consulting, Washington, D.C.; M. A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Glen Green Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Mark Kohler is an award-winning watercolorist. “I want to document the independent spirit, pride, and vision of the American West. We have a rich and unique history, and it is worthy of preservation.”
Kohler’s work is in private and corporate collections across our nation, and his collectors can be found in countries throughout the world. He has been featured in Southwest Art , Western Art Collector , Art of the West , Western Art Collector , Western Horseman , Art & Architecture , and various other publications. He has self-published two coffee-table books, Mark Kohler: Working Cowboys and Mark Kohler: Going West . He has also illustrated a cowboy cookbook, Cow Country Cooking , written by Kathy McCraine, that won the Will Rogers 2011 Medallion Award for best cookbook. Most recently, Kohler’s work was featured in Horses in the American West , a book published by Texas A&M University Press by Drs. Heidi Brady and Scott White.
Kohler has a growing clientele seeking his commissioned work, both in watercolor and oil. He is gaining a reputation for creating timeless family memories through his classic portraits. After twenty-seven years as a professional artist, he continues to grow in his passion for creating art that touches the human soul and spirit.
Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Joe Kronenberg was exposed to a historic past that included accounts of Native Americans, pioneers, mountain men, and trappers. These stories shaped his love of the subject matter he now paints. Traveling to historic sites, national parks, and the mountains each year, he studies and gathers reference photos and information on the animals and scenery that he then portrays in his work.
Kronenberg was the 2009 recipient of the C. M. Russell Museum Auction’s Ralph “Tuffy” Berg Award, which is given to the most promising up-and-coming artist. In 2017, he was inducted into the Russell Skull Society of Artists. In 2011, 2014, 2015, and 2016, seven of his paintings were awarded finalists in the prestigious Art Renewal Center’s International Salon. He also received Best of Show at the 2015 Western Masters auction in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Kronenberg was a featured artist in the book Best of American Oil Painters 2011 and has been featured in magazines such as Fine Art Connoisseur , Western Art Collector , Art of the West , Southwest Art , American Art Collector , Northwest Sportsman , and California Sportsman. His work can be found in numerous private, corporate, and public collections throughout North America and is represented by Coeur d’Alene Galleries; Going to the Sun Gallery, Whitefish, Montana; and Beartooth Gallery Fine Art, Red Lodge, Montana.
Dave LaMure, Jr. has had a studio in Idaho for thirty-two years. His uncle inspired him with a bag of clay at the age of twelve. Then LaMure took a clay workshop at a museum that stirred a lifetime passion for art. His contemporary wildlife vessel caught Sophia Loren’s eye, and she awarded him best of show.
Balancing art forms has taken LaMure a lifetime, from his monumental public bronze sculptures to his oil canvases. He absorbed inspiration from being a wilderness river guide and an outdoorsman. LaMure explores his art narratives in the natural rhythms of life, death, and belonging.
LaMure is a member of the National Sculpture Society and the Society of Animal Artists. His life-size bronze of red-tailed hawks is the most photographed public work in the sculpture park at Fountain Hills, Arizona.
A few notable achievements and exhibitions include a monumental bronze of a surveyor at city hall in Twin Falls, Idaho; the National Sculpture Society‘s eighty-seventh annual prize-winners ‘exhibit in New York; appearing in HGTV Modern Masters ; and exhibiting at Western Visions at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming, and the Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale in Cody, Wyoming.
When Texas native Joshua LaRock returned home after years of travel and study, the call of the West could not be ignored. Like the Taos Society artists, LaRock is a classically trained painter inspired by European masters, his experience in the Southwest sparked his first Western series. LaRock’s technique is among the best in contemporary painting. His work has the calming sensitivity of the Old Masters mixed with the grit of the American West.
LaRock has received international recognition as a preeminent figurative artist. Notably, a portrait of his wife, Laura in Black , was included in the prestigious BP Portrait Award 2016 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London. LaRock has participated in exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, and China, and is sought after as a workshop instructor.
Most recently, LaRock’s painting Monument Valley was acquired by the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, for its permanent collection. His work has appeared in Western Art Collector , Western Art and Architecture , Southwest Art , American Art Collector , The Artist’s Magazine , Fine Art Today , Fine Art Connoisseu r, and PleinAir
Joshua LaRock is exclusively represented by Maxwell Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Bruce Lawes is an internationally collected artist with a passion for animal art and conservation. He is a signature member of the Artists for Conservation, the Society of Animal Artists, and the Oil Painters of America. He was born in 1962 in Toronto, Canada.
Lawes studied part-time at the Ontario College of Art and Design, but he attributes most of his success to his first-hand encounters with the modern masters of the day. Lawes has shown his work in museums like the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in, Indianapolis; the Houston Museum of Natural Science; the Hiram Blauvelt Museum in Oradell, New Jersey; National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium in Dubuque, Iowa; Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson; George A. Spiva Center for the Arts, in Joplin, Missouri; and the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming. Lawes has sold his work at the prestigious Coeur d’Alene Art Auction and the Jackson Hole Art Auction.
Z. S. Liang studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and later furthered his art studies in the United States. He earned his B.F.A. at Massachusetts College of Arts and his M.F.A. at Boston University.
Liang experienced his first great inspiration in this country when he studied and painted the Wampanoag Indian culture at the Outdoor Museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He began to focus primarily on painting Native Americans and their traditional ways of life. Liang’s passion for the Indians, coupled with his emphasis on historical accuracy, adds strength and truth to his portrayals.
Among the many awards Liang has received are the 2011 Masters of the American West Purchase Award at the Autry Museum’s Masters of the American West ; the 2005 President’s Award for Excellence from the Oil Painters of America; and the Best of Show Award from the American Society of Portrait Artists in 1998.
Liang’s works are in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery—Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; Briscoe Western Art Museum; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and the West Point Museum of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. His work is represented by Trailside Galleries, Jackson, Wyoming, and Scottsdale, Arizona.
A realist figurative painter who claims John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, and the Taos Society of Artists as major influences, Lipking creates art that is distinguished by a contemporary aesthetic and modern subject matter.
The son of painter and illustrator Ronald Lipking, Lipking became interested in art as a young child. He enrolled in the California Art Institute, where his burgeoning talent became evident as he devoted himself to serious study. He quickly found his own way and the unique ethereal style that has made him famous. Many of his well-known paintings feature his daily and close friends.
In 2014, Lipking won the Prix de West Purchase Award at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Prix de West Invitational as well as Best in Show and Purchase Awards at the Art Renewal Center’s International ARC Salon. In 2013, American Artist magazine named him one of the seventy-five greatest artists of all time.
Lipking is most drawn to the American Southwest, spending much of each summer gathering inspiration by sketching and painting on location, where he often combines the human figure and landscape into a single work. Lipking is an enrolled member of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community of the historic Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians.
