Friday • April 14, 2023 • Session I
SESSION I
Friday, April 14 11:00 a.m.
L ots 1 - 162
Friday • April 14, 2023
Session I
Friday • April 14, 2023 • Session I
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Logan Maxwell Hagege b. 1980
The Guide (detail)
Oil on linen
30 x 50 inches
Signed lower left;
Signed, titled and dated 2016 verso
Estimate: $50,000 - 75,000
Friday • April 14, 2023 • Session I
SESSION I
L ots 1 - 162
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Ed Mell b. 1942
Storm Beyond the Rim (detail)
Oil on linen
18 x 28 inches
Signed lower right; Signed, titled and dated 2009 verso
Estimate: $15,000 - 20,000
Taming the Ponies Oil on board
4 x 12 inches
Signed and dated 83 lower right; Signed, titled and dated 83 verso
Estimate: $1,000 - 2,000
inches overall height
Signed and dated 1975
Estimate: $2,500 - 4,500
They Lived with the Land Oil on canvas 12 x 24 inches
Signed and dated 81 lower right; Signed, titled and dated 81 verso
Estimate: $1,000 - 2,000
9 x 12 inches
Signed and dated 2002 lower right;
Signed, titled and dated 2002 verso
Estimate: $1,000 - 2,000
Tempera
4 x 8 inches, 8 x 6 inches, 12 x 6 inches
Signed and dated 1980 lower left (each)
Estimate: $1,500 - 2,000 Winter Trail
Pencil
13 x 14 ½ inches
Signed and dated 1983 upper left
Estimate: $1,000 - 2,000
20 x 15 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $3,500 - 5,000
17 x 13 inches
Signed, titled and dated 2005 lower right
Estimate: $3,000 - 4,000
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Signed
right;
Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000
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Michelle
Bronze, cast 7/20
14 inches overall height
Signed and dated 1981
Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000
10
Old Friends
Bronze, cast 6/21
32 inches overall height
Signed and dated 1981
Estimate: $3,000 - 6,000
12
Oceana
Bronze, cast 2/35
27 ½ inches overall height
Signed
Estimate: $1,000 - 2,000
13
Frederic Remington 1861-1909
Set of Three: Frontier Sketches
Lithograph c. 1898
15 x 22 inches each
Signed in print
Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000
Literature:
Remington: The Complete Prints, Crown Publishers, New York, 1990: p. 42, 43 & 45
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Frederic Remington 1861-1909
Collection of two prints
Chromolithograph
12 x 18 inches each
Signed lower left in print
Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500
Literature:
Remington: The Complete Prints, Crown Publishers, New York, 1990: p. 21
Antelope Hunting
Goose Shooting a.k.a. Canada Goose Shooting a.k.a. Pheasant Shooting
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Carl Kauba 1865-1922
Gift Dancer
Bronze
29 inches overall height
Signed
Estimate: $2,500 - 3,500
24 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 1989 lower left; Signed and dated 1989 verso
Estimate: $2,500 - 3,500
12 x 16 inches
Signed and dated 1989 lower left
Estimate: $2,500 - 3,500
24 inches overall height
Signed and dated 1984
Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000
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24 x 36 inches
Signed lower right; Signed verso
Estimate: $1,000 - 2,000
14 x 11 inches
Signed and dated 2003 lower left; Signed, titled and dated verso
Estimate: $1,000 - 2,000
Bronze, cast 47/100
13 inches overall height
Signed and dated 1979
Estimate: $800 - 1,200
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Karin Hollebeke b. 1950
High Mesa Cattle Drive
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000
23 Grant Speed 1930-2011
The Law Man
Bronze, cast AC/40
14 inches overall height
Signed/CA and dated 1981
Estimate: $1,000 - 1,500
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Karin Hollebeke b. 1950
Broken Treaties Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000
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Chuck Ren 1941-1995
Stolen Horse
Acrylic on board
28 x 21 inches
Signed and dated 89 lower right
Estimate: $6,000 - 8,000
Provenance:
Art World Western Heritage Gallery, El Cajon, CA, December 1989
Growing up in an Arizona desert known for its unbearable summers, Chuck Ren spent so much time indoors that he started taking up drawing, a way to pass the time that soon developed into a full-blown talent. He sent away for an art correspondence course, but was too young to participate. After college in Northern Arizona, Ren became a freelance illustrator with clients that included movie studios, record companies and the National Football League, for which he completed more than 200 sports images. By 1982, he had made a full switch to the American West, a genre where he excelled with realistic images of Native Americans, cowboys on horseback and mountain men.