The roots of Jan Mapes’ professional art career extend deep into her childhood, when her family’s love for the outdoors nurtured curiosity and creativity. Her mother taught her to savor the world and love its creatures. Together, they got dirt under their fingernails, climbed trees, caught fireflies in a jar, and fully enjoyed all the wonder of the changing seasons. Her grandfather introduced her to the life of a southern cowman, filling her mind and heart until a craving for horses, cattle, and cowboys became as strong as one for sweets.
When Mapes moved to Colorado, she discovered that horses were everywhere. The West took up residence inside her. Its shapes, colors, and movements lured her and fed her growing curiosity.
Although art and science often occupy two opposite ends of a spectrum, this powerful combination continues to fuel Mapes’ passion for nature and the wonder of the fabric of creation.
As she sought to render the wonder around her through art, Mapes realized that an object does not stand alone, but is defined by its context. Each element is dependent on the rest. Her goal is to weave these components together in each painting and sculpture, resulting in a pleasant visual experience much like a great meal or a beautiful symphony.
While a student at Michigan State University, Bonnie Marris illustrated several books, including a mammalogy text by a leading expert in the field. The book attracted the attention of noted zoologist George Schaller, who invited Marris to prepare the art for posters to support his worldwide rare-animal relief programs. Each year, Marris makes several field trips to study her animal subjects, and this close proximity gives her the confidence to paint them in their natural surroundings.
Marris’ work can be found in many major collections throughout the country. She has won numerous awards, including the Patrons’ Choice Award in 2010 and the People’s Choice Award in 2011 at the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction ; and the 2012 Patrons’ Choice Award for Social Viewpoints , the Bob Kuhn Wildlife Award, the Ross and Billie McKnight Artists’ Choice Award, the Marjorie and Frank Sands Patrons’ Choice Award in 2014 for Ice Princess , and the Patrons’ Choice Award for her painting Trouble in 2016 at the Masters of the American West at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles.
She and her husband, Woody, live on a farm in Ada, Michigan, with two dogs and three horses. Marris is represented by Broadmoor Galleries, Colorado Springs, Colorado and Trailside Galleries, Jackson, Wyoming, and Scottsdale, Arizona.
Joy, excitement, and intensity mark Curt Mattson’s passion for life and sculpture. It is his love of the horse and horsemanship that drives him. Movement, texture, mass, and negative space bring each piece to life.
Mattson’s works of art have garnered many awards, including Night of Artists’ James Bowie Award; the National Sculpture Society’s Elliott Gantz Award; Quest for the West’s Cyrus Dalin Award from the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art; Best in Show from the Phippen Museum’s Western Art Show & Sale; and Allied Artists of America’s Silver Medal for sculpture.
He researches thoroughly before starting a new work. He begins creating only when he is completely familiar with the subject. Whether contemporary or historical, he intimately understands the nuances of his subjects. Beyond that, his artistic training assures that his work is more than mere depictions. The compositional elements come together to create artistic excellence rarely found in sculpture.
Mattson establishes low edition sizes for each of his sculptures. On average, no more than twenty pieces are available of each of his works, which makes it a rare privilege to own a Curt Mattson sculpture. In his work, viewers can be sure they are looking at the true West.
Kenny McKenna’s subjects are diverse, with an emphasis on landscapes. Painting exclusively in oils, he uses an impressionistic style that elicits warmth and calmness, an open invitation to explore, and an inherent infusion of sunlight. Family cross-country road trips covered an expansive territory. The desert landscapes, canyons, and colors of the Southwest were especially appealing to him. He continued to crisscross the United States as an accomplished musician.
McKenna has exhibited in Masters of the American West at the Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; Small Works, Great Wonders at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City; and Night of Artists at the Briscoe Western Art Museum.
McKenna’s work has been featured in Art of the West, Southwest Art , and Western Art Collector . His work is represented by Legacy Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona; McLarry Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Settlers West, Tucson, Arizona; The Howell Gallery of Fine Art, Oklahoma City; and Astoria Fine Art, Jackson, Wyoming.
In 2017, McKenna was commissioned by the Friends of the Capitol, the Oklahoma Arts Council, and the Office of the Governor of the State of Oklahoma to create an art installation honoring the centennial of the Oklahoma State Capitol building.
Mark McKenna is one of the top emerging artists in the West. At thirty-eight years old, Mark McKenna has achieved several major accomplishments, including being in Southwest Art magazine’s prestigious “21 under 31” list of the best young artists in the country in 2014, and having had a painting acquired by the Brinton Museum in Big Horn, Wyoming, for their permanent collection in 2016.
His work is inspired by his personal exploits and adventures. Ranging from simple portraits of wild and domestic animals to intense and complex scenes of animals in varying environments, he works tirelessly to portray life and personality in his work—paintings that almost breathe.
McKenna earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in Illustration and has studied under some of the West’s best artists, including Greg Beecham, Grant Redden, Leon Parson, and Jim Wilcox. Subsequently, he has spent thousands of hours at the easel practicing and implementing the techniques and skills gained throughout his education.
His work is included in major museum shows across the United States and Canada, including the Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, The Russell at the C. M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana, the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is represented by Astoria Fine Art in Jackson, Wyoming.
Australian-born Krystii Melaine announced at age four that she would be an artist, won her first art competition at seven, and was selling paintings by age fourteen. Following university studies in painting and drawing, Melaine became a successful wedding gown designer.
Returning to her lifelong passion for painting, she studied traditional tonal realism for five years. Inspired by the Native Americans, cowboys, and wildlife of the American West, Melaine began painting these subjects in Australia, then moved to Spokane, Washington. Using oils in a contemporary realism style, Melaine portrays the people and animals of the West with a modern eye for clean, fresh images, bringing each individual to life on her canvas.
Melaine’s paintings have been featured in major museum exhibitions including Quest for the West at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis and The Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale in Cody, Wyoming. She has twenty-six paintings in museum collections, continues to win numerous awards, and has been featured in many magazine articles.
Melaine is represented by Sanders Galleries in Tucson, Arizona, Mountain Trails Galleries in Jackson, Wyoming, Park City, Utah, and Santa Fe; the Broadmoor Galleries in Colorado Springs; Going to the Sun Gallery in Whitefish, Montana; and Trailside Galleries online. She is a Master Signature Member of the American Women Artists.
Brenda Murphy’s love for the West is evident in her sensitively rendered drawings of horses, Native Americans, cowboys, and ranch life. She earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Texas at Arlington and worked as a graphic designer and illustrator in Dallas before establishing a career in fine art.