Blackfoot Warriors
Oil on canvas
12 x 24 inches
Signed and dated 87 lower right;
Signed, titled and dated 87 verso
Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500
Evening in Montana
Watercolor
21 x 29 inches
Signed and dated 1989 lower left;
Signed, titled and dated 10/10/89 verso
Estimate: $3,500 - 5,000
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Gary Morton b. 1951 A Cowboyin’ Day
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 18 inches
Signed lower left; Signed, titled and dated verso
Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000
12 x 16 inches
Signed and dated 1969 lower right;
Estimate: $800 - 1,200
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Watercolor
17 x 18 inches
Signed and dated 1997 lower left
Estimate: $1,000 - 2,000
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Morris Rippel 1930-2009
Wood Merchant - San Miguel Watercolor
13 ½ x 22 inches
Signed/NAWA and dated 1980 lower right
Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500
Morris Rippel worked in both oil and watercolor, but it was his watercolor that was so beloved by collectors and fans of his work. With a light touch and delicate brushstrokes, Rippel was able to connect to places and people of the West with lifelike color, fine detail and timeless subjects. A lifelong resident of New Mexico, he attended the University of New Mexico for two years before serving in the Koran War. His initial plan after the war was to become an architect, but soon a casual hobby of watercolor painting took over completely. Influenced by Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper, Rippel was awarded one of the first Museum Purchase Awards at the Prix de West show at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. He was also a licensed pilot.
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Morton KÜnstler b. 1931
The Chase
Oil on canvas
16 ½ x 20 inches
Signed and dated 82 lower left
Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000
Literature:
Künstler, Mort. Mort Künstler's Old West: Indians. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1998, p.140-145, full color.
Catalogue, Mort Künstler: Epic Paintings of America, Hammer Galleries, New York, 1982, p.14, full color.
Exhibited:
Hammer Galleries, New York, Mort Künstler: Epic Paintings of America, November 23 – December 11, 1982.
30 x 48 inches
Signed and dated 1970 lower right
Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000
Exhibited:
Phippen Museum, Prescott, AZ
A man of many hats, Joe Grandee is an illustrator, painter and sculptor. He’s also a third-generation Texan, was honored with a one-man retrospective at the U.S. Capitol in 1974 and has been appointed as the official state artist of Texas by the Texas legislature. Grandee first studied art at the Aunspaugh Art School in Dallas in 1947. Over his long and distinguished career, he has painted cowboys, soldiers, mountain men, Native Americans, lawmen and outlaws, prominent Western figures and much more.
Bronze, cast 12/25
29 inches overall height
Signed/CA and dated 1982
Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000
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Harvey Johnson 1921-2005
Tonight We Howl
Oil on board
22 x 28 inches
Signed/CA and dated 75 lower right
Estimate: $3,000 - 4,000
Provenance:
Troy’s Cowboy Art Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Exhibited:
San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA Cowboy Artists of America Museum, Kerrville, TX
Literature:
Western Horseman, June 1977: cover.
The son of two artists, Harvey Johnson did not have to be convinced to become a painter—he was naturally pulled toward it. He studied at the Art Students League in New York City and then, like many artists of the 1950s and 1960s, he worked as an illustrator for popular pulp magazines, often doing images with frontier themes. A 1966 issue of Western Horseman magazine reported that a new art organization had been started—the Cowboy Artists of America. Johnson contacted Johnny Hampton about joining and was accepted immediately. He was the first artist to apply for membership. The painter went full circle in June 1977, when Tonight We Howl was featured on the cover of Western Horseman magazine.
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Gary Carter b. 1939
Sugar Time Oil on canvas
12 x 16 inches
Signed/CA and dated 07 lower left
Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500
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Glenna Goodacre 1939-2020
Angelina
Bronze, cast 21/25
14 inches overall height
Signed
Estimate: $1,000 - 2,000
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Glenna
Skip to My Lou Bronze, cast 2/25
15 ½ inches overall height
Signed
Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500
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Glenna Goodacre 1939-2020
Sacagawea Study (relief)
Bronze, cast 70/100
7 ½ x 7 ½ inches
Signed and dated 1990 lower right
Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000
14
Signed lower left
Estimate: $5,000 - 7,000
17
Signed lower right
Estimate: $7,000 - 10,000
12
Signed lower right
Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000
Visions
17
Signed/CA lower left
Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000
40 x 30 inches
Signed lower left; Signed and titled verso
Estimate: $3,500 - 4,500
40 x 48 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000
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Glenna Goodacre 1939-2020
War Chant, Indian Bust
Bronze, cast 16/21
24 inches overall height
Signed
Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000
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Glenna Goodacre 1939-2020
Pawna
Bronze, cast 5/15
38 inches overall height
Signed
Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000
Provenance:
Fenn Galleries, Santa Fe, NM, October 16, 1982
Literature:
Glenna Goodacre: The First 25 Years, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 1995: p. 73.
Glenna Goodacre: Sculpture, Encantado Press, Santa Fe, NM, 2009: p. 169.
Children and Native American subjects intersect with Glenna Goodacre’s Pawna, a bronze first created in 1983. The artist, known for creating the Vietnam Women’s Memorial and the bas relief of Sacagawea on the golden dollar coin, explained the work in her book, Glenna Goodacre: The First 25 Years: “Pawna was a Sioux Indian friend about 3 years old. Even though he wore jeans and T-shirts and lived in a modern house in Boulder, I thought of how he would have been in the 19th century. He is wearing leather leggings and a breechcloth, busy at play in his plains village, feeding a cherry to his pet raccoon.”
19 inches overall height
Signed/CA and dated 1977
Estimate: $5,000 - 7,000
20 ½ inches overall height
Signed/CA and dated 1978
Estimate: $3,500 - 5,000
17 inches circular
Signed and inscribed Gorham Founders
Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000
Winter Fires
Oil on canvas
30 x 44 inches
Signed/CA lower right
Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000
18 x 24 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $2,500 - 4,500
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Bud (Lewis) Boller Jr. b. 1928
Winter Warrior
Bronze, cast 12/50
20 inches overall height
Signed and dated 1974
Estimate: $1,000 - 2,000
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Bud (Lewis) Boller Jr. b. 1928
Brothers
Bronze, cast 10/25
25 inches overall height
Signed, titled and dated 1925
Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000
55 Loren Entz b. 1949
Meditation Oil on linen 24 x 20 inches
Signed/CA upper left
Estimate: $5,000 - 8,000
56 Ernest Berke 1921-2010
The Tacticians
Bronze, cast 3/12
20 inches overall height, 60 inches wide
Signed and dated 1968
Estimate: $5,000 - 7,000
Literature:
Ernest Berke Paintings and Sculptures of The Old West, published by Walt Wiggins & Ernest Berke 1980, pg. 116 & 117
Mountain Remuda
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $5,000 - 8,000
Howard Rogers grew up in sunny San Diego, California, far removed from the cowboy culture that would eventually play such a large role in his art career. After a stint in the Army, Rogers worked in the sign department of a grocery store. Early in his life, he was also a champion bicyclist and tried out for the Olympic team three times. After a racing accident ended his cycling career, he enrolled in the Art Center College of Design in California. After many years in illustration—one of his most recognizable pieces was the poster for the James Bond film Diamonds are Forever—Rogers started pursuing fine art, including his Western images, but also florals, sculpture and, something quite rare in the Western world, female nudes.