Murphy has received numerous awards for her artwork, including the 2003 Patron’s Purchase Award at the Bosque Art Classic in Clifton, Texas; the 2005 Patron’s Choice Award at Western Visions at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming; the 2006 Museum Purchase Award at the Desert Caballeros Museum’s Cowgirl Up! in Wickenburg, Arizona; and the 2008 Patron’s Choice Award at the National Cowgirl Museum’s Heart of the West Art Show and Auction in Fort Worth, Texas. She has been featured in major publications such as Art of the West , Southwest Art and Western Horseman . She is represented by Trailside Galleries in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Jackson, Wyoming, and Settlers West Fine American Art Galleries in Tucson, Arizona.
Born and raised in Texas, Murphy fosters a close relationship with her models, who provide inspiration, resources, and a valued critical eye to ensure authenticity in her work. She and her husband Tom reside in Arlington, Texas, where she maintains a studio in her home.
National award-winning artist Chris Navarro, who hails from Casper, Wyoming, is the owner of Navarro Gallery and Sculpture Garden in Sedona, Arizona. Navarro has been sculpting professionally since 1986 and is known for his public sculptures, with over thirty-four monumental bronzes throughout the country. These works include a sixteen-foot-tall bronze of the famous bucking horse, Steamboat , for the University of Wyoming and The Messenger for the historical Alamo Mission in San Antonio, Texas.
His work is included in twelve museum collections. He is the author of four books: Chasing the Wind , Embrace the Struggle , Dare to Dream Big , and The Art of the Rodeo Navarro was selected as the honorary artist for the 2015 Buffalo Bill Art Show in Cody, Wyoming, and received the 2015 Wyoming Governor’s Art Award and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Casper College in 2018.
Navarro is presently working on a large project to keep old wind turbine blades out of landfills and turn them into monumental sculptures.
A former bull and bronc rider, he still competes in team roping. Chris says, “Family, horses, rodeo, and art have been the driving passions of my life. I love what I do for a living and hope others can see that through the work I have created.”
Bill Nebeker has proudly been part of the Night of Artists Exhibition and Sale since 2008. The Briscoe Western Art Museum did not yet exist, and now it is one of the most prestigious Western art museums in the nation.
Nebeker’s fifty years of sculpting historic and contemporary American cowboys, horses, cattle, Native Peoples, and wildlife were recognized in a four-month–long retrospective exhibition, If Horses Could Talk—The Art of Bill Nebeker, C.A. at the Phippen Museum in Prescott, Arizona, in 2022. Over one hundred bronze sculptures, gathered from collections all around the country, historical artifacts, drawings, cowboy collectibles, saddles, rifles, chaps, wood carvings he made his lifetime, and large giclée posters of ten monumental public bronze statues Nebeker has installed throughout the West, including The Eyes of Texas at the Briscoe Museum, were included. Nebeker was honored and grateful that the Briscoe Museum’s President and CEO, Michael Duchemin, attended the exhibition.
Being a member of the Cowboy Artists of America for forty-five years and now being the senior active member have been the highlights of Nebeker’s career. He is represented by Broadmoor Galleries in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Mountain Spirit Gallery in Prescott, Arizona; Texas Treasures Fine Art Gallery in Boerne, Texas; and Trailside Galleries in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Jackson, Wyoming.
Ralph Oberg grew up hiking, camping, hunting, and climbing in the high mountain wilderness of Colorado and the West. He has traveled extensively across the U.S., sketching and photographing, aiming to share his experiences through his art. He produces larger works at his studio in Montrose, Colorado, where he and his wife, the painter Shirley Novak, live within sight of his beloved San Juan Mountains.
Oberg’s work has been shown widely at exhibitions and sales in Western art museums and at the 2021 four-man retrospective, Four Directions—Common Paths at the Steamboat Art Museum, Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Awards include the 2020 Wilson Hurley Memorial Award for Landscape at the Prix de West Invitational , National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City; the 2019 Purchase Award at Night of Artists ; the 2014 California Art Club’s Gold Medal Award; the 2015 Wells Fargo Award and 1988 William Weiss Purchase Award at the Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming; and the 2012 Trustee’s Purchase Award at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming.
Oberg is a member of the Society of Animal Artists, Plein Air Painters of America, Northwest Rendezvous Group, and California Art Club. His work has appeared in Art of the West, Southwest Art, Sporting Classics, Western Art Collector, Western Art and Architecture and Wildlife Art
Don Oelze was born in New Zealand, and at an early age, he was fascinated by America and especially by the lifestyle of cowboys and Native Americans. By the time he was in school, he was used to getting into trouble for drawing Native Americans and cowboys in class instead of paying attention. When he was eight years old, his parents moved back to the United States. Oelze completed his education at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire.
In 1992, while living in Seattle, he met a Native American named Everett who created Native art and totems. While working with Everett, Oelze did his first big Native painting. After trying many different subjects, he knew that painting Native Americans was what he loved to do most. Oelze’s next move was taking a job in Japan, and for ten years, he refined his skills and produced many paintings and drawings in his small Tokyo studio. In 2004, he and his wife, Utako, moved back to the United States. They are presently living in Montana, where he is studying the country and people that he loves to paint. Oelze has participated in shows both in the United States and abroad.
Chad Poppleton has been passionate about art and the outdoors for as long as he can remember. He studied at Utah State University under the direction of Glen Edwards and graduated with a bachelor of fine arts in illustration. Poppleton continues to study the classical work of the Impressionists and Renaissance masters.
In 2018, Poppleton achieved a lifelong dream when he was inducted into the Cowboy Artists of America. He has been profiled in Sporting Classics , Art of the West , Western Art Collector , and Southwest Art Magazine. He is a member of the C. M. Russell Museum’s Skull Society of Artists. Poppleton exhibits at The Russell at the C. M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana; National Museum of Wildlife Art; Scottsdale Art Auction; and Jackson Hole Art Auction.
Earning the Bob Kuhn Wildlife Award from the National Museum of Wildlife Art was a proud accomplishment. “As an artist, my objective is to represent the subjects of wildlife correctly and accurately to the best of my ability. It’s critically important for me to pick up each little difference in nature and portray that in the canvas to engage the viewer emotionally within the piece.” An avid sportsman and conservationist, Poppleton spends as much time in the field as he does at the easel. His paintings are a reflection of his love for animals, wilderness areas, and the great outdoors.
A third-generation Arizonian, Howard Post was born in Tucson, where he still lives. He grew up on a small ranch and attended the University of Arizona, completing a bachelor of fine arts and master of fine arts degrees. For many years, Post worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. After serving on the faculty at both the University of Arizona and Arizona State University, he began painting full-time
Among Post’s many awards are the 2012 Victor Higgins Award and the 2017 Artist of Distinction Award at Quest for the West at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis ; the 2012 Gold Medal for Painting at The West Select: A Western Art Invitational Sale and Exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum; the 2010 Best of Show Award at the Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale in Denver; and the 2010 Great American Cowboy Award at the Prix de West Invitational at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City In 2018, his one-man show, The West Observed: The Art of Howard Post , was held at the Tucson Museum of Art and traveled to the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, and the Desert Caballeros Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona.