Just Getting Started
Oil on linen
18 x 24 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $2,500 - 3,500
Bronze, cast 17/50
19 ½ inches overall height
Signed and dated 1993
Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000
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60 Bill Anton b. 1957
Fall Comes to the Valley Oil on board
36 x 48 inches
Signed lower right; Signed and titled verso
Estimate: $20,000 - 25,000
12 x 16 inches
Signed lower left; Signed, titled and dated 1983 verso
Estimate: $2,000 - 4,000
Watercolor
14 x 21 inches
Signed/CA and dated 1983 lower right
Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000
Six in Hand Oil on board
20 x 30 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000
Sure Shot
Watercolor
13 ½ x 21 inches
Signed lower left
Estimate: $2,500 - 3,500
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With a Thought of Turning Back Oil on board 24 x 43 inches
Signed/CA lower right; Signed and titled verso
Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000
Slowing the Pace
Oil on linen
18 x 36 inches
Signed/CA lower right
Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000
The Flirt Oil on board
24 x 20 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000
The Experiment Oil on board
19 x 16 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000
Lonely Heart Oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000
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Olaf Wieghorst 1899-1988
Navajo Portrait
Oil on board
12 x 10 inches
Signed lower left
Estimate: $2,500 - 3,500
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Olaf Wieghorst 1899-1988
Pardners
Watercolor
13 x 15 inches by sight
Signed lower left
Estimate: $5,000 - 7,000
71 Olaf Wieghorst 1899-1988
Heading Out
Watercolor
16 x 15 inches
Signed and dated 85 lower left
Estimate: $5,000 - 7,000
Pushing Horns
Watercolor
15 x 29 ½ inches
Signed lower right;
Signed and dated 5/23/20 verso
Estimate: $3,500 - 5,000
Sunday Watercolor
28 x 16 inches
Signed lower left
Estimate: $3,000 - 4,000
24 x 20 inches
Signed lower right;
Signed, titled and dated 2008 verso
Estimate: $45,000 - 65,000
Friends Forever Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Signed/CA lower right
Estimate: $5,000 - 7,000
By Still Water
Oil on canvas
12 x 10 inches
Signed/CA lower right
Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000
Navajo Sheeplady
Oil on board
25 x 15 inches
Signed and dated 74 lower right
Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000
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Ray Swanson 1937-2004
Waiting for Mutton Stew
Oil on canvas
40 x 60 inches
Signed lower left
Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000
Literature:
The Art of Ray Swanson: Celebrating People and Lifestyles, Tom O’Keefe, Old Paint Publishing Company, Carefree, AZ, 1994: p. 92-93.
While many of his contemporaries were examining Native Americans from the 19th century, painter Ray Swanson was more interested in present-day cultures, particularly the Navajo people of Northern Arizona. A stunning example of this contemporary vision of Southwest life can be seen in Waiting for Mutton Stew. “This cooking scene is a common sight at campsites or anytime during the summer months when it is too hot to cook in the hogan,” Swansons writes in The Art of Ray Swanson: Celebrating People and Lifestyles. “The men and women complete the various preparations for the day’s meal. Strips of mutton, meat from an adult sheep, hang to dry like clothes on a line. Mutton is tougher than lamb, but it can be very tasty when cooked with vegetables in a stew pot. Some sheep ribs are also cooked over a wood fire, while dough is prepared for fry bread. Whenever I smell burning juniper wood, it reminds me of a Navajo campsite.”
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George Phippen 1915-1966
Startling Moment
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches
Signed and dated 1954 lower left
Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000
Provenance:
Altermann & Morris Galleries, Dallas, TX
Scottsdale Art Auction, Scottsdale, AZ, 2014 Private collection, Paradise Valley, AZ
George Phippen was not only one of the founding four artists of the Cowboy Artists of America, but he was also the group’s first president. The CA is one of his great legacies, but so is his involvement in the arts in his hometown of Prescott, Arizona, where his bronze work can be seen in many locations and his influence on the world of bronze art can still be felt. It was Phippen and two Joes—Joe Noggle and Joe Vest—who started the first art bronze foundry in Prescott, which eventually spawned dozens of other foundries and inspired hundreds of artists to take up sculpture throughout Arizona and the Southwest. Sadly, Phippen died in 1966, the year after the formation of the CAA, and did not see his ultimate influence on Western art, an influence that is still happening today.
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Robert Kearfott 1890-1969
Pay day
Oil on canvas
26 x 32 inches
Estimate: $1,000 - 2,000
Robert Ryland Kearfott was born in Martinsvlle, VA in 1890, finished the University of Virginia in 1911 and attended the Art Student’s League In NYC where he studied with George Bridgeman and became an illustrator, influenced by Harvey Dunn. His work for H. K. McCann Advertising in San Francisco from 1922 – 1925 produced illustrations and covers for national magazines.
83 Charlie Dye 1906-1972
Old Timers
Oil on board
16 x 20 inches
Signed lower left
Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000
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Charlie Dye 1906-1972
Southwest Memories
Oil on board
8 ¼ x 12 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000
Compilation
2 x 3 inches each, 6 x 8 inches total
Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000
Approx. 2 x 3 inches each, 6 x 8 inches total
Estimate: $2,500 - 3,500
2 ¼ x 2 ½ inches each, 6 x 12 inches total
Estimate: $3,000 - 6,000
Coming from the pulp magazine and “Dime Mystery” era of illustration, New York City painter Tom Lovell was adept at working fast and using many preliminary sketches to help develop his paintings. Even later, after his pulp beginnings— when he graduated to Collier’s, McCall’s and National Geographic—Lovell had to be able to turn around artwork on tight deadlines. It was a skill he carried with him after he switched over to fine art in 1975 when he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. These oil studies offer a peek into Lovell’s methods, particularly how he began to refine the general composition and lock in the forms at a very early stage of an artwork. By the time he moved to a larger canvas, the general look was already established so he could focus on other things, such as light, detail and storytelling.