Post’s work is in the collections of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming; Denver Art Museum; Briscoe Western Art Museum; National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum; Phoenix Art Museum; and the Tucson Museum of Art. His work has also been featured in Art News , Art of the West , Southwest Art , Western Art Collector , and Western Art & Architecture .
Tony Pro grew up in Southern California under the guidance of his father, Julio Pro (1929–2013), a successful Southwest wildlife painter and his brother, Greg, a successful illustrator. Pro received his bachelor of arts degree in graphic design from California State University, Northridge, while simultaneously studying drawing with illustrator Glen Orbik. He learned the value of academic figure drawing and the importance of applying these strict principles to his craft. With this methodology, Pro became an exemplary, self-trained painter with the help of his mentors, including Richard Schmid.
Pro’s love of the Old West came from his parent’s avid Western art and Native American artifact collecting. With his parents, he toured major Western art shows and the studios of many of the artists whose work they collected. Once his father transitioned from art collecting to artist, the excursions continued and became a major inspiration to Pro’s interest in the genre.
In 2005, juror Daniel Gerhartz awarded the highly coveted Best in Show Award at the 14th Annual Oil Painters of America Show to Pro. In 2014, Pro received the first place award for best painting at the Portrait Society of America International Competition for Last Train Home. He is a Signature Member of the prestigious California Art Club.
Pro lives and works in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife Elizabeth and their four children. Pro’s works hang in museums and private collections around the world.
Kevin Red Star was born on the Crow Indian Reservation in Lodge Grass, Montana. He attended the newly founded Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe and then received a full scholarship to San Francisco Art Institute. In 1997, he received an honorary doctorate from Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana and one from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in 2010.
In 2018, Red Star received both the James R. Parks Trustee Purchase Award at the Autry Museum’s Masters of the American West in Los Angeles and the Montana Governor’s Award for the Arts in Helena.
In 2022, Red Star was asked to be the first artist to represent the biennial Norman Maclean Literary Festival, held in Missoula, Montana.
“Indian culture has in the past been ignored to a great extent. It is, for me, as well as for many other Indian artists, a rich source of creative expression. An intertwining of my Indian culture with contemporary art expression has given me a greater insight concerning my art. I hope to accomplish something for the American Indian and at the same time achieve personal satisfaction in a creative statement through my art.”
Red Star is proudly represented by Courtney Collins Gallery, Big Sky, Montana; Sorrel Sky Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Durango, Colorado; Dana Gallery, Missoula, Montana; Montana Modern Fine Art, Kalispell, Montana; and Old Main Gallery, Bozeman, Montana.
After receiving an associate of arts degree in painting and drawing in 1984, Paul Rhymer worked at the Smithsonian Institution doing taxidermy and model-making for twentyfive years. He retired in 2010. Having done so much three-dimensional work in his job, in the late 1990s, he gradually began to move from painting and drawing into sculpture.
Rhymer’s work has been exhibited in Birds in Art at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin (2008–2017); the National Sculpture Society’s Annual Awards Exhibition (2006, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2017); and the Brookgreen Gardens Masters Exhibition (2013) in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. He had a solo exhibition at the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art in Salisbury, Maryland, in 2010.
His public art installations are at the Briscoe Western Art Museum; Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C.; Denver Zoo; NatureWorks, Tulsa, Oklahoma; the Hagerstown City Park, Hagerstown, Maryland; Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum; Shepard Park, Summerville, South Carolina; and B.I.R.D.S. Project, Summerville, South Carolina.
Gary Lynn Roberts, being a storyteller, welcomes viewers into his canvases. His love of horses, rodeo, and the beautiful landscape in which he resides has helped him develop a style of realism and impressionism. Carrying on the traditions of painting in oils, Roberts is a third-generation artist, his major influence being his father, noted Western artist Joe Rader Roberts.
Roberts started winning awards for his art at the tender age of fourteen at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Over the years, his talent has won him best of show and people’s choice awards on several occasions. He received the Honorary Chairman Award and Best of Show Award for the same painting at The Russell at the C. M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana, a rare accomplishment. Roberts is also a member of the C. M. Russell Skull Society of Artists. His paintings have graced the cover of several magazines and hang in some of the most prestigious collections. Roberts currently resides in Hamilton, Montana, with his wife Nancy and their two children, Mary and Anna.
A professional artist since 1968, Alfredo Rodriguez is internationally recognized for his masterful representations of the American West. His subjects include cowboys, mountain men, Navajo and Plains Indians, prairie and pioneer settlers, and miners from the California and Colorado gold rushes.
Rodriguez’s paintings can be found in permanent collections of several museums and in private collections around the world. His works have been the subject of many articles in major art publications and have been used to illustrate many art books. Recently, his paintings have taken on a more intimate quality as he focuses on people interacting with each other, whether it’s an old man reading to his grandchildren or a father homeschooling his children, while preserving his focus on subjects of the American West.
Rodriguez has lived in California since 1975, but he continues to travel regularly to Indian reservations and locations around the country, researching, sketching, and painting studies for his major pieces. His paintings capture the dignity of the human spirit elevated by the majestic beauty of their surroundings. Rodriguez’s works are represented by Trailside Galleries in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Settlers West Fine American Art Galleries in Tucson, Arizona; and Huey’s Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Julia Rogers began her career as a wildlife painter at the age of seventeen. She has traveled far and wide to feed her passion for the outdoors and its natural beauty, which is reflected in her portfolio of work. Painting en plein air , figurative work, landscape, and portraiture are all part of her discipline.
She studied fine art in college, but her passion for learning has never ended. She not only teaches workshops from time to time, but she also loves being the student. She has been rewarded for her efforts by having her work exhibited in numerous prestigious venues, including the Hiram Blauvelt Museum, Oradell, New Jersey; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma; the Cincinnati Museum Center; Briscoe Western Art Museum; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin; and the James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art, St. Petersburg, Florida. Her work is included in many permanent museum collections.
Annual exhibitions she takes part in include Night of Artist s, Briscoe Western Art Museum; Southeastern Wildlife Exposition, Charleston, South Carolina, at which she was the featured artist in 2022; the Waterfowl Festival, Easton, Maryland, at which she was the featured artist in 2017; Western and Wildlife Art Show , Baltimore Life Insurance, Baltimore, Maryland; and the James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art.
International award-winning artist Gladys Roldán-de-Moras is known for her paintings that portray vivid Spanish traditions, including courageous Mexican escaramuzas daringly riding horses sidesaddle in a vivid rodeostyle festival and flamenco señoritas clad in Andalusian dresses. Having lived in San Antonio for over thirty years, she finds great inspiration in representing her love of the Spanish culture passed down to her by her maternal grandfather, a proud lifelong charro who helped promote Charreria as the official national sport in Mexico.
Her work is in private and public collections and has been published in Fine Art Connoisseur , Art of the West , Southwest Art , Western Art Collector , Western Art and Architecture , Architectural Digest European Edition , and many more.
Recent notable achievements include the 2021 Sam Houston Award for Best Painting and 2017 David Crockett Award for Artists’ Choice at Night of Artists at the Briscoe Western Art Museum; the 2018 Grand Prize Best in Show at Full Sun: American Women Artists Illuminate the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California; the 2016 Museum Purchase Award and Director’s Choice New Artist Award at Cowgirl Up! at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona; and the 2015 Artists’ Choice Award at Quest for the West at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis.
She is a Master Signature Member of both the American Impressionist Society and American Women Artists and a member of Oil Painters of America.
Stefan Savides’ talents can be measured by his accomplishments in the art world, which are many and have spanned a lifetime. However, what is more important is the essence of his life.
Since his adulthood, he has built a thriving career in art outside the box. The blessed few are born into this world with a passion that is not impeded by the complexity of the modern day we live in.
He has embraced a total connection to the beauty and teachings of nature, which have guided his choices at each crossroad he has encountered. The common thread that binds his life is birds, and his work embodies the fruit of that journey.
One of the originators of the Western Pop Art movement, Billy Schenck incorporates techniques from Photorealism with a Pop Art sensibility to both exalt and poke fun at images of the West. Schenck is known for utilizing cinematic imagery reproduced in a flattened, reductivist style in which colors are displayed side by side rather than blended. His work has been described as “a pendulum between the romantic and the irreverent.”
Schenck’s artwork is now in fifty-two museum collections, including the Albuquerque Museum; Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles; Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia; Briscoe Western Art Museum; Denver Art Museum; New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe; Phoenix Art Museum; and Tucson Museum of Art. Private collections include the estate of Malcolm Forbes, Laurence Rockefeller, Sylvester Stallone, American Airlines, IBM, and Sony.
Among his more than one hundred solo shows in the U.S. and Europe, highlights include the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s 2018 Andy Warhol Cowboys and Indians and Billy Schenck Myth of the West retrospective, Denver Art Museum’s 2011 Western Horizons, and the 2013 Utah Museum of Fine Art’s exhibit Bierstadt to Warhol: American Indians in the West in Salt Lake City.
A genuine cowboy himself, Schenck is a ranch-sorting world champion and the proprietor of the Double Standard Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, his home for the past two decades.
Surrounded by mountains, lakes, and streams in her Wyoming and Canadian Lake Country studios, Sandy Scott is an avid outdoorswoman and licensed pilot who lives the life she depicts. The daughter of an Oklahoma rancher, she trained at the Kansas City Art Institute. She has worked as an animation and commercial artist. When not in the studio, she travels the world in search of art and adventure.
Scott is a fellow of the National Sculpture Society and a member of the National Arts Club. Her work is in the collections of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa; the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming; the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin; R. W. Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, Louisiana; Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina; the Briscoe Western Art Museum; the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas; and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.
The Briscoe Western Art Museum awarded Sandy the Legacy Award for Lifetime Achievement. She has received major awards from the National Sculpture Society, including the Marilyn Newmark Memorial Award for Realistic Sculpture in the Classical Tradition and the Agop Agopoff Memorial Prize for Classical Sculpture; the Cyrus Dallin Award for Sculpture from the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis; and the Society of Animal Artists Award of Excellence.
Jason Scull grew up in a family that farmed and ranched on the fringes of the South Texas brush country. His people were early settlers in Texas who arrived in the mid-1820s and ranched, raised families, fought wars, and carved out a place in the American West.
Scull’s life with cattle and horses coupled with his respect for the culture of the American West have shaped and continue to inspire the direction of his art. He studied Animal Science at Texas A&M University and returned to the family ranch, where he remained involved in the operation until 2010. His early study of sculpture began in 1987 through the Cowboy Artists of America Museum workshop program. In addition, his education came in the form of personal study with established artists, most notably Jack Swanson, Mehl Lawson, and Cynthia Rigden.
An award-winning artist, Scull makes his home with his wife Dianne near Kerrville, Texas.
Kelly Singleton was born and raised in rural Maryland. Her passion for animals was instilled early on, and growing up, she expressed this passion through art. She attended the Maryland Institute College of Art, from which she graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree in illustration. This led to a career as a graphic artist, which she pursued for over twenty years. Throughout this period, she actively painted and exhibited her wildlife paintings. In 2018, she went full-time with her art and relocated to northern Colorado, where she has been inspired by its wildlife and rugged beauty.
Singleton makes frequent trips into local and national parks of the western United States to observe and gather references of wildlife. These trips fuel inspiration for new work. Back home in the studio, she brings her paintings to life in oils. She hopes her work draws attention to the beauty of nature and conveys the importance of preserving it.
Singleton is a Signature Member of the Society of Animal Artists. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, and many private collections. She participates in several prominent national shows each year.
Born in southern China, Mian Situ earned his master of fine arts degree from the Guangzhou Institute of Fine Art. He then worked as an art instructor for six years. He lived in Canada for ten years before immigrating to the United States in 1998.
Situ won the 2021 David Crockett Award for Artists’ Choice at Night of Artists and the Purchase Award at the 2018 Prix de West Invitational at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
Situ’s many Masters of the American West awards at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles include the Patrons’ Choice Award and the Ross and Billie McKnight Artists’ Choice Award in 2017; the James R. Parks Trustees’ Purchase Award in 2015; the Masters of the American West Purchase Award in 2009 and 2002; the Gene Autry Memorial Award in 2013, 2012, 2010, 2009, and 2008; the Patrons’ Choice Award and the Artists’ Choice Award in 2006; and the Thomas Moran Memorial Award for Painting and the Patrons’ Choice Award in 2004. He has received numerous awards from the Gold Medal Exhibition of the California Art Club and the Oil Painters of America’s National Juried Exhibition.
Born in Minnesota and raised in Bozeman, Montana, Adam Smith has spent thirty-four years surrounded by the incredible wonders of Western wildlife and has mastered the art of rendering it accurately. Smith studies nature with the acute eye of a scientist, but he recreates it with the gingerly hands of a painter. He is no stranger to fine art because he is the son of famous wildlife artist Daniel Smith. Yet make no mistake—this young artist sets himself apart from the competition and has already garnered much success in the art world.