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Tom Ryan 1922-2011
Trouble at the Creek Oil on board
20 x 30 inches
Signed lower right; Titled verso
Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000
Provenance:
Altermann Galleries & Auctioneers, Santa Fe, NM, 2001
Sotheby’s, New York, NY, 2021
The origins of the phrase “predicament painting” are murky, though it surely owes its popularity in Western art to Charles M. Russell’s A Serious Predicament, showing a momma cow turning the tables on a horse and rider. The phrase fits perfectly over Tom Ryan’s No Contest (Trouble at the Creek), which cascades with bad news at every corner: the broken wagon, the fleeing team of horses, the spilled dry goods and the figure dangling on the dead tree. The culprit and catalyst to this dilemma, a massive buffalo, looms large in the picture and he seems unlikely to relent. The predicament continues.
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Tom Lovell 1909-1997
Salting the Vein Oil on board
16 x 22 ½ inches
Signed lower left;
Signed, description and titled verso
Estimate: $7,000 - 10,000
Provenance: Biltmore Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
After J.C. Leyendecker, Norman Rockwell and N.C. Wyeth lit up the Golden Age of Illustration, a younger generation of artists was coming up that would provide a second great age of illustration in New York City in the 1950s and 1960s. Artists in the group included Kenneth Riley, James Bama, John Clymer and Howard Terpning. And smack in the middle was Tom Lovell, who was born in New York City and raised in its streets. In 1975, after nearly 40 years in illustration, he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he painted powerful images of pioneers, cowboys, Native Americans and other Western subjects. Through much of his work was a deep and abiding principle of respect for the West’s history and people.
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Roy Andersen 1930-2019
Me n’ Hawkens Seen it All Watercolor and Graphite
24 x 18 inches
Signed lower left
Estimate: $5,000 - 8,000
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Roy Andersen 1930-2019
The Elk Cape Robe
Watercolor and Graphite
24 x 18 inches
Signed lower left and initialed lower right
Estimate: $5,000 - 8,000
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Roy Andersen 1930-2019
Sweet Medicine Chief
Oil on canvas
48 x 30 inches
Signed/CA and dated 1989 lower right
Estimate: $25,000 - 35,000
Exhibited:
Phippen Museum, Prescott, AZ
Cowboy Artists of America Museum, Kerrville, TX
Provenance:
Cowboy Artists of America Museum, Kerrville, TX
O’Brien’s Emporium, Scottsdale, AZ
Literature:
Dream Spinner: The Art of Roy Andersen, Jan Adkins, Settlers West Galleries, Tucson, Arizona, 2000: 113.
Sweet Medicine Chief appears in the book Dream
Spinner: The Art of Roy Andersen, in which the artist describes the piece: “Little Wolf held the title of Sweet Medicine Chief, named for one of the great Cheyenne folk heroes. A great leader, Little Wolf took his people from their stark reservation in the south back to their northern homeland in one of the most bittersweet struggles of the West.”
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Roy Andersen 1930-2019
A Faint Sign
Oil on canvas
9 x 12 inches
Signed/CA lower left
Estimate: $2,500 - 3,500
The Wedding Couple
Bronze, cast 19/35
27 inches overall height
Signed/CA, titled and dated 03
Estimate: $5,000 - 7,000
Walks Like a Living Prayer
Bronze, cast 35/35
29 inches overall height
Signed and dated 96
Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000
The Blessing Bronze, cast 12/50
12 inches overall height
Signed/CA, titled and dated 2005
Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000
36 x 26 inches
Signed lower left
Estimate: $5,000 - 8,000
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Pride
Oil on canvas
30 x 36 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000
Ute Scout
Gouache
20 x 29 inches
Signed lower right;
Signed, titled and dated 2010 verso
Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000
The Unseen Oil on canvas
20 x 30 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000
Bringing em Home Oil on linen
24 x 36 inches
Signed lower right;
Signed, titled and dated 1986 verso
Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000
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R. Brownell McGrew 1916-1994
Girl of the Wintry Lands
Charcoal on paper
24 x 18 inches
Signed lower left
Estimate: $1,000 - 2,000
Literature: R. Brownell McGrew, published 1978, pg. 56
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R. Brownell McGrew 1916-1994
Waiting Oil on board 30 x 24 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $15,000 - 25,000
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R. Brownell McGrew 1916-1994
A Northern Navajo-Howard Coleman Oil on board
18 x 14 inches
Signed lower left
Estimate: $5,000 - 8,000
24 x 36 inches
Signed and dated 1986 lower right;
Signed, titled and dated 1986 verso
Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000
60 inches wide
Signed and dated 1975
Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000
24 x 48 inches
Signed/CA lower right
Estimate: $7,000 - 10,000
Accompanied by framed letter and bio from the artist.