An avid traveler and cross-country explorer, Smith finds inspiration from trips he and his father have taken to Africa, Alaska, Utah, and dozens of national parks in between. Smith has received the 2015 People’s Choice Award at Western Visions at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming; the 2016 Henry Farny Award for Best Painting at Quest for the West at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis; and the 2017 Cynthia Post Buyer’s Choice Award at Small Works, Great Wonders at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
Ezra Tucker’s wildlife art is reminiscent of the descriptive art of naturalists like John James Audubon and John Gould and the work of wildlife artists like Bob Khun, Carl Rungius, and Antoine-Louis Barye. His compositions reflect the natural behaviors and postures of wildlife—poised to step into a threedimensional world. He achieves a romantic appeal with his color palette and lighting of his subjects that is familiar but new to contemporary wildlife art.
Tucker has a bachelor of fine arts degree in advertising design from the Memphis Academy of Arts in Memphis, Tennessee. He has exhibited at Night of Artists at the Briscoe Western Art Museum; Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming; The Russell at the C. M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana; the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition in Charleston, South Carolina; American Miniature s at the Settlers West Fine American Art Galleries in Tucson, Arizona; the James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art in St. Petersburg, Florida; and Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.
Tucker’s work has been featured in Western Art Collector , Western Art & Architecture , Sporting Classics , The Post & Courier , Southwest Art , Fine Art Connoisseur , American Art Collector , International Artist Magazine , and African Hunting Gazette . His work is in many museum and private collections. Tucker is a member of the Society of Animal Artists.
Echo Ukrainetz is a native Montanan who has been interested in art for as long as she can remember. She has never taken a class in batik and has learned the process through trial and error. That method of instruction has yielded many happy accidents as well as a few disasters. Over the years, she has learned how to manipulate the wax and dye to create desired effects, but it is very unpredictable. Upon removing the wax, she is often surprised. Echo Ukrainetz has an intense interest in history that she incorporates in the description of her historical works.
Her batiks are in collections across the United States and Canada and include a variety of subject matter. Her work has been accepted into numerous fine art auctions and shows including Night of Artists at the Briscoe Western Art Museum; The Russell at the C. M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana; Timeless Legacy: Women Artists of Glacier and Double Visions with Ron Ukrainetz at the Hockaday Museum, Kalispell, Montana; Phippen Museum Art Show in Prescott, Arizona; the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana; and the Paris Gibson Art Museum in Great Falls, Montana. She is represented by numerous galleries throughout the West.
Echo Ukrainetz’s work has been featured in Cowboys and Indians , Western Art and Architecture , Big Sky Journal , Western Art Collector , and Southwest Art . She has a feature story, Today’s Wild West , on PBS that is nominated for a Heartland Award.
Born and raised in Great Falls, Montana, Ron Ukrainetz is a life-long artist. During his past forty years as a professional artist, he has garnered awards and recognition from numerous shows across the country. He has been featured in magazines such as Western Art Collector , Wildlife Art Magazine , The Artists Magazine , Fine Art Connoisseur , and Western Art & Architecture . Although he paints extensively en plein air in oil, Ron Ukrainetz is a living master in acrylics on engraved Claybord (polychromatic engraving).
Ukrainetz’s awards include Top 72 “Best of America,” National Oil and Acrylics Painters Society; Society of Master Impressionists; Top 100 PaintAmerica Competition Awards (eight times); Top 100 Paint the Parks Competition (eight times); and Paint the Parks Top MINI 50 Award. In 2012, he was awarded a Master Circle Membership from PaintAmerica Association and received the 2020/2021 Legacy Award from Out West Art Foundation. He was featured in the Amazon Prime television series Art Across America
He has participated in the C. M. Russell Museum’s auction, The Russell , every year since 1995. He is a member of Oil Painters of America, PaintAmerica Masters Circle, National Oil and Acrylics Painter’s Society, a founding member and past president of Montana Painter’s Alliance, a founding member and president emeritus of the Out West Art Show, Inc. , and founder of the Young Masters Art Program.
Kent Ullberg is a native of Sweden who studied at the Swedish Konstfack School of Art in Stockholm, as well as in Germany, the Netherlands, and France. He lived for seven years in Botswana, Africa, and served as curator at the Botswana National Museum and Art Gallery before moving to America. He lives in Corpus Christi, Texas, and maintains a studio in Loveland, Colorado.
Ullberg is a member of numerous art organizations and has been honored with many prestigious awards. He is a National Academician and received the Hering Award for Art and Architecture twice from the National Sculpture Society for monumental installations. His work is mainly dedicated to the preservation of nature and wildlife.
Among the impressive works Ullberg created is Sailfish in Three Stages of Ascending , the marine conservation monument in front of the Broward Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In 1998, he was chosen to sculpt Sworddance , the stainless steel signature monument at the headquarters of the International Game Fish Association Dania Beach, Florida. In 2002, he installed Spirit of Nebraska’s Wilderness in Omaha’s Pioneer Courage Park.
Ullberg is a member of the University of Texas Marine Science Institute Advisory Board and a major contributor to many wildlife conservation efforts.
Born and raised in rural southeastern Colorado, Michael Ome Untiedt maintains a studio in Denver. Through the color, brush strokes, and symbolic subject matter of his paintings, he examines the human predicament and its connections to the landscape.
“Many of my paintings have the look and feel of the American West...this is the place where I was born and raised. I know the rattle of cottonwoods on a cold fall morning, the hue of dusk’s long light on a buffalo grass prairie; I have drunk the cold drip of a blue shale spring. These things have nurtured me from my birth, and coyotes, God’s Dogs, have howled their essence into my soul.”
He was made an honorary ranger captain with the Former Texas Ranger Foundation, Fredericksburg, Texas, for his paintings of the Texas Rangers. He was awarded the 2014 Wells Fargo Gold Award, and the 2021 Buffalo Bill Quick Draw People’s Choice Award at the Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming.
His work may be viewed on his website, www.michaelomeuntiedt.com, and at InSight Gallery, Fredericksburg, Texas; Sanders Galleries, Tucson, Arizona; and Cawdrey Gallery, Whitefish, Montana.
Randy Van Beek has been a full-time artist since 1980. He is self-taught, having learned his craft by studying the nineteenth-century American, Dutch, and Austrian masters.
As a student of history, he has chosen as his primary subject the American West, including landscapes and historical Native American encampment scenes. Van Beek enjoys researching tribal history, visiting campsites, and creating paintings on location to capture the soul and spirit of a place.
Van Beek is honored to be a charter member of the C. M. Russell Skull Society of Artists, which was established in 2013 with the mission to continue the legacy of Charlie Russell’s art. He has also exhibited at Night of Artists at the Briscoe Western Art Museum.