Limousine Ride
Bronze, cast 20/20
22 inches overall height
Signed/CA and dated 1988
Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000
16 x 20 inches
Signed lower right;
Titled verso
Estimate: $2,000 - 4,000
16 x 20 inches
Signed lower left;
Titled, signed and dated 02 verso
Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500
Prairie Warrior Oil on canvas
24 x 18 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $3,000 - 6,000
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Alfredo Rodriguez b. 1954
Rushing to Trade
Oil on canvas
48 x 36 inches
Signed and dated 88 lower left;
Signed, titled and dated 1988 verso
Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000
Literature:
Alfredo Rodriguez A Life in Color, published Heritage Gallery 2007, illustrated on pg. 36
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David Wright b. 1942
Winter on the South Slope
Acrylic on board 36 x 24 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $5,000 - 7,000
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R. Brownell McGrew 1916-1994
Prairie Friends
Oil on board
30 x 40 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000
Although his portraits of Native Americans—young faces with flawless skin, and old faces with deep canyons of wrinkles—are quite popular among collectors, R. Brownell McGrew’s elaborately composed group scenes are equally impressive, and also quite rare. He staged his subjects, often Navajo figures, with intricate placement, almost like human still life, tableaus of the desert’s first and final inhabitants. One must leave Western art entirely to find an artist who made comparable work: French painter Georges Seurat, whose iconic A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte fills the scene with carefully arranged figures in an outdoor setting. Seurat was famously working in pointillism and impressionism, and McGrew worked in a stylized Western realism with hints of impressionism, but the compositional intricacy among many figures can be seen in both artists’ works. This painting, which has had only one owner, also adds another prominent feature in McGrew’s work—children, which the artist painted in hundreds of images. A former illustrator who worked in Hollywood for a brief period, McGrew wanted his work to have a wet look, which he achieved by mixing oil paint with linseed oil and turpentine.
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Signed lower left;
Signed/CA, titled and dated 1997 verso
Estimate: $7,000 - 10,000
40 x 30 inches
Signed/CA lower left
Estimate: $18,000 - 28,000
Chiricahua
12
18 inches
Signed and dated 85 lower right;
Signed, titled and dated 1985 verso
Estimate: $2,000 - 4,000
40 x 30 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000
118
Joe Beeler 1931-2006
Entering the Stronghold Oil on board
30 x 48 inches
Signed/CA lower left;
Signed, titled and dated 1974 verso
Estimate: $35,000 - 50,000
Provenance:
Private collection, Arizona
Literature:
The Indian Sign Language, W.P. Clark, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 1982: cover.
Apaches: A History and Culture Portrait, James L. Haley, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 1981: cover. Cowboy Artist - The Joe Beeler Story, published by Northland Press 1979, pg. 103 Joe Beeler/CA Paintings and Scuptures of The American West, published by Northland Press 1979, pg. 31
Native American culture entered Joe Beeler’s life as early as 4 or 5 years old when his parents took him to a Fourth of July powwow at Devil’s Promenade in Quapaw, Oklahoma. The event and several other connections—his greatgrandmother was Cherokee—reverberated throughout Beeler’s life. “I can still see all the bright colors and hear the sounds of that day. The pulsating beat of the drum, the singing and the sound of the dancers with their bells keeping constant rhythm to the songs,” the artist says in Joe Beeler: Life of a Cowboy Artist. “The seed was planted in me early for the love of the Indian way of life.”