Van Beek has received awards from the National Geographic Society and the Smithsonian Institution, both in Washington, D.C.; the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation in Missoula, Montana; the Clymer Museum and Gallery in Ellensburg, Washington; and the Blackfoot Valley Art Auction in Lincoln, Montana. His work has been featured in five national art magazines, most recently in Western Art & Architecture .
In February 2002, Dustin Van Wechel left a successful eight-year career in the advertising industry to pursue his lifelong passion for fine art full-time.
Since then, he has earned numerous distinctions, including the 2020 Twodimensional Award of Excellence, 2018 People’s Choice Award, and 2015 Premier Platinum Award at the Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming; the Bob Kuhn Wildlife Award at the 2022 and the 2015 Masters of the American West at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles; and the Wildlife Award and Teton Lodge Company Award at the 2006 Arts for the Parks competition. He has been featured in such leading art publications as Art of the West , The Artist’s Magazine , Drawing , Fine Art Connoisseur , Pastel Journal , Southwest Art , and Western Art Collector
Van Wechel’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States including at the Autry Museum of the American West; the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia; the Buffalo Bill Center for the West; the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City; and the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming.
He and his wife, Yvonne, currently reside in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Van Wechel is represented by the Broadmoor Galleries, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Illume Gallery West, Philipsburg, Montana; and Trailside Galleries online.
Jim Vogel was born in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1964, the eleventh of twelve children. His parents encouraged him to pursue drawing and painting, allowing his natural talents to develop without formal training. Growing up, Vogel was exposed to and influenced by regional artists such as Peter Hurd, Luis Jimenez, Elmer Schooley, Howard Cook, and Georgia O’Keefe through his many visits to the Roswell Museum of Art.
Vogel paints to tell the stories of New Mexico, the stories told to him by his grandfather, his mother, and his friends and neighbors of the Embudo Valley, as well as the land itself. He believes that when they are recreated properly, these stories transcend the region and become universal.
Vogel’s wife Christen is also an artist, and the two collaborate on framing his paintings using her creative salvage arts talents. “Our greatest collaboration has been our three children, Grayson, Sage, and Makaela, who are all amazing young adults pursuing their own creative paths.”
Vogel received the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2016. His work has been represented by Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for over eighteen years.
Kim Wiggins’ distinct style and modern vision of the West have made him one of the most recognizable artists in America. As one of the creative forerunners behind the New West Movement, he is also a prominent speaker encouraging innovation in Western art. Growing up on a ranch in New Mexico, Wiggins was self-taught. He was discovered by an art dealer from Scottsdale in the mid1970s. By 1983, he was the youngest member of the Society of American Impressionists. During the mid-1980s, he experimented with Expressionism, Magical Realism, Symbolism, and Modernism, eventually settling on his unique approach.
His work is found in the permanent collection of the American Museum of Western Art in Denver; Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles; Briscoe Western Art Museum; Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia; Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe; and Tulane University in New Orleans.
Wiggins’ awards include the 2022 Night of Artists Museum Purchase Award; the 2020 Masters of the American West Gold Medal for Best Narrative at the Autry Museum; the 2018 Night of Artists William B. Travis Award for Patron’s Choice; the 2014 New Mexico Historical Society’s Heritage Award; a Jackie Autry special purchase for the Masters of the American West in 2005; and the People’s Choice at the Painters and the American West exhibition in 2000. He is represented by Legacy/Manitou Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Maxwell Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles.
Jeremy Winborg is best known for his figurative work of Native American subjects that blend realism with abstract backgrounds.
Winborg was inspired to start painting Native Americans when his Navajo niece, Layla, was born. He focuses on creating art that preserves a bit of history on each canvas. His paintings feature Native Americans in traditional, authentic clothing with a focus on historical accuracy.
Winborg is well known for his bold brushwork and palette knife work on his colorful backgrounds. He enjoys the juxtaposition of realism and abstraction.
“I love to paint empowered women, not just another pretty face. I want the viewer to be drawn in and feel the emotion of the figure. Whether it’s happiness, sorrow or whatever that emotion may be. I want the figure to initially draw the viewer in and the brushstrokes and design to be the reason you’d want to stop and look for a while, or to enjoy that painting for a lifetime. I love the viewer to be able to take a small section of my painting, whether it be a face or part of the background and find that the brushstrokes and pallet knife work are interesting and worth your attention. A painting is a success to me if it conveys emotion and is interesting in small pieces as well as a whole.”
Winborg, his wife Danielle, and five kids call Utah home. When he is not at his easel, Winborg enjoys fly-fishing and rock climbing.
Greg Woodard was born in Prescott, Arizona. Although he took a few art classes in high school, he is largely self-taught. He began by carving decoys and went on to become a fivetime best of show winner at the Ward World Competition and the World Class winner in 1992 with a preening American kestrel. In 2000, he captured the World category in interpretive sculpture with a rendition of a prairie falcon chasing several swallows. To date, he is the only artist to have won both decorative and interpretive categories at the world level.
What makes Woodard’s work unique is his patina process that allows each edition its own color and texture. He has always valued experimentation and innovation to further his artistic growth.
Woodard is a master falconer and has a deep passion for understanding the raptors he studies. He carries the love and knowledge of these powerful birds into his work. Woodard believes each of his pieces tells a story, which he shows through the interaction between human and animal, expressing how they are affected. Another important element of Woodard’s work is the railroad track, which symbolizes the cultural impact of the opening of the West.
Born in the year of the Horse, Xiang Zhang (pronounced “Shong Zang”) grew up in China. After graduating from the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, he received a master of fine arts degree from Tulane University in New Orleans. Upon moving to Texas, Zhang combined his love for painting horses and portraiture to develop his art. Based on his observations on working ranches, his work reflects the symbiotic relationship between the cowboy and his horse. Using scintillating colors and bravura brushwork to capture the drama of ranch life, he has created a definitive style that has catapulted him to new heights in the art world.