119
Dan Mieduch b. 1947
The Sanctuary of Mexico Oil on board
16 x 20 inches
Signed and dated 2008 lower left
Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000
120
Z.S. Liang b. 1953
Hunting in the Woods Oil on board
14 x 10 inches
Signed lower right; Signed, titled and dated 2017 verso
Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000
Oil on linen
62 x 47 inches
Signed lower right;
Signed, titled and dated 2019 verso
Estimate: $70,000 - 100,000
Accompanied by preliminary drawing, Pencil on paper 14 x 11 inches
Signed lower right
122 Carrie Ballantyne b. 1956
Rachael
Colored pencil
18 ½ x 12 ¾ inches
Signed lower left
Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000
123 Carrie Ballantyne b. 1956
Asher Freeman Buckaroo
Colored Pencil
20 x 13 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000
124
New in Town
Oil on canvas
40 x 50 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $20,000 - 28,000
While visiting small towns throughout the Northwest I have always appreciated the warmth and comfort they bring. Things like a hearty meal at the local cafe just off Main street and the friendly hospitality of the people. The historic architecture of these places has always intrigued me and has inspired me for several years to portray them on canvas through the eyes of the rustic cowboy. – Gary Lynn Roberts
125
Dave McGary 1958-2013
The Rainmaker
Bronze, cast ACI/100
29 inches overall height
Signed
Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000
Accompanied by book (in base): Dave McGary, American Realism in Bronze, Limited Edition Artist Copy #I/XXV
Literature:
American Realism in Bronze - A Twenty Year Retrospective, published 1997, pg. 138
126
Dave McGary 1958-2013
When Lightning Strikes
Bronze, cast 22/30
24 inches overall height, 39 inches long
Signed and dated 1991
Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000
Literature:
Dave McGary: American Realism in Bronze — A Twenty Year Retrospective, Michael Duty, McGary Studios, Ruidoso, NM, 1997: p. 122.
Meticulous detail is the hallmark of a work by Dave McGary. The New Mexico artist takes it to an intense level in When Lightning Strikes: individual brass tacks are visible on the rifle, the figure’s shirt is painstakingly colored and has realistic folds and texture, rows of beads are visible on the rider’s moccasins and the fringe on the pants seems to bounce with the horse’s gallop. Much of this detail starts at the armature stage of the sculpture. “In the same sort of way that the finished sculpture will ‘speak’ to the viewer, the armature ‘speaks’ to McGary,” writes Michael Duty in Dave McGary: American Realism in Bronze — A Twenty Year Retrospective. “As he says, if it does not ‘breathe’ in this form, there is no way that it will succeed. No amount of attention to the intricate details of costume that he is known for will substitute for a piece that lacks ‘breath.’”
127
Dave McGary 1958-2013
American Horse
Bronze, cast 3/50
29 inches overall height
Signed
Estimate: $7,000 - 10,000
Literature:
Dave McGary: American Realism in Bronze — A Twenty Year Retrospective, Michael Duty, McGary Studios, Ruidoso, NM, 1997: p. 44, 123.
This Dave McGary bronze shows a young version of Oglala Lakota Chief American Horse, who was born in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1840. American Horse promoted peace with white settlers and the United States government and even opposed Crazy Horse and skirmishes taking place throughout the Western frontier. He served as an Army scout, was a delegate at Native American peace conferences in Washington, D.C., and participated in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
128
Dave McGary 1958-2013
Pow Wow Limo
Bronze, cast 6/32
20 inches overall height, 32 inches wide
Signed
Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000
A chance encounter with painter and sculptor Harry Jackson in Wyoming had a profound effect on the teen-aged Dave McGary. He had already been casting his own jewelry when he met Jackson, who would become McGary’s mentor and teacher, as well as his instructor during a two-year course in Italy. Back in the United States, McGary started his own studio in New Mexico, where he would make highly detailed, polychrome bronze sculptures. “[His] works…all serve as links from the past to the present and into the future,” writes Michael Duty in Dave McGary: American Realism in Bronze — A Twenty Year Retrospective. “They offer the view and collector a way of understanding another culture.”