Zhang’s work has been exhibited in prestigious national shows such as the Prix de West Invitational at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City; Night of Artists at the Briscoe Western Art Museum; and Masters of the American West at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles. He has had numerous successful one-man shows, and his work has been featured in Western Traditions , Contemporary Artists of the American West , Art of the West , Southwest Art Collector , and Fine Art Connoisseur
He currently resides in Dallas, Texas, with his wife Lily. Xiang Zhang is represented by Southwest Art Gallery in Dallas, Texas, and McLarry Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
William Alther 39 ,64
Gerald Balciar 58, 65
Teal Blake 66
Eric Bowman* 67
Mary Ross Buchholz 28, 68
Nancy Bush 69
Shawn Cameron 26, 70
Caroline Korbell Carrington 71
William Carrington 72
Cliff Cavin 73
Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey 46, 74
Bruce Cheever 36, 75
Nicholas Coleman 51, 76
Todd Connor 29, 77
Brent Cotton 34
Glenn Dean* 32, 78
John DeMott 79
Mick Doellinger 80
Mikel Donahue 81
C. Michael Dudash 33, 82
Barry Eisenach 83
Teresa Elliott 84
Luke Frazier 31, 85
Brian Grimm 55, 86
Bob Guelich* 87
Enrique Guerra 88
Abigail Gutting 1, 42, 89
George Hallmark 44, 90
Sherry Harrington 91
William Haskell 54, 92
Matthew Hillier 93
Donna Howell-Sickles 94
Chris Hunt 60, 95
Greg Kelsey 96
Brenda Kingery 97, 144
Mark Kohler 98
Joe Kronenberg 47, 99
Dave LaMure, Jr. 4, 14, 100
Joshua LaRock 101
Bruce Lawes 43, 102
Z. S. Liang 40, 103
Jeremy Lipking* 104
Jan Mapes 30, 105
Bonnie Marris 106
Curt Mattson 107
Kenny McKenna 7, 57, 108
Mark McKenna 41, 109
Krystii Melaine 110
Brenda Murphy 45, 111
Chris Navarro 112
Bill Nebeker 113
Ralph Oberg 37, 114
Don Oelze 12, 15, 49, 115
Chad Poppleton 38, 116
Howard Post 117
Tony Pro* 7, 118
Kevin Red Star* 18, 119
Paul Rhymer 120
Gary Lynn Roberts 52, 121
Alfredo Rodriguez 122
Julia Rogers 123
Gladys Roldán-de-Moras 50, 124
Stefan Savides 13, 125
Billy Schenck 53, 126
Sandy Scott 127
Jason Scull 128
Kelly Singleton 129
Mian Situ 10, 130
Adam Smith 131
Ezra Tucker 132
Echo Ukrainetz 27, 133
Ron Ukrainetz 56, 134
Kent Ullberg 135
Michael Ome Untiedt 136
Randy Van Beek 7, 59, 137
Dustin Van Wechel* 48, 138
Jim Vogel 35, 139
Kim Wiggins 16, 140
Jeremy Winborg 141
Greg Woodard 142
Xiang Zhang 143
Bidders may complete confidential absentee bid orders for both the Live Auction Sale and the Luck of the Draw Sale. The Briscoe Museum will execute absentee bids on behalf of the absentee bidder during both sales. The museum will not be responsible for any errors, omissions, or failure to execute Live Auction bids or intent to purchase orders.
Please read all terms and conditions before signing.
By participating in the Night of Artists Exhibition and Sale, you are agreeing to the terms and conditions in the 2023 Rules of Sale.
1. Briscoe Western Art Museum agrees to act as an agent of the absentee bidder, and as such, it owes duties of trust, loyalty, confidentiality, accounting, and disclosure to the absentee bidder.
2. The Briscoe is representing the absentee bidder on a limited basis as the absentee bidder’s agent for absentee bids to best promote the absentee bidder’s interests in the sale.
3. The Briscoe reserves the right at its sole discretion to not bid for any of the following reasons: (a) if the order is not clear; (b) if the order does not arrive in sufficient time; (c) if the credit of the purchaser is not established; or (d) any other reason.
4. All unsold artwork will remain for sale at a fixed price and can be purchased in person at the museum, by calling 210.507.4863, or through the museum’s website. Unsold artwork will remain on display and available for purchase through May 7, 2023, on a firstcome, first-served basis.
5. Absentee and phone bids are executed in competition with other bids, and as a result, it is very possible due to variations in bidding patterns that a lot may be won by another bidder for the same amount for which an absentee bid is authorized.
6. Due to an anticipated high call volume, phone bids are entered on a first-come, first-served basis.
7. Live Auction Absentee bids must be a minimum of 60% of the low estimate. Otherwise, we recommend bidding in person. All absentee bids must state the highest bid price the bidder is willing to pay. In the event identical absentee bids are submitted, the first bid received will have the first right of purchase.
8. Live Auction phone bids must be a minimum of 75% of the low estimate. Otherwise, we recommend bidding in person or by absentee. A museum representative will contact absentee telephone bidders via telephone immediately prior to the sale of each lot the bidder wishes to bid on and will then bid live as a proxy for the telephone bidder during the Live Auction Sale. In the event identical phone bids are submitted, the first bid recognized by the auctioneer will have the first right of purchase. The museum will execute telephone bids in competition with all other bids and all applicable reserves.
9. The museum will confirm receipt of your bid form prior to the auction. If you submit a form but do not receive confirmation of receipt within 48 hours, please contact the Night of Artists Collectors Concierge. After the auction, only successful bidders will be notified.
10. All Bidders must complete an Absentee Bid Form and the museum must receive the form before noon (12:00 p.m.) on Thursday, March 23, 2023. Absentee bids submitted indicate a guarantee to purchase.
11. This absentee bidding service is provided free to all registered ticketholders; all others must pay a service fee of $50 per bidder that will be charged upon confirmation of the bidder’s information by phone or email from a Briscoe team member.
12. Upon a winning bid by an absentee bidder, the Briscoe Western Art Museum will notify the absentee bidder via phone or email following the close of the sale.
13. The absentee bidder acknowledges that any winning bid will become irrevocable upon acceptance by the Briscoe Western Art Museum on behalf of the seller, and the absentee bidder will thereupon comply with all other terms and conditions of this document and all the Rules of Sale.
For questions, please contact the Julia Harmon, Collectors Concierge at 210.507.4863 or collectorsconcierge@briscoemuseum.org.
Briscoe Western Art Museum 210 W. Market Street San Antonio, TX 78205
Ph: 210.299.4499
Fax: 210.299.4118
Select one. Absentee Bid Phone Bid
Please print legibly below.
Complete and submit this form via email at collectorsconcierge@briscoemuseum.org or fax: 210.299.4118.
Attn: Julia Harmon/Night of Artists
The window to submit an absentee bid form is open now and will remain open until noon on Thursday, March 23, 2023.
ABSENTEE/PHONE
BID
Name: _____________________________________ Street: ___________________________________________
City: __________________________________________ State: _______________ Zip Code: ________________
Email Address: ________________________________________________ Phone: _________________________
Payment Information
Check # _______ Visa MC AMEX Discover Credit Card # ___________________________________________ Security/CVC # _______ EXP ___________
Name on Card____________________________ Billing Address______________________________________ City _________________________________________________ State ____________ Zip Code ____________
By signing this form, I acknowledge I have reviewed and agree to abide by the Rules of Sale as stated in the corresponding catalog and gallery as well as the information included with this form. I also understand that no request will be honored or executed unless this form is completed in its entirety and signed by me or my authorized agent and that this form is a legal and binding agreement.
Signature ______________________________________________________ Date________________________