30 x 40 inches
Signed lower right;
Signed, titled and dated 5/2000 verso
Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000
8 x 16 inches
Signed lower left
Estimate: $7,000 - 10,000
Curious
Oil on board
12 x 16 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500
24 x 30 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000
20 x 30 inches
Signed lower left
Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000
Beating
30 x 36 inches
Signed lower left;
Signed, titled and dated 2022 verso
Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000
The reverberating beating of bison hooves is set in motion by a building storm on the Western Plains. While watching this storm develop, one can imagine bison roaming in vast herds, as they once did. The romance of the west is intertwined with bison and the Native American Plains Indians who relied on them for sustenance. The title harkens to the sound of beating drums as well as the bison's mastery over the elements. – Brian Grimm
Uninvited Guests At The Block Party Oil on board 30 x 48 inches
Signed/CA lower right;
Signed/CA, titled and dated 2023 verso
Estimate: $20,000 - 28,000
It’s a bright clear morning typical of the Idyllic Indian Summer in the wilderness high country. A real gem to a hearty adventurer. However, despite the weather, their luck is about to change with the uninvited guests who have been summoned by the aroma of a five star wilderness chef. – Chad Poppleton
Tucson by Noon
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Signed lower left
Estimate: $2,000 - 4,000
Flying Leather
Bronze, cast 33/35
31 inches overall height, 35 inches wide
Signed/CA and titled
Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000
138 Glenn Dean b. 1976 Watchful Oil on canvas 25 x 30 inches
Signed lower right; Signed, titled and dated 2017 verso
Estimate: $15,000 - 20,000
139 Glenn Dean b. 1976 Close of the Day Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches
Signed lower right; Signed, titled and dated 2017 verso
Estimate: $7,000 - 10,000
Estimate:
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Signed lower left
Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000
Signed lower left;
Signed, titled and dated 2016 verso
Estimate: $50,000 - 75,000
Signed lower right; Signed, titled and dated 1994 verso
Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000
Signed lower right; Signed, titled and dated 2021 verso
Estimate: $9,000 - 12,000
Signed and titled verso
Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000
Estimate:
30 x 60 inches
Signed lower left
Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000
Siesta
Bronze,
18 inches overall height
Signed and dated 2007
Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000
Bullfrog
Bronze, cast 3/9
12 inches tall, 29 inches wide
Signed and dated 2013
*Water spout in mouth
Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000
Nightlife
Bronze, cast 12/20
19 inches overall height
Signed and dated 2006
Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000
30
Signed lower left and dated 1982; Signed, titled and dated verso
Estimate: $2,000 - 4,000
Signed lower right; Signed, titled and
Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000
24 x 20 inches
Signed lower right
Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000
12 x 9 inches
Signed lower left; Titled verso
Estimate: $1,000 - 1,500
30
Signed
Estimate: $5,000 - 8,000
155
Clyde
March Skies
Oil on board
16 x 20 inches
Signed and dated 05 lower right
Estimate: $6,000 - 8,000
Literature:
Elemental Solitude: The Landscapes of Clyde Aspevig, published by Rockwell Museum of Western Art 2005, illustrated on pg. 57
24 x 36 inches
Signed and dated 2005 lower right; Titled verso
Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000
Inspired by the Taos Society of Artists, Carlos Hall is known for his modernist interpretations of the Southwest completed in a colorful, highly dramatic style that uses bold compositions and contemporary design. Raised in eastern New Mexico, Hall, who was descended from both the first governor of the New Mexico territory and Kit Carson, started painting at a young age.
Signed lower right
Estimate: $2,000 - 4,000
159 Jeremy Winborg b. 1979
Indigo and Crimson Oil on board
15 x 10 inches
Signed lower left
Estimate: $7,000 - 11,000
160 John Nieto 1936-2018
Bear Paw Oil on canvas
40 x 44 inches
Signed lower right;
Signed, titled and dated 1999 verso
Estimate: $18,000 - 28,000
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John Nieto 1936-2018
Six Wives and an Eagle Feather Fan - Quanah’s Medicine
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 30 inches
Signed mid bottom;
Signed, titled and dated 2013 verso
Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000
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John Nieto 1936-2018
Traditional Dancer III
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Signed lower right;
Signed, titled and dated 1991 verso
Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000
Provenance:
Larsen Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Like Fritz Scholder and Allan Houser before him, John Nieto took great pride in his abilities as an American artist, not just a Native American artist. His work—modern and abstract with huge panes of pure color fragmented around figures— was on the cutting edge of contemporary art, more comparable to Andy Warhol and Henri Matisse than any Western artist. Traditional Dancer, a reflection of his modernist approach to the figure, shows huge fields of blue surrounding the performer clad in regalia that includes silver medallions, armbands and a plume of feathers. Although the paint is applied in big blocks of color, detail is not lost, particularly in the face as the man’s profile cuts a magnificent silhouette against the deep blues of the background.
